STILLER WATERS

It's been a while. A happiness interlude perhaps. But it wasn't happiness... it was... safe. I cut away the lock and let the safety drop...

eyes blurred shoulders tense back feeling like a thousand bricks. I turn the page... Page? What is a page. I scroll down the screen* on...

how? mere moments together, but you still stain the more I scrub the deeper it seeps into my thoughts a game of tug-of-war as cinderella...

Love is a form of socially acceptable insanity. Place them in an institution. White walls enclosing in fast. Time will heal what the...

Hold my hand when we fall asleep. Forget the world, the far east. Tell me I’m beautiful, for the first time. Tell me you love me, despite...

“Dried Out” When a rose can no longer stand straight on its own, You dangle it; bottoms up, to preserve its beauty. At what cost?

I do not dare to share my secrets when she is shining at her fullest for fear that her light will only expose my darkness

if time is the currency we use to value how special someone is making it, sharing it, and spending it... you must've been the poorest man...

I could sew a quilt out of all the red flags I let slide. It could cover a pool and keep it warm, safe, on the coldest day of the...

when she moved from the land of the rising sun to the city of stars

Had you told me you were leaving I would not have remained. But you dissolved into the darkness your scent left lingering convincing me...

how kind of you to recognize my favorite colors as you leave them scattered across my skin and dyed into my soul

wherever you are falling tenderly as a good night from a distance falls on an ear pressed up to a receiver see you both soon.