I attempt again To swallow The words lining the inside of my throat It has been there Since before I knew what letters were Spiraling down Into the pit of my stomach It does not go down easy It does not settle well And when it tries to come back up It sits again In the back of my throat Like the taste of a hollow cry
I tried to catch the time, but it slipped between my fingers I needed to slow it down So I could get back to you but I didn't realize it was me Who was making it take to long To get back to you, my love So I am sorry, take your time
You have no power here I thought we were too gentle for anger Too old for foolishness Too tender to spear our words against each other Who has been guarding you For all this time What did you fear would come for you When you said you were waiting for me Let the little things go Let the sun go down Be it on your anger Be it coming through the windows Gentle on the skin of love in the shadows We are hollow bodies Pouring out small victories Waging small wars There are no gates here Blank paper skin Traced with graphite fingertips God told me you were human I believed him What does that make me Are we not beyond this The moment it is lived Are we not so small in this world Smaller to the expanse of the universe Tiny in his hands as a grain of sand Will you wash with me Saltwater will unburden us Currents will take us further Pulling our love thin as a spiders web We hung once Participles in the air Thick and humid and heavy I will remember us as such I will remember
I can be honest About everything Except my feelings towards you I could spin you Word woven tapestries About the way The moon stirs my heart But may God lean against What stirs for you in me This gentle hunger The weak spot in my throat Time moves sideways Breathe baits Catching on the last lingering hope That you would burn for me
it makes it's home with depth nestled in the layers of my skin there is no warmth or comfort to be found in such a barren place people take and people touch and to you what is consent
you know and learn and teach alike I see and watch and burn in light I try not to lose myself in all that you are and become and that which I wish to be you waste nothing not time or emotion while I scavenge for scraps of love among the nothing that I am
it weaves it's secrets into my hair just as it traces sweetened memories into the swirls of my fingers and toes so that it shall remain a part of me even after long in it's leaving though I pray it never leaves me
After the sun went down I thought about your face And who you are I remembered when We were first in the dessert Then the mountains You were the same We are home now I am home Because I am with you
I have water hands And oh! The life they bring To many things Yet be cautious in your drinking For water can overwhelm so rapidly Rivers flood in spring
If this is a dream Truly, why are there so many hallways I am forever wandering In between the inbetween It seems I will never reach the end If there is an end to reach
The more roads we build The more cliffs there are The more cliffs there are The more we can fall The more the fall the farther we go The farther we go the harder it is to come back
The light bends a little When we come to this place in the middle Your safe place is a little to the left I run to you just a little bit West I seek you out in the in between Breathing in sweet and musky, ethene My soft hands against yours Water splashing against iron rod While I wait for my sins To climb their way up to God
Tell me I look like my mother I carry her emptiness Her grief Pours into me Until I am full Tonight it spills Onto the tiles in the kitchen No worries, it is a woman’s work
Time merely changes circumstances People not so much Slowly we are worn down To our thinnest layer And what is this That I would live A life made only of regrets With a heart That does not even beat And my greatest accomplishment is this That I have walked with many souls made of stars And I have learned nothing Except that I am made of glass All I have seen Is that which you have shown me Whatever I have tasted Is not as sweet as your kisses For everything I feel Is not with my own heart
I remember you and your devilish smile All the night we stayed up and talked All the hours in the morning when we cried I remember your smile how it grew and when it faded I can see you in my head But I wish you were with me instead The thought of you in anothers arms All but breaks my heart But I don't have to worry Cause you loved me from the start But if I were a poet I would soon forget How to write the lines like the ones on your hands The ones that held mine and kept me warm Then ones my parents grasped as we were torn But its okay the know see the light And we can be silent through the night The day will come when I don't have to remember But that is far off a distant November
I remember you and the light in your eyes I remember you among all the other guys
beautiful girls all over the world thought my time would be wasted they've got nothing on you baby, nothing on you baby
this plays over and over again in my head just like the day you sang it to me I wish it was real but now all I remember is a beautiful sorrowful memory
I wonder here At the bottom Of the stars Not knowing If the sky Will ever fill up We have both Been empty For a time The moon will find Her lover tonight Colliding The big dipper Spill over Washing away Worries and woes Of the earth Washing down With the milky way I know you You are like me Saving good memories For when you are sad Self addressed letters For when you have No words of comfort I loved you then I know you now The last of the earth Trickles away Streams unbidden My tears will follow I was fallen once I am fallen again I know you now
I will find the edge of the world Where else would you go Dangle my feet on the edge Waiting for you Until the sun forgets how to set As the oceans run over Chasing unknown depths