I gift you a basket full of heartbeats
Smiles with roses growing on my front teeth
Tried to be funny, to accommodate your empty
Feasted on yesterday like it’s my last supper
I gave you love,
Even after I ran out of love for myself
Rubbed your ‘truth’ on my skin like an ointment
Words versus actions, each dying like a cigarette smoke
I see secrets in your eyes, spilling on the bathroom floors
Hiding, trapped in a web of oblivion without a sponge
Self-medicating through text messages, mind afar
I tried to find peace in changing my colors
Thoughts flowering in my mind, watered by you
Holding onto a ghost that will someday vanish?
A feeling that will never be parallel to yours
In all my living, I have seen
Some people “love you” with a shovel in their hands
Wearing masks so long to hide how they feel
And those masks layers into an extra skin
Ending up to becoming who they are
I’ve learnt,
To drink love from my own skin
Hug myself and warm my bones
Swimming into different waters
With hopes to come face to face,
With the kind of love,
I have waisted onto others.
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