Posts
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It Doesn't Make Us Like You
It doesn't make us like you
The comments behind our backs
It doesn't make us like you
To comment on our shorts or our pants
It doesn't make us like you
To be scared to wear leggings
Do you think it does?
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you like it don't you
you like it don't you?
you like how it makes you feel to be loved
you like the gifts it gives you
and the glow in her eyes when she sees you
you like it don't you?
you like to be loved
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Internal Bleeding
I find it interesting that internal bleeding can be so deadly
Because you don’t even know
Until it’s often too late
No one pays attention to your symptoms
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To love or not to love
To never love is to never lose
But to love is to gain the most
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The gift of life
From the moment we are born
We are given a gift
And at first we don't realize it
As children we think less about the why and the how
Loves
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What Poets think about at midnight when they can’t find their AirPods
AirPods oh AirPods now where could you be?
On the table or stuck in a tree?
AirPods oh AirPods where art thou now?
When will you come around?
AirPods oh AirPods just show a whiff,
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Aging
One,
tender, small hands
reaching for the bottle of milk,
the contents inside sloshing around.
Two,
dragging a faded stuffed bunny
around the kitchen’s island,
one… more… step…
Three,
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No One Needs Your Sea
No one needs to hear your jokes,
Your remarks or your sneers,
No one needs to be pushed under
By the sea that you've filled
With the laughs that you've drawn
From ignorant thoughts,
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Giving Back
Nature blessed us
Gave us a sun, water and air
Food, land and more
And so what did we give back?
We used the land given to us
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I know you
i know you
the quiet one never heard
i know you
the one with eyes like a deer
i know you
the one tagging along at the back
i know you
the one last picked in a game
i know you
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Secret from the Library
Every Monday,
After school,
Papa brings all of us;
Hazel
Lila
Rowan
Baby Arlo (who’s actually three by now)
And me