Writing Prompt

Back to back. Hand in hand.

A rise, a fall. In and out.

With. Without.

A mind centred on love and one on indifference

One longing for just a word—

One to cut the deep well of despair

Of loneliness

Deep breaths take up far more space than silence

And echo, rattling, like an angry snake....

you come in with the cold

fingertips freezing

I melt under you

look at me

snowed in for the weekend

not really though

it’ll take years

for you to leave

curled into each other

corner of the red couch

mumble your affection

into my neck

set up that card game

you taught me

in the 5th summer

you’ll let me win again

sat in your lap

play with your hair

read nonsense to me

until i’m fa...

Deep breaths take up far more space than silence

Deep wounds that don’t heal lead to violence.

A war on drugs is never gonna win,

So you’d best mind your business as I get well again.

Deep sleep is out of reach,

Deep scars inside and out,

Deep depression that sets in

Deep in the ground is where it ends.

Deep pain leads to snapping,

Deep conversations must be happening.

Deep waves pull me under,

...

You were scarred

this familiar feeling

your heart, charred

You were afraid

nowhere to go

counting the days

You were a fool

searching for a reason

you learned life’s cruel

You were drowning

reaching out a hand

people were surrounding

Deep breaths, please,

deep breaths, they’d say,

but nobody reached out

nobody gave you a way

Silence became your friend

it stayed with you until the end

deep bre...

Our laughter filled our days

We were alive and

Damn we were living

Our knowledge ballooned

We were living and

Learning

And doing it side

By side

You have others now

I guess

I understand

No

I’d be lying if I said that

I don’t

Understand

You’re breaking me

And I know

This is breaking you

I’m a line

y = mx + b

I used to be a parabola

I don’t even know what that is

Anymore

I’m losing myself...

When your mind is filled with turmoil,

Or your anger is set ablaze

And the only thing that you can do is

Fume and glare with craze.

Deep breaths take up far more space than silence.

You calm with each inhale.

Expel the anger built inside you,

And know it shan’t prevail....

Relax and breathe deep

Think of nothing but stillness

Universal peace

Tessa🦋...

Strife can be settled

through the cool, practiced silence

of a patient man...

i sit in a room,

with only one heartbeat.

no more beeping machines,

random strangers demanding odd things.

now i’m alone,

without your breath.

just the ringing in my ears,

a death shawl to cover the emptiness.

i’d thought seeing you here

was overwhelming in my chest.

all the wires hooked to you,

i’d cry with air burning my lungs.

now i see nothing of you here,

but my chest still hurts.

i...

In through your nose and down

your pharynx,

pulled rapidly

into alveoli air sacs,

pressed up against the wall

like a lonesome

schoolgirl dreaming,

picked up by your beating heart,

through the leftside of your love,

through arteries, through limbs,

through tiny threads,

squeezed dry, then tasked again.

loaded up with the unwanted,

sent through veins,

hurtling onward,

hurtling back

into the ho...