by breathwords | Sep 6, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
it’s eerie, the sudden hush, the shadows that slice, the impossible quiet her heart was a forest but it’s been wiped out by fire and the sun that once shined here has long been eclipsed it’s now filled by figments with loathed looks and silent lips...
by breathwords | Sep 2, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
we waver between extremes, wielding words that cut deep, aimless angst and blinding hate, hysteria thrumming inside our veins (and we like to believe we can change, but underneath it’s all the same) and the pain runs thicker than blood, our minds deprived of...
by breathwords | Aug 30, 2017 | Extended Exhalations
she once counted stars, but she ended up falling now, she is a sea queen sinking in her own summer storm, racing anchors to the bottom of her mind’s deep ocean while the lightning rages and the rain pours she waits for a break to undo the ache, and she hears the...
by breathwords | Aug 26, 2017 | Extended Exhalations
we threw away expectations and old memories, welcomed light and dark with open arms we were made of shadows we were made of stars (we told them both to come as they are) we witnessed the forbidden and chased the authentic we wanted peace we craved the irenic so we...
by breathwords | Aug 15, 2017 | Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
you make up rules and expect her to follow, but she is most striking untamed unfiltered untethered you try to hold her back but, she moves through the darkest nights with courage with power with faith you don’t understand her, the way she shines even when...
by breathwords | Aug 8, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I have always been drawn to water, the allure of being clean, as if one dip beneath the surface will wash all my cares away I just hover, lost in the fading colors as depths rise, no more crowded rooms filled with empty conversation, just sweet silence it makes...