Sad girl walking. I roam through it and forget as much as I can until it claws its way back into a memory. All the sad things. Avoid the feeling then remember how finality and love intersect. Time will guide you whether you’re looking for direction or not. If you dig your heels in the…

I thank God for the medicine. I’m hurting again and no one can stop it. Loud noises ricochet inside my brain and nothing sounds the same. You’re a memory now and I guess a part of me is too. I thank God for the medicine that brings me down. Cold water always makes me feel…

I’m tumbling forward and out, hit my mind on the corner of the floorboard where the baseboard meets the bathroom wall. It rings out like an alarm except no one can hear it but me. “Worry your life away kid and that’s all you’re ever going to be”- they said this on repeat. But it…

Cold nights. Nothing but a cigarette. I’m roaming places that feel something like healing. I’m building a fragile house with strong bones. It’s all about the structure. If the foundation is solid the wolves can’t tear it down. If it has teeth, it bites. The silence matches stillness in the cold air and you have…

Take the long way home. Don’t shut me out when I get tired. I’m just a mess of aching limbs and a numb heart, after all. Just let me rest in the passenger seat like how I used to as a child. Hold my breath under each street lamp we pass until we hit the…

I remember it all. Sewn together by an unexplainable light. Something like magic. I know it beams. There’s something infinite about a memory. It transplants moments into your soul and that’s worth having and knowing and loving because it mattered. Sometimes I still dream about my dad. He shines like something I’ve never seen and…

The saddest people greet you without even saying hello. My heart folds back into itself like the tides that remind me how close drowning actually is. I think back to my mom’s flower shop. How everyone that worked there put beauty into the roses they made into bouquets. How sadness filled those spaces, but so…

You told me I get one more day to be sad. Burry my face in the mud and let it somehow heal me. Yesterday I felt better and today I feel worse, is that regression? I can tell you’re worrying about me again- it’s always looming over us in a close space we dance around.…

I wake up and I’m young again. My soul aches for an old world I once occupied. One where things hurt a little less. I reach for it in my dreams and it falls through delicate hands. The same hands that once made fists to the sky. Cleaned up the damage. Built new things. The…

Nothing can heal me like a moonlit highway. Light beams off pavement in the distance and I’m whole again. My father always said, if you’re ever lost, signs pointing south will lead you home. I follow this like a promise- now and forever. The road will never scare me. Beneath it holds the dust from…