by breathwords | Jun 17, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I sipped slow on your elixir of pretty words, let them melt like candy on my tongue, bombarded with the pleasure of your warmth, your sun-kissed seduction, swayed by your charm and flooded with your flattery (overwhelmed, just how you wanted me to be) But, the heat...
by breathwords | Jun 4, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
They tell you to be calm, to be pretty, to be strong as if your chest can just stop pounding, as if they don’t know that pretty hurts, as if you can keep building yourself up while your mind pushes you back down They assume that your broken heart can...
by breathwords | May 25, 2017 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
We waged war in shades of burgundy, passion stained, our souls enraged We painted madness across the page, begging for you to read our crimson ink As it flowed from swords Shaped like pens Scoring a tale That pierced hearts pale From ruby red To an orange that bled We...
by breathwords | May 18, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
We were always so good at running, trading morning glories for lavender nights, whiskey sunsets for a tequila sunrise in a misguided attempt to save others from us We made a new home out of back seats and bar stools and blue highways, always one breath away from being...
by breathwords | May 7, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I find myself swallowed in the low rumble, the way the earth seems to move whenever you wish it while I stand here trapped by wisps and trails, storm cloud cages around a melancholy heart I’ve started to lose track of what’s real anymore, my chest...
by breathwords | May 5, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
She whispers in abstract, shades of midnight black and questions that remain, persisting thoughts that will not wait, not always welcome or logical, rarely methodical, never as love notes or the soft touch of sin But, nonetheless, she is lost in them, the way...
