I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer

I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love

Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world

I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains

If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing

I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time

Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we