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Kat Pepper
Reconnecting with my first love đź“ťđź’«
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Kat Pepper
Reconnecting with my first love đź“ťđź’«
Reconnecting with my first love đź“ťđź’«
Reconnecting with my first love đź“ťđź’«
Splashes
A wonder
My young eyes
Widening as water spouts
In a million directions asunder
The childlike urge to run under
And dance as though in a storm
Thunder
Sloshing footsteps
And jovial exclamations
T-shirt sticks to skin
Licking ice cream stains away
Soaking wet we run and play
Tomorrow never dares to cross our minds
Today
We live
And make memories
Little artists of creation
T...
It is easy to get lost in the underworld
To trail off the main path
Following the crunch of dead leaves
Or bone
Or dreams beneath your feet
All roads lead to hellfire anyway
Even steps lightly taken
Are echoed by screams of lost souls forsaken
And no stars litter the skies for guidance
Only endless ash whistling past
To let you know this moment
Is no different from the last
No gust of fres...
Heavy weight of winter
Keep spring from me
Drag me by my ankles
Through would-be fields of flowers
Still deliberately icy
Still sleeping, nestled into time
And bury me safely beneath frozen roots
Let frost creep over me
Keep me in its bondage
Lest I glimpse blue skies and ask myself
Do you think the sun gets lonely up there?
The question burns too much to bear
Let clouds keep me from the plight...
Lights in the windows
Always lights
Always strange blue birds in flight
Reflecting as they’re flying past
Century-old buildings built to last
Pinky and puffy powder clouds
Blue birds pass through, crying loud
People bustling down below
Watch the birds pass to and fro
Blue birds bathe in iridescence
Capturing the city’s essence
Look closely at one in a tree
It’s perched on all your memories
...
When the poetry’s too loud
When the words seep in my bones
When sorrow tugs and scrapes my heart
I gag and stifle a wretched moan
I look up
Watch raindrops coat the window glass
I find one making it’s way down fast
I let it guide me as it slides past
The others that stand too still
And in its motion I can breathe
A drop in the ocean
A wave breaks over a reef
And in the break I find reli...
Looped into
A life lived twice
So don’t worry about me
I’ll get it right next time
Whatever these lessons
I collect on the way
Wash away from me
By the end of each day
But let’s say I stay hidden
Nothing grows in the dark
And what doesn’t grow
Doesn’t age
And what won’t age
won’t die
Life’s safer in a cage
A nicely packaged
little lie
I’ll just turn away
and ignore any signs
I’ll ca...
You were a stranger
Taking shelter from the rain
Not sensing any danger
I asked you when was the next train
You said ten minutes, maybe five
Then you asked me for a light
Watching the rain I felt alive
Lighting your cigarette that night
Red and blue lights pooled together
Making purple puddles dance
We stood swaying with the weather
I felt the fire of your glance
I looked over to meet...
For a brief moment in time, I had forgotten anyone cared about me at all. The beat of my heart in my own chest sounded unfamiliar. I couldn’t recognize my eyes in the mirror no matter how hard I stared. This brief moment was brief only in the span of our vast universe. In actuality, it lasted years, with only intervals of relief. I lived like a mammal confined to rough seas, breaking the surface t...
I walk in the shadows
Among pillars of my past
Stopping to see the sights
Of all the things that never last

With the ghosts of memories
I walk hand in hand
And each place I revisit
Feels like uncharted land
I don’t meddle with the present
Staying in one moment stales
I’d rather walk through all that’s been
Safely memorialized, lest the future fails
Erecting monuments of shadows
Excit...
“Can you turn the radio up? Just for this song? It’s good I promise,” I plead with mommy.
Mommy turns the song up and I start singing along, and waving my hand outside the window to the guitar. We’re having the best day today, I love Saturdays! Sometimes I like staying home and watching cartoons, but today we went to the park and got ice cream. I watch out at the window as the song blares through...