I smile when I hear your voice come through, like the world turns soft and new, but even joy can hurt sometimes when it reminds me I miss you. You’re there behind a glowing screen, so close, yet out of reach, a thousand words can’t fill the space that silence always speaks. But when you sleep and say goodnight, and the screen fades into blue, the truth comes rushing back to me that I » Continue Reading
I hope death feels like falling asleep In the back of a car after miles too deep, When the road hums low beneath the tires And the sky goes dark past fading fires. Your head tips slow to the window glass, Streetlights blur as the moments pass, » Continue Reading
It’s easy to miss the details In the way a body’s made, Like the narrow paths between your grip Where the colors start to fade. I never gave a second thought To why the gaps were wide, Or why the skin would dip and tuck Along the outer side. I know now that it’s all because A hand can’t stand alone It needs a weight to balance out The marrow and the bone. An empty hand is just a » Continue Reading
I’ve got my head pressed right against the glass, Just watching all the faceless minutes pass. I’m counting down the days until the flight, And tangled in your t-shirt every night. The bed is half a desert, cold and wide, With all this distance knotted up inside. I try to find the scent you left behind, But it’s just ghosts and memories in my mind. My ribs are aching, lonesome through and through » Continue Reading
There is a sky living under my skin wide and restless full of things that refuse to stay still I think my heart must be a small planet caught in the gravity of something too far to touch I circle and circle and circle never landing never escaping just moving through the same dark again and again there are ni » Continue Reading
inside my chest there is a house that was never meant for one person its windows stay open even when the rain comes sideways even when the wind learns my name and calls it over and over until it sounds like loneliness there is a table inside set for two plates laid out as if time itself might sit down and keep me company but the chair ac » Continue Reading
I become a shoreline that keeps losing sand grain by grain to a moon I cannot touch somewhere there is a train that never stops just passes through my chest every evening whistling promises into empty air I fold my hands like paper boats set them loose on a river of hours watch them drift toward mornings that always arrive alone there is » Continue Reading
Panginoon ko, I don’t say this out loud because people get scared when you talk about leaving, they look at you like you’ve already disappeared, like you’re halfway gone even when you’re still sitting right in front of them. but you know, don’t you? you see the way I drag myself through mornings that feel heavier than nights, the way my chest feels tight for no clear reason » Continue Reading
I don’t know where i belong i’ve moved so many times that my memories feel packed in boxes i never got to unpack. house after house, roof after roof, sleeping in spaces that never really wanted me there like a guest who stayed too long living under someone else’s roof that feels heavy above my head, like it knows i am only tolerated, never welcomed. » Continue Reading
A hand is made of twenty-seven bones but mine feels like twenty-seven small aches each one leaning toward you like sunflowers that forgot where the sun went sometimes my fingers feel like empty chairs pulled close to a table waiting for someone who stepped away but promised to come back my palm feels like a field after harvest rows still carved into the earth remembering what once grew ther » Continue Reading
I spent years building this careful architecture, polishing the glass so the world saw a steady view, making sure the heavy doors were bolted tight. I convinced myself that being safe meant being solitary, and that the parts of me left unsaid were better left untouched. Most people just pass by the exterior, nodding at the paint and the sturdy walls, content with the version of me I let them see. ... » Continue Reading
Will you stay when I get quiet in the middle of loving you, when my words slow down and my chest feels too tight and too full at the same time, when I look at you and there are a thousand things sitting on my tongue but none of them come out right, or will you think my silence means distance, will you think it means I’m pulling away when the truth is I’m only sinking deeper into you, deeper into l... » Continue Reading