#Distant
That's what you are
Caught between sentences
-exhaled
The lost step
Between two mountains
Obscured
~Distant
As the moon
Orbiting a world
Already lost
To the sun
Already bound
To its path
Unyielding
As the gravity
That holds us
Paused in time
~Untouchable
#vss365
"I #defenestrated her, but don't panic. It was the ground‑floor window and a feather‑light throw. She hit the grass, stood up, cussed me out, then sprinted back in like a boomerang."
"So how are things now?"
"We're bestest sisters, obviously."
#vss365
I used to seek your voice,
barefoot at your door,
clumsily trying to hide
my #undone seams.
Now I grind my senses
into a wound
perched at my nape,
hidden.
I starve sound
I slice sight
And still, I hear you.
#vss365
📷 Pixabay
It's the damage that
Therapy can't #Undo,
Not the passage
Of time
Nullify
Or invalidate;
But in the quietest
Corridor,
Betwixt and between,
There is a soul
With claws
Who comes to unfasten
The grip of the moon,
Without questioning
What this madness means.
#VSS365#Writing
#Distant
That's what you are
Caught between sentences
-exhaled
The lost step
Between two mountains
Obscured
~Distant
As the moon
Orbiting a world
Already lost
To the sun
Already bound
To its path
Unyielding
As the gravity
That holds us
Paused in time
~Untouchable
#vss365
#vss365
Her grief was a dying bird,
gasping hard and uneven in those #novel early seconds,
fighting separation
from a wellspring once essential to her being.
But as the seconds passed,
the space between gasps widened…
she’d never fly again,
but she found peace in that forgiving in-between.
📷 Pixabay
#vss365
My lipstick on your face
your unbuttoned words
on my breath
Tangled in whims,
blown in
on beguiling winds
The #gift of open eyes
at the start of a kiss
And when did my pulse
first stammer your name?
When did my silence
first answer to your fingertips
as they weave small truths in my hair?
The gift of closed eyes
at the end of a kiss
Suspect
My upstairs neighbor
Might be
Some kind of #fiend
I just heard
A scuffle
Punctuated
By a scream
So I find
My courage
Ring his bell
& now I’m cursed
For what I found
Ain’t murder
But horror
So much worse
His one man show
I’m forced to watch—
Endlessly
Rehearsed
#vss365
"Surprise! I didn't know if you would like it."
"Gosh, you shouldn't have spent so much."
"I wanted to. It's a #gift."
"You always make things complicated."
"Maybe. But I hoped you would smile."
"I did, most of it on the inside."
#vss365