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it was a thunderous night the cold wind crept in like a desperate lover street lights flashed at you like lightning if i asked you to stay, would you? no wonder why water runs downward like how i will always fall for you i kept searching in the dark, tried to beat this disease inContinue reading “ego”

You said i was too lucky To never have to walk Through the Forest of Darkness Until my heels bleed, Hear the sounds of the fighter planes Going above my roof, Run against the B-52 bombs Striking across the sky Like lightning, like clipped-wing butterflies. You said I was too lucky to have freedom InContinue reading “Lucky”

practicing how to say no how to stop the rain from falling how to love oneself better than plainly giving love and expect to be loved the same way i know street lights might look like stars on the darkest of nights but they’re not the things you thought are so important now might beContinue reading “igneous rock”

falling leaves travel like rain on your cheeks when you ride the bike across the storm, they twirl and line up the road, letting you know the arrival of fall. the buildings are catching the last glimpse of the Sun, kites with shapes like sea creatures are flying across the sky, everything falls into smallerContinue reading “Great cormorant”

the road seemed endless street lights lined up to lead back to you i was going slowly tonight, lingering thinking about the poems i never write the expectations i could never live up to and that’s okay. t.l. writing the poems in my head always sounded better

every day you drove around town stopping the wind with bare hands trying to hold sand but they always manage to leave you empty, in the end. your name is precious, say it with pride why do you live for others and not yourself? don’t you know unhappiness is toxic yet addicting please, learn toContinue reading “No is the hardest word that you must learn to say”

someone said i am the accepting type it’s better to be quiet and stare at the tiles agreeing with what they said than to challenge them with heated words to tell them things you didn’t mean to be angry, and lose it before the glass hits the floor i’m good like that accepting my fateContinue reading “accepting”

i wanna be cured again i wanna smile and not feel like my face is melting down my neck i wanna be strong, but i was born weak i don’t wanna miss you, but i get sick whenever you’re gone i wanna forgive you, but does that mean i don’t care anymore i know you’reContinue reading “cure(less)”

a friend told me that we’re all boiling these pots they stand for different parts in our lives family, friends, career, love and self but all i think is you so how can keep all these fires going and i feel like i always put myself last or maybe i worked hard to boil theContinue reading “boiled water”