It’s not about commitment or love or even attraction. It’s about simply feeling something. When he puts his hands on me, his mouth against my skin, he makes me feel because I don’t anymore. I feel anxious and sad and scared, but that’s it. I walk around in those three modes and exist. But when […]
Pain ripples off your skin but you still walk, still speak, still move even when the world wants to stop you, and all I want to do is hold you, feel your heart beat, help you know you’re alive. Help you see the beauty in your strength, the love inside your pain. And see what […]
Write something. Anything. Just get the thoughts out. Spill them onto these blank screens and plaster the world with your faulty words, your flawed ideas that hold together each breath, each step because without them, you are empty. Without them, you are lost among forests of stories sprouting up through dirty lines of mishmashed text, […]
My tongue tingles with the taste of you. The memory of your salty skin trapped in my cells mingles with every moment your hands touched me, and I can’t forget how you looked at me, how you stared into my eyes and didn’t look away. Like you were trying to see me as I was […]
“I want to give you everything you’ve ever wanted.” “Why?” “Because I want to. Because I have to.” “I’ve missed you so much.” “I’ve missed you more.” “Not true.” “You want to fight me?” “Shut up.” “Then come here.” “Why are you looking at me like that?” “What do you mean?” “You stop sometimes and […]
Stasis. This frozen space where I can’t move forward but I know I can’t stay here. Every day for fifteen years. Suspended, I hang above my body watching, waiting for the moment of escape, the moment I’ll know it’s time to take back over, to get on that bus again, and go. Where? Who knows? […]
I am in pieces. Again. Or always. Either way, I am only fragments of who I was or should be. I’m not sure why. Why I’m broken so infinitely, so vastly shattered that I can’t see me anymore. But…did I ever really see me? Did I ever trust the words falling from my own lips? […]
You gave me a glimpse, a taste of your skin, a salty and sweet keyhole of light, and then you took it away again. I don’t understand why I care, why I want so to have your skin pressed against mine, to feel your mouth all over me. Your fingers in my hair and your […]
I’m sad…again. Because my ache for you is so fresh, again so raw, so open and bleeding, so new…again. I’m shattered by unopened messages, unread pleadings to be seen, heard, held, and pieces crash to the ground, landing, puddling in pools of unseen desire to just…know. To just for once really feel what it is […]
I wonder how many times you thought about me, how many times I crossed your mind before you decided to cave, to push that button allowing me back in. I wonder if it was hundreds of times, thousands of moments you caught yourself thinking about my lips or my eyes as they stared into yours […]
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