by breathwords | Sep 7, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we exist in this summer haze, days trailing into nights we sit beneath midnight skies painted obsidian and aubergine, sipping on Guinness and cider and talking about life and love and the ache of it all we keep waiting on this new moon to impart its infinite wisdom,...
by breathwords | Aug 7, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths
i am walking forwards, but time is moving backwards and somehow, i keep tracing your footsteps i keep running into you you celebrate you call it fate, but you know i’ve never believed in that not the way i believe in ghosts or horoscopes or bonds that can’t be broken...
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 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...
