I have been wondering how to write to you.
but not to write to you in words, but instead, an overwhelming satisfaction of love.
to make the pages you run your fingers down come alive, to make the ink bleed off the page into your clammy palms, to have the crinkles of the paper be bold enough to hear it in a crowded room.
be silenced while you hear my voice speak love into your broken life.
feel my touch through the thin, wearing pages.
you are not alone.
I want the words from my mouth to flow with tenderness and bring you delight.
I want you to feel alive, but I want you to face your fears.
oh darling, you are beautiful beyond all compare.
You are life's heart beat.
your passionate soul sets a flame to the weary.
though you are weak, your boldness only screams strength.
I have needed you to know love and to feel love.
I have ached to bring your beauty fame.
let my faint whisper scream and allow my words to send chills through your blood stream.
I feel it is important that you hear my heart for you, not just my words for you.
don't forget that you are beautiful.
don't forget that you are loved.
don't forget it, darling, don't you ever forget it.

he said to her, "you're not worth it"

silenced

she sat in silence
gathering her thoughts.
steadily she began to speak.
softly, she stroked his blackened heart with words of colour,
gently and carefully, saying, "That is where you are wrong
because I still stand here, and as long as I stand alive, I breathe and walk purpose. I am worth it"

silenced

he ached in grievance, knowing this time he couldn't win,
he knew victory and took pride, but failure was raw,
it was heavy and it weakened his knees.

silenced

he went to speak, but the words turned to silence

how could I be so blind to believe that love could find me
at what point did I become weak and let down my guard?
this.
this is what haunts me.

I felt a crack begin to form
you're the most I have cared for
the most I have wanted
but the most I have feared
where does that leave me
in the chaos of my mind
at what point should my heart continue to beat
for you
or to stray from you
do i linger in a memory
or do i leap in faith
tell me
because I am about to lose this race

For a moment I heard your cry

A quickened moment 

I saw you trying to survive.

Shattered but whole.

Mask it baby,

you're a terrified soul

I have found ways to try to make you stay.

I have searched deep, begging for the words to say.

I can't find you baby, 

you're lost within your ways

No heartache baby 

I'll be the first to run away.