Drown Tears In Peaceful Place

Originally printed in the Quaker Campus 3/23/16

It’s been a rough day. Your “wonderful” lover just broke up with you for some childish reason. The paper you worked so hard on for your Shakespeare class is bleeding and…

Ashes

This fiery affair ended abruptly.

He tried to extinguish it & ran away to avoid
seeing the aftermath.

All that was left were the charred pieces of
a relationship.

Fire

Our love was explosive,
Passionate.
Until we shed off our skin
Exposing our deepest, truest selves
Raw, fragile.
One overtly emotional.
The other insane yet logical.

Anhelo

I’ve always wanted more.

I crave this feeling.
It’s more than love.
Passion.
I want to be consumed by it.

Anhelo.
The word gives me goosebumps.
Limitless desire.
It makes my bones ache.
I…

Burn

My heart became consumed by hatred
the moment I laid eyes on her.
My thoughts became an endless list of 
insults & dark thoughts.

When he broke up with me
All I could do was cry.
I started to hate him too.