You Keep Me Sane by Karen Manabat
And for the nth time I bend back my head Laughing at the absurdity of it all I realized what a little piece of heaven you are In a world full of hell
Continue ReadingAnd for the nth time I bend back my head Laughing at the absurdity of it all I realized what a little piece of heaven you are In a world full of hell
Continue ReadingI was magic; A burning kerchief turned into new fabric, A white dove that flew away from a magician’s trick
Continue ReadingMaybe in another life we were there Waking to a new sunshine Looking up at a different set of stars Just you and me Maybe there we were sure Out of our mind certain That we’re both chaotic But in love nonetheless Maybe you’d look at me And I would look at you With neither […]
Continue ReadingI looked at my hands Wondering, asking Was my grip not strong enough Or was it too tight You were like drops of rain Too many to catch Too hard to blink in Falling too fast And the problem was not That I was weak But that you didn’t like Being contained in my hands […]
Continue ReadingYour eyes are games They trick anyone Make me believe In false promises They are wonders Of a future lived A chance taken And happened-dreams Sometimes they hurt With drainful love That imprinted itself So deep inside Your gaze is hard To hold onto I knew that if I did I’d be lost to you […]
Continue ReadingThere was some hate, And then some love, All ……..on ……………..paper.
Continue ReadingYou should’ve talked to me That one time I needed you to When you could’ve told me anything And I’d have listened anyway It might have hurt less Might have helped anyhow If you didn’t recoil When I reached for your touch You see, I wanted it all Including all you couldn’t give I’d be […]
Continue Reading“White,” you said. “Let’s paint it white.” Is it white then?, I wonder The color to describe that night; Calm seventeenth of October. ‘I remember,’ you might say And I’ll tell you, ‘No, you do not’ Not like I do, never this way: Beautiful, until everything but. You picked the brush and added blue “Because […]
Continue ReadingTell them I was the perfect storm; I came strong and uninvited. Tell them you hid from my rain, And prayed for me to be gone. Tell them I was a delicate flower; Blooming so strangely under the sun. Tell them you stole my fragrance, And alone you ran. Tell them I was the ending […]
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