Skip to main content

I Wish I Could Tell You

in the silence I bleed words,
like they can't help it, like I
bleed to survive.
the mystery remains
why is it that around you
I am always coughing up nothing
as if I have forgotten how to
be?
like you are so precious so far away
that even the shadows of my words
might burn you and make you
leave.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

empty spaces

what is it like to sink into the silent seams of empty spaces  to close your eyes and let your heart roll away from under your tongue as if it never occured to you nothing would ever fit the same again like all we have lost is wonder
Post a Comment
Read more

9:58pm

[simpler days happier shades not knowing what it meant to be afraid] before it all comes crashing down, I promised you [I promised you I promised you I  --] hey the way you used to swing across the monkey bars, iridescent, irreverent hang on [callused broken swinging drowning flying] break me into pieces at the edge of the valley I'm clinging to yesterday but it's endless rolls of purple [and blue] like the taste of seafoam swallowing me whole
Post a Comment
Read more

sadness

the texture of sadness might be the same as the touch of sunshine on the back of your eyelids tears glitter, did you know? the color of the empty chambers of your heart the way it bleeds into your lungs like the word hello that sort of tastes like a goodbye,  I love you thrown carelessly into the sunrise
Post a Comment
Read more