Walking Jigsaw Puzzles

Someday
you will find the pieces of yourself that you dropped as you ventured through innocence.

Eventually
you will realize that someone else found them as they walked along their own path, beautifully.

Then
you will understand that love is the one who puts you back together when you are completed already. 

So Many Look Alikes - None Compare

Whenever I miss you more than words can express I remember sitting in English working on "group projects" that either of us could have finished solo without breaking a sweat. I remember trading secret memories and stories over greasy cafeteria food and overly highlighted poems. I remember taking seats in the furthest corner of the biology lab where we made white out paintings and wrote about charms on the bracelet from your dad.

Whenever I miss you more than words can express, I tell myself you left first, but we're doing just fine.

Widow in Training

His tongue so full of
roses
remains aloof -

a mystery soved
long ago
but still misunderstood.

His tongue so full of
roses

left thorns upon my
bloodied lips
in that way I once
believed
only Summer could.

Important Tolerance

"You don't have to agree with me, but you must respect me," you giggled as we sat around discussing how to best use the day.

This. This is why I love and miss you the most. 

Potentially and Momentarily Blinded

I don't know how you haven't noticed it before, but you are built of the strongest bones to ever exist, your blood has the highest boiling temperature known to mankind, and somehow you are still the most fragile structure to walk across the surface of this planet we call home.

Darling, you could be invincible if only you put your mind to it. 

Totally Offbeat

Listen
while the rhythm you
casually see

displays
a reflection of wonder
from me.

Far Below These Waves

Finding Muse within Stanza

Listening to you and
the ghost of your poetry
I am reduced to a
glimmer -

a single spark of
our flame -

and honestly, I've never
been more happy.

Hell Called For You Again

Just so you know, I think of you often. I think of you fondly. I think of you seldomly. I do not miss you, but I love every nook and cranny of your ghost.

Just so you know, you're the kind of phantom that proposes marriage on a whim. The kind of demon that wins hearts effortlessly. The kind of giant that wants to feel small. No - you are not a fairy or an angel.

And I have fallen into the hands of Darkness. Just so you know, this kills me. It rips me open from the center out.

It kicks and screams. It burns like fire lapping at flesh. It's a new beginning that sure as hell feels like the end of all ends.

Just so you know, I abhor you for leaving, but I've never loved you any more than I love you now.

Soon to be Gone

There will always be places you cannot return to, but ocean tinted heavens and graffitied Pearly Gates will welcome you with open arms even after the end.