All I wanted was the world by pikku-hiiri, literature
Literature
All I wanted was the world
I wanted everything with you.
To wake up one morning,
and see your sleeping face
and know
that from that moment on,
your freckles would be the first thing I saw
on all my mornings.
To go on adventures,
holding your hand
while sitting on the roof of our van
and exclaiming over beautiful things,
then looking at you and realising
I’ve already seen the peak of beauty.
To kiss you,
and know that your lips will be the last
to ever touch my own.
To experience that breathless moment,
hanging like gossamer between us,
right before the “yes”.
To sign that stupid piece of paper,
that nevertheless means so much,
bec
Love strangles me.
My heart
Creeps, scratching, up my throat
Seeking release,
To hang itself
From my impotent tongue.
What use are words anyway?
What use my love now,
Turned to acid
That drills holes,
Sizzling and weeping
Through my chest.
I wait,
I wait,
I wait.
I hold on to a hope,
Too bright,
It shears the sight from my eyes
And flays me,
Laying me out
Broken and naked beneath it.
I pull on layers of gauzy dreams,
Hiding the cracks in my seams,
Where I'm tearing myself apart.
Smiling
And smiling.
It's ok,
It's ok.
I'd do it all again,
You're worth the pain.
The best things in the world
Aren't easy.
It's a cliche,
I know.
But it's true.
The roads to the most interesting places
Are potholed,
Bumpy,
Dusty
And uncomfortable.
But you reach your destination
And the view makes the discomfort
Worth it.
So I will wait.
And wander
Down this ill-kept path.
I will watch the flowers
Bloom and die,
I will watch the trees
Shed their leaves and fruit
And grow green again.
I will count the strands of grey
As they appear in my locs,
And measure the depth of the lines
As they arrive
Around my eyes.
I will hold on
To the memory
of your skin against mine,
And your lips against my ear,
Your voice breathing love.
I
My whole world
Crashing
Down around my ears,
And all you can do is
Fucking
Laugh.
"It’s schadenfreude, bitch.
Nothing I can do.
You gotta help yourself."
Help myself?
Ok.
I get up in the mornings
When I feel like leaving my bed
Might kill me.
Sometimes I even get dressed
Even though the seams of jeans
Scraping against my thighs
Is like a subtle, silent torture.
Reminding me
Of the scars they sit against.
Even though the necessity
Of removing my shirt
Makes me want to peel off
My skin along with it.
Because it doesn’t fit
Has never fitted
Feels so wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
I help myself
Every time I take a bite of food,
Ignoring the v
I am jealous of your life before.
Of all the fingers that have touched you,
And the ears that have heard you say
“I love you.”
I am jealous
Of all the parts of you I will never know,
Of all the years that I didn’t play a part in,
Of all the smiles that I didn’t cause.
I know I have no right to be,
I cannot claim every piece of you,
I cannot deny you a history,
I cannot be your everything.
But god knows, I want to be.
Because what if those ghosts of fingers
Still touch you?
What if you still hear the echoes
Of “I love you”s that tripped from tongues
Other than mine?
What if all those smiles,
Half remembered,
I’m slipping again.
I can hear them.
Whispered admonishments,
Echo in my head…
Louder and louder,
As I feel fuller and fuller,
All my spaces filled with shadows,
And the demons start to creep,
Clawing up my throat
And through the cuts in my skin.
I can’t control the chaos,
My hands are sliding on the reins,
I wish that I could ask for help,
But they won’t let me.
I don’t recognise the face I see,
Staring from the mirror,
It’s pale,
empty,
An ill-formed shell,
A weak and cracked container
For this maelstrom,
My hell.
They’re scratching at my skin again,
Make it stop, make it stop.
My bones are break
I have never been afraid of fire.
Which is good, I think,
Because when I am with you
I feel like I might go up in flames.
You have consumed me more thoroughly
Than a pyre would, love.
And I have never been so happy to burn.
All I wanted was the world by pikku-hiiri, literature
Literature
All I wanted was the world
I wanted everything with you.
To wake up one morning,
and see your sleeping face
and know
that from that moment on,
your freckles would be the first thing I saw
on all my mornings.
To go on adventures,
holding your hand
while sitting on the roof of our van
and exclaiming over beautiful things,
then looking at you and realising
I’ve already seen the peak of beauty.
To kiss you,
and know that your lips will be the last
to ever touch my own.
To experience that breathless moment,
hanging like gossamer between us,
right before the “yes”.
To sign that stupid piece of paper,
that nevertheless means so much,
bec
Love strangles me.
My heart
Creeps, scratching, up my throat
Seeking release,
To hang itself
From my impotent tongue.
What use are words anyway?
What use my love now,
Turned to acid
That drills holes,
Sizzling and weeping
Through my chest.
I wait,
I wait,
I wait.
I hold on to a hope,
Too bright,
It shears the sight from my eyes
And flays me,
Laying me out
Broken and naked beneath it.
I pull on layers of gauzy dreams,
Hiding the cracks in my seams,
Where I'm tearing myself apart.
Smiling
And smiling.
It's ok,
It's ok.
I'd do it all again,
You're worth the pain.
The best things in the world
Aren't easy.
It's a cliche,
I know.
But it's true.
The roads to the most interesting places
Are potholed,
Bumpy,
Dusty
And uncomfortable.
But you reach your destination
And the view makes the discomfort
Worth it.
So I will wait.
And wander
Down this ill-kept path.
I will watch the flowers
Bloom and die,
I will watch the trees
Shed their leaves and fruit
And grow green again.
I will count the strands of grey
As they appear in my locs,
And measure the depth of the lines
As they arrive
Around my eyes.
I will hold on
To the memory
of your skin against mine,
And your lips against my ear,
Your voice breathing love.
I
My whole world
Crashing
Down around my ears,
And all you can do is
Fucking
Laugh.
"It’s schadenfreude, bitch.
Nothing I can do.
You gotta help yourself."
Help myself?
Ok.
I get up in the mornings
When I feel like leaving my bed
Might kill me.
Sometimes I even get dressed
Even though the seams of jeans
Scraping against my thighs
Is like a subtle, silent torture.
Reminding me
Of the scars they sit against.
Even though the necessity
Of removing my shirt
Makes me want to peel off
My skin along with it.
Because it doesn’t fit
Has never fitted
Feels so wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
I help myself
Every time I take a bite of food,
Ignoring the v
I am jealous of your life before.
Of all the fingers that have touched you,
And the ears that have heard you say
“I love you.”
I am jealous
Of all the parts of you I will never know,
Of all the years that I didn’t play a part in,
Of all the smiles that I didn’t cause.
I know I have no right to be,
I cannot claim every piece of you,
I cannot deny you a history,
I cannot be your everything.
But god knows, I want to be.
Because what if those ghosts of fingers
Still touch you?
What if you still hear the echoes
Of “I love you”s that tripped from tongues
Other than mine?
What if all those smiles,
Half remembered,
I’m slipping again.
I can hear them.
Whispered admonishments,
Echo in my head…
Louder and louder,
As I feel fuller and fuller,
All my spaces filled with shadows,
And the demons start to creep,
Clawing up my throat
And through the cuts in my skin.
I can’t control the chaos,
My hands are sliding on the reins,
I wish that I could ask for help,
But they won’t let me.
I don’t recognise the face I see,
Staring from the mirror,
It’s pale,
empty,
An ill-formed shell,
A weak and cracked container
For this maelstrom,
My hell.
They’re scratching at my skin again,
Make it stop, make it stop.
My bones are break
I have never been afraid of fire.
Which is good, I think,
Because when I am with you
I feel like I might go up in flames.
You have consumed me more thoroughly
Than a pyre would, love.
And I have never been so happy to burn.
I haven't been doing a whole lot of photography for myself recently. I've been doing a bit of writing and a bit of wedding photography, as well as crocheting xmas presents, but mostly I've just been getting bogged down in the day job!
But anyhoo, I decided to submit a few of my wedding photos, because why not? :)
"I feel like I'm indulging in a kind of slow self-destruction at the moment, every secret action shredding away a layer of myself, every errant thought adding a weak spot. I wonder what happens when all the layers have been peeled away… they must be finite after all, I can't continue on this fucked up road forever… soon I'll be exposed, raw and sensitive and completely vulnerable… totally unprotected. It amuses me to think on it. After all these years of building my walls, it's strangely satisfying to pull them down again; it's like the adrenaline rush you get from doing something dangerous and stupid, like playing chicken on a busy road… you