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You Were Just There
Last night,I played with fire,this morning,I woke up, drowning.It’s just the way of the world, my love,one day you’re an empress, the next you are empty,but last night, you said you loved me,and I ruled the world as a ghost for a moment,crown, trembling atop my tresses as you undressed me with nervous, nimble fingers.I…
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Forever Faithful
I kept you close,kept in clover and kissed, gently as you awoke each morning,but you couldn’t feel my affections, you couldn’t conceive my closeness. These are things that can never be enough.Not my endless, boundless love,not my promises of forever faithfulness,not all the money I had,the mad way that I adored you,the way that I…
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Witching Hour
The air seems to echo.Her shadow stares as I sleep.I see her eyes even when mine are tightly shut,and all I do is agonise.I stopped making sense over the summer,never looking back,tossing salt over my left shoulder,leaving a trail as I trawl through the days with a million reasons for my melancholy. The walls of…
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Halloween Approaches
Over the hills and through the branches of trembling, tingling trees, she approaches.She sings her siren song to the crisp, cold air,her heart, patient,her kiss, petrifying,and you,so still, so sealed in your fate. It’s almost like being in love,and left to your own devices,you could mistake it for such an adventure.She’ll follow you,like a scorned…
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I’ve Never Loved Anyone The Way I Love You
Placing the memory of us on my pillow,you pushed it into my lips,midnight kiss as I met my match,finally falling for my own tricks,bewitched, bothered and bewildered by your ability to bypass my borders. Are we like seahorses?Lovebirds and loved up penguins?I thought I’d thought my last fantastical thing about you,but you’re still here,aren’t you?And…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 