Re-Glued
It would seem that we have arrived at an impasse. Us, you and me, stuttering along through this thing that we are meant to call “us” but somehow feels more like a you and a me and some sticky tape that is pulling at our skin uncomfortably. We have been re-glued so...
Love Like The Dark
The hardest piece of advice I have ever received goes like this: "Never use anyone else to dilute your own loneliness". I consider myself a good person, more than most in fact, however I have never been able to adhere to this particular nugget of wisdom. Truthfully I...
I Want To Be Like Water
I want to be like water. Water has a quiet power, an ever-realized presence, a sound with no force, an ability to move and be solid. If I could be water I would slide through your cracks, inhibit your crevices and then become solid within them. I would vaporize so...
Are We
Are we there yet? In the good place? Are we in that place that sits well with us, where we are finally comfortable and no longer squirming to find places in tight spaces in crowded rooms. Where we are no longer trying to keep everything together with our bare hands,...
Hesitate
He broke gaze after thirty seconds, he knew because there was a clock on the wall right behind her head ticking away the hours they had spent there in the dark deciding if they were good for each other anymore. They quietly sipped drinks, deciding to meet at this...
The Invincible Man
In the corner store, 3501, is where I found him this time. Hunched over his desk in the same place I left him, cold, but responsive; it's happened again. I dropped my bag at the front door and began to clean up the mess he had made, picking up the bottles strewn along...
Without Me
Let us go dancing, and pore over old love letters. Let us sit in the silence and mourn the loss, let us hush our doubts in the overwhelming knowledge that we tried out best. That our blood sweat and tears have stained these bodies, have made them new and spattered...
Practical Things
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Nobody Gets
It didn’t take much to figure it out, it just fell out. of her mouth, gushed forth like it had been stuck there for days pushing on her tongue before ramming through and spilling forth into the abyss. She moved her hands when she said it, like she could catch the...
A Note On The Docks
I will not be forgotten. Sitting here I demand this, will myself not to be matched by insanity, to not let doubt seep into my pores and crush my spirit. I will love and be loved, wholeheartedly understanding that pain will often come, but that pain will remind me of...