Flowers blossoming everywhere for the eye to see. Oh my love, that you would set tender roots here. Bright blooms of stars wherever your hands laid. Oh my love, everywhere you never where seems pale, in contrast to the life of you. Spring returns to my life, words come with it. » Continue Reading
If I write about you I need to decide what tense I've kept you in. Need to address my lack of closure, or my urge to run from the good thing I let go. Need to admit I find you everywhere, need to admit that your name is engraved in every word that leaves my tongue, admit that I've written about you already, always, in every poem & every story. If I write about you I'll say all the things I was too... » Continue Reading
Mutt kneeling for you You know I’ll always come back That’s what dogs are for, right? Loyalty. So then I’m a real good dog. Hands and knees, whining. » Continue Reading
you sound like divinity from here you look like the holiest thing i've seen my tongue forming hymns prayer is whatever you do on your knees so call me devout » Continue Reading
i dont mean it to say i dont think he's real. i remember being a kid at my grandparents house praying to an empty altar. i remember being 13 and cursing god, spitting his name out like blood, rejecting the most real thing id known. i remember being told to need him and choosing to abandon him. i remember finding him over and over and over again. and here i sit, still anxious at the thought of him.... » Continue Reading
i am aching limbs and tired eyes feet carry me im not meant for this life arms hold me all i know is my hunger i keep my wings tucked in feathers pressing between ribs i hold them in my chest with my anger the body as a vessel as containment physical form just to hold me back, hold me down. all i am is the storm is the anger and the longing for more, feet carry me. » Continue Reading
Someday someone will find me. My body will tell my story. Someday someone will listen to my bones. My teeth will talk. They will say I bite my cheek & that I was loved. They will say I was cared for. Someday someone will find me & hear my bones & someday I will be human again. » Continue Reading
They took my heart from me Told me I wouldn't need it I ache with emptiness Starless night fills my chest, Ribs creaking around empty space. I am wanting all the way down. I am hollow & full of anger and want and sadness. There are many miracles within me. In my dreams I get to be a person(again). Caged bird where did you go? Tell me w » Continue Reading
I was raised to be harsh edges Lord help me, I was trained for sharpness Lord help me, I am sitting here with a file Desperately trying to soften my edges, Perhaps there is more to life than your childhood. » Continue Reading
God is the moon to my sun. I am bright rays & harsh glares & sharp heat. I am passion & rage & power. God is lightless & listless & cold. Orbiting around me, feeding off my light. There are many miracles within me & he clings to them all like they're his own. Like I'm His. God is the moon to my sun. He is lonely & aimless. I am a chariot rocketing my way through the sky. I am God & I am the sun an... » Continue Reading
I can't help but think it should've been me. I watch time pass & pass & pass, And they just let it. Pour the sand through their fingers. But what would I do if I were them? What have I done to deserve my eyes today? » Continue Reading
stunned-still deer, basking in your glow, dog whining, curled at your feet, you could put me down if you wanted to. you know i wouldnt stop you. » Continue Reading