Puzzles

I find myself hopelessly awake
On nights where I have forgotten
To go to sleep
Times where I barricade myself behind so many doors
With puzzle locks, that eventually I
Lose track of the times I could fit all the peices together
I wander through fog and broken trees
Grappling at phantom branches
My feet make sense of the terrain through clumsy steps
And the wind whispers fairy tales
That I am curious enough to follow
If only until the the morning breaks

On our fifth anniversary I let myself feel

I have always wanted to read poetry on a train
To feel the rails vibrate beneath my feet as I live
In anothers world, devour their words as if it was the only thing I had eaten that day
The mechanical mobility a muse of
Cold metal against small streams struggling to maintain the name
The sun glows from behind broken trees
And it catches the Golden flecks of your iris
The shape of your jawline becomes the only poetry I read,
The curve of your lips left in a smirk
I fill myself with the way your foot barely touches my knee and the way you look into my eyes and mouth
"You're beautiful"
I have always been one to shy from those words
Despite the declaration
But in that moment I allowed myself to feel the weight of it
Rest on my tongue, quenching any thirst I could ever have

Cut loose

She was a firey girl,
     Every step she took, she bounced,
Laughing at nothing
I sat beneath the oaks
Envying the carefree moment
I do not let loose
And enjoy the moment
Too many criticisms for someone who's not in complete control
But I am safe barred and controlled under the
Guise of mundane words
Content with waiting,
   I am the saftey, you can be sure that
When you cut lose
I am there, keeping every bad decision at bay