To the One that’s Lost, I hope life is treating you well. I hope its embrace feels tender, warm, and secure. I wish that its occasionally harsh grasp will not deter you from succeeding in all the ventures you’ve chosen. The ones I’m not allowed in. I do hope, with the purest ounces of my…
Chunni
Cover me Where he cannot see Under the chunni Hiding White and sheer With lashes down A curl of hair Tucked in ebony With jewels glimmering Gold gleaming Eyes marveling Weight they cannot feel I am not stained red Yet But his fingers Won’t find mine anymore And the bangles break Before they’re…
Starlight
The darkness does not scare me. My brokenness never will. Because when I look up to the black, I realize shattered glass still glimmers. Heat will rise in passion’s haste to feel what burns within. No matter the shadows I’ve embraced, I will always glow against that dark. That dark that coal cannot burn. That…
Galaxy
I too have loved the stars– Strewn across that velvet black Where cool shades mix like marbled art Where hearts get lost and don’t come back I’ve run through forests almost blind Through leaves of stippled dew– Over gnarled roots and twisted pine To join the wolves in search of you Those beasts…
Crown
Wear that crown and wear it proudly. She doesn’t listen to my words because of the friction within her heart. What I wonder aloud, she wonders too; but what I declare she barely feels. Sometimes, her locks sweep past her shoulders–sometimes auburn, sometimes curled. When she cries, her cheeks get pink–a rosy hue the same…
Whiskey River
Don’t Drink It. Don’t careen on the path Towards toxic affection Where affliction Rolls as waves in a river Where the natural stream Is where the heart’s thrum flows Where the idleness of touch Bows to blushed strokes Where the amber hue Is a glint upon ripples Where the channel’s tides Drag…
Glimmer in the Ash
Those pools of brewed liquid would churn around pupils of the sweetest licorice. They’d shimmer in the most intoxicating moments, like a waft of steam was caught inside them. There was a depth to those eyes, so profound and savoringly bitter, that I had to remind myself to ingest them slowly. But the way they’d…
Someone
I want someone who knows not of heartache’s toll A specimen bred from unspoiled radiance Of whom cannot give credence to the shadows That bore shelter to a creature like me I want someone produced from innocence A fine soul crafted from the purest sand And from that silk-like substance Exists inexplicably to the…
Remember
I need you. More than I ever have before. Your bright eyes. Your hysterical laugh. Your wild white hair. My hand enclosed in yours. It was all the comfort I ever needed. Do you remember? I used to run across that green lawn like it was the entire world in one place. I’d get scratched…
The Nature of Change
Her steps turned to strides the moment her beige booties clapped against the cobbled road. Even her eyes shimmered––like pools of earl-gray brewing under the sun––before the marvelous sights that towered above her. She ducked under a branch stippled with cranberries and ascended the stone steps of the library just beyond. In an untouched corner,…
