p o e t r y

“you root yourself in earth and dirt and claim i’ve never tried scold me for my growing boughs and say that i am much too young and wild but i have learned beneath your hand that chained to you i am no matter how my pulse could run, a walk it has to learn a vast world, restricted to some dirt and i have forced my roots in earth for much too long a time no matter how deep i try to delve these branches will not abide perhaps i can’t commit myself because i could never understand why overlook the world and choose a stretch of land i can no longer grow in chains and will thus cast them aside much too young and wild i am perhaps you were right.”

“i taste the moon on your lips feel the stars in your teeth hear the howl of the wind in your voice when you whisper see galaxies in your eyes savor the silk of your skin sense the frost on your breath and know you’re all the wonders come together.”

“in my dreams, we’re always together and there are no odds stacked against us there are no wars, no fights and tragedy doesn’t stand between us there is only you, knuckles on my cheeks there is only me, palms to your neck just us and we are at peace and that is all that needs to be said.”

all i know of love

there’s an aching in my bones

“perhaps all we are is a game love, a word to be tossed around and wait to see who it hurts perhaps all we are isn’t right just two moths to each other’s flame perhaps we just love the burn.”

“i’ve been uninspired lately, unable to form my thoughts long enough to write them. it’s where you come in. i’ve always thought the moment i fall in love will be the moment i’m unable to think. so i blame you for all the poetry that’s unable to exist. i blame you for the words i can’t write and so may never be written. i blame you for the sting in my chest i’m unable to suppress because i haven’t told you i loved you and i don’t think i ever will.”

“there is a chasm split wide depths untouchable, unexplored both unknownable and obscure touch of darkness ever endless there is a chasm in my mind in my soul in my hands in all that i am where the beat of my heart just echoes and the rest is silent.”

“i used to know you by all that you were now i only know you by your ghost your echo, your memory where you sit at the edge of my periphery all your colours washed up taunting me with your lips at a tilt trailing your cold on the skin of my neck confessing all your secrets all your truths telling me you love me more than you should before i’m left.”

let’s talk about history, you and me talk about us and all we could’ve been

“every moment that we spend together is suspended in time skin to skin, so infinite when our hands are intertwined where you never end and i never begin and we’re just two hearts born in sync forever kept in time.”

all i know of love

“and if there ever exists another world another, more peaceful, lifetime where we both live i’ll find you and we might exist in all the ways we never could but in this lifetime you can’t belong to me i can’t belong to you and we can’t belong to each other.”

“unbury my heart, would you unearth its remains and give it affection give it a reason to stay above ground a taste of what it means to be loved and make it worth its resurrection give me a reason to forget what’s past and to place into your palms what has been made into stone be tender with your touch and make it soft with your warmth draw its blood into existence turn stone to beating heart with a kiss unbury my heart and love it so it can love in return.”

“i don’t fear the dark for what it is i fear it for what it means when the a.m. thoughts creep in the endless toss and turn in bed what intrudes into my dreams i don’t fear the dark for what it is.”

“and you are ethereal nostalgia made flesh whispers of the summer sun on your skin, moons in your eyes, freckles made from light, if the world does not revolve around you, you shall make it so.”

“concept; you and me in a field of grass hands to touch, to brush to twine together and nothing to disturb us.”