by breathwords | Feb 8, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
my heart gets just as fixated as my mind these days, each pulse feeding into some chronic compulsion to run, to run, to run away darkness betrays, shadows threaten to exsanguinate (your name tastes bitter in my blood) and I’m clinging to anything that feels like...
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 | 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...