Falling down takes time; Layers unfurled through gravity, The world warped Through a collapsing beauty, A parallel to autumn And her bright expanse Of orange decay. A sunset in late September, Evenings ushered in On the tail-end of a Dying summer breeze. The light from the Sun Filtered through tepid air, Flickering against amorphous nimbus … Continue reading I think I need a Sunrise, I’m tired of Sunsets.
I am October’s colors, My skin the reflection Of bruised peaches And burnt honey. I stick to all things green, Suckling away at their breast, Until only a shriveled husk remains, Clinging onto skeleton branches, Begging the wind to let them be. My winds are not so kind To carry any calls for help, Even … Continue reading I am October, Ohio.
Love is not blind. Love is a vision beyond our eyes. As I close mine Right in front of me Does my love appear. She is formed By all things; Her eyes are petals, Slow falling light That turns your head Through a hazy Spring. Her hands are the morning, The start of all things, … Continue reading When you close your eyes, what do you see?
Stoked by desire, The flame settles; A steady bead of light Carved through midnight touches, Physical affection, Passions reflected, Hearts expanded masses Until thermodynamics Leaves us cold, gray ashes. Still. The fire may wane, Howling evenings Now abbreviated flames, You can still feel it, Feelings unexplained; With nothing left to burn for heat, A tender … Continue reading Hummingbirds Sonnet
I never stopped writing. I haven’t liked anything I’ve written in the past year, but I kept trying. I have thousands of stray thoughts scattered throughout my harddrive, scribbled onto the blank spaces between the ink of old accounting files that somehow missed their trip to the shredder. I kept trying, and I keep on … Continue reading “I’m a notorious procrastinator, but even if it takes me till the end on my days, I swear I’ll find a reason to love myself.”
All I could do was watch, As if it had nothing to do with me. Useless, bloated body, Avalanching peaks dipping in my valley’s, Asymmetrical pieces carved from my breast, Burying this heart in another creature's chest. Screams echo empty tragedy In vibrant, blinking reds Breaking across my retina’s, Burning into my memories Another unmitigated … Continue reading “My body is ash, saturated gray, invisible on cloudy days, and blown apart with a single puff of wind.”
Forever ended. Time was supposed to stand still, But that’s not how clocks work; The seconds turned into blurry months, And you weren’t there for any of them. I was never foolish enough to think I was the only person to have ever felt such a heartbreak. I felt a love so deep that, Even … Continue reading I've stopped searching for happiness, because no matter where I look, it always leads me right back to you…
You’ve spent so much time breaking your own heart, you’ve forgotten what it means to be whole. You think you are only half filled, half complete, but you weren’t born that way, and you’ve lost nothing over the years that you can’t grow back all on your own. You are still bright, my firefly. You … Continue reading “In a world that’s constantly trying to tear you down, there’s always meaning in standing back up.”
Your lips bewitched me. A glossy coat of distilled resin, Edges tinged by the Sun, And so my heart lingers On a shaking yellow dream, The same shade As dandelion wine. Your kiss took root, Sinking into my veins, A poison, like acid rain, And it burns, burns, burns, Until nothing remains Save for the … Continue reading “You kissed me first, so of course this is all your fault. You didn’t have to kiss me… You didn’t have to make me fall in love…”
Now I remember your face The name you remind me of, so fake This bitter pill, just a bit overkill But theater has its place’s We have come to a fork in the middle of this road Damnit, who put this here? Blocking my way, making it harder to say What I need to Well … Continue reading Days turned to weeks, and now it’s been months; exactly 96 days I’ve been sober. But that’s left my mind with nothing but time to wonder about you and me…so I’m sober, but I’m suffocating, trying to accept a me without you…
That little light from your lampshade 