You keep planting sympathy in rows meant for empathy and I’m here picking weeds with tears in my eyes.
MELISSA ANDERSONYou keep planting sympathy in rows meant for empathy and I’m here picking weeds with tears in my eyes.
MELISSA ANDERSONI will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
MELISSA ANDERSONWhen I met my darkness clouds, swirled the night sky, refracted light danced in the wild eyes, freedom came for me.
MELISSA ANDERSONI fell into you first slowly, then all at once never to recover.
MELISSA ANDERSONYou said you loved me but perhaps you never known what love looks like.
MELISSA ANDERSONI fell for you dissolved like sugar in tea – completely.
MELISSA ANDERSONImagination is lost in reality’s cruelty.
MELISSA ANDERSONI am the moments and memories from the past tied up with good intentions and mistakes from the future.
MELISSA ANDERSONPeaceful dreams find me pull me from reality in their arms I land.
MELISSA ANDERSONI thought I had time until I realized the time had me.
MELISSA ANDERSONLess rushing, more lingering. Less distraction, more noticing. Less comparison, more gratitude.
MELISSA ANDERSONPoetry runs through tired veins reviving once sleeping souls.
MELISSA ANDERSONI was always looking at you.
MELISSA ANDERSONLove me as a storm would rage full force or not at all.
MELISSA ANDERSONWhole, loved and worthy just as you are.
MELISSA ANDERSONThere are ocean waves inside these veins – constantly pulling me to you.
MELISSA ANDERSON