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mel Apr 2016
on your nineteenth birthday
you started keeping a smile
locked at the edges of your mouth
like a scared man hides a gun in his pocket.

it's been so long
since your brother's told you he loves you,
and you start to hate him
though you visit his grave every year.

at twenty-one you're armed
with flowers in your pockets
a foldable chair and a pack of cigarettes-
*"just in case he needs me to stay the night."
mel Apr 2016
kiss me tipsy just above ocean
where we'll make our tiptoes meet
i'll tell you how i loved you, darling
*like you would never believe
mel Mar 2016
each day
i fall in love
with someone new--
but it seems
i'm only falling
for different versions
of you.
mel May 2015
take me back to the days when the night sky was our only blanket; when it felt like planets colliding every time we kissed. i want to feel the way i did when you told the ocean how much it looked like me: deep and mysterious and always changing, always moving. wild enough to strengthen a storm, calm enough to sing you to sleep. you said you always wanted to drown in my abyss. nowadays, all i can think about is whether the shoreline remembers the imprint of our bodies sprawled upon it. i wonder if it misses our warmth the way i miss yours. sometimes i think about you with her: how it must feel like sunlight streaming through your veins every time you touch. i just hope, even sometimes, you still miss the rain.
god i love oceans
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