Tag Archives: poems
The Stings Our Hearts Get
You might have been my first, leaving me humiliated, wondering what I’d done wrong, how I could’ve been better for you. I realized later, when I heard she ate sticks of butter and cut herself for attention, that sometimes the … Continue reading
The Spaces Of Me
There are times I think about singing to you, calling you up from miles away and singing to you all the songs that used to be ours, but aren’t anymore. I wonder if you gave them away like I had … Continue reading
Trust Me
The disasters we perpetuate on one another, if added up, would weigh down the strongest of giants, the most powerful of angels and demons. If you will not submit, I will call truce. I will meet with you in the … Continue reading
Things Needed Doing
Striving for heavens because there were always things needing doing and you were the sort that stood on top next to the crystal ball every single New Years and every single New Years you sang Auld Lang Syne like memories … Continue reading
Rhythm and
The bow and scrape of a sycophant’s kiss The rend and tear of a psychopath’s hiss The hum and whine of a masochist’s bliss There cannot be anything better than this. * * * Joyful, joyful, burning heart sets this … Continue reading