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naked thoughts i stand naked before you. i fear you may see my heart. i’m not well with the secrets my body tell. the truth is complicated. it’s easier to lie and spread my legs apart. it is easier to push your head lower than to say what’s going on inside my head. it is easier to say “fuck me harder” than to say “love me and only me.”
poetry i compose my love for you in stanzas knowing where to break us. i lie in bed with pen and paper because it never puts on its clothes and leaves— even when i struggle to write the next line.
smitten i love losing myself inside of you. i am too smitten by your landscape to retrace my steps or ask for directions. i want to stay here for a while before reality sets in.
tone deaf we were predestined to align. play and rewind. asked to define a love supreme, malignant or benign. don’t string me along but love me like music. my song is as sweet as hers if you would only listen. but you sever the chord and chain our melodies. i believe it is her song that clouds your ears.
charcoal if the root of all suffering is attachment, i see why i’m drawn to unavailable men.
hypocrite i said i would leave you alone and pack what’s left of my heart and move on. i said i would let you be but conjure you up in my dreams. but on these pages, you’ll always breathe even though unrequited love is suffocating me.
side effect there’s a void in your eyes and it hurts to swim in them. there is no reciprocity. only a lingering hope and dream of your love enveloping me. tears swell in the wells of my eyes. love is a constant side effect of mine.
lost i was so preoccupied with loving you that i failed to love myself. your eyes became my sight. your mouth became my breath. your body became my sanctuary. when it was over i didn’t know who i was anymore. i was left blind, breathless and aimlessly wandering. to be honest, i didn’t know who i was before but i must do the work to find out.
