(2014)
Sometimes we can neither hold on nor let go.
I hate the way you look at me some… Expectant, like you are waiting fo… It’s horrible because I want to,… One day my resolve will crack and… It will ignite a tragedy.
Your shoulders shrug And your chest heaves a great sigh… Your muscles twitching in a way th… Others may not take notice of your… Would that I could take up the ma…
I walked the path in blindness, Not seeing what lie ahead. But if for want of dying, I’d have stayed myself in bed. Though light still soothes my temp…
The first time you begged, I near… I had to steel my every nerve to n… To not lose the cadence of my stri… I silently cursed myself for not b… The way I had your hands.
I had been swallowed by freezing w… But the tides have turned for me n… I didn’t notice at first, until th… When I lifted my head, it was to… I was out of my depths for sure, b…
Untimely specter, how you’ve swaye… The obedience of my North is alte… The needle writhing on the plane o… The course you’ve set is punishing… And I am made weary by the mercil…
In the place I used to reside, it… Broken words and shattered glasswa… Paint climbing off the walls, plas… The very structure looking for esc… When I would wake up, hands fisti…
From the porch, where I sit to wa… I watch the last of the Sun’s lig… Vicious gusts of wind bend the tre… I breathe in the scent of the comi… Thunder growls in the distance.
It has been sixteen years since th… And began to chew. It took Sixteen years inside his… For me to fashion a blade from the… To slit the cage wide enough to sp…
If you ran away from imaginary kin… I’d chase your smile down narrow s… Into strangers yards and through r… I’d make every effort to find you,… Teach you to sway your hips to som…
I slink across through the tall an… The water is cold as it wraps itse… An icy tongue chasing up to my cal… Tiny fish silver past my toes, as… The chain of my days has grown too…
I build walls impossibly high, I… That’s who I am. This, this is highway robbery. This is you jumping out of the sid… Putting your heart to my temple, t…
I write so that you might understa… Early in the afternoon, people bus… I am blind to it all the moment yo… For me, you are all I see, a comb… Straight backed grace, purposeful…
Your words tore through me, A harpoon into my chest, To pull me up and out of the darkn… When I could not move myself. Your voice pierced me through and…
Your ideas slid over my thoughts l… I tried, out of bad habit, to chan… But the relentlessness of your pra… Eroding my deflections, to seep in… We are, none of us, flawless creat…