Haiku
under florescents, the cigarette butts are like confe… glittering the sidewalk, with anxiety.
“You’re trapped.” He explains, My body is bare, I’m losing time, And losing air.
The warmth of my tea, How lovely at six a.m. Oh! The little things.
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks.... Can I have running through the wo…
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,
Despite the rips in between the se… I can’t escape my bones, I can’t fight the dreams, So I wait but, I can’t manage to speak,
The language of love flowed freely… Through the rivers of our veins, During the summer we discovered ma… And razors edges. We used the torn corners,
It feels much less like a kick in… but a slap in the face, I would say ‘fuck it’, but it wouldn’t adequately represe… that was lacked in,
No implications, Did I notice at the time, Only the key strokes.
‘We’re the same’, Teetering on edges of lines, I ca… And you say again ‘we are the same… Conflating words, Of an honest one,
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
You never loved me, Only the taste of my name, As it lingered on your slithering… Falling out, dripping, With poisons of promises,
I feel like I could vomit tears, But that wouldn’t suffice, For amount of years together, Exactly twice, I have no idea...
‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?