Wrapped Tightly

you've got me wrapped around your finger
like a rope or a length of string
a reminder to help you never forget

sometimes I feel forgotten
I feel like a flower choked by weeds
I wish I could untangle myself from you
and be free of your control

everyday I feel stretched farther, pulled tighter
your hands have a grip on me
when all I want is to be free

Falling, falling

I imagine the falling of my heart
into your outstretched hand
and I can't control it
the thump of my heart
is contingent on your presence
 I don't like this

Home

You caressed my cheek
and I felt it
the unfolding in my chest
my love pouring out like sand in an hourglass
I knew in that moment
that you had become my world
without me even knowing it

And I leaned into your hand
to show you my love
and felt a tear escape through the corner of my eye
and a thought ran through my mind

This is what home feels like.

Magazinetastic

He smiled

She said, “Your personality looked better in the magazine”

Confused, he stuttered, then fell silent

She said, “I thought ‘we could be good together’

Then you opened your mouth

And dead words fell out

I think the hairsprays doing some damage”

Short Conversations

And then she told him
I cannot simple exist for you
I was made for more than you

Then she turned and walked away

Through the mist of the sprinkler in the front yard
Down the sidewalk
And rode away on her tricycle
Off into the sunset...

37 Days, 14 hours, And 2 Minutes

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37 Days, 14 hours, And 2 Minutes
-B

I still remember the first time our lips met

We were innocent then

We didn’t know about politics and pain

We didn’t know the pressures of society

Or the expectations that would soon weight us down

We were children playing house

I was the wife

You were the husband

It all seemed so easy, carefree

Then we grew up

You have a job that lets you travel the world

The job that I dreamed of having

I have a job that ties me to this town

The town we grew up in

The town we learned about life in

The place I have learned to simply exhist in

Today marks:

37 days

14 hours and

2 minutes since I last saw you

I lost track of the last time I talked to you

Probably some time in high school

When you realized I was weighing you down

You found new friends

And you found new vices

I still dream of the night that we spent

Watching the meteor shower

That night in June before high school

Somehow our hands entertwined

And everything felt right

Your palm hugging mine in an intimate embrace

I wish I could tell you

How I feel, how I have always felt

I watch those sappy romantic movies

And wish we were the characters

I feel silly marking the days

But it helps me get by

Helps me get through each day

Knowing that one day you might come back

And see me and love me again

Unrequieted love until then…