Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong

How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.

I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts