by breathwords | Aug 24, 2020 | Drink In the Dark
these nights are slowly killing me i called for you again. do you see me sinking? i am drowning off the dream coast, drifting in a sea of talking ghosts (it’s your voice that is going to swallow me whole) how am i to breathe in this ocean of memories? how am i to swim...
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 | Aug 30, 2017 | Extended Exhalations
she once counted stars, but she ended up falling now, she is a sea queen sinking in her own summer storm, racing anchors to the bottom of her mind’s deep ocean while the lightning rages and the rain pours she waits for a break to undo the ache, and she hears the...
by breathwords | Jul 30, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I sometimes bottle things up, pretend it’s okay I leave feelings unclaimed because I always thought it was better that way (they try, but people don’t always understand) but, here you are, offering more, shouldering the bad day, the pulse of pain...
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...