No one ever told me, this is a tra
I was shedding my skin as the tree
My hands were painted red and the
My own voice became unrecognizable
I’ve tried to crawl out of my skin

Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay
[my father had copper hands and I
These people they’ll look for you,
The water flows in front of me lik
My fathers words sit in me like th

Tonight I will write poetry benea

There’s a girl out there with blue

You held my hands when I was too
All I knew was that I liked the w
You watched me grow, and you grew
Like I was a night sky you filled
When people asked for my name I f

You are the flinch my heart makes.
I miss the way my name sounded in
I miss your laughter, even as it s
I don’t know where you are.
I think you’ll always be right nex

Blue skin tapered to the backs of
The winds fingers wrapped around t
I heard the wildflowers beneath yo
I dreamt of your skin like freckle
my voice cracked like sparklers on

Dear one day,
My hips are turning into tidal wav
Dear yesterday,
I found your sweater behind my bed
I’ve yet to tell you how your abse

I fell in love with the sound of t
It reminded me of the firecracker
when you told me,
you could no longer be home to me.
I touched the backs of my hands,

It was a clean break of the neck,
I know time like the life lines on
I know time because I’ve counted,
I know time, like the lump that sl
I know time, like the minutes that

You and me, beneath a plastic tree

There’s a rain cloud in my chest,

There were sharks in our mouths
This is what November tasted of;
Blood and not knowing you were an
Pulling out stitches, maybe if I
You told me you were leaving and

Your figure against mine, white no
create friction,
as our bodies
create silence.
Beauty.

Living inside a kaleidoscope ribca
Listening to the sound
of my own voice I hear
thunder crackling inside my
hands hold oceans,

Your name is stuck in my throat, a

You found me when I was sick at h
but now I am human
Please find me now,
For I am in a different universe.
It took me an entire lifetime,

I hope one day you can understand
I’ve stopped laughing. At least i
You asked me why I never showed u
Family reunions aren’t the same.
Your absence sitting on everyone’s

It’s a still and moonless night, a

I’m sorry for what we have been, f
I’m sorry for this brave false sen
even hope becomes tired.
I’m sorry for this empty love maki
empty promises,

Swollen skies and stomachs stitche

So many misconceptions of boys wit
I spent the past three nights list
trying to scrape your name out of
I hope one day I will outgrow my
the body everyone says looks just

These walls feel so heavy around m
The wind wrapped her hands around
Goodbye has leaked from my tongue
My mouth, is a hurricane,
I am trying to keep calm.

It’s raining and my thoughts are s

My father is a flower, and he grow
But I am made of the ocean and th

I’m watching the wind as it settle

It’s been two years since I’ve le
I’ve allowed your dirty memory to
My mother asked me why I don’t dr
I told her that it tastes like you
I started singing again,

This past October I have found th
This past October I have found th
I still have ashes on my spine whe
the last night you ever burned me.
This past October I have learned

I sat on the edge of the earth,
its soul caressing my shadow
Fighting for air to stay inside my
And I whispered to the ocean,
That I hope you will Remember me

Poetry is the blood that runs ramp

For the lion under my skin, who ro
For the heartbeat under my chest t
For the feet I feel walking acros
for the feet I feel tugging at the
I am sorry, I am just not ready t

Will you still love me when my bon
I will open my chest
I will open my chest so that it sw
maybe then I can feel whole again.
Silver hands on my spine, your fir

I sat on the edge of London, peop

White noise, bleeding through the
I am not ready,
I am not ready to let you go.
Still she pulled, she pulled you a
The ocean moving under my body

To the one who calls himself home:
You let me live in you like a clou
When you left I named you worthle
Cup your hands at the base of my t
You told me you loved me like the

It was a clean break of the neck,
I know time like the life lines on
I know time because I’ve counted,
I know time, like the lump that sl
I know time, like the minutes that