“‘We need to talk’ – A four-word horror story.”

You can be the milky way and I’ll be your andromeda.

You are my world and I am a lone planet forever just outside your orbit.

You closed the book before we could reach the end.

Muses are born from a soul that is aching but I would sacrifice the most beautiful art if I could stop one heart from breaking.

You decided you loved me when I decided I was done waiting.

I am a sinking ship and my love it’s time you jump overboard or I am going to take you down with me.

I fell in love with a shooting star.

Don’t be a match to someone else’s candle because, in the end, you’ll both burn out.

Money doesn’t buy happiness but it does buy enough wine to drown out the memories.

I hold entire constellations within my soul but all he saw were the stars in my soul.

Some days it is exhausting to simply exist.

I’m afraid someday my words will run out so I spend every waking moment trying to capture the human experience in purple prose.

I want you he says but you are not mine, She smiles and she says I am not his either, I am my own.

I took my demons put them in a jar and kept them on the highest shelf so that you could never touch them.

You smile brighter when you think no one is looking.

I call myself a poet but I don’t have words to describe that feeling that I get in the pit of my stomach when your hand brushes against mine so purposefully accidental.

It’s okay to slow down. (here’s the permission you don’t need.)

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

Our darkest days were probably infused by the patterns we once needed to protect ourselves. – burden.

I may be unhinged, but I’m constantly working to channel my urges. It never stops, the self-restraint, the need for more.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.