It’s been years since I’ve last heard her voice— touched her skin— breathed her in. I find myself stalking the deserted corridors of my past in the abandoned present. Holding a musky candle of the future. A strategic aphrodisiac to woo her from a distance. To lay myself bare under her gaze. To show her […]

I think of you oftenfor all the wrong reasonsand maybe a couple of right onesthe right ones that you discardedbecause they felt insincerehave never stopped haunting meif my obsession wasn’t obviousmy affections should have at leastbeen spared your anxious pruningthe mortal fear of believing lovecould bloom in the dankest of crevicesthat, years of friendship could […]

like you do these charlatansthat claim to bepoets. they are not evenremotely related to the wordsthey pen. like you do your exeswho, in spite of all thehurt, are still welcome.floating above thin sheets of ice.gracious idiots. like you do an artificial smilethat clings to the fallacy that invented it,unknowingly. lingeringfor a chance tobe real. like […]

Here we are, out of control eating our lips to keep us tame lodged in crevices waiting for the dark there are eyes spying from the skies when we look up, they cry So now, we are beyond control tying our wrists to keep us sane lest our hands play tricks again despite our frivolity, […]

There is a fine line betweenmaking an attempt and thinking of it.The divide will see you sleep eternallyor writhe countless hours in misery. There is no solace in the silencebetween the seconds ticking away.Ears still ringing from the maelstromraging within your mind’s abysmal chasm Don’t slight it.There is hell to pay.Expect it and prepare.Wait for […]