these roads we travel by SocraticSynapses, literature
Literature
these roads we travel
You could've been the girl who changed me.
I've fallen down and fallen apart enough times that it gets hard to remember, but sometimes I study my scars in the sunlight and trace the patterns back through time. I spend my mornings living in memories, reliving the places I've scuffed myself, and I've found that romance is better in hindsight. Her kisses are sweeter tinged with nostalgia, and it almost feels like I'm whole again when I'm thinking of the dents she put in my pulse and smoothing out the wrinkles she left in my resolve. For a moment, there's equilibrium, but then the sun is setting and I'm disoriented, dropping fragments of myself
he spoke to me in latin and french,
in russian and spanish and verbs.
he spoke in delicate purples and blues,
through guitar strings strung too tight,
through clouded glass, murky lakes
and sultry wine. he said:
{youarebeautifulyouarebeautifulyouarebeautiful}
he loved me with clenched fists and jealousy,
with frozen peas and flowers and neat
handwritten pleaseforgiveme's.
he loved in winter, spring, summer but never fall.
he loved in obscure poetry and lies
and in broken bones and popped blood veins.
{youarebreathtakingiamtakingyouarebreaking}
now the bathroom mirror speaks to me
in jutting ribs and sharp hip bones,
in tiny r