Loveless.

I can’t be in love with you.
Because we won’t be in love with each other.

I’ll be in love with you
& you won’t know what to do with it.

Rock Bottom Glistens

You drained my soul of everything alive.
With empty eyes & hollow words,
That poured into open wounds.

Miserable hours crawled into days.
Days dug their roots into months.
Months took flight from the depths of darkness
& caught wind of a year.

The diamonds of rock bottom glisten.
Call to hope which blossomed out of sad eyes.
Life, as it so often does, pulls on.

We dig, tooth and nail, out of the pits of despair
To catch just a lung-full of fresh, promising, air.

Sea of Secrets

I won’t sleep.
Instead, I’ll lie awake & pretend.
I’ll pretend this began the same,
yet ended pieced together.

Pieces never meant to ebb & flow away.
But life keeps its promises a secret
& watches through jaded eyes
as I pretend to sleep.

Love keeps secrets of its own
& so did you.
Words you should have never said were leaded.
Thrown in my direction,
only to drag me down with them.
Drowning in a sea
of all the things we can never change.