I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark

I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all

Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world

I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days

There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds

I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love