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Kirsten Tomlin Nov 2016
i hope that when
the last
autumn leaf
falls
our love won't have
tumbled down
with it
Kirsten Tomlin Nov 2016
open windows
and open hearts.

only you shut you
window
just as the leaves began to
f
a
l
l
and just as i did, too.
Kirsten Tomlin May 2016
In the past
I would take a razor
to my skin

but now
I take a cigarette
to my lips

and I don't know
which is worse because both
remind me of the life
im suffocating
Kirsten Tomlin Apr 2016
I'm tangled up in the way
you hold my hands
and in the way
you set the oven timer.

I'm tangled in the way
you explain your favorite movies to me.
in the way
you say "Thursday",
the way
you sing along with the radio.

I'm tangled in the way
you make me feel
so full and
so loved
in one moment
and in the next,
you make me feel
unimportant and
forgotten.

I'm tangled in the
overwhelming love
I hold in my heart for you
that you
don't hold for me.
Kirsten Tomlin Mar 2016
the Stars that are so far
above and just out of reach,
reassure me
as my shaky breathe shudders,
becoming steadily more even
as each minute is
added into the whole
of a day.

inhale. "you're okay"
exhale. "you're so close"
inhale. "you're okay"
exhale. "you're so close"
Kirsten Tomlin Mar 2016
everyone else is
adventuring into the future
and I've trapped myself in a corner
trying to untangle our present

you're three hours behind
but it feels as if
I'm light years ahead

I thought I'd tell you about
my childhood and what
my tattoo means

but all you want to hear
is a breathy version of my voice
between
the kisses and
between
the sheets
Kirsten Tomlin Mar 2016
New
It's 12:37 in the morning
and as a new day is a little more than half way though it's first hour of existence
the rain starts to drop.

It's said that each storm begins with only a single drop.
But that can't be true because as I'm lying here,
the abundance of rain drops all crashing down at once
couldn't have begun with
just one falling all alone.

Most don't understand my love for rain.
They say the rain is too grey and
too cold.  
But rain brings life.
But rain brings peace.
But rain brings rest.

It's now 12:49 and the day has almost made it through
the first hour.
The rain celebrates with
the young life of this new day by giving the flowers a reason to still bloom,
even though the sun has scorched them,
this downpour allows them to live another day
giving beauty in an world that's undeserving.
It gives peace to those who have been haunted by the silence,
the stillness of the humid evening.
It gives rest to me
when last night's sleep was so difficult to hold on to
and waking with the sun was frustratingly impossible.

It's 1:04 in the morning
and as a new day is only a few minutes through it's second hour of existence,
the rain ceases to drop.

— The End —