whirlwind

i missed you so much today
i was driving and the wind was blowing
but i was trapped so safely behind the window
still, i could smell you in its wafts.
it’s such an angry wind
It would not be you breaking my heart
instead, a liberation. you: the liberator
and I would let you open the doors to my cage
with your everpressing tongue,
do you still taste the same?
i hope so.
love and monongamy are not interrelated
that is what no one understood before
man was not meant to be faithful
and neither am i
so don’t use those words.
just call me.

misalignment

these power chords don’t hit so hard anymore
and i’m only playing anthems of when i was not with you
but i’m writing poetry when we should be on the phone
i don’t hear your voice so clearly anymore
and i take your words at hypocritical value
everything you write is beautiful,
and yet as i tumble on bricks i divide them:
this one is definitely true, and
oh this is more than fiction.

i don’t know how to read you
but your hands are so soft (so soft) when they’re in mine
they’re probably soft all the time,
but i thinkhope i’m the only one that consistently gets to feel them
you could rightfully believe the same about mine
and i’m maintaining false hopes of freedom
realizing all the time, i’m so tied down
and i say i won’t get my heart broken
but it rests in your hands like putty
and i don’t know whether this is solid ground or quicksand
only that i’m falling fast.

funny: how you can fall for so long,
and never hit the ground
maybe i’m floating, is that what this is?
&who am I? am i trying to hard,
sometimes i think the answer is yes,
but you know better than i.
so kiss me during the credits
and hold my hand until commercial
we can press pause or play whenever you/i need to
as long as we never find a break between movies
(with the list we have that would be damn near impossible)

i want to know you so well
that i can curl up on a couch with you
you can read your books and i’ll just listen,
to the whirring motionlessness of the television
i want to giggle when you do and cry too
i want to know where my head fits most comfortably
and i hope it’s next to you.

when you broke my heart

when you broke my heart
i changed my definition of gorgeous
i only like boys with beards
and girls with woodpecker tattoos
definitely not you or me.

when you broke my heart
you changed your face
you quit smoothing it with razors
but i was falling in love
and i quit shaving at all
except for my armpits but that’s to support my theory
i don’t know who we are, but we are
definitely not you or me.

when you broke my heart
i knew that it was all my fault
and so i said goodbye to you
with only fourdays of tears
and i called that boy
within 24 hours to see how he was
he said his girlfriend was fine
and he called me later

when you broke my heart
i had some time to think
and this go-around i elongated it
you’re not as good as you think
so i let you go and you took parts of me
i’ll never do that again
this is goodbye

when you broke my heart
i realized everything that i had been missing out on.
i’m really not that sad anymore.

we can save the world

i realized why you hate this place today
they said something about you
using dirty words, and i stopped short.
you were the one that comforted me
(when i was crying or when i was angry)
you never fucked him two weeks later.
i appreciate that &you.

i glared for a few seconds
but my forte is with words,
not bitten tongues.
i precisely said “she’s one of my best friends..
and what you said about her
it isn’t true.”
she replied well i don’t know her
and she was right.
she doesn’t know you.

i miss you x times infinity
where x is a positive integer
i feel better when you hold my hand
and i can cling to you under the covers
your fingers wipe the tears from my eyes better than anyone elses
soft whispers of
i love you i love you i love you iloveyou
i love you.

my cellphone says there is no message
but i have to see you soon.
i love you baby girl,
and hey i got your back.
i would’ve kicked her ass.
but she said sorry.

(and cheating does get it faster)

taking my own life

i can see the future
at least i can tell far enough
it’s gonna be a long way,
it’s gonna be a hard sprint.
i guess i’ll try.
i think i might make it.
but i can’t see clearly
;i don’t think clearly.

plug me into the wall
and i can interpret the world for you
radio, radio, radio.
i’m going to need something more than
a frayed chord intended to get me through this
i don’t know who i am
and i don’t know where this is.

i want to see you.
fuck this
i need to see you.

drowning

is it the static
or my whirring thoughts
that you seem to blend in to?

is it in your
or in myself
that i am going under?

i am going under

this is who i am

cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
fuck up.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.
cutter.

the moments that we hold on to

you touch my hand
i look you in the eyes
smile a little
say good job, good bye.
and this is what it comes down to
i should’ve said hello.
to you tonight.

i hold on to him
like he is my one last string
and maybe it was the truth
but then, i may have given anything
your eyes are so blue
i just wanted to let them touch me.
and maybe if you tried i’d let you.

when i close my eyes
i can see you
i can see you
these are the moments i hold on to
if i’d have said hello,
maybe you wouldn’t have said no
i shouldn’t have to be alone tonight

remember that one night
we were so close
my ear was pressed against your cheek
i wanted my lips pressed against yours
but i thought otherwise
love sounds like slamming doors.

this is what it comes down to.
i should’ve said hello
to you tonight.

i shouldn’t have to be alone tonight.

flutter

when i’m with you my wings stretch
to there full extent
and i can flutter again.
my heart beats slowly and steadily
my feet don’t touch the ground.
and away i go.

as long as i know where you are
i know where i am
as long as i know you are there
i know i’m okay
i am okay.
it’ll be alright.

in the unbreaking winds i float
and through the clouds i go softly
gently i am with you somewhere
even if this is only a dream
i hope it is repetitive
and i’d be glad to fall asleep.

i used to dream about you
now i never want to sleep without you.
your breath is defined
i am smiling again.
again.

life is meaningless

you fill me up
like fire in a forest
and i feel surrounded by the trees
and i feel surrounded by the heat

i want to feel you crushing
under the weight of my thumbs
i will leave scars
they will not fade.
i want to scar.

but i am not real,
but i am not. . .
who am i?