I am afraid of crying in public I am afraid of thunderstorms And that I am a bad teacher I am afraid of my own voice when I yell I am afraid of the dark Because in it I can see all my flaws I am afraid of being stuck In some suffocating space Like the crevice of a rock Or with an unfaithful lover I am afraid of the way hospitals smell I am afraid of my own heart Because it is glass I am a...

Am I so wrong for weeping In the times you are away? I can only love you deeply Never any other way

In nightmares I have lost you And when I wake I fear They have become reality Because you are not near

I know we’ll be united Post this agonizing night But though dark is not eternal It makes us forget the light

So in moments my strength fails me I cry out to skies of gray Am I so wrong for w...

“Who is that there?” I pause, my eyes locked on the mirror The face inside of it is new She is fresh with an unfamiliar warmth That bleeds from the corners Of shimmering eyes Into the blaze of a genuine smile

And there I saw beauty In each crease and crevice of her skin There was a gentle power in her hands And resplendent wisdom In shoulders That too often carried boulders But for once, Were...

In the vastness of the cosmos Out where moonbeams never shone I drifted, but a snuffed out star In dimness, left alone

Without a fire to guide me I pawed through asteroid dust Grasping for another star On whose light I could trust

How quickly other lights had fled On seeing my estate No comfort for a blackened star That miserable ingrate

But there was one who ventured To step nearer to my ma...

Can I kiss you Platonically? I promise, just as friends It will only take a second You’ll forget it when it ends I only want to tell you In the best way I know how You make my world seem brighter And I need you in it now You’re the piece of me that’s missing You’re my flashlight in the dark You turn weeping into laughter You’re a neverending spark I can call myself a po...

There is a black hole inside of my chest He cannot see it, perhaps for the best I am so unworthy of all of his light Can a sunbeam ever love the Queen of the Night?

I’m damaged beyond what I want him to know The achings I live with do nothing but grow He’d vanish at once in the very hour That the Queen of the Night showed the whole of her power

I am the serpent, disguised as a dove Bringing not...

I’m singing a duet, solo Making up your part as I go I can be a tenor if I try To picture you behind my soprano

I’m singing a duet, solo Registering both high and low As seamless as if you were here Tickling black and white on the piano

I’m singing a duet, solo Creating notes no one yet knows Wishing I had a partner to sing with So my duet wouldn’t feel so ...

Holding my breath til my face turns blue Afraid that if I let go, you will too This must be some fictitious work of mine That landed me with something unbelievably divine

I am a beetle scuttling in the dark When the room is engulfed by the light of a spark But though full of joy from the warmth that I feel I am so overwhelmed, i don’t know if it’s real

I want to believe there could possibly be ...

I like counting the stars on my ceiling Creating constellations unheard of Between cresting eagles And strokes of silver wind, I’ve connected avenues into A place where I’d like to live

I gathered you out of stardust Built you in the workshop of my room Plastering you in the sky To fly beside me And it is glorious, how those two swim Through a sea of stars on my ceiling Their hands interlocked...

It’s fine when you’re thirteen Writing hearts around his name Feeling seasick as he walks by You have to force yourself to breath When you hear his voice Cause it makes you want to lay down and die Pen these long journal entries about him How you’ll be married when you’re both old And though you barely ever talk You’re almost semi-quasi stalking him Which is fine! You’re only thirteen years old ...