Wave Crashes

Wave crashes

Against the halcyon shore

Sweeping the silvery beach

A lover coming home

Only to leave again

It never stays

Like the moon that fades

To give way to the day

I watch your face beam

As the sun kisses it

Feel my heart aches

For I can only stare at it

Such a tragedy that I

I fell in love with the moon

That no matter how I yearn

I won't hold it like my own

For just like the sun,

I can only hope to rise soon

Maybe sooner than I used to

So I can catch your light at dawn

But I would run extra miles

You and I won't still collide

So I whisper to the stars

Baby I'm halfway home

-halfway home (I fell in love with the 🌙 )

Katie, 23:00

You came to me in the most unexpected time. Now I can't read a book without hearing you; can't write a poem without feeling you. I breathe you between the lines; ink you like a treasured memory. And as I close my eyes I see you behind my lids: alive and vivid. You used to be a dream I hold in my sleep. Now you're a reality that makes me excited to wake up for you make me fall in love.

You make me fall in love,

Katie, 21:30

It's okay to fall. Heroes do that most of the time. You're not forbidden to crawl. Soldiers do that too, in the battleground. This is your life, this is your story. You can live and write it in your own version. But while it's okay to fall and to crawl. Remember to rise through it all.

-remember to rise,

katie, a time to heal

Thank you for setting me free. For choosing to let go. For giving up on me. You know how I broke the moment your footsteps died in the hall. Tore my heart out when the truth that we’re finally over dawned. I was desperate, crying for hours over a love I thought would last. For weeks I kept imploring the gods. In grief, I was begging you to come back.

Then suddenly, I was no longer grieving. Suddenly, I was no longer pained. Suddenly, I was no longer mumbling your name.

For in the darkness, he found me. Brave as Lochinvar, he took my hand. Suddenly, I am looking at the sunset. Suddenly, I notice his eyes are golden. Suddenly he becomes my one and only. Suddenly, he means the world to me.

-He means the world to me,

Katie, 20:00

Someday I'll stop hurting

The wounds I wear today

Will finally close

As I turn the pages

Of my book

I am the hero

That you took

Advantage of

I will rise

And stop hurting

You will watch me

A child outgrowing

All your insecurities

And the bottle

Where you store

All sweet nothings

That used to lure

Me into believing

In empty phrases

I will not fit in there

Anymore

So I need

To revolutionize

My thoughts

Free myself

From your tentacles

That bind me to a story

Which plot

No longer appeal

To my

Metamorphosing

Soul

a time to heal,

katie, a time to heal