Wait
Wait Home > Poetry > This poem I’ll wait, for the moments That feel like coming home That feel like radiant joy Like I’ve never felt before That feel like velvet dreams I’ve never had but recognise The kind that’ve always been Where neither you nor I Would fear or care to hide
Don’t
Don’t Home > Poetry > This poem Don’t call my bluff, I beg of you Just pretend that you don’t see The way my eyes softly smile The way I never want to leave Don’t tell me that you’ll stay up To talk to me through the night Don’t say that I fill all […]
Change
Change Home > Poetry > This poem You’ve changed, I’d say derisively To people I no longer knew Yet today the girl in the mirror Is another with regrets few Some say she should’ve stayed ‘Cause the sun always shined But shadows have their own wisdom And she has all the time
Tale as old as time
Tale as old as time Home > Poetry > This poem How do you sleep by yourself tonight knowing full well that I’m not there? Please show me how to do it right, to feign belief that I don’t care. Guess it’s true I’m not fooling them, not least of all people, you Maybe […]
Unexplained Urges
Unexplained Urges Home > Poetry > This poem Have you ever sat in a coffee shop and had the sudden urge to go over to the stranger seated across hiding behind her book You’ll tell her you remember How the book took you by surprise made you cry like a child And that she’s the […]
Transience
Transience Home > Poetry > This poem It was last night I finally stumbled upon transience and her tightly guarded secret of moments that end of lovers no more of strangers once friend of rivers that dried of tears never cried oh, these moments will always be mine so I hold them tight […]
Sit with it
Sit with it Home > Poetry > This poem My earliest memory, decades old Wooden chair and brown thatched roof. Eyes blurry, my young cheeks moist Grandpa’s arms felt bulletproof. Promised comfort, my safe harbor I never had need to look too far. We rocked slowly on that wooden chair ‘Sit with it’ he […]
Weep
Weep Home > Poetry > This poem I have to leave, let you go It’s what I need for me It’s not because you won’t be missed but now I finally see All this pain, no it’s not something I want to keep And you won’t notice this mess we’ve made of my heart that […]
New Life, Old Fears
New Life, Old Fears Home > Poetry > This poem I can’t really be the only one Who’s tried to begin life anew, Chasing dreams in a foreign city Unfamiliar people to come home to. Warm and gracious on the surface Though never fully letting you in, Their smiles remind of another life Where […]
Fading Friends
Fading Friends Home > Poetry > This poem No one tells you how to think or feel, When friends from old aren’t always to keep. They don’t warn you about life’s changing roads Which bring you near and promise evermore. That knifelike ache when you see them again So common and yet no […]