Ever since my birth,
her stretch marks
have caught my age
on sycamore skin.
If you were to
peel back her bark,
you could pin point
the years she spent
nurturing her saplings;
two fair oaks,
pitted like pine needles,
that ***** her fingers
every so often.
But she does not
weep like a willow,
she continues to give
her life away to raise them.

© Matthew Harlovic

Thinking about you is my sanity, but if I think about you too much is it insane?

I have officially decided, the insane sanity is the best insanity.

If bridges are broken when you burn them, why do we build them in the first place.

I'm such a loser.
I've lost almost everything
but I won't lose her.

© Matthew Harlovic

I've said, "I'm sorry."
More than I've said, "I love you."
I'm sorry for that.

© Matthew Harlovic

What's the warranty and terms of condition of love again?

You told me that if you drink
before 10 A.M. you were a pirate
not an alcoholic.
But pirates don’t drive,
they sail.
They smoothly sail.
And as the Captain,
abiding by the code,
you went down with your ship
but then again,
you washed up in a jail cell.

© Matthew Harlovic