Rain rain don't go away,
when I am with my bae.
His embrace is so warm,
when my curve in his palm.
Nothing else I now wish
when beside me,
he sighs colossal bliss!

to be bored
is to be restless
impatient
can’t-sit-still
a dull sort of pause
counting those
drip
   drip
     d
       r
         i
           p
             s
until you lose track
and you listen
to the people –
     the dogs –
       the cars –
outside
wishing you were somewhere else
with someone else
where it wasn’t
     just
       you

she reached up,
fingers dancing in dapples of sunlight
weaving paths through the trees

her laugh
mingled with birdsong
and twirling through the breaths of wind

the forest
embraced her
the daylight tenderly wrapping her with warmth

she sang to the music of the earth
together they found harmony
as he marveled at her magnificence

She was the first –
the first to ensnare the attentions of my heart
She stripped away the loneliness
and warmed me with smiles
with laughs
A touch opened up an ocean of possibilities
But those dropped like a stone into water
The ocean was an illusion –
really it was a shallow pond – no, a puddle
I latched onto Hope too soon, too fast
Eager for the chance
But she soon reminded me of the sting of indifference
of being ignored
And loneliness had never left
and it wrapped me up in its heavy embrace
and I embraced it
And I said I would forget her
as she had forgotten me.

every fleeting moment
of an accidental touch
a stolen brush of fingers
grazing skin
of eyes met across a room
of whispers
of secrets
shoots a thrill through me
because it brings me closer to you

I used to think
I broke everything I touched
but then I realized
that wasn't true
it was only that
I was hoarding memories
of all the broken things
and forgetting
that which I'd kept whole.