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freckles, or then and now

freckles, or then and now

then: you used to like my freckles and at that time, i didn’t believe that i had any i asked you to point at them and still just barely could i see them now: you’re gone i have just my freckles the part i never noticed, now so visible now there are more who are...

soft spot

soft spot

we meet on the bus i put aside the bags, you sit next to me and we talk in moments like these, the phrase “to have a soft spot for someone” comes to mind i can feel my cheeks blushing my smile’s wider, my laugh’s sincere underneath i know i am trying to make an...

beginning, middle & end

beginning, middle & end

here’s to you, my friend (and then lover) inexperienced and yet leading an empty canvas that i could paint on here’s to our colours here’s to the music you showed me   here’s to known-before songs that somehow sounded better as we listened to them together i felt for the way you spoke to the...

I let you go but you’re still here

I let you go but you’re still here

i keep letting you go every night  only to wake up missing you  at noon: i let you go again but you smirk at me and you stay as i’m sipping my coffee, i let you go  but as i do it, i fantasise   about cooking with you about laughing so hard my stomach hurts or...

to the keeper of my heart

to the keeper of my heart

in case our final goodbye isn’t face to face: let it be apart. so, darling, when you’re out there outside on a sunny day do me a favour: recall all the good things recall all the bad remember me in a park like this one rolling in the grass with you remember me breaking your...

said and done

said and done

i hope you’ll fall for me along the way i hope you’ll fall for me someday when we stand close someday when my hand rests on your chest someday when i’m right beside you not in order to get somethingjust because i want to also, because i like your warmth your smell and how you...

playing with the fire

playing with the fire

people don’t speak their minds. but if if people spoke their minds, i might tell you: the way you pulled me closer on the dance floor made me dream about you all night long nothing more, just that way six days ago, fierce and brave if people spoke their minds, i might tell you: at...

later this summer

later this summer

one day later this summer i am wearing a tight black dress and my hair is lightened by the sun one day later this summer i am rushing to my family, we are on holiday the evening is warm my skin gets sensitive as it feels the cool breeze from the sea when a stranger...

about a desire

about a desire

bittersweet that’s how my dreams get that’s how they are with you you were never mine and never, ever will be still – it’s you tonight your body under mine bittersweet  how long have i desired you so painful so good so close i can’t place my hands on you in real life  but oh...

here in this sunrise

here in this sunrise

half past six my mind: knows that you’re sleeping my heart: always expect to see you here eight months that’s a long time, babe but there wasn’t one day that i went by this town and felt okay i’ve learnt to live with this i believe in better days but still, to let you go...