At the edge of your sheets
I take off my sweater;
my sorrows and earrings
get stuck in it.

They're both still there,
under your bed.
It's no problem if,
with kisses, you drain me.

But stay close
to the erratic rhythm
of my heartbeats

You can’t break me,
there’s always a dream
I’m chasing

Am I a temporary guest in your dreams?
Would you remember the way that I speak?

Would my personality be an ornamental feature to your future party stories?

Would I be a chapter in the terrible draft of the book of your life? Maybe just a page? A line?

Was my staying always conditioned?
Did I have an expiration date?

I’d love a cheat day
In my calendar—
Let my years-patched dignity,
For a single day,
be torn again.

I wish I could tell you
I wrote a poem for you—
A cheesy gift
for your thirtieth—
I know.

You are still breathing.
Yet I pin to my chest
A neat, felt
black ribbon—
To commemorate
The aching

Sometimes with watery eyes,
Sometimes with contained sighs,
Sometimes with deceitful what-ifs,

Sometimes in late shifts,
Sometimes in mood swings,
Sometimes in life’s sweet plot-twists,

but always—always—
thinking of you.

What am I—
if not a seed
of a tree
of romantic branches,
Who taught those before me
How everyone and everything
Hums with daydreaming and glee ?

Another generation passes;
a family heirloom to me handed—
Vintage, well-preserved:
rose-coloured, polarised glasses

I heard an expert say
missing someone
is simply an act of love—
So often woven
into unhealed pain
and heart-sores.

I thought of the night
I vowed to engrave
your laughter in my soul.
Kept safe as a personal vinyl,
sometimes replayed—
because I kept my word.

The wound is forming a scab.
New-knit memories are healing it back.
The wound will scar,
so it could be skin again.
To feel, to be caressed—
by the sun,
by your touch,
by the rain..

The wound will be skin again.
To be scratched and ripped away.
The wound will bleed—
but it will be skin again.
Healed by a newly-formed scab,
woven from fresh threads of recollections
and bedtime-story yarns.

You have the luck of the Irish—
Life grants your every wish.

Balanced, always landing on your feet.
Jupiter-kissed, earthed on a Thursday.
Warm as a summer Sunday,
With a sprinkle of cool, sharp wit.

A soul prone to rumination,
A trait you don’t hide— you admit.

Perhaps your moon aligning with my sun
Is why you left me such an impression.
Am I enlisting your perks,
or writing a confession?

I can’t seem to find the words
for how your eyes squint when you smile—
to you, a quirk of genetic design,
to me, a proof, a striking sign:

Lady Luck herself,
has finally taken my side!