An Ongoing Love Letter

Golden

I’m done with drowning in the ocean of blue eyes. I’m going to melt into your honey brown eyes where the world is safe and warm. Eyes that reflect my...

A Circle of Glass

I broke every mirror I accidentally looked in to I shattered it with my raging screams No mirrors No more mirrors I was never shown a proper...

Familiar Cheekbones

I’ve cupped your face a thousand times I will continue to do so until it becomes nearly painfully familiar then I will do it again because I need the...

Memory

I’m prepared to kiss every inch of your body until my lips can recall every touch The hours I’ve spent drinking you in with my eyes still aren’t...
Cherry

Choker

You trail your finger over my skin You grazed my neck a moment too long We're both thinking of the times I pulled at the collar of my shirt, fidgeted...

Secrets

I stumbled through my words, knees bloodied and shoelaces untied. Getting through to them was always an impossible feat. I never thought the constant...

Know My Soul

You could’ve easily fallen in love with me Doesn’t matter how pretty I am or how smart how clever and witty how kind and understanding You know me...

Territorial

I know you're afraid and jealous and territorial. I know you like to stand next to me at all times with your arm around my waist even if people can't...

Everywhere

I can’t help but remember how I loved you so deeply. So much that I granted you immortality with only the broken love in my heart and a fountain pen...

Splotches

Every morning we count our wounds The bruises on my hip The darkness in your heart Is the loneliness still there? Please come back tonight We can...

Untitled

Do you feel the profound sadness that leaks out of me demanding to seep into the veins of everybody that dares to love me?

The Process

Moving on from heartbreak is a process

Scream

You weren't brave or strong. You were silent. You weren't immovable or resilient. You were numb and tired. I wasn't angry at you. I was devastated,...

Direct Address With No Follow-Up

His name is Honey on my lips and he leans in starving for a kiss

Untitled

Hands locked Breathing as one I wake up feeling like I've made love to the sun but then you're gone and things feel wrong everything is darker now...

Origami Rabbit

Saying goodbye is the hardest part
Cherry

Am I Okay?

To all the people I must've loved a little too much.
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Texas Skies

Why do so many people have a tendency to love the things they can't have?

Negative O Poison

I bit my tongue so hard you screamed on my behalf. You demand a truth you can’t survive. I know you’re expecting a dot of blood (how much trouble can...

Singing

I don't think this is the proper way to take a compliment but it's the first thing that runs through my head.
Cherry

Rip The Last Petal In Half

Q: How many roses did I tear apart trying to predict whether or not somebody loved me? A: Way too many.

Passing Glances at Glittering Boys

For the strangers that my eyes have followed in a crowded room.
Cherry

Don't Touch Me

He was one of those flowers that only blooms in the moon’s light There were roses in his cheeks His smile took me back to summer days by the ocean To...

You Left

I know you expected me to yell ‘wait’ As you walked away But there was only silence And you kept walking further and further away from me away from...

Choker (Edited)

You trail your finger over my skin grazing my neck a moment too long We're both thinking of the times I pulled at the collar of my shirt, fidgeted...

Distortion

Broken promises are scattered on the floor in empty bottles and crumpled notebook paper. She shakes and mumbles his lies forcing herself to relive...

Charnel House

The house of the dead is crumbling around them.

Stay Away Part I

Months go by and my many loves die but every winter new ones return I pressed you in journals along with these spring blooms And, baby, not...

Who Are You Staying For?

Stay Away Part II

But Sometimes I'm The Sun

I know you’re fond of darkness And being lost to the background But space is infinitely large and dark You could be the sun Meaningful to a few...

Not A Broken Heart

I can hear your breaking heart hundreds of miles away echoing my own pain that escapes your notice (as it should) I'd like to say I'm tormented, in...

You've Pulled Away Too Many Times Before

You hate to love someone you're tied to by fate spitting fire and words meant to kill I'll stand my ground but it crumbles under me (in a sick way I...

In Orbit

I began waiting for him instead of missing him, because he is my world and I am his moon. Destiny is the sun, and we are still in orbit.

April 18th

haiku
Cherry

If April Were October

A response to the poem found here

Selfish

Past lives echo in your dreams and I fall apart knowing they’re not of me How selfish could I get crumpled like a tissue because you loved somebody...

Drown With Me

And we recede like waves in the ocean crashing back in white foam You reach the shore without relief Because you know you’ll find your way back to me...

What Are You Afraid Of?

You see poems that you think are for you but you can’t be sure because the words seem slanted but the hurt is so real you remember causing it and now...

The Best of Both Worlds

She tries her best to avoid the all-girl parties where it's all too easy for her mother's boyfriend to slip out and find her. Annabelle descends the...

Break Ups Are Confusing

*just made a couple last minute edits*

Falling In Love

If I could go back and tell middle school me something...

It's Just A Loan

You're taking up too much room in my bed (hoarding the sheets and leaving me cold) my heart (it's getting harder to love anything except for you) my...

Replacement

He kisses her trying to wipe her mouth free of the taste of past lovers which must still linger on her lips like the salt of her tears He holds her...

The Thought Of Being In Love

No longer do I remember your name but I keep finding unrequited love poems in my handwriting

13

I shouldn't have been there at 13 or 17 I never should've sat on that bed whispering sweet things in your ear I shouldn't have gone back to find out...

Lost Time

you are 9:31 pm when I set down my book because it’s finally too dark to see the words that were distracting me from my loneliness you are 9:32 pm...
Cherry

Love and Adoration

We are fragile people held up only by heavy words that make our stomach drop and the butterflies in our tummy soar We are weightless so light we...

High School Sweethearts

They are 9th grade biologists playing with scalpels and curettes dissecting each other and shredding past relationships At the end of the year, they...

The Devil's Mistress

The Devil is not a red-horned, fork-tongued demon. He does not spit fire from the darkness of your closet, nor does he hold you against your will,...

My Brightest Smile

I swam in open water, my customary fear of drowning left somewhere in the hot sand. My thoughts turned still and, at ease with myself, I threw my...
Cherry

Problems

I am a newborn and I’m crying because I’m hungry I am one and I'm crying because I'm tired I am two and I’m crying because I wanted cake I am three...

You're a Dream

I am terrified of the way you tried to joke with me because for a moment I could've sworn you were chapped pink lips curved into a sarcastic smile...

The Ghost of You

My lover has crawled into the back of every dark, dusty closet and basked in every sunlit room. But he's tired of your ghost following him through...

Boundaries

I spent months digging away at your lonely heart but I wasn't enough and I still feel you like dirt under my fingernails but now you're just a gaping...