There it is, that look that cuts down and into

Exactly the part of myself I thought I had under control

You are soft and I am the sharpest knife in the drawer

There it is, the blood on my hands

From cutting you when I thought I had finally made myself dull

You are light on the ocean and I am the darkest cloud that keeps the sun from the shore

There it is, the distance you keep

And I cannot argu...

my road to you is marked with sleeplessness

loneliness, yearning and desire

the passion comes in waves, soft like the breeze or strong like a fire

it gives and it takes, it bends but never breaks

the stepping stones they teeter, but my feet never falter

the road is long but it leads to the alter

where you wait with arms open wide and the future bright ahead

i think for tonight i’ll forget about ...

I always wondered what was here on the other side

But seeing you now makes it’s all come together

The great divide was never me

It was never us

You know who

So hearing these words again can’t come as a shock

I know who you’re really talking to

The biggest disappointment you’ve known is staring back at you with fresh eyes and a rosy flush

But all you can see is yourself in her little brown eyes

Ev...

I am his everything and I do it with ease

I always make it look easy too.

I stay calm and let him do as he may please

With only one simple rule that he must see through.

No one else? I tease

No one else. I trusted him too.

Well he broke his promise and it’s become a disease

So sad to say that his girl is on channel two.

If he chose to run around with a sleaze

I suppose he won’t mind if she’s gone ...

We weren’t born in the same year

We weren’t raised the same way

We don’t have the same humor

We don’t watch movies the same way

We rarely see eye to eye

We rarely experience emotion similarly

My love we don’t even stream music on the same platform

But still your hand fits perfectly in mine

But still i’ve never felt the same warmth I feel when i’m held by you

But still I’ve never had anyone else u...

I didn’t mean to end your life

I was sitting there and I felt you on my neck

I was so disgusted

but still, I never meant to end your life

Your trace across the front of my collar bone

Your touch, gentle and delicate

I never meant to end your life

A snap reaction

A fist of violence

I never meant to end your life

Now you are curled up beside me breathlessly

You’re immobilized and immortal in you...

It was a walking city, a-buzz with the morning crowd

Running to get their coffee,

and sit with their thoughts before the sun could bring what was loud;

This was a new crowd to me, I was more used to noon

But something about this time, it didn’t feel out of tune

Not the way waking up at twelve felt

This five o’ clock wave had quite a few notches under its belt

A grandpa and granddaughter with ease...

i reek of...

there i sat, the beaming and bloodied image of a virgin

but i could not convince them of it

my black and white bounds were blurred lines when scrutinized

it was no longer my responsibility to defend

my purity culture had become muddied, but not to me

i had nothing left to prove, nothing left to say, my pleas now had gone away

with satisfaction in my eyes and a tight lipped mouth on my...

I guess you were never exempt from the statistic

A couple bad nights and it allowed him to go ballistic

On a woman he so loved, with a fallible tolerance

I wonder if he only meant he wanted distance

But if he absolutely must pack his bags and go

Perhaps there was something I’d never noticed before

To rely on a child for emotional needs

Isn’t that what she’s for?

No, because now he grieves

To a s...

Had I only stepped back and taken a moment to reflect

Maybe I would have realized that my story did not in fact house five whole villains

Not even four

Not even three

Not even two

But one.

To my surprise, it had been me all along.

The conflict, the hate, the grudges

They’d all started within myself

But some blindness took over and I turned all my hurt and hatred for myself

Into fuel to push other...