Submissions by rosetyler2005

It was one of those things that had to be done in person. Sure, a call or a text would be infinitely easier, but I hadn't gone through so much to end it with the easy way out. Sometimes, I would mouth the words or breathe in like I was just about to sigh them out, but no sound ever came. Thinking about saying it out loud made my heart pitter-patter and pitter-patter, until the anxiety built up enough to stop me. What if it changed things? What if nothing was ever the same? I didn’t want people talking about me. I didn’t want to know whether they were “surprised” or “not surprised.” I knew the...

the curve of your neck
transports me to oblivion
turning back is done

lost in your eyes not
cliche at all when it’s true
i find myself there

love is no longer
sufficient a prayer for life
god lives in between

spiritual or not
there’s magic in our silence
turning love to dust

laughter enters the
air and freezes a moment
just minutes from death

but you save me from
the oblivion you bring me
back to solid ground

and remind me why
i was put on this...

I love you. No, no I am in love with you and I have been for…a while. And I guess the timing has just been a little bit off. Like if the earth’s axis was tilted at just a hundredth of a degree more, we could have been together all this time. See, you were taken when we met. And last summer when I realized I was in love with you, you were available, but I was too scared. I didn’t even know I was capable of loving a girl, and that scared the hell out of me. So I pushed those feelings so deep down that they tore my insides apart. But I can love a girl and that girl was—is—you. And now, when I’m...