Taylor Link

Taylor Link Mar 2015

Let me wash over you
Like waves unto the shore
The foundation of your soul
Is pallid and dry
Let me fill you deep with color

#love #depression #pain #relationships

Taylor Link Mar 2015

falling

Being with you is easy,
It’s like f
                 a
                      ll
                           ing asleep.

And it's only after I’ve woken up,
That I realize I’ve even fallen.

It's no wonder they call it "falling" down and "falling" in love.
They both feel like you're going to die.

#love #poetry #words #pain #relationships #confusion

Taylor Link Mar 2015

Untitled

I want to kiss every inch of you until all your pain has melted into deep pools of blue in your eyes that haunt me when I'm sleeping the days away wishing you could have loved me like I loved you wore blue the first time we met.

Now, I wear blue all the time.

#love #loss

Taylor Link Mar 2015

Whatever's left.

I am a puzzle.
But not in the way that I am baffling,
confusing, or hard.
I am a puzzle,
and like any puzzle i've ever come across,
there are pieces bent, and missing.
There are so many pieces of me,
owned by so many different people,
because they take them when they leave.
And now I am everywhere.
Everywhere, and nowhere.
At the bottom of their drawers,
and under their beds.
At the back of their bookshelves,
a notch on their bedpost.

And each time they leave,
I put myself back together with the pieces I have left.
But I'm scared that one day,
there won't be enough.

#depression #betrayal #relationships #breakups #hurting

Taylor Link Mar 2015

Blending in.

Everything is loud
It's like someone's turned up the volume
And life is up as loud as it can be
My heart pounds out of my chest
And onto the floor
My hands are blue and purple and green and yellow and white
Because they're trying to be
Something they're not
Because being me, isn't good enough
The rest of me, follows suit

#anxiety #insecurity

Taylor Link Feb 2015

I met myself today

I can see myself sitting
I am low against the ground
My body limp and listless
My cries, they make no sound
Who is this pathetic creature?
I ask now, in despair
She is the girl I never was
But suddenly, she's here
Now, this is where I leave her
This is where I turn away
Because I didn't like things I saw
When I met myself today

#self #dispair

Taylor Link Feb 2015

Untitled

You always find me when I'm alone.
When the rest of the world has gone to sleep, you run through the corridors of my mind.
I lay there, as you trample through my veins.
You charge up from my legs, to my arms, to the tips of my fingers.
You light me on fire and then you leave.

You never stay to watch me burn.