10-12-18   12:17am

I want to be seen
and to be heard

I want to be loved
and never forgotten

5-5-19   5:12pm

It’s quiet

Typing

The clock
tick tock
tick
tock

The turtle dove in the distance

A little rain hitting the window

The pipes

Birds chirping in the distance

My thoughts
about you

I try to write, to express
My happiness, my pain
All those feelings, unexplained

Yet as the pen touches the paper-
No words are scribbled,
No sentences framed

Only etches of mistakes,
loops of black ink
Of caged feelings that never escaped

Can you still see me

Standing in this dark room

Talking to the memory of you

Your hand is back in my hair

The love is still there

Just like you never left

But that is not my life

I couldn't sit pretty

To let you create a pretty lie

And now I'm here and for all I know..

You may have died.

9-16-19   11:04pm

As the moon is full in sight
I lay awake at night
thinking of you

The stars shine in the sky
waving to say goodbye
as a boy travels far far away
from someone who wants him to stay

A spark that ignites
suddenly feeling so bright
The soul is crawling its way through


Mirror mirror on the wall
who’s the brightest of them all?

It’s you

It’s you

1-19-2020    10:20pm

My heart
has made up its mind

I’ve written about you
so many times already
And my fingers
urge me to keep going

My mind is driving me nuts
overwhelmed by how much space
you occupy in it


I keep everything huddled up inside
far far away
from my mouth


Maybe when I’m ready
I’ll be able to tell you
what the heart wants you to hear


I’ve glimpsed sides of you
no one has ever seen
I’ve seen you evolve
into this beautiful creature
that no other girl witnessed

9-2-24   9:07pm

why are mornings
the worst part of the day

when your mind begins to trace
the quiet echoes of their absence

even at night
before drifting to sleep
while lying awake
with your thoughts going
a mile a minute


it's because the crickets remind me
of you
the still air
your books
your scent
your smile
your laugh
your lips