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after all this time?
I hate how you couldn't see
What you did to me.
The way my heart shattered
When you were with him.
I wanted you to be with me,
And hold my hand in the halls.
I was your first friend,
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The One Who Got Away
I was eight years old,
and everyone around me was dying.
I wish I was younger so then I wouldn't
understand what war was.
Now I'm twenty-six,
and everyone around me is dying
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The Girl with the Polaroid in her Phone Case
The girl with the Polaroid in her phone case
is the one I want to kiss.
The girl with the Polaroid in her phone case
doesn't even know I exist.
The girl with the headphones that mess up her bangs
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Second, third, and hundreth chances
I've seen how this goes before,
Over and over—
I paint your unclouded skies with gray,
I'm the rain in your more-than-perfect day.
Who was the idea you had of me?
Her mascara wasn't running down
Loves
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daisies
You trace the ridges of the flower.
The sole daisy in this field.
A dot of yellow against a vibrant green.
Your toes burrow in the dirt.
The soil covering your feet.
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nothing
You hear it offhand,
A whispered word floating to your ears,
It’s a falsity, preposterous, a rumor,
Of course it’s not true,
But even still,
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A Sestina
Somewhere in the summer sun,
Where dandelions dance and sing
Along with the bluebird’s lonesome cry,
Alone, you’ll find me, lying there
Between the grass seed and maple leaves,
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Dew-drop
In a dew-drop, a little world exists
A place turned blue and silver by the light
That lingers well beyond the morning mist.
In a dew-drop, a little world exists
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what you become
I’m a blank sheet, a book unwritten,
A sponge, as dry and brittle as the desert,
ready to soak up my surrounding,
no matter what it is, no biases,
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