by breathwords | May 30, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths
i spent hours beneath the rain collecting seashells, wandering the shore, this mind of mine lost in its own world i fed the sea memories, silent songs of this saudade in my veins i watched the previous day get washed away by the waves, so many lost hours swept...
by breathwords | May 22, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i stood beneath a shivering sunset, wrapped in the soft brutality of its fading light i listened to the night life heralding the coming stars, and i remembered all the wishes we’d made from cold balconies on lonely evenings, all the promises that were whispered even...
by breathwords | May 21, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths
i was gone long before you noticed, drifting beyond your lonely lighthouse shine i refused to be another casualty of your raging storms, your lightning strikes creating seaglass memories, proof that there is still strength in these bones – ashley...
by breathwords | May 16, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
it’s funny, the things remembered most too often, i exist in a dream-like state, pictures flooding in because some song on the radio insisted that i hadn’t reminisced in far too long like, the way hank williams songs remind me of learning to drive...
by breathwords | May 3, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
this distance tastes like crimson and clover, like whiskey on the rocks, like m e m o r i e s i swallow them down, waiting underneath the stars, tethered to your deception, to empty promises and elusive dreams, to illusions of love that were only skin deep i stand...
by breathwords | Mar 26, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
letters, folded up in intricate patterns, once passed between outstretched hands, an old mixed tape filled with 90s hits, photos, partially burned but saved at the last minute, a lucky rabbit’s foot that, looking back, really wasn’t all that lucky memories tucked in a...
