by breathwords | Apr 16, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
we watched the sky, saw the clouds paint it black, a breath of foreboding staining a canvas that was once covered in a million shades of blue there is a storm on the horizon and we are becoming something new, dark light meets white shadow do you feel these winds of...
by breathwords | Jan 5, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
a decade descends into yesterday’s ashes, minutes moving rapidly despite the debris you say we must push forward, that the lesson is in the journey, that each second brings clarity even when the dawn is gray and smoke-stained because time is a phoenix but i am not...
by breathwords | Jul 4, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i once liked roses, but you reminded me that they have thorns and that honeyed lines carry a hidden sting you’re all poison and pearl, the cold caress of pretty words that bite, a kiss of the abyss with no love in sight and i found freedom in my own soul shimmer, all...
by breathwords | Mar 4, 2019 | Drink In the Dark
i dipped my toes in the promise of tomorrow, its unexplored depths calling my name i let its light filter in on shimmering strands that swore to cleanse the dirt from my hands but that ethereal glimmer didn’t have the answers so i let the dark speak, its low hum...
by breathwords | Feb 23, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i spread all the remnants of you out on the table, a pile of memorabilia from another life, years of photos and letters scattered within a tangle of wasted breaths and words unspoken ink-stained moments are all that’s left of a love that once burned through the night...