Words failing at every stroke of my handI pen letters that make no sense of thoughtsSense of belonging is a destination not in my compassI struggle to encompass the patterns of my brainAs the waves deepen with the silence You were the poetry calmed my demons as they yelled in my headThe soothing harmony...

You never said you loved me I can’t imagine saying I love you Is it your fault that you were only taught to run through hurdles Instead of getting over them? You grew with a single mother, friends? You never held to them It’s no wonder why you drown in selfishness Because your gills...

I was Noah, wrote letters and spoke poetry. He was a different book. Though our words and stories collided, our hearts soon retreated to their different pages, to their different books. Trapped in shelves, never to be read, let alone dared to be touched again. Our happy ever after was a momentary fix Fixed...

Binary . . . Patterns of two . . . Two eyes that can never stop seeing your face Distant visuals yet close in a feeling wrapped with lily pads and untimed love affairs Two ears that still hear the melody of your voice underneath the noise of the earth. Whispering, silently gasping for...