Bec - Hello Poetry

Bec Jul 2014

Burn

I've read a lot of words about
people who make
flowers grow in the deepest
parts of others. But you,
you lit a fire in me and now
I am burning.
Instead of petals at my feet,
there are flames in my wake.
And every touch is another hot
coal upon my skin and
I have never seen more
beautiful scars.

- R.H.

#love #fire #flowers #boy #burn #skin #burning #hot #cwd

Bec Jul 2014

Living

I count kisses in time with your heartbeat
thump thump
and I wonder if you notice the
slight uptick in mine,
every time you lean forward.
Isn't it nice how the simplest things
can make you feel so...
alive?

-R.H.

#kiss #living #alive #boy #crush #heartbeat #cwd

Bec Jul 2014

Library

My mother always used to tell me
that I could read anyone.
"Give them an hour with you", she'd laugh,
"and you'd just know."
Then I met you
and it seems that your book is
written a language that I just don't understand.
This illiteracy is driving me mad
and I know I would spend years just to
decipher one page.

- R. H.

#love #sad #boy #crush #reading #library #frustrated #cwd

Bec Jul 2014

Art

You sat with your canvas and
a rainbow of paint.
Though I was beside you, you were
alone
in that room.
I prayed you did not realize how strongly
I envied your brush; I could only
hope that one day
you would hold me like
that.

- R. H.

#love #sad #art #painting #shy #artist #cwd

Bec Jul 2014

Intoxicated

It's four in the afternoon
and
I have been drunk for two days.
I was hoping that
maybe
with blurred vision, I wouldn't have to
see your face in my
head.
Now, I cannot tell if this
nausea
is a side effect of the ***** or of
you.

- R. H.

#sad #drunk #alcohol #hurt #sick #drinking #intoxicated #cwd

Jul 2014

Ruthie

Phone calls

I guess you're getting tired of my drunk phone calls at 3am.
I guess you don't care about my slurred sentences begging
For you to come back.
And I guess you're happy laying there alone when you know I'm just breaking into peices without you to hold..

I keep calling you when I'm drunk late at night by myself

#drunk #friend #old #missing #call

Bec Jul 2014

Water

I stopped treading water
and dove head first into the ocean
with you.
And God if it wasn't a mistake.
But you taught me that I value trust
over one good night
and that it is okay to love myself before
I love you.
You were a tidal wave I saw coming
a mile away.
I have moved to higher ground.

- R. H.

#love #self #water #storm #strong #lessons