Category: Poetry

  • Right Place

    My heart is in the right place, but my mouth can’t always find itMy mouth stumbles, trips, fallsIt runs marathons trying to get your attention My heart is in the right placeBut it’s often wounded by words that my tongue could not trapMy words lashing out, protecting precious pieces of me My heart is in…

  • Pick Me

    Pick Me

    I wanted you to pick meTo love me like you had no other choiceI wanted to win this game we were playing with other people’s heartsI needed to be your first choiceBut it was diminished by the fact that you had to choose in the first placeThat you dragged your feet to be in love…

  • Heartache

    Heartache

    There was love before youThere were men and women in my bedThere were sweet nothings and hopeful day dreams But there was also unimaginable painBut there was also clawing hands and biting teethBut there was also ugly words and twisted nightmares In the middle of every happiness there was a thorn of discontentIn the past…

  • howl

    howl

    The wild in me matched the wild in you Experiencing you was instinctual Howling at the moon Dancing naked in the forest light Entwined together in the frenzy of our love But wild things cannot be kept We were not meant for forever We used our teeth and claws to tear each other apart Content…