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Adding to the Flame
Read more: Adding to the FlameLove takes flame slow and steady, beautiful and quick catching, or scorching and deadly. Let me tell you something, no matter what it burns. Let me ask you something, do you feel cold? What did you give to our flame as the embers now lay dying? Can it be brought back once it’s been drowned…
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How You Haunt Me
Read more: How You Haunt MeThe hope of us got too heavy to hold, so I laid it down next to the memories that time now slowly takes from me. Before the memories leave, I flip through them like I would a magazine. How would I like to hurt myself today? Tears then trace my neck where kisses used to…
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There Are Worse Things
Read more: There Are Worse ThingsPeople can do worse things than kill you. They can love you whole-heartedly, Love you kindly, Love you sweetly. They can open doors for you and ask you to text when you get home safe. People can do worse things than kill you. They can be too good to be true. Remembering your birthday or…
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Adding Color to the Sky
Read more: Adding Color to the SkyTo this day, this is my most favorite piece that I’ve written, and one of the most important. Truthfully, the poem wasn’t finalized for over a year, and the second part at the end added even longer than that. The person that inspired this piece inspired more than just my writing, they inspired me in…
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She is of the Earth
Read more: She is of the EarthShe is so much like the sun, shining even after the darkest night. The night sky’s stars hold nothing to the light within her eyes. Darkness means nothing when you think of her. She gives life to the desperate souls craving her affection, only to remain just out of reach. She is so much like…
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Everyway We Were
Read more: Everyway We WereI remember everyway we were. And sometimes I play it all over in my mind, just to feel it again, to see it again, to remember. There’s a box on my bedroom floor, it holds pictures of you and I, dust collects on its top. But when I do glance inside, which isn’t often these…
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I Found Him
Read more: I Found HimI found him. And he’s better in every way. Time has passed since you, and with him I hardly notice. We know without even saying, that we found each other. I find him again in every moment, every word, every stare, and I breathe, I found him. I don’t think we could ever forget, on purpose…
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Remembrance
Read more: RemembranceI remember us, in every way. I remember us young, we didn’t know then. I remember us a bit older, falling into separate worlds, we assumed that this would happen. I remember the day we forgot, only remembering in brief moments alone. But I remember the day we remembered, we glanced at each other just…
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Someone Else’s Someone
Read more: Someone Else’s SomeoneThere were plenty of things they wanted to say to each other, but neither of them would say a word in fear of it all coming true. So they stayed quiet. They had plenty of chances to say those things to each other, but each one missed. Instead, small talk made a weak attempt at…
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Wondering
Read more: WonderingWondering feels a lot like the static on a television, But the static is composed of loose words and broken images. It’s a full body experience, clouding your mind, and weakening your body. You’re in the clouds and six-feet under, and I know I’m made for something more than this kind of life. The one…