I would suffer for you. Black and blue know no pain like being without you. You are the world to me. I am afraid of what I would be if you were not there to guide me. Nobody may know, or even agree that we are meant to be, but they aren’t us. They don’t know what we know, or understand happiness as we know it. Love… is immaterial. More than flesh and blood, more than money, more than relationships...
I can get drunk on the way you smile. Every piece of me hides in the dark until you saunter over with your home-made laughter.
You’re deadly, in just the right mixture in the day and night. You could kill people with the way you make them feel—terrible with how they abuse your kindness or emphatic with how they feel safe, listened to, and understood.
Again, nothing. The water seems too eerily still; even my yelling leaves the surface undisturbed. And this brisk, wet coldness that seems to coat my fingertips, nose, and cheeks is accompanied by no breeze.
I feel like a wet sock—or maybe a dewy blade of grass.
Instinctually, I think to reach for the pocket of m...
One day, you fall off a branch and someone finds you. And they decide you are one of many things, possibly many different useful things at once. Poetically, you only need to be what you are. And that’s life—you are only what you are, aren’t you?
I think I’ve based everything I’ve ever been good at to learning how to be useful. It’s nice to be needed, right? When someo...
It’s time to try. My throat is dry and my heart is sinking, and my fingertips are so numb I can barely move my hands. But it’s time to speak up, or he will never know.
“Hey, I need to tell you something.” Stop shaking, please stop shaking.
“Yeah? What’s up?” He turns around. It has been a quiet walk back to his place so I don’t blame whatever tension he feels after 20 long minutes of silence.
Unlike owls who can turn their necks to ungodly degrees for viewing predators, I can sense when you have not practiced your Spanish. I do not have to look very far for that, honestly. My big eyes see nighttime practicers.
I see through data and patterns, hunt unlit streaks, and alert students who are falling behind with sarcasm. Hoo-hoo? More like who…needs to tell me what sie is in German, righ...