Will you hold me closeSo I don’t miss them and thoseThat I carry with me in open wounds
I inflicted on myself.
New lines

Another year has marked it’s story on my face.
Pasted memories carefully in my heart’s crumpled page.
Do I exist

Do I exist
In the skin I feel over the sinews that move
In the lights that flicker just past my eyes
In the relationships that bind me
The lies you repeat and I believe
Lost love
To all those I’ve loved and lost.To those who were once held in my arms.To those who made my heart skipOr my tears flow.To the precious moments of silenceAnd the words that once made me choke.To the nights sublimeAnd the
In me the river flows

I could notWould notTalk. The words could notWould notForm.In me the river flowsQuietAnd deepAnd strong.As though after months ofBeing frozenSolid, sparkling in the sunHigh there on the mountain topsIn my most definable form.In the darkest cornerIt started.A single drop, then