I imagined love like a book

Each page filled with turns

A love that is scary

A love that burns

I imagine her like paper

Delicate but sharp

Forever folded and creased

A paper white heart

Scars dance along the veins on her wrist

Running down like a river

She has a notepad stomach,

A paper brain and a liver

I wanted love like a picture book

But that’s hard to find

And she is perfect in every way

From her cover to her spine

She's fragile like paper

But she has a story like a book

And I go white like parchment

When she gives me that look

She was a blank canvas,

A fresh start

An escape from the past,

That stole my heart

But still, she keeps her guard up

Always keeps her distance

A thin veil  

That I fell through with little resistance

She is a paperback book

And I read her every night

Fingers littered with papercuts

She was a poem I didn’t write

She is a paper girl

And I have an origami heart

But I’d fall for her

Even though we’re chapters apart

You’re so beautiful. And you know it, don’t you?
Your capable hands holding my heart in their grip
Squeezing it tight with each glance my way

And maybe I don’t love you as deeply as love means;
Maybe this is nothing but a fading crush
But I wish I saw you more often, saw the glitter of those chocolate eyes
And the feeling of your coat’s leather under my fingers
I wish you came more, because most of all
I just want to be your friend.

love is like a flame
it can make you warm
or it can burn you
love can caress you
or throw you to the wolves
love can find you your perfect match
or it can find you someone
who'll never give you their time of day

i want to find love
a love that is reciprocated
a love that is gentle and passionate
a love that picks me up
a love that is the one for me
who can laugh at my dumb jokes
who can see me for me
who can show me the good in the world

i always seem to find the love that hurts
a love that beats me down
a love that hates me for me
who only loves the idea of me

maybe this time will be different

yes you're my crush
yes you make me blush
i love your smile
i think about it for a while
i want to hear your laughter
please don't let this end in a disaster
wrap your arms around me
let the love run free
i'm falling head over heels
you got me weak in the knees
you're so weird and quirky
and I feel unworthy

when I met you
I knew that there would
never be another you
I think of you on the daily
but alas
miles of roads separate us
my feelings are true
whether they're reciprocated
or not
there will never be another you

I stayed up till 2 AM

With nothing but daydreams,

Where I took you to a hidden spot in the forest

A garden concealed between the seams

We listened to Montell Fish

With our fingers sewn together

Something floats along the stream

Like a cardinal feather

The pavement cracks

And flowers grow from it

I wanna tell her I love her

But that’s hard to admit

We lay in the grass

Looking at the sky

Between the crooked trees,

The blue starts to cry

I remember that day,

You ran up to me in the parking lot

You told me I was beautiful,

And my heart stopped

I don’t know if you love me too

Because I can’t think when you’re around

When I felt your arms framing my waist

I swear I could have drowned

You ran up and hugged me

And I’ll never forget

The way your eyes stared into mine

And your arms around my silhouette

What I hate most about this,

Is that we never confessed

And I’ll never get to know

If you also felt your heart,

Thumping hard in your chest

But I stayed up till 2 AM

With nothing but empty schemes

And I lie awake

Hoping you aren’t just a dream

When your shadow touches mine,
that's the closest our souls ever get.

Lovers only from a distance,
lovers only in a daydream.

Our eyes play chase through the hallways,
a constant tag of exchanged looks
from you to me.

Pretend not to notice,
pretend not to care.

But I see you,
and sometimes I think you see me too.

You are the secret sigh,
the secret whisper of my heart.

Imaginary you smiles,
imaginary me believes it meant something.

I build a whole world in my head,
where you reach out,
where you choose me,
where you don't even hesitate.

But the truth is—
you don't know me.
You probably never will.

And all of this,
all of this ache,
all of this hope,
is something I made up.

So I’ll smile across the room,
catch your eye for a second,
and let the dream live a little longer.

Even on this long road of thoughts; some days I don’t know my way
with words – as to describe your face; it just drives me so insane.
“You’re so pretty,” feels a bit too plain; so it always bears down on
me, this pressure. A rock in a hard place, and I’m also being pressed
with stones, biting on my words, that I bruised my lip. Slowly sinking
deeper, and letting blood flow – being so afraid of your reflection of
me, staring back from your eyes, as my tears dance along a running
stream. How you’ve become this silhouette of a perfect dream.

But I'm not as deep as I seem to be; just like swimming in a pool, I
first need to find my feet. And I’m only a pebble against your skin;
trying to skip across our conversations, and finding a reason to kiss.
But instead, I'm laughing in the bathroom mirror, letting the echoes
of that room wash me clean. And it would seem in vain to say I
fell in love with you – even as I wear your smile under my skin.

So I quietly let those very six words find their rest, and go back to
my bed, and sleep – cause who the hell really feels the depth of
those words, over a late-night text?

Never too wise to stay up late, with the opposite friend.

i miss you badly

though we’re just friends
for the music plays
it’s you who i remember
and without you — empty
the song echoes — loudly
aching, and gasping for
— you
i wish just a minute of a presence
so i could say my day’s complete

He once told she is all he desires
She's like a rose in field of flowers
He likes to gaze as is a hawk
His love is chained, she needs to squawk
The love he speaks to, is a peer
She hears his heart and drop a tear.
When she's coming near he gets a stroke
She fades away through the smoke
The clearance destroys his shelter
Another wish, wish to depart.
He falls and cries, seeks for love,
A needle in a haystack she's now
He breaks bad realize he is mad,
Turns to God he makes a vow.
He loved her more than he could define
Stepped into the dark he’d left behind
Whispers in the midnight are all he left to find.