All Because I Met You-

I've spent countless hours
<<<suspended into days
-suspended into the infinite.

<I cannot retract this.>

I've given fragments of myself
to the undeserving.
Left with nothing to call my own.
I never questioned it.


My knotted past
is (I am) a tangled mess.
I am an enigmatic being.
 Full of puzzle pieces
that have been crammed
where they don't belong.
The unfitting ; never fitting.

I've been carefully
and diligently
pulling apart:
 piece by piece.

Tattered, torn-
I can see
 each and every  layer
in-between.
So I've begun
to erase memory
of this mismatched visual.

Letting go of fear.

All because I met you.

Pins and Needles-

There are hidden messages  

etched under my skin.

Pins and needles 

exposing nerve endings.

Evaporating feeling: externalizing.

Rising  into my pores.

This fear is only as real

as the thoughts I think.

Everything I have ever let go of

have the scars to prove it.

Look Elsewhere-

Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves 

when we are not paying attention. 

Looking for yourself 

in the bounds of someone else

will only get you lost.

Let this be a lesson,

not a resentment.