For My Uncle
My body tensed when I realized I’d have to go from the present to the past when I spoke about you. Simple syntax becomes a catalyst for epiphany The only […]
Author Archives: ElleDawn
Daily Prompt: Fret
Everyone loves to see my smile so big, beautiful, infectious magnetic and genuine but the world can only see all that I pretend to be. It seems we all get […]
Why Love?
Because the dopamine high I get while your soul dives into mine can only be matched by the way my heart flutters when you smile. The way you smile and […]
“In our Western understanding of time we involve the correlative of distance. The past is away in that direction, the future in that, and the present is just here, where […]
Broken Love
They say it’s better to have loved and lost than not loved at all… Well I’m calling bullshit on that one. I don’t think it’s better to have given my […]
#PostADay !
Next month is National Poetry Month, and I will be celebrating by posting at least 1-3 poems per day in an attempt to repair my abysmal current posting schedule. Xo
Pyromaniac
We were fire and fire and I burnt out.
The all-consuming chemical, my love for you
combusted when I tasted the flavour of your lips
n felt the linger of your touch tantalize my skin
sending shockwaves of heat through my bloodstream.
A drug coursing through my veins,
I remain intoxicated.
Self-love abated by addiction –
for my drug of choice.
