you were six feet from me but so far awayI needed a safe bed so badly I needed you to tell me you loved methat it was gonna be okay I needed someone to tell metell me I'm safe it's going to be okayI'm here for you I always will be you were six feet from me but so far awayI knocked on your door I called your name I knocked on your doorI called your nameI knocked on your doorI knocked on your doo...

Just a boyJust a boyJust a kissJust a touchJust a fuckJust a momentJust a mistakeJust a second oneJust a thirdJust got betterJust got worseJust a promiseJust a lieJust five yearsJust one last timeJust a final goodbye. CanvasMy lips were your canvasWrapping me up to captureYour strokes were perfectly executing my fearsThough my mind was shallowYou retrieved the wholeness in meWith every color I ...

if i imagine you hard enough maybe this time you’ll stick around so i count to tendeep breath, eyes closedand by the grace of god i watch your hands waltz across my bodyyou’re nimble fingered and mischievousbut the glint of playful lust in your eyes doesn’t quite mask the 6ft drop of blinding loveand so we inhale each otherlocked lipswe fuck and we are whole peopleand by the grace of god i touc...

I feel like I might have missed out on something,Because I didn't have a first kiss in a cinema car park,With the bumping of faces and grating of braces.It just never quite happened like that.And I didn't have a naïve first holding of hands,Where neither party knew the appropriate time to let go,Leading to both holding on for really, truly, uncomfortably too long.It just never quite happened li...

Let it be this path between us shares A familiar softness, filled with cares Born out of that skipping stone That we had thrown and the wind had blownIntermittent but unflinching across the lake We're in the air now, say that it is true That's where this distance I feel from you Hails from, falls like icy stares That don't seem burdened by repairs The fixes we need to undertake We'll touch bac...

I wished upon your eyelash,and the world was molten silver.You are my form of cardiac repair.I wallowed in the deep pools of your eyesas you played with my hair.When I blew away the eyelash with it went much more.Every trace of reluctance, and every scent of fear.I suddenly felt like I was simply here.Instead the air became enchanted with the smell of rain on tarmacand your washing powder.Thi...

i. (cyclones) our love floweredin the sunny days of june, but july brought the rainand so came the monsoon.  my love, it’s undeniable thatthe moment we metyou swept me off my feet and into a storm - you're a relentless force, a typhoon of electric bluelike the pools of your eyes, glistening, yet glazed, and seeming  unfazedin the eyeof the storm. but you should've been warned, I am a hurricane ...

Dinner - is this what you call dinner?Why did you make it like that?You've been cooking for so many years and you still cook like this?I'm not eating this - I'm making my own foodYou are:Normal, funny, quiet, smartFather, husband, brother, son, friendHurtful words, hurtful slaps sometimesA dinner critiqueIf dinner was a metaphor for you, I'd call you rotten chickenYou broke her down like a chic...

when we hugged for the first timeour bodies fitting together like jigsaw piecesi knew if anything were to happen to youi won’t ever feel complete  when our lips met for the first timebehind the boards away from prying eyesi didn’t feel fireworks or butterfliesinstead, i knew i was home  when our tongues intertwined for the first timeplaying with each other for dominancemy mouth didn’t forget a...

Our love is like a conversation over a phone, but you can only hear my facial expressions not the trickle of my words that crawl from between my teeth and onto your ears. No, you see my mask contort into shapes that even I cannot explain however you always have a reason behind them.

This is a series of illustrative bookart I created to pair with a recent piece of prose I wrote during my time in isolation. “Sinking beneath the surface of the nightThe sky and the ocean meld and split apart again,Indecisive lovers,Soft skin stretches across jutting bones,You pull your fingers through your hair and stretch upward, The long arching shape of your back,Casts shadows onto the bedr...