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Title: you told me not to write about you

Poem Count: 22

Topic: Toxic Relationship

i dragged my teeth against you

tasted your heartbeat like

it was something foreign. 

saccharine and alive against

my tongue. something like

a home i would never know

outside your warm embrace.

~K.T.

tomorrow is but a dream away

so i let my head weigh

down upon the pillow. 

let my breath become 

airborne, swept away 

by the fan blades. i let

today become a thing of the past.

~K.T.

fire of first love

the heat has a habit of

traveling. knows loves 

warm embrace like it

knows wood. touches 

and leaves lovely scars.

~K.T.

forget oranges - i’ll peel my heart for you

stick my thumb into delicate

skin and pull away each strip

of muscle until you can see

all the poetry i have kept hidden

in each atrium like a secret.

~K.T.

the bees must have been 

here before. left their 

belongings upon petals

with no phone number. 

i hope to reach them someday.

~K.T.

you are my favorite kind of ache

one that lingers long after. 

that holds a sweet aftertaste. 

one that knows exactly why

it lives inside my body like

an internal scar that never stops bleeding.

~K.T.

i don’t want to be better at adulting

i want to be better at being

human. i want to collect little

trinkets. i want to move my 

body to silly sounds. i want

to touch more. i want to live.

~K.T.

i’m borrowing some magic for april

i swear i will return it by may, so

let me hold its warmth until i have

planted my soles in the ground

and sprouted flowers again.

~K.T.

i am tomorrow

i have been yesterday 

for far too long, and 

today has never felt 

right, so i choose to

become a better tomorrow.

~K.T.

you melt and i moan

you slip between the spaces

of my fingers like warmth, and

i do not want to understand

the way you are the catalyst 

to my deepest desires made

pulp between my teeth.

~K.T.

hands on thighs

palms full, breath emptied,

body warm and supple

against me like fruit, i am

not afraid to bruise you

between my wanting jaw.

~K.T.

bittersweet symphony

the music is melancholy

to my ears, the reminder

of a bittersweet end and

memories made into dust.

~K.T.

coconut

water made a part of my

bloodstream, flesh white

and slippery, i eat and eat

until i am bursting with my

parent’s roots.

~K.T.

this spring i will become one of the flowers

we will match outfits. Frolic

in the sunlight. we will bloom

and ride each breeze like we

were made to thrive upon each

heated gust of wind.

~K.T.

eternal river

running blue with veins green

as the canopy hanging high

above, and i sit by the waters

with nothing more than a want

to hear the quiet and calm breeze.

~K.T.

forget me not

pluck the petals from my skin

and ask if i love you. i will give

you my truth. i will lose all my 

color if it means being touched

by your warm hands.

~K.T.