words – Page 4 – Tsunami of Words

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”

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.

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”

Grinding teeth

our love was like grinding teeth we didn’t even know we were doing it there’s no sign at first no headache, no bleeding no facial pain everything seemed fine.. and then, we realized the closer we get the more we tear down one another. t.l.

call my name

i won’t cross oceans to beg for your love i won’t cancel the fun so you’d stop sulking i won’t listen to your nagging i won’t dive head first into your pool of shame i won’t question myself or let you do the same i won’t put my happiness second so you can call herContinue reading “call my name”

wishful thinking

the wind got colder the cat shivered when can i get over her? the night was still young the ambulance’s siren i could go for run but instead, i was becoming undone hallucination, wishful thinking a pipe dream, vanishing were you playing with my hair or was i only dreaming? t.l.

in & out of love

we were something until we aren’t anymore i asked a friend today am i strange to have loved and lost these people in my life that nothing stayed and at the end i’m alone again. she said, it’s better to have loved and fell out of love when i could still do people who haveContinue reading “in & out of love”

I love you

I’m loving the self that I am in the most she’s the best self I could ever be she cries, gets mad, and smiles again she writes at night, and allows herself to be sad she doesn’t think about you she only has herself to work on. I hope future me will love her too.Continue reading “I love you”