You built a home in your rib cage. The heart I was meant to protect. Found myself trying to fill the space. With all the things I meant to neglect. Beneath layers of skin grown too thin. Sleep all the untouchable parts. Hanging off of delicate limbs. Words that were whittled too sharp. To see … Continue reading Foster
Poetry
Acid Rain
I've been searching for a new skin. These pieces of me keep falling out. And I've been trying, I've been trying to stuff them back down. Put them in their rightful places. All I see are these empty spaces. But the parts of me I think I've lost, they just don't fit the same. I … Continue reading Acid Rain
Fever Sleep
All we carry is on our backs.Cars crashing into each other lives.We leave the same way we came in.Smother all those cracks we have inside.I wish I could bottle up your fears.Swallow them whole, every last dread.Help you feel intact again.With every last word I've ever said.Like the pieces of you aren't falling out.Onto the … Continue reading Fever Sleep
Safekeeping
Afterthought
Absent
In Memory
Finding my place wherever I'm lost. They say love isn't worth the pain, no matter what it costs. But see lately I haven't been the same. I've got all this pleasure mixed with pain. And fused it all together with loss. But I can't stop the bleeding, I'm running out of gauze. Pulling away when … Continue reading In Memory
