We looked up,
Between the sign and the light,
And the twigs on trees,
To see—or to half-see—Jupiter, shining
In its proximity;
But you
Were more interested
In
Saturn
Placed
In sight
Away from Earth’s calamity.
Category: Poems
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We looked up,
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stirring the pots
when we were young,
stirring the pots and
letting our necks wander
around on that
donated couch
with the weird stains…
I knew then we’d
be our own pam & jim
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words flow and fumble
I bent my neck trying to write to you
to tell you how I feel about you,
how the words flow and fumble
trying to put an order to these
emotions, feelings feeling their way
around my head and looking
for an exit in the dark, but we both know
the only way we’re getting out is by shouting
so loud they hear us in the voids
between us
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when the room goes dark
when the room goes dark,
I lay and stare at the ceiling,
trying to ignore the light
from the hallway—your light,
that you insist stays on.
but it holds my attention,
pulling eyes and head and
thoughts of moments
with you, and
I can go to sleep now.
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my heart tells me you’re missing,
my heart tells me you’re missing,
but my eyes see you right here.those small moments
make up the biggest parts of me
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as I swim inside these eyes
as I swim inside these eyes,
I hope our
gravity
keeps me here—
pressed against a chair,
swaying to
my heart beat,
trying not
to wrestle free
and float away.words lose meaning when you
can’t hear them and
have none to read—
when life shows you language
is nothing more than a layer,
a common interpreter of
yours and mine and many unique
experiences
and feelings
paid in microseconds.just like that,
we’re 13 years in
and
exactly where we
wanted to be:
staring into our eyes
and seeing the decades ahead,
and those we’ve learned from to
be exactly where we
wanted to
be:
able to close our eyes
and know we’ll wake up
together, still.
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it’s 3am,
it’s 3am,
and i’ve moved my writing
apps
to the second page,
so I can swipe once more
before tapping this glass
or
stopping to let the words find me
while I
sit and stare, and watch gravity
keep me here.