Revival

There are journals and canvases scattered all over the floor left from my 2 AM song lyrics and watercolor ramblings … More

Writer’s Decongestant

Now I know that this is not a time for us. There are too many miles separating and not enough … More

Desiderium

I believe a person has multiple soulmates; one for each part of who they are. I wholeheartedly believe you were … More

I Wrote This For You

I am writing this for you. The you who knows me through and through, despite what you may believe, anymore. … More

Everything I’ve Loved Became Everything I’ve Lost

I have a bad habit of not realizing what I have until I let it go and this time that … More

Nepenthe

Sitting in the passenger seat as you leaned over the middle console, serenading me between kisses, promising to share our … More

Do You?

I want to ask what you think of me. I want to know your candid thoughts when you hear my … More

I Used To Hold Those Eyes In Mine

I am terrified I will see you look at her the way you used to look at me and I … More

The Paradox Of Unhealing

What do you do when a wound was never given time to heal? It’s been left untreated for months continuously … More

Revisions

I deleted the pieces of myself I created for other people and replaced them instead with ones I thought people … More

Your Name Echoes In My Mind

“You can’t have something as powerful as love and then name it.” I named it after you. 

Always Beside You

You will find me swimming in your mid afternoon coffee and gently staining your upper lip. I’m the string on … More

We Both Know That’s Not What Happened.

It is one thing to tell your truth, it is another to create a whole new world in which I … More

Remember

“Remember this.” my mind muttered to me “Remember how it feels to lay next to her, to feel her beating … More

Homesick

Ever since you stepped off my doorstep and boarded the plane, I’ve found myself subconsciously wishing each one passing overhead is … More

Overpass

Headlights passing passing passing Perched on the overhang of the overpass with you beside me. Arm wrapped gently around my … More

Unsent, Unsaid

So much never said never spoken never sent never to be known. I still have so much left to say … More

Precipice

Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling Falling F a l l  i  n g off this precipice from … More

Alphabet

A buried castle deems enchanted, fate gives her imagination. Jubilation keenly loops mystery, never omnipresent. Perhaps quaint red slippers tangle up … More

Wildflower Words

And here my writing returns back to the oh-so-expected sense of romance the stereotypical and too often dull sense of … More

Whale Song

And in my sinking heart there is a whale song. The blue whale sings his melodic hum waiting for harmonies … More

Painted Veins

In this world I have known people to either be artists or to be art. You, my dear, seem to be the … More

Drained

I want to write. I want to write something but I don’t know how anymore, it seems. I sit here … More

Denouement

I understand if we must let things go but please please do not forget the beauty we held for those … More

Lovingly

And with every ounce of her, she loved. Her eyes reflected light onto the world around her and watercolors danced … More

Memories Are Often Sweeter Than The Present

I find myself holding onto memories far too tightly when reality has swept me by and changed far more than … More

The Unsolvable Mess

Maybe you are chaotic. Maybe you don’t make sense and can’t be solved but that doesn’t mean you are any … More

Your Last Poem

No. No, you know what? You don’t deserve to know my thoughts and the way you’ve been circling my mind. … More

It Took Me 10 Years To Learn That

I was seven years old when my mother told me the brightest, most beautiful insects were the most venomous. I was seventeen … More

Our Own Greek Tragedy

I thought we were the daughter of Apollo and son of Hephaestus. I now know I am the daughter of … More

I’m Still Learning

Somewhere in the fall, I lost the map to the personal universe behind my green grey eyes. My head is spinning … More

The Afterthought

It’s really interesting rather funny, actually how we found ourselves in the opposite position we imagined. In the beginning, you … More

Stained

You always told me you were poisonous that in the end, you would end up with inky blood on your hands … More

I Will Not Lie

I will not lie. I still miss him. I miss the way he’d pull me in, causing me to fall … More

It’s Never You

I never could take my eyes off you. Now, I find myself looking to every opening door and hoping it’s … More

I Am Still That Girl

When we ended, it wasn’t peaceful. Now, I am still entirely broken and you are perfectly fine. You aren’t missing … More

The Last Kiss

When you kissed me that night, when you touched my cheek and gently turned it to face you, when your … More

Enthusiasm

Lately, I’ve been faking happiness acting like I’m okay when in actuality, all of my bones are shattered into dust … More

Conundrum

I don’t know if I’m drowning in conundrums  or I’m making a tsunami out of a drought.   https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/conundrum/

Sugar Coating The Bullet

When you told me you still wanted to be in my life, I couldn’t read my own thoughts. I felt … More

You Took Everything Except Me

I don’t know what to say. Not anymore. How am I supposed to write when you took my words with … More

Poetry Of A Person

I just want someone to write me down and put me into a book because I am a messy poem … More

We Are Chaos

We are chaos. We fall apart just to fall back into each other. Our muscles are sore and cramping from … More

You Are Photokinetic

There’s a quote my mom once explained to me years ago. I wanted to understand it, to see it the … More

Disintegrate

sometimes things just d   w   i  n   d   l   e d o w n to nothing. you can just feel disintegrating in … More

Your Arms Are The Map

I have always wanted to see the world. You know that. I babble on and on endlessly to you about … More

Deconstructed

You took me apart piece by piece. Separated each fragment of my body and my soul and laid me along … More

Naiya

You are really underappreciated. I know I remind you constantly of how much I adore you and how deeply you’ve … More

Flames

What is so wrong with me that I end up hurting everyone I come in contact with? Every person, every … More

Heartbeat

You are still wrapped up in my blankets in a “cocoon” sitting on my floor with your back against my … More