Who I am is with you. Who I’ve been is with you. Every piece of myself I had, I gave to you. Here, on these beaches. I know that even once it hits and the sky goes black, the blue will remain. Turquoise waters and cloudless skies in your eyes that I’ll never forget. YouContinue reading “Grains of Sand”
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in the wind
sometimes I still see you out there on those fall nights when everyone else is asleep when the air is cold and a crisp wind stirs loose leaves below my window. waiting, in the dark please come home please come home please come home. The posters will become rain-soaked, torn from phone poles, laid toContinue reading “in the wind”
Put My Name on Your List
You’re not just anyone I don’t know where the song came from. Ask any of my friends, they know I listen to a lot of music. Like, a lot, a lot. I thought it might have been from some playlist I added to my library, where I accidentally tapped the little “+” button that madeContinue reading “Put My Name on Your List”
Your Last Night in the City
Maybe you had a notion of what you’d find there, and accepted it subconsciously, some hidden part of you relieved that it was finally going to be over. Probably, more likely, you didn’t, and in your desperation, you followed the scattered breadcrumbs without thinking about what their very existence implied. Peter had left for aContinue reading “Your Last Night in the City”
Knowing
It’s been 10 years since the disaster, and we’re still finding bodies. People, trapped in their escape pods, their final moments recorded like messages in cosmic bottles, bodies perfectly preserved in the aerobic environment of their last hope. Back when it happened, everyone was still so scrambled, everything was such a mess, there were noContinue reading “Knowing”
Northern Loss 