i wish i was special
but all i really am
is a disaster
bruising along the coast
of your incomplete love

When cold nights come
Wrapping the world in darkness and
Word from me is unheard,
Remember.

What I cannot speak in person, I
Write with the dews
On obscure glasses
Under a blanket of stars.

I LIKE TO SAY YOUR NAME

I like to say
your name

when you're
not here

turn you
into sound

conjure you out of
thin air

so that you appear
before me

dressed in sound
only

memory sketching in
the rest of you

as if sound
was just an outline

and love
colours you in

adding the voice last
so I can hear you say.

"Hello you..!"
and there you are

as present
as present

can be.

I like to say
your name

when you're
not there.

And over time,
My pen stopped bleeding
But my heart didn't