maybe if I was kinder to myself you would have been more gentle to me maybe now I’m better at letting others treat me with kindness rather than the familiar earthquakes and tempests. t.l. maybe I can get used to this.
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Poetic music
poetic music so you actually exist flow into my ears like honey to deers the best of both worlds you have it all. i want to taste you for dinner and save more for later i want to put you in my ink write it out until you sing to me in my sleep andContinue reading “Poetic music”
happy
time to sleep, my darling turn on that headspace episode and let yourself be free from all the worries and all the overthinking and all the manic-depressive energy and all the ugly crying. let the quietness consume you take you to bed and put you in a transcendent dream where you are secure, with highContinue reading “happy”
serendipity
i should be leaving but instead, i’m still here holding on to the last falling leaf winter is coming has it already been a season since we last said goodbye? we both knew from the day we met that we were not meant to be together and yet, we took that chance hoping we couldContinue reading “serendipity”
things i never stopped doing
if there’s one thing that i will never stop doing is to love myself by learning, and trying by loving, and losing by falling, and standing by flowing, and restraining by exploring, and restoring by forgiving, and remembering by flying to the sky and diving into the ocean by taking those first steps and runningContinue reading “things i never stopped doing”
Fearful avoidant
bite my tongue I’d rather walk away than staying to hear the awkward goodbyes when there’s too much to say the invisible threads tied around my lips my knees gone weak at the thought of pouring my heart out collecting rocks in my chest dark clouds accumulating in my crazy head but it never rainedContinue reading “Fearful avoidant”
my voice
someone barged in and said, why are you speaking this foreign language? have you forgotten your roots? are you learning Vietnamese? again? you sound like a snake that wanted to erase its old skin the words you’re speaking doesn’t make sense to us. speak Vietnamese like you’re one say “xin chao” and “xin loi” whenContinue reading “my voice”
chosen ones
i didn’t get to choose my family, so i didn’t know i have a choice in choosing who to love. t.l. i picked the ones who would love me the only way i know.
ferris wheel
how can what i love be what i fear the one i needed the most is the one i ran away from i wanted to be rock solid but instead i flow like waves in and out in and out and in and out and in and out again, again, again can’t make my mindContinue reading “ferris wheel”
Catastrophe
i used to sought solace in the suffering it’s the only thing that’s real the only consistence in my life i breathe it in every night, and the next morning, trying to feel alive i prayed that these heartaches never stop, i looked for them in the darkest places i tried to find them inContinue reading “Catastrophe”
Tsunami of Words 