Transcendence

Micro Poems: Still Breathing

I

You once told me you didn't believe in coincidences
But how else do you explain us meeting
In a city far away from home.
-Fate

II

And I wonder if finding friends among the dying
Is healthy for a girl who once wanted to die
-Recovery

III

Your eyes reflect the fire beneath my chest
Every time you look at me.
Flames lick across rib cage bone, igniting the
cracks left behind by
Past phantom fingers trying to reach for dampen wood
stop the fire from an uncontrollable swallow because there was fear
In their palms
She is too much of everything
But your fingertips are calloused- numb against the burn

VI

Who am I supposed to be when you aren't with me
I only know how to exist in your presence.
How terrifying it must be to have that kind of power

V

The same memory floods my thoughts when I'm
With you: the first time you kissed me with so much
Conviction, I loved me too.
-The First Time

VI

I never thought I'd forget about him
Until I met You
-Moving On

VII
I've collected pieces of you in Glass jars
And I wait for the day fireflies are born

VIII

The love i have for you is only a distraction to
The fact that I cannot love myself.
- Self-esteem

IX

Fire seeps through your teeth every time you speak.

X

We are trying to mold our fingers together-
bone seeping into bone
Just to remember who we were Yesterday

XI

I still find your eyes haunting my sleep

XII

The Problem isn't that I'm not enough.
It's that too many people have put me down for
Being too much.
-Conformity

XIII

After a night of killing myself and suffocating
I wake up to the sun and breathe.
-Hope