by breathwords | Oct 4, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
my heart hurts that our streets are filled with a quiet sense of dread I watch hope dying while fears are fed and people that I thought I knew just wash their hands and walk away or buy into the promises made, the broken oaths laced with fables and lies, no evidence...
by breathwords | Sep 10, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
do not open that box child, the one marked hate, the one that promises it’ll be ok there is no love to be found there, only anger and pain we’ve gotta find another way we need to lead with one heart, not bitter words that incite violence, or hostility that...
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 | 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 4, 2017 | Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
There’s been too much bittersweet, our minds chasing problems instead of holding on to each other One day, we’ll have time to soak up the good, moments spent loving these hearts of ours so concerned with comforting We’ll watch suns set and...
by breathwords | Apr 28, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations, Words of Wisdom
We are all in pieces, plagued by moments where we long to escape, seeking to rise above the radiating ache, all while holding too tightly to our own despair, too prideful to share, pain evoked by silence as we continue to ignore the beautiful color outside of...
