Breakups

Not Modern Love

I fell out of love with him on Nov. 20, 2015. That’s when I woke up with my cheek against the wood floor as my eyes slowly focused on the single high-heeled shoe that had managed to stay perfectly upright despite clothes being maddeningly stripped off the night before after tripping up the stairs to…

How they’ll break your heart after you break up with them

When heartbreak goes both ways

I told my therapist about you.

I told my therapist about your smile

We fell apart

I finally cracked
from the heart
we fell apart
patience leaked
hurt seeped in
jagged edges 
told inside stories 
of emptiness within…

Withdraw

I stretch out my hands

You withdraw, smile as you leave

If you’re not gonna improve each other’s lives, better off not talkin’

Prompt: 17 syllables on cutting off communication with ex-lovers.

Show my work:

How to get over a break up

breathe.

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Hope

Hope is amazing, it can make a person fight longer or run faster or even hold out for just a little longer when all is lost. I wonder is hope a good thing or bad? I mean the guy who fought longer because of hope and won would tell you yes. But let’s not forget the other half, the one who fought longer out of hope and…

Catching Snowflakes on My Tongue

In the dark and quiet
when I give myself to sleep;
outside, past midnight,
catching snowflakes on my…

After every revolution comes a renaissance. It’s undeniable.

You know that feeling you get when you emerge from a most-harrowing life experience — one that rattles you to your core, disrupts your entire state of being, and challenges your once-rock-solid value system? That terribly tortuous, though wildly liberating feeling…