How funny it is that we make promises with the weakest finger…almost as if we know they’re doomed to break.
-T.L.J
Bruises
The bruises on my neck are not as painful as the look of satisfaction that crosses your eyes with your hands wrapped around my throat.
-T.L.J
The End?!
Done with, terminated, finished, closed. Never in my life have I felt so exposed.
Parting Ways
Fired seems too harsh, and discharged too formal. Let’s just say parting ways for the sake of seeming normal…
On writing poems
Quick and short is the way to go, but what happens when I want to take it slow? Readers pay more attention to things that rhyme, but sometimes my emotions just can’t find the time.
-T.L.J
Plenty of fish
They say there’s plenty of fish in the sea, but I’ve never been good at catching, or swimming for a matter of fact. There’s plenty of fish in the sea, but they all turn their cheeks, all seeking something with a little more gleam.
-T.L.J
Dreams
I try to attach meanings to my dreams, to make them more normal than they seem. Last night I killed a man, and made his wife weep, but don’t worry dear I was fast asleep.
-T.L.J
Loving him in colors
Loving you is orange, like the spark of a flame that lights up my heart when you walk into a room, like the sun setting on yet another beautiful day spent with you. Your personality is yellow, bright and vibrant, like the twinkle resting in your hazel eyes every time I look at you reminding me life won’t always be blue. Because when I am submerging myself into a murky navy darkness, you are the light to guide me through it, and when the ocean waves of sadness crash on my shores, you never let me feel lonely. And together on a quiet Friday night we will be grey, content, like the resting fog and swirling clouds above us, a quiet white noise rainfall to lull us to sleep. I dream in green, of your tinted eyes and long rolling hills I wish to escape to, and I will wake up in pink, like the blushing of your embarrassed cheeks, like the light breeze of lust through the air, and the beautiful sunrise of a new day. I think of you in black, like constellations forming in my head because the way I feel about you is “totally out of this world” 😉 I think of you as a bright star crossing the night sky, galaxies will form at the sound of your sweet laughter. And when my crimson heart falls short of expressing how much you mean to me, I will write in transparency, making my feelings as clear as they can be, and in the end you are not one single color. You are the explosion of a firework, and you make everyone around you stop and marvel at how truly amazing you are.
(Dedicated to my amazing fiancé)
-T.L.J
Wildfire
The trees that burned will grow again; the scorched ground will heal and become new. When a wildfire strikes, you can tell when the damage is done. For us it’s not so simple… sometimes the worst wounds are the ones you can’t see, and those sometimes never heal.
– T.L.J
Why I stay…
The thought of leaving him dances across my mind until he beats it out of me
Unraveled 