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1.6k · May 2015
5-9-15 Lilly of the Valley
AM May 2015
you said you loved me
you said you loved me
you say you love me
I'm ****** to a lighthouse tower where the sun always shines
regret hit me like the day it rained
the day it rained
the day it rained
I had forgotten where the switched was
and all those boats forgot where home was

I don't blame you for wanting to leave

you've always wanted to go home,
while I cant ever seem to get away from it,
but oh how I loved you
how I loved you
*how I love you
1.2k · Mar 2015
3-17-15 Riptide
AM Mar 2015
His mutters ran out like sand.

This ship is steady
this ship is steady
this ship isn't steady
this ship was never steady.

I cannot tell who is more broken,
this ship or the captain.

I know we're at riptide,
I can feel the pressure of the waves crushing my chest.
The ocean never understood love,
maybe that's why she consumes all that has loved,
all that has felt warmth.

What a delicate heart to meet the sharp tip of anger,
the crushing anguish of fear,
the drowning waters of sorrow,
the restless monsters residing in the skull.
AM Nov 2015
In the end,
and by the end I mean
the day you realize
the moon was never waiting on the sun,
that she was always there,
only then will you know why wildflowers feel the pain you've been carrying silently.

The gentle courage that's found in the solemn nights,
where the wind whispers
"there has to be another way",
always seems to turn the tide faster than any man could

and once the roots of the trees find their way to your knees,
then you'll understand why you went down with his ship.
1.1k · Apr 2015
4-21-15 Dull
AM Apr 2015
I'm tired of my heart being a yoyo.
I've tried to tell you that you're my ventilator,
but you're never here.
I'm the type of lover that wants to leave everything else behind,
maybe it's because I'm a sucker for a good sunset.
I just want to live somnolently,
I want to retrace the veins that map your wrist.
I want you to be here.
892 · Mar 2015
3-27-15
AM Mar 2015
I saw your constellations,
they remind me of my own.
Yet there's still a hesitation,
when I ask to take you home.
You say I waste your time,
with all my simple crimes.
Darling, please wait here,
as I burn our rearview mirrors.

I loved you through the storm,
and now the curtains are torn.
You loved me through the storm,
and now this house is forborne.
867 · Mar 2015
2-28-15 Defining Him
AM Mar 2015
The light that sustains me,
the spark that ignites me,
the calm of the rain,
the cleanse of the snow,
the beat that's pushing my blood,
the air that's filling my lungs,
the harmony on my best days,
the melody on my worst days,
**you are my liberator.
AM Nov 2016
and now I know it's over,
because seeing your name doesn't feel the same,
and seeing your face doesn't take me to that place

were there are no fluorescent lights
and where I'm not alone at night.
an allusion of reality where your fingertips are golden,
an allusion that was stolen.
a conscious mind
with the wrong perception of time,
and where cheek kisses taste like cherry-lime,
and where it's my ears that get to hear you snore,
your sleepy eyes were something I could never ignore.


another light lost in the void.
I wish it was your fault.
my hands are broken while you're still golden.
my days are bitter,
every night is winter.
I feel like just a skull with tired hair,
who forgot how to care.
The only thing I need,
is more skin on my knees.
the light is leaving, slowly,
because you were my something that was holy.
809 · Mar 2015
3-13-15
AM Mar 2015
Sunsets are so much more grand once you've known sadness,
reminding you of the halcyon days from every slash of red through every majestic cloud,
melancholy swallows your veins in such a zany manner that you almost saw it coming.
The light bends regally through the gaps of clouds to put a warmth to you,
even if you're sitting alone in the shotgun seat of his truck, waiting for the tank to fill,
even if you're hoping no one in the lot watches as you bury your sobbing eyes into your aching hands,
even if you feel as though you're growing smaller,
and your soul's sinking deeper,
even if you're tired,
even if you cannot bear to utter the sound of the radio,
even if your mind is slipping,
but you still love him,
and you can't tell if you're losing him or yourself,
and it's like you built your mountain on a pivot,
even then
the light will still warm you.
801 · Mar 2015
3-18-15 Sunday Morning
AM Mar 2015
Another Sunday morning.
It's as though the winter trees are mourning,
as thick flurries pile on their naked limbs.
A dusty sunrise presses against soft sheets.
Somnolent fingertips trace my bare skin,
leaving me a roadmap of all the words I know you're thinking.
The air is sharp with a painful chill,
while you are the hearth of warmth.
Our bodies intertwined,
it takes me back to my childhood summer nights.
Where fireflies called out to their longing lovers
and stars searched for their parents that left so long ago.

Another sympathy of slow breaths
and tender, aching love.
Another Sunday Morning.
761 · Mar 2015
3-28-15 Where it Grows
AM Mar 2015
Underneath the weeds in her herb garden.
In between every dying star.
Running through the veins of the leaves within all the trees.
Behind every sleepy eye not wanting to say goodbye.
In the air between their joined hands.
Within every thundercloud and cool rain droplets.
Twisting through the quiet creek tracing the woods.
Throughout his aching fingertips.
In the gaps between their bones.
759 · Feb 2016
Bad Trip
AM Feb 2016
the snow is coming down like it's been waiting all these years to suffocate us all
I was strung out between the edge of Saturn and you
there were lapses of reality that would even bring the moon to it's knees
I could hear the cry of the wolf getting ready to swallow the sun
you could feel the cold ****** tears
and hear the cries falling from the sky

the stars were hung in the sky by their necks after the light had left*

drifting
the coldness was hard to fight
I was struck with convulsions of cold
you pushed me further into the abyss we laid in
I let go
and I could feel myself sinking slow
further in the black water thick as sludge
I've never felt such silence
your face to mine
we were porcelain and I could feel time again
you kept saying "you're okay"
and I kept saying your name
I could see things on my eyelids glow
I told you "I don't know"
AM Jan 2016
most people in their right mind live
so that one day they will be written about
but not him
he lives everyday like the day before your last day
that pleasure can be found even in the cracks of the levy

he can be your rock
to keep you steady
even when you feel like the riptide is going to push you away
but he can also be the one to push you down the hill
and roll with you
increasing your momentum with such an intensity that you don't think you'll ever slow down

you don't have to know home to fall in love with him
it's easy to fall in love with a tree without ever seeing its rings
tracing the years that have scared him
and how they feel like Saturn spinning inside you
but you love him so much more once you feel the scars the the chainsaw left
537 · Nov 2015
Back Oak Smoke
AM Nov 2015
I don't know the best way to say this

the thing about people is that we are all our own galaxies and we tend to fall in love with the constellations that feel most like home.
but every backyard garden I plant always seems to die before it blooms

an old rocking chair in a stuffing yellow attic is what I use to call home
I can still remember the lullabies and the bunnies on the wall
home left me the day fire lined the walls
swallowing the bunnies and trapping me whole
I couldn't get out
I couldn't get out
my bed was the ocean
and I was the tsunami
swallowing your home
and I swallowed that fear
and now the ghosts whisper my name
as they pull the juniper berries off their bush and lay them under your pillow
this is so you will have believed that you were the one to **** sleep
you'll dream of holding a knife dripping with sand
and you'll never feel home again
522 · Aug 2015
Full Moon
AM Aug 2015
Whenever you're sad,
just remember that the sun still can't get rid of his heartburn;

and like the animals we are
we continue to breath and breed the madness we've created.

Can't you see?
No matter how sad you are,
even if the sadness is so strong
that you could've sworn the tide stopped coming years ago,
the Earth will still spin on
and spin on
and spin on
and spin on
as the sun begs for help,
we'll keep our oceans to ourselves,
and spin on
and spin on
and spin on

and as the sun falls to your knees,
you'll tell how he'll never be able to touch our seas;
and as he begs and pleas,
you'll tell him:
"you're just another fish in the sea
but I guess you wouldn't know that, would you?"

as he dies at your feet,
you'll carry your sadness to his place;
but this time
you'll stay cool and white,
you'll stay apart of the night.
AM Nov 2015
Tell about the last time someone said you were better off dead,
or about that kiss that went too far,
when you were a child and how the sunlight doesn't feel like it use to against your skin,
tell me how you prayed to the ocean to take you

Tell me about the last person to break your heart,
and how they slaughtered every delicate flower in the meadow of your mind,
tell me about how they'll be the last person to break your heart

and how tsunamis fall from sky,
like rain,
every time you hear that name

and how you didn't know you could fall in love
with the space between stars.
487 · Oct 2016
Pressured Time
AM Oct 2016
I
The snow is coming down like it’s been waiting all these years to suffocate us all.
I could hear the cry of the wolf getting ready to swallow the sun,
you could feel the cold ****** tears,
and hear the cries falling from the sky;

The stars were hung by their necks after the light had left.


Pressured time.
a perception of stress-
a compact void that’s always been repressed.

and the wolves hunt at night?
hungry for the light the moon could never give them
the same light that makes your limbs feel numb


in a fit of anger and rage I told you not to stay
and when I went away
I wished you stayed-
to take me back to our childhood days
and now the sunlight doesn’t feel the way it use to against your skin
who would’ve thought that light could sin

these lapses of reality could even bring the moon to his broken knees
this void hasn't been able to please not one of us
this broken house is floor-less
tourists
we feel like tourists in our own homes,
when I told you that I just wanted to be your home

II

“when your house burns down every year, then you stop caring about what you hang on the walls”
and every year when the firemen come
they tell you
“this will only hurt a lot”
but every year there’s less of a mess
making it all hurt a little less
and somehow the void now makes sense
taking me back to that day


you taught me how to change the batteries in a smoke alarm
but that never changed your mind
you taught me how to bring a breath back to lungs
but that never brought you back


your ashes were white
in the monolithic society
but in the cosmical simplicity of it all
we all know you weren’t that clean

*and now wolves are in the void
the light is gone
462 · Dec 2016
Lost In His Ship
AM Dec 2016
"The water is wide
I can not get o'er
and neither have I wings to fly
Oh go and get me some little boat
And both shall row, my love and I."

the smell of pink lavender on my pillow,
you tell me to always close the window,
because "the outdoor is frozen",
and I shouldn't let the cold air blow in.

"no ship can sail me too far away"
but I haven't seen you since May,
and now the ground shines with white,
but I can't seem to find this light.

the lullabies still ring through my ears,
you taught me how to fight these kind of tears,
no ship can take your place,
but I've already forgotten your face;
this void was always lacking grace.
My hands no longer belong to this space.

"There is a ship sailing on the sea
It's loaded deep, as deep as can be
But not as deep, as in love I am
I know not if I sink or if I swim,"
Waly Waly's reply to Jake's Ship

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