by breathwords | Aug 2, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash you were all wiles and charms, sensual depths dancing behind midnight eyes and lips that devoured my secrets i gave no resistance you always knew how to play me like a melody, a pied piper beckoning with velvet words and a lyre of lies...
by breathwords | Jul 24, 2019 | Bright Breaths
i dropped through the gray fog on a wild flight beyond the edge of night, and landed in the colors of June i fell into a bright burn world raining roses and stardust i fell into y o u r world, all spring breeze and a summer love covered in sunflower petals, and i was...
by breathwords | Jul 21, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths
you said we used to be brilliant we used to shine like the sun we used to paint the town with the rhythm of our love but the only color we know now is the color of deceit we draw lines across the city, words etched like hexes from north to south you stay on your side,...
by breathwords | Jul 13, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
the sunlight burns in our rear view mirror, a canopy of flames following close behind we say goodbye to the bittersweet glow, our bodies exhausted from chasing too many unending horizons, brutal and beautiful and beckoning nights and days blending together, moonrise...
by breathwords | Jul 4, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i once liked roses, but you reminded me that they have thorns and that honeyed lines carry a hidden sting you’re all poison and pearl, the cold caress of pretty words that bite, a kiss of the abyss with no love in sight and i found freedom in my own soul shimmer, all...