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Nov 2021 · 738
Neighbors
unnamed Nov 2021
i long for your longing for me
staring across to each other through
adjacent windows on second-floor balconies
our eyes wander but never meet
i call your name through sealed lips as i sleep
i miss you
Dec 2020 · 103
Reflection
unnamed Dec 2020
sometimes when i look in the mirror
my reflection seems more real than me
as though i am merely a projection of myself
and my thoughts do not belong to me
Dec 2020 · 97
poetry
unnamed Dec 2020
my heart yearns to write of beauty and love
for my words to warm your soul
but this pen and this paper conspire against me
and ravage your heart with my voice
Dec 2020 · 165
infatuation
unnamed Dec 2020
I once thought I loved you more than life itself,
as if your very presence denounced all things once beautiful

until I realized that wasn't love
that to love someone is to love everything,
for when you love
it fills your soul until there is no room left for hate
so that each and every insignificant brushstroke of nature
is a masterpiece in and of itself simply for existing

but the world did not rise to your challenge,
your light simply faded from my eyes
until I could see the stars again.
Dec 2020 · 324
Mayflies
unnamed Dec 2020
there was a boy
that i knew for an instant
he was the eye of the hurricane
when it seemed as though i would drown

I lived a life in that week
one which often runs amuck
through the boundless halls of my wandering mind

His laugh
like the harmonious seraphic melodies
which ring through heaven's walls

His Smile
as if you had bottled up
that great reunion of the sun and the horizon in the evening
coming home after a long day

His Eyes,
like brilliant emeralds
reflecting the blossoms of flame
from the burning within me

And for one shining moment
our souls were the earth and the moon
forever entangled
in that infinite waltz through the stars

"RAGE" The Wind Screams
and suddenly I am the hurricane
and the hurricane is me
and my winds billow against myself
and it is dark once again
but I have seen the light.
Julian if you're out there, it's hard to believe that week was 3 years ago now, I wonder if you felt the same as me? And what could have been if we had ran off together...
Dec 2020 · 124
sour lemons
unnamed Dec 2020
the faces in my memories no longer smile
with the chubby cheeks of youth
they have aged with me
til that wondrous sparkle faded from their eyes

as i have grown bitter so have our hearts together
so that now those memories which once brought me comfort
now greet me with mocking & jeers
Dec 2020 · 728
my mom's teapot
unnamed Dec 2020
my mother once had a porcelain teapot
gilded with flowers and leaves,
on my 12th birthday, i dropped it to the ground,
and it shattered as it hit the floor

some days i feel like that teapot
glued back together but still missing some pieces
weaker than i began
but stronger than i ever will be again.
Dec 2020 · 180
terrariums
unnamed Dec 2020
i saw a breeze in my terrarium
a gentle sweeping of the peace,
i wonder if the trees can feel the breeze
flowing through their leaves?
Dec 2020 · 161
autonomy
unnamed Dec 2020
I stood up and left the fire that burnt my touch,
though as night falls I grow to miss its warmth.

— The End —