meraki

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

since I’ve pressed lead to paper.

My head has been chasing clouds

and my heart off chasing fantasies.

For sometimes among the chaos, I find silence.

And it’s there I let my thoughts 

wander off the edge of the world.

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

If you spend too much time dreaming, or lost in your own thoughts.

So we hide it all away, behind shy smiles and lost eyes.

Chasing fairy tales kept locked away in the corners of our mind.

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

A now luke warm coffee pressed to my lips in a desperate attempt to retain some sanity,

I fight the urge to sleep by scribbling senseless poetry into the pages of my notebook.

Though I laugh silently while gazing toward the rolling hills for inspiration.

When all my thoughts wander aimlessly over the distant horizon,

chasing fantasies about you instead.

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

skin

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛

and my head is exploding

with endless questions,

I can't muster up the strength

to tell you how I feel.

So I'll sit here instead

and write letters

addressed with your name,

that I'll never send.

𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛