cloud charm
our song in my headphones doesn’t feel the same anymore.
when my friends ask about you,
I fake a laugh,
but deep down,
my heart aches a little… just from hearing your name.
I know you’re somewhere
out there,
some distant place.
I want you back,
but I know my verses won’t guide my steps back to you.
may you at least meet someone
who gives you flowers,
who dances with you,
who loves you
the way I once did.
the rain comes with one single purpose:
to ruin even more what’s already broken.
that day,
the sound of the rain—
which once brought me comfort—
became nothing but a disguise for my tears.
and as I remembered
that all my recent poems,
the ones I’d written through the weeks,
had been thrown away,
I felt my chest grow heavy again.
I couldn’t bear this pain anymore.
I didn’t want this pain anymore.
all my dreams with you
were slowly
dissipating on the horizon…
little by little,
a majestic vision
of what it means
to feel impossible to be loved—
yet completely capable of still loving
the one who never knew how to say the same.
I don’t know how long
I can keep loving you,
but
probably,
as long as my heart keeps beating,
it will choose
to chase after you.
limber kiln
balmy flume
void lantern
crisp girder
void plinth
fleet solstice
limpid salmon