Exposed Emotions

Fifty-two Queens of Hearts

A queen of flickering moods, she enters all guns blazing.Her mind keeps good juggling, better tossing, bad lingering.A queen of turbulent nights and soggy mornings.Her smile enchanting, cuddles melting, kisses smoldering.It’s all fun & game until she comes out undone. It’s fun from distance.She could be close, but distant.She’s wild, persistent, shattering resistance. It feels,…

Heartstrings

That captivating smile, laughing through the crinkles around your eyes making my feeble heart dip & bounce at the mere sight. My heart, full of love, throbbing at the soft signals, tracing the imaginary loops of your fingertips upon my chest. My soul elated by the foolish, made-up interpretations. Life’s good, with the heaviness of…

It isn’t has to be correct

You ever notice how love don’t ask? Don’t knock, don’t wait, don’t care if you ready? It just show up, like—boom— sit right down, feet on the table, act like it live here or somethin’. And you? You just stand there, half mad, half lost, but you don’t tell it go. You can’t tell it…

Etched in Time

You know,we thank some people just for existing,for breathing the same air,for walking this world at the same time as we do. But you—I thank you for more than that.For being where I could find you,for stepping into my orbitbefore the universe could pull you away. I thank you for the way your presencerewrote my…

A dream of us

Last night,I slipped into a world where time bent for us.Where the air felt softer,and the sky—man, the sky—it burned this deep, endless blue. You were there.Standing in the middle of it all,like you’d been waiting for me,like the universe finally let me inon its best-kept secret. We laughed.We ran.We broke rules gravity didn’t even…

Purple Tongues

We sit on the curb,elbows brushing,melting scoops of blackberry swirldripping lazy down our wrists.You tilt your head,watching me with that soft,half-hidden smile—the kind that sneaks under my skinand stays there. “Your tongue’s purple,”you say,like it’s the most important thingin the world,and suddenly, it is.I stick it out,half a challenge, half a joke,and you do the…

Shards of broken truth

I hold them close—glass spun thin,truths that crack beneath the skin.Each thought a thread, pulled too tight,shifting, slipping out of sight. I name them lust, I name them fear,a shiver caught between the ears.The air is sharp; it cuts my breath—is this desire, or its death? Your hands once traced the fault lines here,lines that…

Will you come searching?

If I disappeared,will the space I left behindbruise the walls?Will the silence swell,heavy and thick,until it pressed against your chest,begging for breath you didn’t know was mine? Will you wonder where I’ve gone,or will my absence feel likean untied shoelace—a momentary inconvenience,easily forgotten? Will you trace the phantom of methrough rooms I never claimed?The crumpled…

The Search

I’m searching for your face in impossible places. I don’t mind scaling the distance in the middle of the night, driving around the cities, deserts, mountains, and expressways, just in case. What I’m trying is to tear the fabric of space & time, hoping it could set all things right, I’ll have you sleeping on…

The Glitch

Different people, different circumstances, different opinions, different thoughts; same fate. Different paths, different approaches, different missions, different struggles; bloody same page. I think there is a glitch. Different faces, different emotions, different dialects, different methods; same message. Different beginnings, different endings, different motions, different pace; all same maze. See, there is a glitch. Brainless thoughts,…

Main Character

The planet is sinking at your feet. The structures around shattering into fragments. Someone’s tearing apart the fabric of your storyline. The stench of conspiracy clogging your nostrils. It’s breaking your bones and your might. Oceans reaching boiling point. All your fears crawling up in daylight. Quakes shaking up the flights. You don’t know if…

Answers

Maybe, one day you’ll talk about your aloofness at me, or maybe that day will never come when we’ll sit next and talk at length about how we made each other feel. Maybe, you’ll tell me about my insecurities that you knew all along, but you kept it to yourself. One day, I hope, you’ll…

Coordinates

I acted outta my skin, catching on that December kind of feeling in June. Flew into the sky, falling flat-face onto the surface of the Moon. My face, stunned; my psyche a little shattered. I don’t understand a million things. My thoughts – numb – dangling outta my skull like that old sweater when you…

Uneven Split

Fifty years of existence, couldn’t move one neutron in the right. Dark prevails gulping, swallowing the light. Plague, a curse is to see only the beauty. What leaves me stunned is my own stupidity. Shooting in space, sputtering fireworks my thoughts. Distorted scripts – the imprints of my mind. Plots change, people shapeshift. World is…

Happiest Lonely Person

Can life happen a little slowly? I’m living in the now. I don’t know what changed, but I’m like Oh Wow. I must have traversed into parallel timeline that rewired my braincells. I have this weird, irresistible glee at this side of the line. All the time. . Can life happen a little slowly? I’m…

for the memories

Candle-light steamy love in cheesy motel room. Our bodies on each other like moth in Moon. Biting my ears as you hummed me to sleep. Wiping my mouth with underwear in morning. That was insanely good. We could have those a lot. Goodnight fight, my fingers inside you. Countless kisses at the places…

Hello

Hopeless I say hello,waiting for a conversation about heavens in this hell below.You look so damn pretty in that dress yellow.“Today is the day”, I’ve been hoping this far too long. Angelic face, satanic smile you’re heartless.Convincing you is like crossing skyscrapers on a rope.Attempts to break so much ice, burns me inside.Today is the…

Online Only

I’m bored to death, and you won’t stop playing games. This is deadlier than the virus. We talk ten times a day in texts and memes and emojis. This cellphone screen isn’t life. We should be watching birds, spending nights maybe in a camp mountain-side. Gaze at the stars or chase fireflies. All…

A fantasy land

We live in a world inside a giant cucumber. We love-fight each other so much, even in our slumber. She travels in a pancake-spaceship, hunting my variants. I’m huge and dumb, and helpless, and naked, in a tie. She comes at the speed of light, but in slow motion, (hehe). She pulls my Rockstar…