Savannah Charlish

Savannah Charlish May 2017

Maybe if you'd known
Maybe if you'd realized
The hardest thing for me to ever do was walk away from you
I could not bear the feeling of giving up on someone I loved
Let alone someone I loved as deeply as you
Maybe if you understood the torture that has ensued on my soul over leaving you
You would've never asked me to go

Maybe if I could grasp
Maybe if I could conceptualize
That the only one hurting in this ending is me
Walking away would be the biggest relief

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

I'll Always Sit With You

You taught me the power of just being there for someone
No words could ever fix anything
And you were never able to admit you needed fixing
But I never minded just being in silence with you
Because that was all you ever needed
To know someone would still love you even when you ran out of ways to say you were okay

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

Empty Space

They ask me why I drink so much
I tell them,

*"With this many cracks in a heart, there are a lot of spaces that need filling"

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

Somewhere, At the Bottom of the Ocean

"I was a hopeless romantic."
She shrugged indifferently.
"But life changes things and swallows up parts of us with it. And I guess that part of me just got lost with the tide."

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

I Don't Know This But I Know You

I don't know how to stay for more than a night
I don't know how to not runaway when someone's grip feels too tight
And I don't know how to lose my logic and love you with my heart

Because I do know goodbyes
I know no amount of new hellos can put a broken heart back together
I know the impossibility of moving on from love lost

But your voice sounds like forever
And your eyes feel like coming home
Your touch tastes better than any good thing I've never known

All I know is
I don't know a lot about love
But I know my fears grow silent when you take my hand

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

You Taste like Red Wine, You Feel like Whiskey

My head is spinning in circles
But a sip of liquor hasn't touched my lips
I can't feel my body
Even though I've never been so sober
All I can hear is the sound of my laughter
And I haven't had a drink in days

Because when I look back at you
Your big blue eyes
Your half grin
Looking back at me
I realize this is what people mean
When they say you get drunk on your lover

You're not mine yet
But I don't think my liver
Could endure the love of you

I don't know if this heart of mine
Could endure the hangover
When you leave

Savannah Charlish Apr 2017

A Thank You to Other Poets

The only thing that's left of us
Are the poems I read
That I feel explain the things about us I never could

Where I used to hear your words
I can only hear you
Through the broken hearts of others