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38 · 2d
a letter to Me
matt r 2d
dear Me,

another day of the rise&fall, and how do you feel? i am not a lover of narrative, but let me clear in my mind:

I woke up three times last night. it's been a common occurence recently, but never the same time. you'd think there are only so many times one person can wake up in a night but nothing feels the same; yesterday's two is todays three.

the waking is fine (I have always been clear about My love of the pursuit of living; I was never tired of it, and every moment has always been a gift.) now, though, I am tired of the very window of realisation that the day is real. do you understand? waking is parasympathetic & wonderful. it happens to Me. the sun, the birds, the music. it all happens to everyone, and it always will. even the deep stretching, the yawning, will happen before I am truly awake.

but today, like clockwork, there was the day. My mam always told Me that I was naturally a depressive like her, and that I had all her worst sides. I disagree with the latter, but to think she feels like this too makes me want to sit between her legs on the sofa like I used to when I was young, and tell her how much I love her. I can't though, and My mind knows that.

it's always love, see? I feel like I just have too much of it. I feel slightly overfilled and quite precariously placed. I realise what that means to say, and I hope my family and friends feel the love I feel for them, but it does not feel enough. That is something to say.

romanticism, though, is reason I will spill. I have written a lot of poetry about the girl I fell in love with this year, she used to read them, and I really felt she was it. I think she understood Me. That is to say she does not read them anymore. it's hard to feel anything after the riveting certainty I felt with her.

it's always love. one day I will learn to love Myself, or find love, or maybe neither or maybe both. today, though, I am alone and the day is here.

write soon.
38 · Jul 24
cirrus
matt r Jul 24
there's magpies everywhere
,do You see them     scaling
laddering   cirrus clouds

She breathes deeply ,blows
feathers 'cross the horizon
,today we will fly the same
matt r 3d
as if painted by chalk
     crags of sound mind
lean over me.        i say

that's a lot for one
man to-

           & a fat lavender
rock falls into a lake..
david berman,you always were
31 · 3d
sevens
matt r 3d
it is newness of feeling
good. silverring day, and i
do miss you dearly, makes
a waking breeze a luxury.

sevens get easier, it will
all be okay, but then all
i see is leaves in tandem.
sulferring,harsh newness.
matt r Jul 26
I know,   (I see)   You clearly. I know

(You see)    it so. I know    (You feel Me)

,clearly You know    (I know You)   ,no.
23 · Jul 28
moon (entropy)
matt r Jul 28
i think of morning
formation,the rays
parallel & so well
behaved. i am a
man loving daylight

& You are moonlight
on the water. only
if it were glass,or
We never cycled at
all; We are in love.
19 · Jul 25
a letter to J
matt r Jul 25
dear You,

You said you weren't gonna read these anymore, so let this float about in the void. for a little while, at least.

We spoke today for the first time in a while. it's been a few weeks really but it feels like years have passed faster. it's like since I've known You, time has been a wheel with You at the centre, & now I do not have You, she has toppled.

We spoke today for the first time in a while, and I think You saw why. We can not be friends, my dear. each time I see You in Love's long corridor My heart skips, My stomach turns. I have spent weeks crying tears over You, not sleeping over You, finding it hard to breathe over You. it is not Your fault, & I do not even dislike You. the opposite. I want nothing more then to talk to You, but I cannot do it anymore.

this week was the first time I felt in control of myself, but We spoke today, and now that is gone. You have to let Me get over You. I cannot keep not sleeping over You. You must pick up Love's wheel and push it on, my Love.

I know you miss Me. I miss You too, and I think We would have made something magnificent.

write soon
write soon
0 · Jul 29
in Love, & advancing
matt r Jul 29
locking gaze (Yours,
    fleeting rabbit)
,must have kindled
something merriweather

growingred,like a
puddle who was spilled
            kittenish,
i saw You where I was;

in Love, &   advancing.
0 · Aug 6
til green
matt r Aug 6
unsame morning falls out
my window, onto a little

boy's head. red mixing amber
glows, i will wait til green

rays of night fall, look north.
head up, & look to my window.
0 · 2d
citrus
matt r 2d
write like expansion                     (the difference
                                                     b­etween
                                             my love & others)
an instant flash,it
is        a shooting
inevitability                          & fills the form of
                                            its space       like
                                                love    is lemonade.
there is no slow burn
,not here. only there.
only where she ripens                 the next ready
                                                   set of citrus
                                                        to­ ****.
matt r Jul 29
lived one & i have lived
them all. breaking the

morning like coffee;bitter
-ness flows throughout.

if i reach up with a tea
spoon, stir the sky

to a milkshake, note the
cloudform pareidolia down;

well, the weatherpeople
must be artists too.
matt r Aug 6
tracing        wound,         shooting
star      skates      a      particular
           black     pond     of     night.

see       the       silvery       remark
           cross       my       heart.
(born      under      cauterising)

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