Walking barefoot In the house that I loved, I cut my foot on a nail sticking out of a board. I got infected when it hurt and even though I soaked it in Epsom salts. I finally I recovered. I got a hammer, and I tried to hammer the nail in the board tries on…
When my marriage failed I felt like a failure But I came to realize It was innocence and ignorance With a portion of foul play That put us together in the first place. I learned I grew I changed When our relationship failed I felt like a failure again And I came to realize It…
Almost to embers, we were minutes away.Minutes away from a flame extinguished,From lack of fuel, in the form of time,From lack of air, in the form of words,And lack of heat, in the form of cold, icy looks Cold touched my heart.And you blew me away,With your words.With your time.With your smile In the face of…
The foothills are born in the shadow of the mountain knowing they’re smaller, knowing they’re easier They’ll have more frequent visitors,knowing someone will often reach their peak. Their sides have a slope, an easier climb but never reaching the heights of the mountain behind. While the mountain is lonely. The temperature is colderbut they always know…
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The room is warm,sugarsweet, andwormwood nasty. I've been in a warm room before with a fireplace and beautiful rug. perhaps a great pyrenees and a fuzzy man to snuggle with. My friend's mother's house is sugar sweet. It smells of candles and has collections of adorable dolls. The furniture is precious and breakable. The hovel…
If you are unapologetic,Are you rude? Only if you should apologize the saying goes. People seem to apologize too much or not enough. If I cannot be Goldilocks I supposeI should prefer to be too hot instead of too cold.
As the weight of the snow bends the bough,I consider the weight of the world.The branch could crackAnd part of it will be lostLeaving a scarAnd a feeling in the treeThat it is incomplete.Or a wind of change could comeAnd cause all that troubles the treeTo cascade to its foundation.But for now, it bends and…
I don’t think I’ll look for love again. maybe I’ll seek out a dark alley with opioid addicts, hoping for a victim from a foreign town whose absence won’t be noticed for a week or more. or perhaps I’ll take out an ad in the classifieds, if they still have those. I’ll list all of…
I collect people like Pokémon cards. I can tell which species they match with. I merge them to evolve into a new being. done. Discard them and send them on their way. Or I keep them wrapped tight with a rubber band for the day when I find another one.
