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Everybody Out!
Sell me a space in the shadows,let me live behind a locked door,surrounded by the sweetness of unspeculative silence. I care for the kind of quiet that doesn’t guess,a lush loneliness,moonlight serenade of stillness. I am sleeping in the dreams of somebody else tonight,littered with letters,sewn onto my skin,because I stopped being convincing, somewhere in…
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Daisy Chains
Glittery cigarette, laying on my lips, mixing drinks with the moon, on the soft sand. Call me your Queen, raging waves, our new homeland, late night lollipops, setting sun, wandering hands. Golden eyes, watching you, from my daisy chains, wrapped around my wrist, and the waist you claim. Bluebells, baby, maybe I could change, strip…
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A Wish
A wish. Wistful and unexpected, welcome at the right time, reaching out to reign me in, so I am safe again. Sincerely, some kind of happiness, hidden away, until it rains, and I need to be warm and dry, a new life, jumping off the edge, into unknown depths. Life is stubborn, sweet, sometimes. Life…
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Carried Away
I made a clean start, breaking away, walking through the fire, I’d waited to light. I am at home, with who I become when I get carried away. Take me away. Show me where else my life could go. I have a forest in my dreams, where we escape, and I am excitable, like a…
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1 Day
Maybe I hold onto you, long after you’ve left, so that I’ll always feel you’re mine, never having to accept that I’ll lose you again. It’s easier to ignore the reality, of life and it’s sickening cruelty, if I just close my eyes, hearing my inner monologue in your voice, kinder tones, kinder times, no…