The Listener

☆ 19 ☆ here as a poet ☆

[lovelyshamelessland]

I saw three deer tonight after I stole you commitments away.

After chuckling with smile in your face and feeling so tired.

I saw three deer.

[elainiisms]

[lovelyshamelessland]

"You were that picture in my wallet kind of love."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"I don't recognize myself in the mirror

And I won't remember tomorrow

But I know that I love you"

[lovelyshamelessland]

"I have lived without you for years. But now I may never live with you again. Even when we were apart I searched for you in places I knew you'd been. You've occupied multitudes of my memories, and my objects. I never expected the sorrow you steered me though would be the same that you'd leave me with. I hope you smile when you see us all together again, even though it may be in the worst of times, that's what we were always good at. You'd find the broken ones and bring them together to be whole.

Though your absence leaves us with a gap, we will continue to fill each other the way you always intended us to."

I love you, Lindsey Vanorman.

[lovelyshamelessland]

"Even after all your effort,

I still don't care about you

You don't occupy a single thought from me."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"You cuddled me in your sleep

Exfoliating my skin with your stubble."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"You didn't hold me down with unmatched strength."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"I am afraid that I, myself, am my greatest vice.

You

My love

Are my greatest feature."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"I remember when you first put a picture of me into your wallet

The love I felt to find it faded, weathered, and sun bleached.

How many times did you take it out?

Just to look at it?

To show people?"

[lovelyshamelessland]

"They've said it before, haven't they?

They see the good you do."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"Something clicked today,

About prospective..."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"Maybe not everything is against me

Maybe not everything is a fight."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"Light is a spectrum,

But even I am colorblind."

[lovelyshamelessland]

"Between the rain, and clouds of lightening

The deep dark green of the forested mountains,

I got a glimpse of the person you wanted me to be.

I saw the beauty

I saw the good."