The weight in my head has been derived from my waist. I'm in this process; fighting answers with more questions, building fires and putting out flames. It's not what we wanted, but it's what we've grown used to. The tremble of a hand shaking and the collapse of the heart sinking slowly into the stomach. There's plates full of half eaten food and ( Read more... )

clarity came to me in the shape of her mouth, and closure came after one sentence from those pretty lips. there are no more maybe's and no more midnight visits to her room. i am ready now. for anything. i feel like this town is too small, i've been to the city and it makes me feel alive. or perhaps that's just how he makes me feel.

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i put the sun in a shoe box.

good night, sweet prince.

finally, the storm has ended. the clouds that had settled above my head for the past two weeks, threw up their arms last night, let out one last sigh and parted, taking the thunder & the lightening away with them ( Read more... )

and so i stepped out from the warmth, which had been circulated through the car as we drove the long way home, these new shoes of mine pressing against the dull tarmac of the old street surface and the wind biting against my cheeks as i gripped a hold of my bag and made a dash for the porch. the cold is starting to work it's way through my skin ( ( Read more... )

you are the only voice not getting through to me, yet the only voice i long to hear crackling through the static of this old telephone line. why not wait for 4 rings and then settle me down with a story of how this will all pass, like the winds when they blow away the old leaves from the grass, and we pick up all the conkers that have been left ( Read more... )

finger the glass and look right through it, beyond the obstacles, behind the unknowns, adapt your eyes to the distorted image that sits quietly awaiting your gentle hands. i am forced to my feet, commanded to the back of the line, hands clutching to the sides of my skirt as i step in time to my heartbeat. the trees bow down from the force of the ( Read more... )

i shall close my eyes and wear this ring, we can dance as the orchestra plays and let us pretend there is no such thing as distance. so pull me close, dear. pull me right in against your bones, i want to feel the grind as we move. i want to feel you move ( Read more... )

let's imagine. let's imagine that it's you. and it's me. lying there. with broken wings. let's co-exist. as one of those. who flew before. but never made it home. with you i am flying. & i am falling. higher then ever, further than ever, deeper than ever. let's wrap up warm in eachothers skin. tracing skylines along collar bones. your hands. on my ( Read more... )