Cicadas

Cicadas

I remember the cicadas That sweetly sang by your window. Summer nights were memorable When we twined together in Bedsheets and hurried to shut off the lights. Sleepovers became permanent After the kisses we shared tasted like honeysuckle and mistletoe. You used to caress me in the mornings, The beam of sunlight kissing my skin [...]

Recklessly

Recklessly

i have the capability to love wholly. an endless love that replenishes itself naturally. solar powered, love powered, i have the capability to love another boundlessly. but with this power, i need how to use it smartly. there will be those who will: abandon me, for gain, hurt me, for pleasure, use me, and then [...]

I need

I need

I need: passion befuddles me yet draws me close. i miss the warm fire of desire, the sudden, bombastic blaze of passion that leaves me reckless, and the aftermath,–slick, cold skin, the laughs shared as our hands trace and linger. i am dizzy on you. rose-colored aviator shades when he tells me I’m beautiful, i [...]

i forgave you

i forgave you

you betrayed me last night, in my dreams. A vivid scene dripping with paint and tangled in ivy, i forgave you–even when you went for round two. you did not have to make love to her, the way you did. an unleashed passion that threatened to disrupt our reality, you ate her up like it [...]

self-conscious

self-conscious

Self- conscious: The image in the mirror distorts... The image ripples, distorts as the chatter behind me disappears.Time pauses- a blip in time as the mirror unveils a being fashioned in flesh, muscle, and bone, a being that almost resembles me. She turns left and right, sucks in her stomach and arches her back-hoping to distract [...]