Posts
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invisible
this is for all of the invisible people
you are seen
and you are loved
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never forget this
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but
you are enough and you are loved
:)
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gavin
Hey, I know it’s been a while, but my grandparents still ask about you and I still remember your birthday. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m still holding onto the pieces I have left of you.
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The Sun Will Rise Again
Her blood is engraved into these pages
Slowly unraveling the truth
Exposing every flaw in perfection
Every short-lived high
Every precocious low
Has driven the knife deeper into her lingering past
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grades kill self-worth
the numbers scream
I’m not enough
I’m not enough
I’m not enough
we are not composed of numbers
so why do we let them define us?
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peace is impossible
I close the windows
Lock the doors
Turn off the lights
I don’t ever want to leave this room.
I am tired of drowning
In a world
That has never prepared me to swim.
Loves
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Graduation
I am having a dream about the senior class graduating.
It is a beautiful day
And I am watching from a hill
Sobbing as the hats fly off
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The Samurai
Japan, 1863. Across the globe, the civil war rages.
I made the long walk
Across the plains,
through the village path
under the stars.
At long last, I came to the monastery
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I wanna be a literary girl
& walk around soho with maxi skirts & matcha & annotate the bell jar in velvet blue ink on curling pages with garamond font & wear my hair long down my back & dark sunglasses pulled up on my head & bangle bracelets that sli
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Jokesgiving
my family has claimed thanksgiving.
it's our holiday, you know,
the one we do the best,
and so it must be ours. we're joking,
mostly, but it's true we do thanksgiving very well
probably overdo but it's better
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a hope in my heart
in my heart, hope is a quiet thing
a pulse beneath rubble
soft as breath against marble dust.it doesn't sing
it lingers.
it waits in the cracks where sunlight pools
on mornings the mist forgets to rise. -
let it happen
it was barely audible
yet soft and sure
in the heat of the moment.
what?
I ask
even though I know what you said.
I know the weight