by breathwords | Feb 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
you ask me for the time and wanted to know about the weather and all I could think about was the year when winter stripped away the last pieces of us (i’m barely holding on and you barely remember) we were so busy putting out fires that we let our own die out i...
by breathwords | Feb 10, 2018 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
She pricked her finger on the spindle of your thorns, fell prisoner to your irascible temper and lying eyes, the jewel in your own vainglorious crown, locked up behind the rage of daunting nights She felt you reach out for her to hold your mad hands as if to save her...
by breathwords | Feb 7, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we cut the rope made of daisy chains, exhaled the barbed fear thorns in our way we were drowning in a deluge of doubt, clamoring towards the surface, struggling to find a way out but, these flowers are breaking like waves against our skin, a cleansing rush of soft...
by breathwords | Jan 29, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths
by breathwords | Feb 3, 2017 | Extended Exhalations
I crossed lines and made mistakes, waged war on a heart much too good to break And if I’m honest, in my mind, I knew one of these days I’d push you away But, here you stand reaching out to take my hand, giving your all to make sure I don’t...