by breathwords | Dec 16, 2024 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
the perfect silence. the deep hug of night. storm clouds settling in the sky. chaos. and calm. the collision of the two. a hint of melancholy. being swallowed by the sea. eyes shut tight before they succumb to sleep. the way you gasp when you breathe. the spaces i...
by breathwords | Aug 24, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
these nights are slowly killing me i called for you again. do you see me sinking? i am drowning off the dream coast, drifting in a sea of talking ghosts (it’s your voice that is going to swallow me whole) how am i to breathe in this ocean of memories? how am i to swim...
by breathwords | May 6, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
my heart is made for warming my words are meant for screaming my mind is an autumn sun, and my soul is a winter moon you said i am a spell waiting to be conjured you move within my madness, fingers lingering between my meanings i ask you to pick your poison, and you...
by breathwords | Mar 21, 2020 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
i called him a white knight, this golden god with a tongue full of lies masquerading as promises he was more pretty parasite than beautiful beast, more monster than magical being he had eyes made of smoke and mirrors, and a kiss that tasted like truth he dressed in...
by breathwords | Jan 5, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
a decade descends into yesterday’s ashes, minutes moving rapidly despite the debris you say we must push forward, that the lesson is in the journey, that each second brings clarity even when the dawn is gray and smoke-stained because time is a phoenix but i am not...
by breathwords | Jun 25, 2019 | Drink In the Dark
i dip my head beneath bubbles laced with smoke and magic, swim within the obscure, dive into puddles of darkness i rise with a smile that hides a chamber of loaded words these lips are a loaded gun …bang. – ashley...
