by breathwords | Feb 23, 2019 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i spread all the remnants of you out on the table, a pile of memorabilia from another life, years of photos and letters scattered within a tangle of wasted breaths and words unspoken ink-stained moments are all that’s left of a love that once burned through the night...
by breathwords | Feb 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
you ask me for the time and wanted to know about the weather and all I could think about was the year when winter stripped away the last pieces of us (i’m barely holding on and you barely remember) we were so busy putting out fires that we let our own die out i...
by breathwords | Jul 2, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I’ve been stirring the depths, those dark recesses and shadowed halls, moody blue rooms with empty walls And some days, I’m more flicker and fade, rainbow tears becoming shades of gray, colors breaking, embraced by the night, now swallowing up the light...
by breathwords | Apr 23, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
I let you carve your name onto my heart, let you etch your face into my dreams You became permanent, a soul deep tattoo that left me hovering between heaven and hell And now this ache is all that’s left, bruised and broken moments imprinted in my mind, shoebox...
by breathwords | Jan 8, 2017 | Bittersweet Breaths
We only survive in passing glances, our whispered words fading We’ve become nothing more than two souls in waiting, longing for a time and place, a sanctuary that no longer exists We drift in and out, colliding with the pressing silence and the deep ache we feel...