archives

life

This tag is associated with 215 posts

light skinned

near naked on nights very much like this i am reminded that sometimes i still wish you were around. all wrong again, dressed in a sloppy death, telling me that the moon wasn’t so far away if you just closed your eyes to forget where it was, that there was a way to bridge the … Continue reading

stains

how many more times can i love you, can i listen to your laughter calling my name. i am in the green, dressed in it, wearing it in its first forms and words. the pants ride up. the socks look like roots. you tell me how you are lucky to see me as i am, … Continue reading

seconds

you will first come to understand her. you will begin to look across the room for her. you will hold her head like night nestles the stars, tired from being the only light that cracks through. you will tell her that she is the only her. you will love her. you will buy her things. … Continue reading

tea please

let it be told that i fell in love with a cloud. let it be told that it was a tuesday, that it hung like rain without it. fluff dipped under a happy blue sky. the edges were headed to the future. years ago i eyed it not knowing what it would become. there was … Continue reading

watch me repeat me

i will admit to you only that this is not the life i wanted to live that i toiled in poetry i could never learn to write that there was a story that would require no more to be read i did not voice that often i was too loud too quick to judgment including … Continue reading

nness

this is how it’ll end   with sunshine and the dog still on a walk moving through the snow banks in a crystal chasm of what could’ve been if only the day was a little bit longer and the night wasn’t so long   with you smiling a warm light filling happiness shared between your … Continue reading

i n d

in beginning there was nothing in the end there will be less in the middle there is you telling me in a language i cannot name that the sun is fading and the clouds are just misunderstood lakes and that you can’t do this thing anymore that you’ve been waiting a while to say it … Continue reading

hydro bills

i have been destroyed by love been wrecked by it been tossed lost and forgotten by love   i have been spit on by love molested wasted and disrepaired   love has turned me off from love has made me come to love has shown me there is more than love in love and without … Continue reading

this knot untied

the following is more of not that again. * there are many words still not still that remain to be said that beg for you to give them a chance against all the others you have held in little handfuls caught in a laughter during class and whispered to another who whispered back what you … Continue reading

the bloods

keep me on tempo with the gang of heart flutters and what she said to me shadowing over a night one last night let this be the night where the crazy comes sane the sane slips to you and you move to me till morning generous on the horizon not slowing down no matter the … Continue reading