You are 24 and have learned that Time passes and keeps on passing you. You are 24, with thoughts that count as vaguely-new but are nothing new. Your soul is weary but your muscles are still capable of keeping up, You push and push and hustle because you are only 24. You are 24 and your friends are married, […]
You are not a fighter, but you became a warrior. You wear mismatched socks and genuinely have zero fucks to give to those who haven’t earned the right to judge. You cut off long tresses and long relationships that were leading nowhere because a short bob is easy to manage and requires no maintenance. Life […]
There is nothing in this world lovelier and lonelier than seeing your friends become parents Knowing, with a bone deep knowledge that your journeys together from here on out will only grow in distance. Dearest child, I wish you only the best and I know that you will grow to be as beautiful strong tremendous […]
He says he wants life, while hiding in a cave Allegories glittering. I stumble. Over answers, tongue ready to inject fuel into a conversation that was never meant to be anything other than me, conveying my point. My glorious point. What of stars and dreams and y’know… other things? My point was never meant for […]
I wanted to. Lord knows I wanted to. You were inspiring or you could’ve been had I given you a chance. But my heart was stuck in a loop that played i.n.dependance on repeat that drove me away. It’s not that you were bad. God no. You were good the kindest of kind the kind […]
I thought I would miss you, The pillow talks, The late night YouTube vids, The morning-after breakfasts… Your flirty texts. I still remember the feel of your beard under my searching fingers: Scuffing warmth, caressing chin. I don’t know how we ended — vague memories searching. I know there was a wanting succeeded by time, Erasing […]
I say I like Math because it’s the same in every language except the one in my head. I say I like Math, but I’m a liar. So you should really take all my infinities with a grain of salt. I like poetry for the flow the ebbs and sways of reality that comes from […]
Life hurts in that melancholy ache gestating in your chest “I’m.So.Rry.” it pumps Beating, over and over Hardware designed to fail We’re goodbyes, waiting to happen Collecting yesterdays In his face Her eyes Their lips “I.Need.You” “Come.Get.Me” Couldn’t be saved. A/N: Trying something new… Try reading the poem from bottom to top as well. This […]
You don’t want to know me. You don’t want to know that I am a human, that I ache and laugh and smile and cry and feel all the things that you do. You want to see briefly, superficially the impact you can exercise over my world. You want to see me break and bend […]
I was nineteen. It was Summer. We were playing at grown ups Disassembling ourselves Trying on clothes Discarding skins. Philosophy was a morning class. Homework done in bottles consumed between midnight and 3am phone calls. Your skin glowed in mauve greys — laugh that reminded me of black things that sparkle. I left my windows open once, in Vancouver winter […]
lessons of summer 