Submissions by ArkansasBoy

there is a place where the sea is still
where the waves never speak
where the sky pulls the light away
and all that remains is quiet
a wound that refuses to heal

i stood there once
eyes closed against the salt
waiting for something to surface
but only the weight of absence
answered

you were there too
or maybe you were not
just a shadow in the space between
my breath and the earth
and i could not tell
if you were a memory
or a future

the sea didn’t care
it never cares
it moves in a...

I walked through the garden this morning
the flowers all bent their colors drained
by a sun that no longer remembers how to shine
the ground once soft beneath my feet
feels hollow now like something taken away
before I knew I had lost it

The roses don’t bloom the way they used to
their petals bruised from too much waiting
their fragrance gone leaving only a bitter taste
on the air the trees no longer whisper
secrets to the wind they are silent
and bent like old bones
holding on to something they cannot name

I don’t...