Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
ODD KENPlease the night’s cold, not her name again!
ODD KENI guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
ODD KENRespect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
ODD KENLike her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
ODD KENThe broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
ODD KENIf ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!
ODD KENAfter healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
ODD KENThis ‘missing you’ It begs for water; it cries your name.
ODD KENThese sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
ODD KENAll through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
ODD KENI can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
ODD KENI held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
ODD KENI’ve been to the countryside a couple of times. Somedays it is all wood and grass and empty. Other days it feels like you!
ODD KENYou’re gone. And I think I’m only trying to mean a lot to myself too.
ODD KENSometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
ODD KENI guess we all understand the love language fine; but maybe truth is we’re just too fluent in goodbyes.
ODD KEN