soul scribbles
I sit beside you
wide eyes towards the setting sun
bathing in golden light
basking in your presence
you make me
happy.
i see me
reflected against the still water
i look lonely
i wish i saw you
there beside me
your gorgeous smile
wavering as we skip rocks across the surface
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
”
E. E. Cummings
I kept my heart locked up
In a chest made of fake smiles and small talk
Protected from the blizzards of the world
Safe from the boy with the glint in his hazel eyes
I kept the key to my heart safe:
On a golden chain around my neck
Tucked carefully under my shirt
Hidden, so no one could find it
But one day I checked the chain around neck
And the key was gone
It hadn’t been lost, but stolen
By the hazel-eyed boy
Who always smiled at me from across the classroom
I talked to him after class
I told him to give it back.
That’s not how it works—he said
—It’s mine now, but I’ll trade you
From his pocket he pulled out a small silver key
And placed it carefully in my palm.
Hopefully I can keep his safer
Than I could my own
And maybe, one day
I’ll even be able to unlock his chest
And open the heart inside.
small moments
i want to take a photograph of you, right now when you are happy
i’ll hang it on my wall crisp black and white, and know
i’m the one who made you happy.
at least in
that one moment
on living alone
sometimes i wish i lived alone
i could walk around in my underwear
or naked.
i could eat ice cream straight from the container
and drink milk out of the gallon
i could cry
without worrying someone would hear.
