The smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.
M.K. STANDBYLies sound so sweet when they are wrapped in velvet, a luxurious deception that charms my restless spirit – and I’m forever taken by beautiful things.
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Painting over cracks as you watch the ceiling fall – not everything can be healed with love.
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A collection of thoughts bundled together and bound in twine – more toxic than any chemical, my very own poison.
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I sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
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In the pale light of a setting sun – I’ll hold your hand and promise to love you more, on the days that you forget to love yourself.
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You broke me into pieces, but I took those shards and built a mosaic. I’m stronger for the fall, and more beautiful than I could have ever been with you.
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Peace found me in a wordless embrace – in the rising of autumn sun, and the sound of turning pages.
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And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
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My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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Scribbled lines and crumpled pages – piles of rejection and resurrection. There will never be the right words to amend a lost goodbye.
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The knot in a grain of wood, a frost covering sodden grass. Mornings warmed by the rising sun and brewing coffee – the vision of the poet.
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The leaves know when to let go – if only I had the same instinct.
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14 days, but I can’t change my sheets. Your scents still marks my pillow – and its all that I have left.
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Her body may lay on your sheets, but my name sits softly on your lips.
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You are a mirage – never mine to hold. A glimering promise so tempting to chase, eternally out of reach.
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And when I imagine my home – above all else, I’ll always think of you.
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