simplicity.

a simple life together.


a place that we make our own.


the scent of coffee traveling

down the hall to wake us.


tall socks,

white sheets and indigo

colored coffee mugs.

breakfast without our clothes, 

laughing as we pretend

to read the paper.


cuddling together,

our legs intertwined


as I watch your face. 

smiling as you drift off to sleep.

the glow of our shadows

casted delicately on the wall


as we hush each other

not to wake the neighbors.

a simple life.

trapped

What if I were to tell you,

that my heart is just a black hole,
that I never meant to suck you into

and get aimlessly lost

within its gravitational force?

I never meant for you to fall in.
I never meant to absorb all your light.
I never meant to trap you here
inside the point of no return....

the dark

baby, please hold me safe in your arms

and keep the world away from me.
its black and dark,
and crawls inside my head,
and then I cant sleep
and I hate myself for existing.

alive

like fire, we touch

and we feel alive. 

burning away the parts of us

that romanticized suicide. 

you feel the heat inside of me 

but you don't complain

that i scar your lips

and scar your knees with love.

because you want to taste

what it’s like to burn,

even if it means going up in flames.

words and thunder

"baby, please just let me love you until I no longer can..."

lost in the beauty
between your words

and your thunder.

I love the way you beg.  

pulse

I do not have the words


or the hands

to put you
 back together,

but somewhere
 in my heart,

there is a pulse
 that believes

in your strength...

the pen

They told me
you can never win
but then they handed me
paper and a pen...

change

Incredible change happens in your life
when you decide to take control
of what you do have power over
instead of craving control
over what you don’t.

exstinguish

Someone once asked me,

"Do you think it's possible to unlove a person?"

"Of course you can learn to unlove a person," I said, "but it’s like setting yourself on fire 

and trying to put the flames out with their name."

fire vs fire

We had the whole galaxy
of stars to stare at and desire
and yet when we met
it was fire meets fire.

The hook

i found you on my doorstep
where you stood shivering in the cold.
i took you inside
where i told you to hang your heart
on a hook so it too will warm up.

i made you hot chocolate
and you told me the names
of all the bones you knew,
all the books you’ve read.
we compared lists
of all the places we wanted to see,
things we wanted to do.

tomorrow i will let you borrow my coat when you leave,
hoping you’ll forget your heart on the hook.