#reconnecting
I remember you.
I remember cello strings,
I remember blunt remarks,
I remember punches to the gut.
And I remember late nights,
tucked against one another,
whispering secrets and holding sweaty hands.
And I remember the wonder in your eyes,
making plans to runaway.
Maybe to Canada, maybe to Sweden.
Yet I loose the memory of us.
Giggling in blanket forts,
clearing cans of whip cream.
Yet I've found you again, and I can't tell if I should stay.
Nov 22, 2025
Nov 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM UTC
You and nature get along well,
Blue skies, brown eyes, green thumb.
Have you seen the spirits lately,
Does the river ever ask about me?
Look outside this spring,
See sunlight shine away the winter,
After endless rain,
Dark soil calling new growth.
And if it feels like nature to you as well, lets
Reduce our distance, plant roots again,
Reuse our same old jokes, repeat our favorite dates,
Recycle all this love we have, it can be new and feel the same.
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM UTC
there we sit, waiting
for your dad to pick us up
bus stop pavement
spilling our guts
just like we did
when we used to talk
secrets glistening on the pavement
i don't know you anymore
opening like a mouth
the sun is bright and hot
like a tongue or a ribcage
that i used to know the shape of
spit blood at me and
ask me for advice
let me read the sequel
let me back into your life
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 9, 2024 at 12:39 AM UTC
Afraid?
Of what?
Of what's inside of me.
How evil
Dangerous
Destructive
Could it be?
I am my own careful detective
Investigating parts of me
That I myself have hid
For years quite stubbornly
Will I be able to rejoin
All parts of me together?
Will I be able to enjoy
The wholeness then forever?
It's not as easy to put into words
It feels as if I had maybe two hearts
There's one that tries to be so nice
But underneath it lies...
Another one, the dark and rough,
That one was made by times so tough
That really it just cannot smile
It has its own dark heavy style
I'm digging deep to see
My fear is growing though
That's how I managed to ignore
My darkness for so long
But finally, for feelings' sake,
I gotta stop before it's late
I need to see and to admit
Who am I underneath the dry smile
That I have been practicing for a long while
Scared of losing myself?
Maybe.
But I gotta risk it,
Don't I?
After all I just know
That my darkest side
Does deserve the attention
Of my soul and mind
It's a part of me
I'll express it in arts
Before my dry fake smile
Dries out both of my hearts.
Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020 at 6:43 PM UTC
The Sky Was Turning Blue
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday I saw you
as the snow flurries died,
spent winds becalmed.
When I saw your solemn face
alone in the crowd,
I felt my heart, so long embalmed,
begin to beat aloud.
Was it another winter,
another day like this?
Was it so long ago?
Where you the rose-cheeked girl
who slapped my face, then stole a kiss?
Was the sky this gray with snow,
my heart so all a-whirl?
How is it in one moment
it was twenty years ago,
lost worlds remade anew?
When your eyes met mine, I knew
you felt it too, as though
we heard the robin's song
and the sky was turning blue.
Keywords/Tags: love, reunion, reconnecting, rekindling, desire, renewal, attraction, kiss, winter, embalmed, spring, hope, resurrection, happiness, joy
May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020 at 2:57 AM UTC
is reconnection supposed
to be this disappointing
or am i lacking in gratification
i still feel alive
but yet i feel nothing
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 at 3:44 PM UTC
i missed you so much
but i dont want to have to keep saying goodbye
it’s just too hard.
Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 7:13 PM UTC
you hugged me like you did when we were together
long and tight
you hugged me like you did when you loved me.
and it just made it that much harder to remember that you don’t love me anymore.
Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 7:00 PM UTC
Focus on my breathing
In and out
I can hear the air flow
I can see the sky so high
Like a very accommodating blanket
Dark yet not scary. Without stars.
Hand on my heart
I am reconnecting with myself
When was the last time
I visit myself? Asking ‘how are you?’
For so long I have been taken myself for granted
To live for their acceptance
Siblings, colleagues, friends and bosses
When was the last time I treat myself kind?
Just like a best friend, telling her ‘You are doing fine’
When suppressed tears drop
It’s a caring comfort!
Me with myself.
Seize the moment.
Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 9:35 AM UTC
I miss you
Like, a lot
But I felt like at times I was in the way
Of you doing better things
Bigger things
I didn't want to mess up
Something that was so good
A friendship that was only good
Because I mess things up
Like, a lot
So I gave you some space
For you to do what you wanted
How you wanted
But now I'm wondering if I messed up
Like, a lot
Because I miss you
Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 9:05 PM UTC
I was so broken
the cracks in my heart went so deep
deeper than the ocean
all I did was sleep
I wanted to sleep my pain away
sometimes I still want to
but I don't
because im trying to better my life,
keep my **** organised,
stay away from my knifes
but last weekend I was alone
not lonely, but alone
I was connecting to my body again
nobody was there to judge the things that I did
I was laying in the grass
looking at the trees
meditating, streching, praying, painting
all the things I like to do but I'm scared to
scared that people judge me doing them
but in that moment
after the weekend reconnecting with myself
I finally felt happy
my cracks were filling up with joy
I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop smiling
that moment
that short moment
I will never forget
I finally felt hope again
Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 at 6:25 AM UTC
I don’t know how to just be your friend
Trust me, that’s literally all that I want to be
Because I can’t be stuck in this back and fourth continuous stream forever
When we reconnected, I felt something inside of me that I hadn’t felt since the day we met
And that’s sappy and stupid, but I don’t care
How dare I let myself get close to you again
And we’re not even close
We’re nowhere as close as we used to be, but in a way we’re closer
How dare you renter my life and think that it’s fair to just pick up where we left off, but actually not
Because you know the impact you have on me
Did you know that the last time I cried up until recently was February of 2016?
But then recently, when I got scared of what was going to become of this newfound friendship,
I cried again — every night for a few nights
And when I think of you leaving again like you left the first time it honestly breaks my heart
Did you know that I wrote a letter to you a few weeks ago when we hung out for the first time
Because it didn’t feel like the first time, it just felt like a continuation of all the other times
Except this time was better
I wrote a letter that I had planned to give to you after a while of reconnecting
But now I just really don’t know
You said me “I think it would work better if we had dated now, rather than two years ago”
How the hell do you think you can just say something like that and it be okay
How do you think that you can have late night conversations with me
And send pictures back and forth
And, oh god, the worst, SHARE MUSIC WITH ME
And keep up this so called “friendship”
But no, not as a regular thing
God forbid we have more than a 5 minute conversation in one day
And just to be clear, no, I don’t think that it’s “unreasonable” to be developing feelings
I wish you would just give it a chance again
I know you recently felt something, even if it was just a little, because you told me
And because I saw the real you for a split second
And yes, that messed with my head even more, in case you were wondering
Do you believe in soul-mates?
Because I do with my whole entire being
And the reason I can write this without it being weird
And the reason I’m putting up with the 5 minutes a day, is because there is something here and it has not gone away and it will not go away
And I’m literally sacrificing any feelings that could be developing for anyone else during this time
Because I am not giving up, and honestly, I never did give up
I was upset and I acted out, but that was only to hide that I still cared
And I really think, well, hope, that deep down you might still care as well
Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 10:23 PM UTC
It's been over a year now.
We're set to meet at 11
It's 10:55.
I'm frozen in my car
While I want nothing more than to be friends again
I'm terrified.
What if we're different now?
It's been so long.
But I know there's only one way to really find out
So I'll go inside and find a seat
And wait.
Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 2:25 PM UTC
All I asked from her was patience,
Perhaps I expected too much,
She never actually came back.
Neither let me tame time back,
Nor she let herself come back.
And all of it just seems so false,
Reconnecting with her was never done.
Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 8:12 AM UTC
It is 1:20 am
And I am at 7%
And I have only one bar of signal
And my screen tells me
"Reconnecting..."
I'm 93% done with 'us;'
You have drained each per cent of my patience.
I'm getting mixed signals
From the language of your body,
And very few at that.
But I take a chance on us,
Another chance,
At this hour of lateness,
Maybe we can rebound and re-bond
And not just reminisce.
I reckon we could
Reconnect.
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 5:31 AM UTC
Two years have come and passed.
Two years since I last saw you,
Since I last felt your arms around me,
Since I last tasted your kiss.
Since I last heard you say my name
Since I last heard I love you fall from your lips.
Since I last saw those incredibly eyes.
Since I last saw that beautiful smile.
And now here we are,
About to see each other once more...
Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM UTC
I feel like I'm fighting against my soul
slowly losing control
as if I'm trapped in a bubble, to keep me out of trouble
no chance to fumble or even a stumble but my words that
I will speak won't be in a mumble
Just when I think I may lose this fight & that whatever I try won't make
things alright
I remember something that just might
How could I forget I practiced all night
A conversation with my mirror face, so my soul understands
its place
that we're in this together it's not a competition or race
it is simply just knowing what is right & what is wrong
helping your life easily flow along
You're my voice of reason
the one I believe in
from this I've learned what is in my chest, always knows
what's for my best
from time to time my brain will try to protest
just remind it your heart feels more then all the rest...
May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 6:44 PM UTC