but you never put the volume on high..

cause you're too afraid to change..

and too afraid to love..

yourself.

Pain lies under my feet like broken rocks,

scattered across an empty, hollow ground.

Hovering

between what we’ve lost and all we’ve found

hidden deep in the other.

I’m dipping in darkness and you’re just leaving the light on.

I wish you’d stare longer,

with auburn eyes and violet temper,

landlocked ships,

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the cold corridor inpregnated with city sounds and street lights ( Read more... )

my pen will eventually stagger across paper..

with one soul leaking through.

my hands will tell you of the cold heart they tried to warm.

i watched your eyes remove stars from the sky..
i felt the choir's soft breath as you entered my room..
i saw my life wrap itself around your tiny universe.

heavy tears..
  make slippery cheeks..

when there's ( Read more... )

she stands in her driveway..
a string of pearls around her neck..
a string of words around her tongue..

waiting..

for someone..

something..

to paint her sky.

she stands there..

waiting..

just another sparkle embedded in the sidewalk.


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the traffic of words on a sunday afternoon.

i can't even paint myself inside of his arms.

i won't draw his lips..
i won't study his hands..

i won't notice the way his body curves without me on it.

..he is an enigma.

i tremble..

like a lonely leaf on a forgotten tree.

i dance among shadows.

i dream in greens and yellows.

i feel myself slipping every time the seasons sing.

i heard they inject dreams now..

i heard they sell your color inside aerosol cans.

i found my heartbeat in the furniture section.

i found your smile in the clearance aisle.

they've ( Read more... )

..and when he speaks,

a gentle light fills the walking wounds we've all become.

..you and i,

bleed beautifully together.

breathing just hasn't
    been the same since
    i met you.


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in his arms..
my body lays untouched by the morbid sky..
i feel my veins unwind beneath him..
his face untouched inside the pencil of an artist.

our lips swell in the summer heat.. and our hearts begin to spoil.

OH BUT I AM SAFE IN HIS EMBRACE.
OH BUT I AM THE PROMISE ON HER PALETTE.

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