Tag: relationships
Echoes of Your Screams
tears flow from my eyes and leave their wet trails behind like footsteps in snow… they get erased but their essence lingers, which bites into my cold flesh with aching blue sharp bites and I feel their presence as if a foreign intruder has taken refuge beneath my pale skin… Read more
White Petals Trodden Underfoot
I hid in the Acacia tree when you ran but I stole the memory of your lips, chapped by too much kissing. Of your back with it’s open wounds kissed in another way, by a whip. The volume of orange blossom peaked in June, around the time you ran, with Read more
The Affair
I sit in a chair, near the window. The light shines in on me, but I don’t feel its warmth. I look around, silence is everywhere. I am left alone in a big empty house. You tell me to smile, but how can I smile? Can’t you see that I’m Read more
And I Love Her
a brave new year dawns amidst a clown led misogynistic circus and there are words that need to be spoken so let me not mumble or remain silent in the presence of my enemies let me vociferously speak philogynist I am ready to stand beside her in my white male Read more
The Care and Feeding of Mr. Right
Okay let’s face it, we’ve all been sold a long list of lies when it comes to finding and keeping the man of our dreams. I remember watching Cinderella as a little girl thinking that someday my prince would come. I also remember listening to stories my Mom told me Read more