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I Know It’s Over
I was doing my degree in keeping secrets and stealing kisses,The Smiths whined on scratched vinyl in the background,and I wanted you more than I wanted to graduate.I’d stay up late,drinking to forget you after you’d gone,because I was a bastardisation of my father’s daughter,lost child, losing her shit in the valleys of your body,never…
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Devoured
She came to me in a dream. The water seemed to dance around her as she stared up from the lake, plump, pale lips parted as her sweet song surrounded me. “Come live with me and be my love.” She trilled, a hint of hunger in her voice. “‘Neath lover’s lights that dance above.” I…
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Love At First Bite
The sweetness of her skin,sensationally sultry as she saunters past me.I am daunted by the delicacy,the way she sails on the air, like an angel,brushing her long, blonde curls from her slender shoulders. I sleep with stakes when I sense myself starstruck,moved by the mountain of my muse,how blue I become when she passes by…
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The Girl Who Is Still Waiting For It To Get Better
Much like Pandora,I’ve opened a box,started something I can’t finish,so, now I’m staring at a starry eyed reflection,trying to focus on not falling through the floor,because I told myself a secret that I can’t take back. I can’t swallow it again.Though I am gentle with my aching oesophagus,she simply says “no”.She has suffered enough,covering up…
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Fools Fall In Love, Especially Fools Who Think They’re Smart
I thought I’d play it cool, but I melted.I thought I’d be strong, but my will is as weak as my body,and now I am in a pen of my passion,imprisoned and… alarmingly into it. I’m a kissing cousin to Clarice Starling,caught up in my love as the second book unfolds,stung by how right it…