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  Apr 2016 latifeh
raine cooper
love is a song I keep forgetting the words to, but there's something about your voice that helps me remember
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  Apr 2016 latifeh
raine cooper
maybe yours would be hands that stay
or your eyes, stars that won't burn out
maybe your waves would keep reaching,
instead of relentlessly leaving the shore
but i have said goodbye to parts of myself
and i know they'll never come back
the parts that love
the pieces that trust
they lay here shattered and broken
and i can't let anything close
because i am made entirely of ruins
and i destroy all that i touch
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  Apr 2016 latifeh
raine cooper
there is a tall boy living inside my chest
he is the fingerprints all over my memories
he's why i stand at the edge of this cliff,
and why the view burns my lungs
he is the reason i breathe
and the reason i can't
he is the answer to every question
and why i'm always asking more
he is the mist hovering over the ocean,
sometimes i can't see him
but i know he's always there
he is the reason i feel small
and why my hands can touch the sky
he is the tall boy living inside my chest
and even death will not take him away
©rainecooper
latifeh Apr 2016
maybe we needed
to hurt each other.
maybe we needed
to hate each other.
because maybe we needed
to see that for us,
there is no other.
only we can heal each other.

— The End —