Whenever I’m alone, I stay smiling, Counting the stitches sewn, On 100 thread count sheets, Wishing for rain,

“You’re trapped.” He explains, My body is bare, I’m losing time, And losing air.

Flying out of the nest, At sixty mph, Four hours—without rest.

Tried to meditate, too many different people, are inside my head.

Last Night. Was the first night I had a thous… Perforating with tender thoughts i… Last Night. Was the the first night, in my lif…

No implications, Did I notice at the time, Only the key strokes.

Carefully and slowly, I unfold myself from inside, Dark and lowly, I swallow my pride, I let her out,

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,

‘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,

The language of love flowed freely… Through the rivers of our veins, During the summer we discovered ma… And razors edges. We used the torn corners,

‘I’ am the lifeless infinite. ‘I’ am the sun, perforating throug… ‘I’ am a strawberry moon. But what is I?

You collect calluses, Like precious gems, Revering their form, Keeping them close, And if it wasn’t for me,