love affairs
sex
flirting
all these texts
it’s not working

think like me
and give me
a new book or poem
to read

these days
and in these moments
you seem softer
and closer
than you have ever done

but i have
ben drowning in clichés
for sometime now
so forgive me
when i say
it is me and not you

and where once
they dreamed of
fairytales coming true
now they settle down
with, ‘making do’

well, to the waters of life
i will not yield
i am an ocean goer
this is how i always feel

i want the belief
that –
i know i am okay
that –
i do understand

i have fallen in love
i have felt sparks and –
i have felt excitement
i have fallen in love

You Are So Hard on Yourself you are – so hard on yourself you should – give yourself – a … More

the luxury of youth
gives way
to different days