To be tethered to someone You know loves you And realize Nobody Can ever match the intensity left behind By what you’ve lived The sense of all by yourself Lingers Your appetite raging For a connection that alludes you at every turn You spend days Sitting alone Listening to life around you And you’re living … Continue reading Empty – July 14, 2023
Tag: silence
Raw and Real – February 15, 2020
It’s hard to stay here For any length of time Giving chunks Asking nothing in return The price of silence Hits me Where it really counts
Racing Thoughts – January 20, 2020
The sense of regret that hits Before I even speak it Is deafening The quiet I live in Is yelling constantly To speak up
Only a Mother – February 5, 2020
Untethered And floating, Silence In the dark. A mother Hears these things.
Blueberry Sky – December 3, 2019
It is so hard To breathe her name The plastic covers my lips Pulling the oxygen from the air No reward, just stillness Lost in everyday minutes The mundaness of days And years, so many years Collapsed into decades My mind is fading Shuffling the outside down Her attenuation Is breaking into A shrill volt … Continue reading Blueberry Sky – December 3, 2019
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