I don’t believe in love at first sight; only now I realize that you did.
ASHES4BONESI don’t believe in love at first sight; only now I realize that you did.
ASHES4BONESYou are so lovable but so hard to love.
ASHES4BONESI love it. The way you listen to my silence and find the words lost in impatience.
ASHES4BONESYou left flowers on my bedside as if I were my tomb clumsy words that don’t begin to heal my wounds “I’m sorry” scrawled on a post-it.
ASHES4BONESHearts retch on homestretch where will we go?
ASHES4BONESI lay awake thinking about how none of it had to happen for me to get to this point; and how I’m glad I got there, anyway.
ASHES4BONESToday I woke up in fear. Tomorrow I wake up in pain. Still, in a year I will wake up in vain.
ASHES4BONESIt’s funny how things can be so temporarily permanent.
ASHES4BONESMoments passing evenings warning waves receding to everlasting tides.
ASHES4BONESAnd if you only opened the window you’d see the morning light seep through.
ASHES4BONESGrace juice dripping from your chin you lick your lips basking in the tremors of my shoulders.
ASHES4BONESWe burn incandescent memories lungs aching with washed-out oxygen as if we weren’t to meet again.
ASHES4BONESIt’s as if the words were leaking from my veins, intravenous poison channeled to my heart.
ASHES4BONESMaybe we’ll meet on the beach sand in our shoes, waves in our guts flowers blooming by some miracle because you always had the talent to make those happen.
ASHES4BONESSwallowing the negative words rising up my throat; I am writing my days with smiles and laughter.
ASHES4BONESEveryone says the door is open with a smile until the door is not opened and the house collapses and they finally realize why they needed a door in the first place.
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