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...
Category: poems.
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
in case our final goodbye isn’t face to face: let it be apart. so, darling, when you’re out thereoutside on a sunny day do me a favour:recall all the good thingsrecall all the bad remember mein a park like this onerolling in the grass with you remember mebreaking your heartnot just once no rush, my...
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
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
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
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
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...
here in this sunset
me and my sadness here in this sunset i remember these rays breaking through the window now they’re stuck outside for so long i’ve been low now both the light and you seem unreachable oh all the places i see you inhere in this sunset,it’s been half a year and i don’t know anymore whether...
beginnings
let me tell you about these beginnings we are lying on his bed he rolls of changes his position just a little, but i know: this is a way to get closer i know because i am crumbling too he touches my ring i place my hand on the top of his our fingers touch...