Grey eyes.

Waiting promises burn into vestiges.

So quick.

You never knew me.

6 months later,

what does the sky mean?

Tell your friends

and now you - I - you hate

someone you never knew me.

“Tastiest Donuts You’ve Ever Enjoyed” 

Never knew how hungry I was

Never realized how empty the spaces were in between

So funny how you do not know how badly you needed to hear something

Until you actually hear it

Truth be told you might even fear

Because putting the question to yourself

Not being able to answer

Putting your own soul on the shelf

Because you thought you were unworthy

You thought you were undeserving

It hurts me

Giving away all of me

And hoping that someone could see it was killing me

And I did not know how to say

I need.....I need

I just let my heart bleed

I didn’t think I was allowed to be

Another person

Another soul that needed to be freed

So I starved for years and years

Swallowed up by my own fears

And now you’re here

And I don’t even know how to begin

To tell you where the real me starts

And the mask born of pain and self sacrifice ends

I think all I can do

With you

Is begin again

And be reborn brand new

Heavy breath because I don’t breathe

under pressure, my heart’s diseased

and we only see what the rest think.

I come up for air when the thoughts get deep,

my arms then flail from the naughty heat

and I melt to use up the best ink.

Too many seconds, my mind is stretching

while stressing at every intersection.

Learning lessons; turned extensions

set to apologize but we’re too proud

so it’s not worth the mention.

Margins even you do not see won’t recognize you.

Indents to start the sentence reach out, plus or minus.

Now, you aren’t who you say in so many words.

Let’s go far from here - in song patterns we haven’t heard.

Reach something and fragment.

We never knew each other, all that time.

Afraid of one another like turning out the lights.

What’s the difference; save yourself.

Picking up the pieces of what it was,

I couldn’t ask the questions I wanted to.

Let me love you and keep you near,

It’s not my wish to let you go.

We’ll have it all except for fear.

Let me love you and keep you near.

I want something; it’s you right here,

can’t contain it, just so you know.

Let me love you and keep you near.

It’s not my wish to let you go.

My hands are like fireworks, going off

as soon as you spark it, you wouldn’t forget it.

They sting a little too much and leave a mark.

Drawing lines on the map of you to remember;

I’ve been somewhere and back and then some,

I lost my way along the way anyway.

What is it about opposites attracting?

And what the hell do you mean you never loved

someone that didn’t love you back?