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a reflection

by skyy

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May 13, 2020

breath.less

i am here somewhere there and you are never far i never have to ask where you are or if you know [you know] i don’t have to ask if you hear [you hear] i am safe i am warm i see i hear i feel yo...


May 11, 2020

onslaught

you a multitude of rivers converging crashing cascading i would stand against your onslaught dug into your earth bracing for the way you had rained away before yet here you are fingertips away br...


November 22, 2019

these things i'll be

your path lit and well marked, the street pristine if unused. if you ever wandered it wasn’t here. the only echoes heard emanating from the man leaning against the only street light, the one with...


September 25, 2019

savor

how else to describe what seemingly wants to down me caught in this a cacophony wave after wave but i am not cold i am safe as can be each breath a triumph just as i form the words your finger ...


March 21, 2019

mirror

I closed my eyes for just a moment And music the moon sleep took me away To you I said hello as you smiled and I felt Like these last days were just that Something we didn’t even notice all That ...


October 01, 2018

wander.ing

this is me not coming to you even as i thought what appeared to be you calling out into the night for me to come i didn’t hear, after listening for so long. i heard ghosts where no one was i walk...


September 21, 2018

Aplomb

turn down the sound and let the silence pull you in she said as he turned around and facing her, laughed as he said “i thought you had made your great exit scene. you did it with such aplomb!” a...


June 11, 2018

on [repeat]

this night this warmth it pulls me in and holds me taking form in the way my fingertips memorized your skin and the way you would sound when releasing that guttural howl you laughed when i said i...


May 24, 2018

ricochet

from the minute i walked into that room, i saw her. a crowd of faces and most unknown to me but she stood out, she always did. she did not notice me, and it appeared she noticed no one else eithe...


wild in your skin you lay next to me and I wonder where do you go in the middle of the night, where do you wander? Who do you look for who do you seek? I stopped looking for my ghosts right in t...


September 15, 2017

soothe

oh how you elude me love that you might have been might have wanted to be how did i lose the way you light up the sky tucked in the crevices just out of reach i close my eyes and i feel you on my...


March 22, 2017

angel in.black

to say she made an entrance was akin to saying it was a little windy in the middle of a tornado. when that door opened and she walked into the room, it seemed like everyone was aware of her prese...


January 30, 2017

careless

oh how careless you are with me in your hands while you verbally assassinate her much for the same crime


April 06, 2016

type title here

don’t write it, don’t say it. don’t..... the fact of the matter is, so many don’t really wanna know what is going on, you find yourself at the point that you wonder why you are still here, still ...


January 30, 2016

into the light

tonight this runs too deep to word and where do you run to to escape you if you seek an explanation on why its 1:23 and . this one is on repeat then the point is . lost . there are no words toni...


December 08, 2015

aspire

aspire aspire to something my father before me and my grandfathers before him men of strength who knew sometimes strength meant a relaxed grip but where does that leave us [what do i want to b...


October 29, 2015

fever

in a fevered state i felt you swim about me your fingers clawing at me digging at me like knives no words from your lips but i felt you i feel you your cold echoing deep in my bones the cold ma...


October 26, 2015

the death of me

i felt it before i saw it in her eyes her blade puncturing my ribcage she pulled it out only to plunge it deep in again her eyes weren’t full of fire but cold pitch black as she kept shoving tha...


September 19, 2015

flying

you’ll never convince me the world cannot change. in fact, one thing it longs for is change. their world is a world of hate and ignorance. i don’t care where you are, just come from love. i don’t...


June 21, 2015

threw it away

‘i’m not really here, you know.” she said it without malice, and without her eyes on me. i nodded, not looking up. there had been a mantra building up within me for so long, i felt like it threa...


May 21, 2015

all night long

oh how you dance about me mesmerized in your every movement how you entice me [you know how you affect me] i can’t call you evil just because i believe every whispered word and i cant call you b...


May 01, 2015

steppin out

here i move in perfect step every one of your kisses throw leaves to the path of my feet your river running alongside my bank my trees silent warriors bending into this silent rhythm of music on...


April 25, 2015

more than that

it could’ve been a rainy day like yesterday when i wished your eyes to look on mine once more or the day when you danced about me saying kinda?


April 11, 2015

ukiah

its a gorgeous night i said to no one standing under all those stars


i couldn’t breathe and you laughed as you noticed because you knew i was already lost gone in the movement a thousand and ten steps. moments. you turned it up all the more and i continued to mo...


Book Description

there are things seen and unseen. do you ever want to rewind and say what you didnt say? not say what you said?