bitter tears

bitter tears

i’ve been neglecting you, claiming that your needsshould be met, before mine, before there’s,  before his;  i should have explained to you i was overwhelmed,  that i was terrified to askfor help or even proclaim that i’m not fine.were the tears bitter when you wept?  frozen on your cheeks like sand, would it have hurt [...]

unrequited love

unrequited love

unrequited love is a disease.  it eats at me, ravages me.i am no longer me when the waves hit me.  i am slumbered beneath the sea.  i am in mourning.  i am a tree that has lost its leaves.  the autumn of my life, i must salvage what is left;  i will replant in the [...]