I’m not going to write you love letters I’m going to show you I’ll always be here I’m going to be completely And unapologetically me I’m going to get mad I’m going to be selfish with you I’m going to ask you to do things you don’t wanna do But my mad comes with acceptanceContinue reading “I’m Going to Love You”
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Makers Of Dreams
how bad do you want it does it drag you outta bed at one am do you do it even when you know it’s not perfect and if you don’t do the demons of regret torture you until you do would you sacrifice empty dreams to see a childhood one come true The truth isContinue reading “Makers Of Dreams”
Paul Gauguin On Solitude
Paul Gauguin was a painter who was praised as the leader of the symbolist artists in 1891. This style of painting was inspired by the symbolist writers of the time. In a letter to symbolist poet, critic, and editor of litarary journals Charles Morice, Gauguin says, …[ There are] two kinds of beauty: oneContinue reading “Paul Gauguin On Solitude”
Writing Like A Writer
We all do this writing thing different That doesn’t matter It’s not about how or when you write it’s about doing it it’s about continuing to do it even when doing it no longer makes sense There’s a silent commitment between you and the words and an image of you writing alone And that’s itContinue reading “Writing Like A Writer”
Here, I Am Here
My reality is a dream I sit in everyday I ran from it and now I grasp it as tight as I can I don’t want to let it go I don’t want to be anywhere else Here with my loves Among their blooms Among their thorns Is where I wish to be -Saschia
Matters Of Love
The gates of her garden are left open to wanderers They say she’s too friendly and she shouldn’t be so trusting that matters of love are a waste of time But that isn’t her The roses died and bloomed and dried out They’ve been over watered, pruned too early, and forgotten, But come spring theyContinue reading “Matters Of Love”
Stitched Together
From time to time I think of you From minute to minute you cross my mind From hour to hour I’m lost in our fantasies If I stopped I might lose you So I leave myself little reminders Moons and doors and stars as big as your eyes The truth is I don’t need remindersContinue reading “Stitched Together”
Th Gaze
Untrustworthy eye Looks At my outsides My integrity unquestioned by me But the eye what does it think? My choices, conformed? No, not conformed Wait There’s a blur A space in which maybe I’d do things a little different if the lense did not exist I make calls to persuade the lense to look away
Kiss Me
While the world wastes away on a monotonous routine step outside of it all and kiss me hard. Don’t kiss me hard only after everything is falling apart Kiss me hard when everything is going right There’s no point in waiting This is what life is: connections, honesty, bravery Show up, kiss me. It’s notContinue reading “Kiss Me”
Returned Energy
I finally feel the energy I’ve craved I feel this tingle in my toes Ready to go go go I want to reach goals I want to give hope I feel my strength returning It gives me the courage to lose To fail I’ve burned my backpack full of grief And pushed life out ofContinue reading “Returned Energy”
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