Lillian Harris

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Flowers

I planted flowers
At your feet
But they soon
Grew too tall,
And tangled 'round
Your face until
You were not
There at all.

#love #flowers #lost #blind #identity #hidden #ideal #disappeared #idealization

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

By the Seaside

Staring
At the ocean
And the waves
That crash and foam,
I realize
In their motion
The sensation
Of home.

#peace #home #ocean #sea #waves #shore

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Hurricane

I am
A whirlwind
Of wandering thoughts,
A cyclone
Of spiraling dreams
A tempest
Of trepidation
A world
Fraying at the seams.

#storm #confusion #hurricane #whirlwind

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Colors

Strange
How all the
Colors fade
Just as soon as
They come to stay,
And drain like
All the empty words
That I heard you say.

#love #words #sadness #empty

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Vacancy

Lonely benches,
Empty chairs,
Spaces filled
With empty air,
Absence felt
But never eased,
Love observed
But never seized.

#love #lonely #sadness #loneliness #absence

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Ghosts

We are just ghosts
Aimlessly passing the time,
Forgotten places
Left behind,
Boarded up doorways
Stained by decay,
Restlessly looming
In the deepening gray,
Disappearing beneath
The undergrowth

#memories #restless #existing #ghosts #purposeless

Lillian Harris Jun 2015

Unspoken

The mind
Contains much more
Than the tongue
Tries to convey.

The heart
Knows such sensations
That the mouth
Could never say.

#words #heart #thoughts #mind #inarticulate