by breathwords | May 10, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
This aching anxiousness is holding me far too tight I am searching for peace and aching for quiet — the type of silence that can wash the noise away. My soul is homesick for the ocean, and my heart is crying out for the waves....
by breathwords | Mar 16, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths
by breathwords | Feb 16, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
scarlet fever crashing through blue veins, ephemeral nights now crimson stained with ruby roses and cherry leather cuffs (the sting is a drug but it’s never enough) and she searches for answers in the shadows, stop motion stutter and start again, gently tracing the...
by breathwords | Feb 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
you ask me for the time and wanted to know about the weather and all I could think about was the year when winter stripped away the last pieces of us (i’m barely holding on and you barely remember) we were so busy putting out fires that we let our own die out i...
by breathwords | Feb 8, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
my heart gets just as fixated as my mind these days, each pulse feeding into some chronic compulsion to run, to run, to run away darkness betrays, shadows threaten to exsanguinate (your name tastes bitter in my blood) and I’m clinging to anything that feels like...
by breathwords | Feb 7, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we cut the rope made of daisy chains, exhaled the barbed fear thorns in our way we were drowning in a deluge of doubt, clamoring towards the surface, struggling to find a way out but, these flowers are breaking like waves against our skin, a cleansing rush of soft...