by breathwords | Feb 20, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i saw you cast your cares into turquoise seas, watched you fumble with these glass emotions until they became stars in an amethyst sky i already know where you go when you hide and how you swallow down words until only silence remains, abandoned breaths still calling...
by breathwords | Feb 14, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
wilted, like funeral roses, black and crumbling from the weight of your ghost they sit in stagnant denial, thoughts swirling and dreams drowning in their desolation, petals plucked and seeds strewn — perhaps, they’ll create a garden of heartache for all the lonely...
by breathwords | Feb 8, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i steep fading memories in wildflower tea, walk through vacant rooms where stale air clings to my skin, the smell of moths and medicine, reminders suspended above, empty frames on amber walls in a house filled with little more than silence you made saying goodbye an...
by breathwords | Feb 6, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
shine-bright-shimmer, a sharp cut of light ricocheting off chandeliers of crystal ice, we follow its warning, shards of frosted ink scrawled across the sky, foreboding written out in this holy silence telling of how darkness still lingers in the hallows from where we...
by breathwords | Jun 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
the face in the mirror wavers, unable to hold your gaze while you catalog every flaw and search for minute imperfections (I told you there are none to find) you see the shadows when light is all that pours from your veins, all the reasons you matter safely stored in a...
by breathwords | May 23, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths
