Sun touched party goers sober up with coffee.
Work slithering back between their shoulder blades.
Warm coffee coax chaotic thoughts into submission
And non coffee drinkers submit to temptation.
Last night’s heavy doors become lighter
As heavy legs drag themselves through.
Resurrected melodies, thought lost, bounce back into their heads.
Retired dancers carry their spinning minds to breakfast....
You dropped your heart in my palms
Then turned so pale I could see through you.
So wet, slippery, and rhythmically trying
To escape the cage formed by my fingers.
You gave me more than you could afford.
So the tab you ran, ran away from you.
The love debt no millionaire could pay.
But still you offered your heart to me,
Hoping I could ease the pain.
Never realizing it could only beat for you.
Unt...
3 words
That’s all we are given.
But like that 150 word restriction,
On the essay from French class,
It wasn’t even half
Of what enough would look like.
3 words
Trampled mercilessly
Many daylight saving ago.
I speak manifestos Into existence
Until my lungs fold
Like origami.
3 words
Can’t even contain
only my description of your hands.
In mine, they make me forget
That Paper cuts and rou...
I belong here in this room.
In the silence, in the dark.
Where my opinions are the loudest
And your whispers do not matter.
This space between four walls,
It’s my domain and no one else’s.
You may knock, but there’s no door.
Try to peak, but there are no windows.
This room is my belonging.
Poor outsiders’ be longing....
