“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”Tagged: Philosophy, Poetry, Love
“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”Tagged: Philosophy, Poetry, Love
“I kiss your shattered ego and say, “Here, take mine.” “Take all I have.” So you take it all and leave for the girl I could taste all along.”Tagged: Giving Everything In Love, Losing Yourself In Love, Giving Yourself In Love, Love, Poetry
“I am sorry they mistook your kindness for weakness, Don’t they know? It takes a strong heart to pump all this blood, all this trying, all this willingness to be open when everyone around is trying to force you closed. You warrior with a purple heart. You lover with a Grand Canyon of possibility.…”Tagged: Beautiful, Ari Eastman, Love, Nature, Poetry
“I look up at the moon. I remember the night we did it together, and you made a joke that something I said caused all the craters. As if my words are powerful enough to cause cosmic indents. You say, 'You will be a Poet Laureate.' And I say, 'Do you even know what that is? Because no, no I will not.'…”Tagged: Breakups, Heartbreak, Prose, Poetry
“I tell him about the boys and cobwebs and how I’m not sure when I’m the spider or the one getting caught.”Tagged: Poetry, Dating
“Someone once told me it’s a bad thing to start suddenly speaking in tongues, but he knows that language better than anyone. I don’t understand a word, but thank God he does. Love is like the first cherry tree blossoming. Love is like the two of us taking turns biting the apple tree. Love is like our…”Tagged: Poetry, Love
“I see a nutcracker in a store window display and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find. I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles, to bleed all over the happiness. I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything that is supposed to bring…”Tagged: Poetry, Loss, Grief
“to watch you in pain is a terrible, terrible thing. is to sit helpless with all the tools locked in the shed.”Tagged: Poetry, Health, Pain, Family
“But it takes years to finally see what they mean is sisterhood is not competition. Sisterhood is how women learn to survive when a whole world wants them to be just one thing.”Tagged: Poetry, sisterhood, Friendship
“Love is more gentle and understanding & sometimes joking about all the things that used to hurt.”Tagged: Love, Poetry, What love is