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you are an ocean

The “hands off” sign has made you more exotic and my 

loneliness has only sparked my 

craving to be touched

And I’ve just been blind all along

Fatally distracted and chased by boys sparkling with 

effervescent toxicity

like poison to an open wound or a sirens call

You are an ocean

Recklessly crashing into rocky coasts

wild waves keeping me on my toes

powerful currents inevitably pulling me 

out to you

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tubing

If all the rivers flowed to you,

I would so quickly grab my tube,

To ride the current, rapids and all

Eagerly awaiting you after the falls

Arms outstretched and reaching to you

No one said you’d be reaching too,

Falling fast you catch my hand

Pulling me up and on to land

We catch our breath nearby on a stump

Then laugh,  grab hands and run

And jump!

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In My Head

You’ve been sleeping in my head

Taking up a corner of my brain

Always there, lingering

Pulling at my thoughts

 

Occasionally you wander into my 

Dreams and we float 

Together, falling

I wake up believing

It were real, still falling

 

That with hope a fragment 

Of me sits in a corner of 

Your brain, 

Taking up space and pulling at your thoughts

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I gave all my heart and lost

 

I’ve drifted around 

collecting the pieces 

in late night drives and

drunken sprawls 

with strangers

 

filling the void 

with meaningless mess 

scraping 

the bottom of my heart 

for any remaining sweetness, I come up 

empty 

 

I gave it all away, hoping you’d return 

my love

Instead my well ran dry and 

you left 

when you were full

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Little darkness

Something got blocked up inside me this morning

As I went to breathe

I felt a resistance in my chest 

 

It snapped at my mother while making my coffee

Stirring sweetener into the black drink 

Currently reflecting my state of mind

I hoped it would lighten up a bit

 

Sluggishly moving my limbs to do what I wanted

It didn’t shake the blockage within

 

On my drive to work I played loving music

Whispering to the darkness 

It’s ok little one

It will be brighter tomorrow

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In between

Heart throbbing

Hands shaking

Sweat seeping from my pores

 

Heavy breaths blow past my neck

Sweeping me away to other worlds

Steady hands healing my wounds

Falling deeper with each brush on my skin

Determined stare grabbing at my hips 

Deeper eyes would drown me

 

Let me twirl in the heat between us

For I would give it all

 

Be sure

There is far to go

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getting the wind knocked out

You appeared suddenly

Like a mirage.

 

You consumed the space around me until I couldn’t see through

Like fog, dense in my chest and vision

 

You became the air I breathed

The intoxication was warm and addictive.

 

As suddenly as you materialized, you left

The apparition was gone

 

And I was left gasping for the air you breathed into me.

 

 
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Like Home

Like home

Sitting next to you is that warm full feeling of loving and being loved

We do that for each other

 

Talking with you is like breathing

Deep slow breaths filled with the cold fresh air of December

I know you infinitely as one does their own heart

 

You belong to someone else or nobody

But I do not wish to claim or take ownership 

 

Only that we continue to sit beside each other

Loving and being loved

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The Sun

Like asteriods colliding,

unexpectedly creating a new world.

Being detroyed and made new all at once.

 

My heart shakes with anticipation and fullness,

heavy with the being of you.

Dizzy with attraction.

 

You are the first to look at me

like I am the sun.

Powerful, blinding, and beautiful.

Radiating and magnetic.

 

I have opened a door to the rest of my life.

Endless possibilities laid out before me,

all I have to do is take your hand.

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longing

First an urge

Not quite a fully formed thought

A longing,

Pulling my subconscious.

 

All the little holes left by past heartbreaks

Reached out

to be momentarily filled by you.

 

Willingly you obliged

Drenched in your wholeness

I felt calm and full.

 

Like the tide,

you eventually rolled back out to the sea.

 

The next tide will bring a new longing.