Ash - Hello Poetry

Ash Nov 6

settled

tonight, i pull my blanket up to my chin
unsure if it is to comfort or suffocate
whether i slumber for good, or to wake
in a world most unfamiliar

#anxiety #uncertainty

Ash Oct 4

In the dark

The bed only knows the weight
That leaves it for, unknowingly, the last time;
The warmth no longer pressed to its quilt,
The down that will never sink again

This came to my mind at around 3:00 AM last night, the perspective of the bed. It was built and made to serve us at our most restless, our most vulnerable, but we don’t often lend it the kindness to tell it why someone leaves. Does it know? Or does it wallow thinking it has wronged us in some way?

#bed #love #lost #leaving

Ash Sep 18

never bear to bury it

and while I claim to be free
to soar over these fairytale castles
into bigger dreams, better things
some part of me still dwells here
and begs—would you still have me?

#pining #yearning

Ash Sep 13

Untitled

my mother's wedding dress
cut through the middle,
a red ribbon slashed against skin
unwound, destroyed, unknown

Ash Aug 13

cyclic

the moonlight glints off your fingertips
catching the glow—“just for you,” you say

the voice entwines with my ear, winds down
to my heart, pooling at the bottom of my chest
like a loaded gun, waiting for the trigger
to be squeezed just so, ending this sweet dream again

#love #pining #desperation #distance

Ash Jul 27

unspoken

words that can only be whispered
in dreams and midnight longings;
the melancholy lilt of a time fading
echoes into the silence, unbound

#pining #longing #unspoken #love

Ash Jun 1

Untitled

in sudden grief and desperation
words I cannot even bear to dress
in floral or elegant prose
escape from me, in a wailing breath

where have you gone?

#grief