Somewhere over nowhere

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

And then I cried

Raised voices from the living room
The sound of glass breaking

I hid my face in the blankets
The tears soaked the pale green fabric
Into a grey-green expanse of misery

Afterall...
I couldn't let them catch me crying now, could I?

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

❇️The earth's edges

Maybe the world is round

But it has sharp edges

That have wounded me

More than once

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

A nocturnal tussle

The sound of skin against skin
A slippery silence
Interspersed by soft, sweaty thuds
Two bodies wrestle
In the dead night

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

A tattooed rose

On her waist
Are swirls of black and brown
Smooth, like a worn polaroid
Beginning and ending in her heart of thorns

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

Grey addiction

A dark room
Greyish lights on a young face
From a thin box
Of addiction

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

The Glamour of being a Loner

There's a glint in your eyes
That only the mirror
Has the privilege
To behold

Somewhere over nowhere Jul 2020

on the tip of my tongue

I balance a heavy stone
Well polished, evenly cut into a knife
On the tip of my tongue

The blood seeping from the thin cut
Must remain hidden
Under the thin edge of this weapon!