we found each other
by the Archibald Fountain-
what a day that was

6:59 PM
4/8/19

The shadow has lifted
releasing the light of life-
my soul is freed from darkness.
I feel alive again,
now my only fear is
until when?

I never thought
I would envy the sun,
but here I am,
wishing I could kiss you
the way the sun kisses you
every day and with
as much warmth.

The way the twilight
reflects off of her shoulders
tempts me all night long

4:01 PM
2/8/19

There's a song
in my heart with a
melody that only you
can harmonize

It is far too early
to tel if I'll survive you.
You have already made
a dent on my heart
and I’m already weak-kneed
at the thought of saying goodbye.

Look,
relationships can be great
but they’re not for everyone.
To be honest, coming home to the
same person every night is daunting,
even if it’s the one you love.
You may even lose a sense of who
you are because you are no longer 'you'-
but instead, you're defined by 'us'.
By definition you’re a part of something-
you share your life with someone,
you have another half,
without whom, it would imply,
you’re not complete.
And it’s okay to not be ready for that,
or to not want it ever,
or to have no idea what to feel.
But you’re not wrong or strange
for not aspiring to it and
you’re not missing out on as much
as you may think you are.
Don’t let what the others are doing
distract you from being you.
You’re doing fine, kid.

I have been living
just north of nowhere and south
of everything else

4:03 PM
29/7/19

She said I was loved
I said that you don't know me
or what I have done

9:16 PM
27/7/19

The good news is that one day
I won't remember the
exact words that
broke my heart.
The bad news is that
I also won’t remember
how your eyes glistened
underneath the stars.

I felt like I knew
her from another lifetime
when she caught my gaze

11:52 PM
22/7/19

I navigated
a sea of dumplings
in the heart of Japan
but none of them came close
to that perfect dumpling
I shared with you
in what now seems
like a dream.

Maybe it's lust or
maybe it's her pheromones-
All I know is that when
I bury my head
into her velvet locks,
time seems to stop
and I must worship
this goddess beside me.

I didn't believe
in soulmates until I met
your beautiful soul

1:10 PM
17/7/19

Mother Earth, she aches-
the more we are heating, the
more she is bleeding

10:03 PM
15/7/19

I've dreamt about you
too many times to tell if
that was real or not

5:24 PM
14/7/19

Was it just a dream
or did that really happen?
I can't tell with you

5:17 PM
14/7/19

So here I go as
I put my pen to paper
and see where I go

6:29 PM
9/7/19

You want a haiku
but I'm still trapped in our past-
so utterly trapped

6:26 PM
9/7/19

Ten haikus later
and I'm still trapped on this plane
in need of a drink

6:21 PM
9/7/19

I thought it would be
different by the time I
got home and held you

6:17 PM
9/7/19

Meet me in Japan-
meet me how the scenes inside
of your head plays out

6:11 PM
9/7/19

Throw me to the sharks
and let me see how the beast
inside of you thinks

6:09 PM
9/7/19

The history of
you and me, it's the saddest
story ever told

6:34 PM
9/7/19

Let's forget our lives-
let's forget tomorrow and
dance the night away

9:44 PM
11/7/19

Am I any good for you anymore?
Do my words still make you smile?
Do you still dread my goodbyes?
or have they lost all meaning?

Sometimes I can't let go.
If we've had fun,
chances are I'll still
think about you
from time to time.
If we were friends in high school
chances are I'll still wonder
what you're up to these days.
Those crushes will never leave-
they'll just fade away,
at least until you find a way
back into my mind.
The point is-
if I give up on someone
just know they **** well
deserved it.

The city never sleeps,
it's too busy wallowing
in broken dreams and
smiles as vacant as the buildings
that are too tall,
and too bright
to ever close.

This mountain
is not mine but I
feel the need to climb it.
It mirrors my aching soul
but I'm afraid to reach the peak-
a world of magic,
a world I have been
longing for.

We all feel a little lonely
sometimes more than others
so find someone or something
that can absorb you and
make you forget that you
were ever alone.

Kiss me in waves of
affection and shower me
with all of your love

9:49 PM
7/7/19

The Day you leave me-
the flowers will never smell the same,
the sun will never shine the same
in the same way that lightning
will never strike twice.

The dreams won't answer-
the night is getting colder
as the shadows dance

2:33 AM
7/7/19

I went to tag her
in a meme but she is now
gone without a trace

5:49 PM
6/7/19

It isn't the moments of joy,
or the merry memories I miss-
it were the moments of silence spent with you.
To be in your presence-
the quietude-
for it was only you who understood me
and my silence better
than myself.

I wonder if you still
tell our story to other people.
I wonder if you’re still
up north with your new man
and you'll say 'I knew a poet'.
I wonder if he will be
showing you pictures of the world,
and you'll say ‘I knew a man
who's seen Melbourne to Reykjavik.’
Sometimes I run into the people
we used to know but they won't
recognize me without you by my side.
They will introduce themselves,
and ask how you're doing and I'll say,
‘I don't know anymore.’

She went to the park
and made the birds, sun and trees
jealous all at once

7:24 PM
29/6/19

it's all about who
you eat pizza with at
two in the morning

10:49 PM
2/7/19

I want to be me
but I don't want to be me-
what prison is this?

11:02 PM
1/7/19

There were so many
soft and delicate angles
in your smile.
Was it a weapon forged
to destroy me or
was it a cure created
to save me?
I guess time will tell.

And then you held me
like you'd never let me go-
I wish you hadn't

7:09 PM
30/6/19

Love is a
shout into the void-
a long wait for an echo
that may or may not come
falling back to your lips.

I thought
I was blind
until I witnessed,
first hand, the
beauty in your eyes.
Now I see why
I fell for you.

you found me worthy
and left me feeling worthless
when you turned away

7:28 PM
28/6/19

It’s important
not to take these things personally.
Sometimes people hate you
through no fault of your own.
And sometimes people push you away
just because they’re afraid of what
will happen if you get too close.
And sometimes people leave
because they came to realize
that you weren't right for them
before you could realize that
they weren't right for you.
And that's okay because
not everybody can
love you.

I thought I was over you
until I saw your smile,
a sad smile-
oh, how I wish I could
fix that smile.
I try to justify the flutter
of my heart at the
mere sight of you.
That smile on your face-
oh, how I wish it was
still for me.

I look for peace
in so many people
and in so many places
where, deep down, I know
peace can never be found,
and yet the things we have a
glimmer of hope of finding it,
we run away from.
Such is the irony
of this turbulent life.

Things are okay but
I'd believe it more if it
was coming from you

8:14 PM
20/6/19

Even Tokyo
could never come between us
after all this time

11:39 PM
19/6/19

I try and I try
to write the perfect haiku-
as perfect as you

11:25 PM
19/6/19