I wish I could always feel how I do alone in the woods
I run through the trees breathless
Alive and awake and wild
Consumed by the trees
Every shade of green blinds me
I listen so hard to the birds and bugs and wind that I can't hear my thoughts
So free and reckless and untouched save for the the sun
Some days I think the forest wants to swallow me whole
and sometimes I think I just might let it
To disappear in the soft emerald folds of Nature's body
And just be this free wild thing
It's tempting
If it weren't for the mosquitos
I might just never come back

they ask me how i love you,
why i never leave you,
i try to tell them,
your flaws are what make you,
perfect

my sneakers drum out a rhythm
on the pavement but
running from you is impossible
when every lyric
that blares from my headphones
holds traces of you

hey there pretty brown eyes
with your summertime laugh
make me smile 'til my jaw aches

playing with my hands
like you don't even know
how it makes my breath catch

long hair catching the light
liquid sunshine strands
tickles my neck as you lean into me

soft voice like the mountains
calling my name
butterflies hot in my stomach

your perfect lips
catch mine and i can feel your smile
and taste your ice cream kiss

i love chocolate,
its more than just sugar,
sweet or bittersweet,
white,
dark,
milk,
eat it plain or mix it into something,
or just smell its tantalizing aroma,
whichever way you will smile,
chocolate is a universal answer,
cold=hot chocolate,
hot=chocolate milk,
stressed,
hungry,
sad,
angry,
try chocolate,
scientifically proven,
to release endorphins and serotonin,
so there's no need to feel guilty,
go ahead,
take a little bite

anger is a corset
red and tight
constricting my insides
until i can't breathe

anger is a corset
hot and laced
gasping for air
i can't get it off

anger is a corset
rigid and suffocating
unburden or asphyxiate
i am consumed

we judge books by their covers
we are judged by our covers
we take personality tests
because we don't know who we are
we want to know
we wish to belong
we build up our walls
just to have them crumble
and burry us in the ruble
emotions run high
caring too much
or not enough
our words fly without a thought
embedding themselves like thorns under skin
red fingerprints
we want to grow up
so we are not looked down on
we want to escape our thoughts
so they don't consume us
cut us open
bleed us dry

r.i.p. me
i'm drowning in your eyes
so like the ocean
washing over my whole being
unable to leave
your tides pull me back
every time
i’m sinking fast
i can’t breath
i’m done for
lost in the vast oceans
of your eyes