Strangers
The tears have driedMy heart is emptyMy hopes have diedBecause you left meAnd I rememberEverything. I doYour touch was tenderI fell for youI made mistakeI broke the rulesAnd so did youPathetic foolsYou fell for meSo unexpectedYou didn’t seeTwo souls connectedA game of loveWe couldn’t handleWe were too youngIt was a scandalA broken dreamA fairytaleWe could have hadHow did we fail?A lesson learne...
Why me?
You feel. I mean you didIt doesn’t change a thingThe way. The way I felt for youIt wasn’t just a flingWho. Who am I to you?The question roaming in my mindA girl you never knew?Or was this love defined?You didn’t know meAlthough you claimed you didBut what you couldn’t seeWas pain. It’s deep down. HidYou made a choiceI questioned more than twiceYou answered in the same cold voice“I like you”. Bu...
Construction
My vagus nerve has notches carved into it,you can almost hear them creak when I move.Every layer is built of everyone that's made my pulse quicken,micromoments of frequencies of love that scaffold the path between my head and my heart.Parts of it you can loose your fingers in,it's both sweet and sticky to the touch,the kind of honey that's seductive until you realise you're drowning in it.Other...
Directions
If you ever can't find me, run into the sea at sunset, dive under and stay there until your lungs begin to tremble.What's the first place you think of when your head breaks the ocean's womb and you breathe again for the very first time?Hike into the desert at night and let the constellations be your GPS.Where do you end up when the dawn finally eclipses the last star you see?Close your eyes and...
eclipse
two bodies align and spiral delicately into one another’s embracenot one ounce of her power diminished, not one trace of his acquiesced no need for armor here, no need for anxious monitoringthey wander into the expanse of their communal mind, where they might co-create a tenacious image of bodily union lusting for that liminal fragment between space and time where appetite distracts from agony...
A Famous Guest in Hell
I am a famous and a frequent guest in hell.They welcome me with open arms when I am unwell.Each time my lover returns to me and then leaves,I crawl back to devil, begging to let me in on my knees.And he does. Again and again.Demons become envious of my pain.They put bandages on my heart and send me back to human world.It’s late night and my wounds no longer hurt.I wake up after being back from...
You really want to know me?
I’m an ocean.
By that I mean that sometimes I'll be a tranquil pond, the kind that reflects the sunset at exactly the right time of day and as the tide rolls in my crests will sparkle and I won't be able to stop kissing your shore.By that I mean that sometimes I'll churn black with broiling foam, with a darkness that at high tide throws itself at harbour walls. Sometimes whilst falling asleep y...