#thenational
Sorrow found me when I was young,
Sorrow waited,
Sorrow won
Oct 16, 2020
Oct 16, 2020 at 12:28 AM UTC
Sorrow found me when I was young
Sorrow waited
Sorrow won
May 16, 2021
May 16, 2021 at 2:35 PM UTC
I used to watch the silver rain fall
On Sundays whilst listening to The National.
My breath would form fogged circles,
On cold windows, arching over a suburban view.
I watch your eyes move
Make plans behind ice irises
And beautiful though the April sun is
It scratches in dry heat
My tentative plans forming
Concrete ambition
My dreams melt into one
Mind ticking rapidly
In midday sun
So I don't really know where I'll be
This time next year...
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020 at 12:17 PM UTC
the skies have poured out their blue
and something about the way they do
reminds me of what I did to you.
but you knew I was no good;
you’d felt it on my skin and in the hollows of my knuckles,
as if my words weren’t enough.
the going always gets tough –
this chronic rollercoaster, where neither of us
can hang on until the end of the ride,
this terrible love we keep walking,
you’re stumbling and I’m never talking
I don’t know what it means anymore.
it’s just us on the kitchen floor
wondering which was deadlier:
the knives or the fire.
we’ll pretend I’m not a liar
and that you’re not losing this game –
anything that helps you keep sane.
your blood terrarium, my empty echoes
this codependent existence so shallow;
only killing time,
only killing what you wish could be mine.
Aug 4, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 at 7:07 AM UTC
Bells and all assorted pings.
Melodic melancholy meticulously mesmerizing me.
A baritone bleeds out across the flickering walls, intoxication festering with(in).
"Where have you been?"
A bed of boards, a few more knots, remains oddly comfortable.
Rhythmic ripples dig into the woodwork gripping and grafting, fibrously.
Sinking out of me, in my time.
A little more letting, a little less me.
The cracks running with what's in
b e t w e e n.
Aug 17, 2015
Aug 17, 2015 at 1:53 AM UTC