[broken-and-heard]

There’s always strength for one last breath.

[broken-and-heard]

Return to Form

When does it become real?

When is it more than just a kiss or touch?

When am I more than a light by your side?

A dull flame to keep dark thoughts away.

Will I be graced with a name?

Or am I nameless phantom,

A teenage dream, a bright-eyed wonder.

An image of a former name,

you covet with such shame.

A caged cardinal, a dead dove.

Heartless and hopeless.

[heartsnmagic]

[written-w0rd]

Salma Deera, Letters from Medea

[junepours]

plenty of emotions.

[heavensghost]

[sunsbleeding]

[ritikajyala]

It's been 3 years since I last saw him. We grew apart like people do. But darling boy, I'll love you forever, but that forever is frozen in the summer of 2016.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

(source)

[broken-and-heard]

Crazy it’s been three years. I’m in a completely different place now. I talk about you a lot and think about you more. I’m doing better, I found myself in our ending. I sometimes wish we could still be friends as we once were, part of me hates that it got complicated the way it did. I know in the end everything happens for a reason, and the fact remains I’m doing better. Sometimes I just wish you could be a part of it.

[destroymylife]

[broken-and-heard]

It doesn’t hurt anymore. It’s done gone forever like the meaning of the word “us”. You are not my world anymore. I finally feel peace with feeling nothing at all.

[broken-and-heard]

A Year Later

These past memories

I hold so dear to me

of a love I held so tight

and a girl I told the world was mine

Miles away on Vegas nights

I held you close beneath the city lights

with tales of coming home again

to feel your arms again

These memories we share and treasure

of youth in love always and forever

you were my girl

my whole world

desert nights and beautiful lights

cuddling close to the love of my life

don’t worry someday soon

I’ll be coming home to you

Fell asleep to So Long, Astoria

woke up and wrote a story of love

of blonde hair and pale blue eyes

of airwaves above desert skylines

These smoky feelings in my chest

beloved memories of what we once had

may they forever reign in our hearts

even when we are miles apart

I said I’d never say goodbye to summer eyes

and the memories we shared in our younger lives

these times we shared together

I pray will stay warm forever

[broken-and-heard]

Vegas Nights

a year ago today we said goodbye for a short time

with promises of kisses

night after night your name graced my lips on the phone lines

your face burned in my eyes while I wrote line after line

to tell how I fell in love with my best friend

a feeling so freeing for a presence so fulfilling

these words stayed in my head for days on end

with the neverending conversation that began

from the early spring mornings to the vegas nights

finally saying the feelings that rose from the moment we met

a trip I’ll never forget even after a year

that smoky feeling in my chest still lingers

now in these present days I drift in a haze

I sit here slowly watching that spark die

the gold turn to rust I swore would never happen to us

how can I fix us when I can’t even meet your eyes

without seeing the girl I loved night after night

I swear I’m right swear I tried to move on

I’ve fought to my end to forget you

but night after night I’m drawn back to you

[broken-and-heard]

I had a good title but then it left me like she did

A brilliant gaze from brilliant eyes

left me frozen in time

on a warm spring night

even in the midst of a harsh goodbye

her beauty still sparks my eyes

motionless as the weight of the words

haunt me like a sin

left to fixate on better days

while wasting away on lonely nights

This noose of bed sheets burying me

with words unread scattered across the floor

in a bedroom lacking the light

a decaying portrait of better days

[broken-and-heard]

Take One Down

this ring melting in my hand like a candlewick

drowning the memories that left me sick

trading smiles for sighs

while I watch you with the other guy

another reason for me to raise another glass high

to the wasted times and wasted nights

in the corner of this deserted place

I’m an island of despair and better days

where empty promises came from shared lips

and diamond eyes told tales of another life

fake tears fall like the rain we danced in on our first date

where you whispered that this meant forever and always

Ironically I sink here and wash away

[broken-and-heard]

Void

a midnight ride with you my dear

fingers and lips entwined

then separated with soft sighs

calling eachother by former names

that we covet with such shame

creating memories we shared with others

burning a wet match to light a presence we lack

all to recover this empty space in our chests

warm acts with cold intent

beneath covers and sheets

curtains closed to the show

and scripted on the bedside

[itsfivedegrees]

[broken-and-heard]

mood

[broken-and-heard]

Sink With Me

Inches away but miles apart inside

these feelings I’ve tried so hard to hide

you’re the pink sky in the morning

foretelling my doom in such artistic design

so brilliant vivid and bright

blinding my eyes

to the imminent end of my days

my lips still trembling the sounds of your name

hailing you with my last breath

even aboard this sinking ship we call our life

trading the captain’s call for the siren’s song

and an ice heart to drain the warmth from our hearts