The Way They Leave Tells You Everything.

I shouldn’t be laying on my bedroom floor in my now dried towel at 3 A.M. after my 4th shower …

Promises

I’ve never known a promise that wasn’t broken so don’t promise me this isn’t the end when all that’ll do …

Emotional Sensations

I can feel it. I can already feel it and I’m scared. I can feel the sun from your eyes …

The Last Six Months, Sonicallly

Someone New // Banks Hard Feelings/Loveless // Lorde Supercut // Lorde You Should Talk // Fletcher Sad Beautiful Tragic // …

Liquid Love

I have so much love within me so much luminous love and sometimes, I find it overflowing and spilling into …

Sweet Nothings

You call me sweet little nothings and each breath turns them into somethings. Your lips have the ability to melt …

I’m Freezing Over

I don’t understand how you can claim to love someone still so deeply yet feed them icy silence, ignoring their …

Bonfire Heart

I was aimlessly flipping through my journals aged three years, only to see a letter I had begun to write …

Desiderium

I believe a person has multiple soulmates; one for each part of who they are. I wholeheartedly believe you were …

I Wrote This For You

I am writing this for you. The you who knows me through and through, despite what you may believe, anymore. …

Everything I’ve Loved Became Everything I’ve Lost

I have a bad habit of not realizing what I have until I let it go and this time that …

Nepenthe

Sitting in the passenger seat as you leaned over the middle console, serenading me between kisses, promising to share our …

I Used To Hold Those Eyes In Mine

I am terrified I will see you look at her the way you used to look at me and I …

Your Name Echoes In My Mind

“You can’t have something as powerful as love and then name it.” I named it after you. 

Always Beside You

You will find me swimming in your mid afternoon coffee and gently staining your upper lip. I’m the string on …

Homesick

Ever since you stepped off my doorstep and boarded the plane, I’ve found myself subconsciously wishing each one passing overhead is …

An Eclipse

With you no longer here, no longer in my arms or even the same country, the light has dimmed. You are …

Overpass

Headlights passing passing passing Perched on the overhang of the overpass with you beside me. Arm wrapped gently around my …

Wildflower Words

And here my writing returns back to the oh-so-expected sense of romance the stereotypical and too often dull sense of …

Your Last Poem

No. No, you know what? You don’t deserve to know my thoughts and the way you’ve been circling my mind. …

188 Memories And Photographs

I deleted all of our pictures yesterday.  It was like deleting memories Smiles Laughter The times you still loved me. …

The Difference Between The Way You Loved Me And The Way I Loved You

I think I figured it out.  From the very beginning, you had this idea of me, this fictionalized version of …

Our Own Greek Tragedy

I thought we were the daughter of Apollo and son of Hephaestus. I now know I am the daughter of …

I’m Still Learning

Somewhere in the fall, I lost the map to the personal universe behind my green grey eyes. My head is spinning …

The Afterthought

It’s really interesting rather funny, actually how we found ourselves in the opposite position we imagined. In the beginning, you …

Stained

You always told me you were poisonous that in the end, you would end up with inky blood on your hands …

I Will Not Lie

I will not lie. I still miss him. I miss the way he’d pull me in, causing me to fall …

I Made A Playlist Instead Of Writing (Because There Aren’t Words For How This Feels. Just Sounds.)

I Gave You All // Mumford And Sons Nicotine // Panic! At The Disco All Too Well // Taylor Swift …

It’s Never You

I never could take my eyes off you. Now, I find myself looking to every opening door and hoping it’s …

I Am Still That Girl

When we ended, it wasn’t peaceful. Now, I am still entirely broken and you are perfectly fine. You aren’t missing …

The Last Kiss

When you kissed me that night, when you touched my cheek and gently turned it to face you, when your …

You Took Everything Except Me

I don’t know what to say. Not anymore. How am I supposed to write when you took my words with …

Broken Record

“I love you.” “I love you too.” From the very beginning, there was something there. We nurtured it and watched …

We Are Chaos

We are chaos. We fall apart just to fall back into each other. Our muscles are sore and cramping from …

Your Arms Are The Map

I have always wanted to see the world. You know that. I babble on and on endlessly to you about …

Deconstructed

You took me apart piece by piece. Separated each fragment of my body and my soul and laid me along …

Heartbeat

You are still wrapped up in my blankets in a “cocoon” sitting on my floor with your back against my …

Fading Flashbacks

There are days, weeks even that I swear I am okay. All is okay until I hear a laugh that …

Simplicity

We could just sit for hours on end and just exist, just us and the air around us. Lungs filling …

I Want To Tell You

I want to cup your gentle face in my hands and tell you all of the endless wonders that I …

Forelsket

I know when you are with somebody, they are supposed to make you happy, so incredibly happy that you feel …

Posting On Your Facebook

Sometimes I think about how you have never seen my blog. You’ve never read any of my work in the …

The Fates Are In Our Favor

“Here’s this boy. At first, he won’t see you. He will see you, but not really. Then, he’ll look over …

Garden

My garden is overgrown, now. It turns out you were just a dandelion; a beautiful, harmless seeming weed, invading my …

Chemicals

C8H11NO2+C10H12N20+C43H66N12O12S2 The chemical formula for love. A substance that could produce the same feeling as love within an individual. A …

Four Letters

“Love” is a four lettered word that I don’t understand and I’m not sure I ever will. You seem to …

Vertical

I text you in the early morning when I wake before you and you text me when I am fast …

On A Bench

We had spent the afternoon in a cafe on the Rue Saint-Jacques, a spring afternoon just like any other. The …

Distance

If we were drinking coffee right now, you’d probably be sitting across from me, watching me lip sync all of …

Love

I have always been the girl who will get caught in daydreams about fairytale endings and a gown of lace …