Let go of the honey-sweet lies for the bittersweet truths.
RENEE STONELet go of the honey-sweet lies for the bittersweet truths.
RENEE STONEI want to tell them how tired I am because I don’t think it shows. But maybe it’s the same for them – all strangers to the weight each of us carries. So alone, we carry these loads.
RENEE STONEI wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
RENEE STONEThey tell me summer is coming, and soon we’ll be dancing on the shore. Waiting for the moonlight to light me up amongst the starlight.
RENEE STONEWhen you and the world are out of breath, take the steps to ensure your own needs are met. By the moment you know someone can’t on their own, you’ll hopefully be ready to help.
RENEE STONEI write poems of the past; they reveal the reasons we didn’t last.
RENEE STONEWe’re so distant, words can’t save us.
RENEE STONEMy body is a field site of muscle memory and weathered bones.
RENEE STONEWe walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
RENEE STONEI was never lonely alone because love has come to me in many forms, and one of them was you.
RENEE STONEAnd I saw forever in your eyes ’til the sunset started to dim your light. You told me you’d always hold me tight, but your warmth faded with the bright.
RENEE STONEI can’t take it all in or else I’ll grow cold when the heat already escapes my fingers and toes.
RENEE STONEThey hit like waves, the memories of those old summer days. Memories you’d have thought to erase, but they crash ashore without haste.
RENEE STONEPeople struggle with words that spill and overwhelm you because they themselves are sinking.
RENEE STONEWhen the silence fades and now sounds begin to bloom, I will grow to feel calm again. Healthily this time.
RENEE STONEI lost touch with the world around me – gone unnoticed by that which surrounds me, but I must find the presence of that which grounds me if I am to once again grasp onto everything I lost touch with.
RENEE STONE