Updated: Feb 22, 2019
We're dancing in circles, you and I
One too fearful, the other too shy
Silence is stifling, so we'll struggle to fill
with meaningless words echoing still
Treading cautiously, as if on ice
Biting back words for unbinding ties
Giving in, the fire is gone
Resignation, restraint and extinguished moths
Holding on, to burning straws
I'll take what we have now over nothing at all
09.11.2012
it comes it washes over you, in it comes over you in waves, and when the tide ebbs, it takes a little colour with it, leaves a thin film of salt to weight heavy on your bones until at last- quite sudd
Hesitant smiles bridge the abyss between us Briefly, the brush of a dying gull's wing There is nothing left but memories - beautiful in their violence though they are, I will not do this to us anymore
Role Reversal Fragile crimson frays between us bound to snap in the fading gaslight You pull away and I miss you like Stockholm syndrome So I will hide you away safely bound to me And when you struggl