every person is a tree,
a community the forest.
striving to grow,
but trying to hold on to their roots.

i wish the rain would wash me away
to a place unknown
and drown my sorrows like the sidewalks
into the drains i would go
watering down the lines of reality
until the sun came out again
there’d be nothing of me remaining
only the memory of water

if karma’s a ***** then love must be a ******* *****.

my mum told me
not to give advice if i
couldn’t take it myself.
she didn’t get the irony.

let’s fall in love in this lonesome city
i know you’re afraid of heights
but i’ll hold your hand all the way to the top
let’s fall in love down by the ocean
i’m afraid of being under water
so hold my hand all the way to the bottom

my freckles fall in constellations
like stars sprinkled across my face
they dot every inch of my skin
like marks on a map
trace them tenderly
from my arms to my tummy
making patterns i can feel
your final destination will be my heart

I felt my heart flutter around in my chest like a bird in a cage that has just learned it could fly