I’m not the normal needy girlfriend; I thought I told you this before. I’m the one who’ll panic when you don’t text me back in an hour, automatically thinking you’re dead and how the hell am I going to tell your mother. I’m the type who will be cut too deep every time you say […]
My father looked at me in the eye and told me, that once I can make good ugali I should get married. I stood up and said too late but inside I stored what he said like an ugly precious. Festering inside me, soupy in a puddle of my hurt; that he measured me, as […]
Love can kill you, easy. She hides behind this veneer of sacrifice and selflessness but in reality she’ll take everything you have to give without blinking. And tell you not to be a monkey about it. You become selfless because you don’t have a self anymore. You start to care more about this person than […]
Here is what happens when people take each other for granted. At the beginning all is love and roses, skipping through sunflower fields, until commitment checks in and you think no one can leave. And since you think no one can leave, you feel like you’re entitled to everything that the other person is choosing […]
What a breaking heart sounds like would you know it if you heard? slivers of glass sweetly slicing your soul open strips of sorrow systematically peeled away sounds of lifetimes slipping through seasons of malcontent silently. A breaking heart sounds like your silence.
It’s all broken. I’m all broken. Tried to fix it But I can’t. Can’t re-fix it Can’t remix it Can’t, and you won’t I just can’t. Tried to keep this Love alive Tried to bear it Tried to thrive Can’t build it in a day Like Rome Can’t build it alone.
But when you kiss me and the world stops and I wonder why you stop and I think I’m being greedy but who else am I supposed to be greedy for; who am I supposed to constantly want if not the lips I wake up to and fall asleep to and dream to and sing […]
