by breathwords | May 22, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i stood beneath a shivering sunset, wrapped in the soft brutality of its fading light i listened to the night life heralding the coming stars, and i remembered all the wishes we’d made from cold balconies on lonely evenings, all the promises that were whispered even...
by breathwords | May 16, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
it’s funny, the things remembered most too often, i exist in a dream-like state, pictures flooding in because some song on the radio insisted that i hadn’t reminisced in far too long like, the way hank williams songs remind me of learning to drive...
by breathwords | May 10, 2019 | Bright Breaths, Extended Exhalations
they call her moon child, the girl with a midnight soul and an anxious heart she listens to their soft hum music as they sing songs to the forest trees about all her phases, the way she moves between new moon voodoo and full moon magic, the way she knows all your...
by breathwords | May 6, 2019 | Extended Exhalations
everyone has secrets hers are buried in fields where buttercups weep because the sun hasn’t graced their faces in far too long everyone has stories hers bloom along the lonely river, beside the winding road, on a path of stardust lined in daisies and dandelions...
by breathwords | May 3, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
this distance tastes like crimson and clover, like whiskey on the rocks, like m e m o r i e s i swallow them down, waiting underneath the stars, tethered to your deception, to empty promises and elusive dreams, to illusions of love that were only skin deep i stand...
by breathwords | Apr 26, 2019 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
your voice is seared into my mind, the shrill sound like when angels scream and devils dance and it is one decibel away from u n b e a r a b l e it calls from within, challenging my last stand against you, and every damn word tastes like poison i can still see your...