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”
Tag Archives: poetry
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”
writer’s block
when your mind is empty and there’s no word coming out your fingers lingered on the keyboards like sleepy bees to a California poppy you wanted to taste the honey but too tired to move or think your brain is telling you, the moment you stopped writing that’s when you stopped existing so you gotContinue reading “writer’s block”
move with you
the dark sky lit up the piano keys took you outside and let you dance on clouds mai tai, i like your sounds come closer and whisper how to love, scratch my back and i’ll rub my eyes against yours give me what i lack teach me your moves and i’ll move with you. t.l.
dancing
you told me about dancing about separating parts of your body how your legs go one way and your upper body the other that’s why you held her hands while saying you loved me. t.l. isn’t dancing like swimming everything moves together otherwise you’d drown.
bad milk
did you forget to dump the bad milk down the drain? no matter how much you wanted to drink it once it’s gone bad there’s no going back. t.l. keeping it in the fridge won’t help
Tsunami of Words 