Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.
‘We’re the same’, Teetering on edges of lines, I ca… And you say again ‘we are the same… Conflating words, Of an honest one,
I’m always enamored with, Short periods of time, With fantasies of, Your hand in mine.
Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,
It feels much less like a kick in… but a slap in the face, I would say ‘fuck it’, but it wouldn’t adequately represe… that was lacked in,
No implications, Did I notice at the time, Only the key strokes.
I can’t say I know, The bed where you lay, The shape, color, and patterns, That makes up your day, I can only say now,
You collect calluses, Like precious gems, Revering their form, Keeping them close, And if it wasn’t for me,
Can I just have slow sex, Long talks, Lengthy poems, And everyday walks.... Can I have running through the wo…
The warmth of my tea, How lovely at six a.m. Oh! The little things.
Tried to meditate, too many different people, are inside my head.
Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,
Despite the rips in between the se… I can’t escape my bones, I can’t fight the dreams, So I wait but, I can’t manage to speak,
Stumbling over words, Like a child stumbles over shoe la… Left undone. Every word I want to say, Left undone.
She melds into the rhythm, listening for a heartbeat, escaping into the fumes, her thoughts incomplete. She escaped through the cracks,