The Art Of Letting Go.

“It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.”

- Unknown

I like you a lot, yes its true and I hope one day you and I can become more than friends, discerning my feelings for you sometimes feels like I'm sailing around the cape of storms in a small dingy, at least in this small bay I'm winning but if you don't feel the same way its okay. l will just quietly beach my boat and watch the waves go by...

how to tell my friend I like her..,,

You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else.

It's silence I crave, it's why I swim

The weight of water

Over me

Around me-

The safe silence of submergence.

At the waters edge I may be ugly,

But underwater, we are made equal And

When I speak strokes

I Am Beautiful.

-Adaptation of my favourite book, the weight of water by Sarah Crossan

You make the simplest things magnanimous.

A small acknowledgement from you

Feels like seeing my name written in the sky,

A smile from you,

is a salve for my wounded heart.

A minute spent with you

feels like a lifetime,

Even holding your hand

feels like having you in bed.

I wish you could feel

how you make me feel.

I wish you could experience

the volumes of ecstacy you give me

So you would know what a privilage it is

to be loved by you.

“I have no enemies, but my friends don’t like me.”

— Philip Larkin

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

— Voltaire (via emergentpattern)

From Alana M. Kelley’s chapbook, In Orbit, available at https://bottlecap.press/products/orbit

They say a picture of you is worth a Thousand words,

But looking at you my memory is Somewhat blurred

Watched my efforts end in vain like blood

Thought my memories of you would stick like glue

Scrolling through my gallery

Pictures of you once took they toll

But now my heart feels nothing

In the midst of our forgotten dialogues

I shed no tears for what remains

I'm always one to remember the good Times

Yet with you I remember nothing

They always teach of true love

Never of true heartbreak

So, like they say in the scriptures

Blessed are those,

who have never met you they shall never know the meaning of true heartbreak

2017.12.17