Category Archives: Love Poems
Rhythm (&Blues)
You’d better know how much I want you, how much I am willing to fight, how much I am willing to persevere and how much I need to be right, how much I can give up, how much I can … Continue reading
Go, Then
with apologies to everyone who has shared the milk in my fridge, and the lists pinned to the outside — You think it’s easy because you’ve never had to tear it out of yourself even when it didn’t want to … Continue reading
Blessing
What sort of blessing is it to know within you that you are a wretched thing? What sort of blessing is it to accept your flaws? Cradle them to your skin as the balm they are — you can never … Continue reading
What You Crave
Don’t ask me to watch you come apart into pieces; if you loved me, at all, you would never want me to do such a thing. If you cared for me even the slightest, you could not imagine me having … Continue reading
100 words: Hollow
Within a hollow chest beats his ragged heart. Starved for affection, touch, love, for things denied the beast he is. Knowing inside he is not as he should be, all he could be. Listening to the singing, watching the dancing, … Continue reading