Radio silence
I'm opening my phone
To nothing
No messages, no emails, no missed calls,
All I'm getting is radio silence
The sinking feeling in my heart returned
The one where you know something is wrong
I'm opening my phone
To nothing
No messages, no emails, no missed calls,
All I'm getting is radio silence
The sinking feeling in my heart returned
The one where you know something is wrong
To me,
The words hope
And light
Are interchangeable;
To me,
Perhaps it is hope
That will let us see clearly
your mother/ hacked together skeleton wings into two-part pieces/ bleeding stars, you thought/ neurons fizzing out/ you had all the time in the the universe/ your eyes dripped down/ the back of your spacesuit/ a so-called prodigy ghost/ acid smoke
Long, exhausted bars of light in my window
Chase away the late night that came before them,
And prime me for the next one.
Stinging my eyes
The tears come
Pouring down
Relentlessly.
Still breathing
Still warm
Yet dead
To me
And me alone.
Grief floods me
Again
I'm drowning
You say you want someone real,
like every second we spent together was a dream,
or a nightmare,
I don't know how you think of us.
You say you want someone real,
Our fathers
Mothers
Daughters
Sons
Have fought
When there is no time to sit
When there’s no more patience
For our world
We stand
And fight
And win
From the beginning of creation,
Women have been underneath the growing nation.
We sat and were forced to watch for decades,
Underneath what men called “the shade.”
But submission is temporary.
Home is the place ,
that you feel safe,
where you're not scared,
you don't hide who you are,
it's a place where you're surrounded by loved ones,
people who make everyday perfect,
Truth is a view and truth is a lie
That’s always stood as time passes me by
As time passes I’ve come to wonder
Can truth be a blunder
A blunder to one rarely to all
the Midwest is a snake eating its own tail.
get out get out get out is the head, beating in time with the heartbeat of every new baby born in these states,
The pool deck is wet
It smells like chlorine
I am no stranger to this
I know the swim caps and goggles
I know the way of being a swimmer
The way you either are or aren't
How could I not
I loved it