Embrace Impermanence

the world keeps happening
and we keep
longing for each other
while belonging to others.

~e.i

i tried to make you ordinary.

your ordinary eyes
looking at me,
your stupid ordinary hand
waving your annoying
ordinary hello

and all i could think of
was how all
those extra ordinarys
once made my life
less than ordinary.

~e.i

falling in love with you
was like leaving home
with an umbrella
on a stormy day

and stumbling upon a
city of lost rainbows

~e.i

how tragic that
ordinary days and
ordinary lives is
what we choose

when love is
all we want but
are afraid to do.

~e.i

I need the world to
pull you out of me

because I’ve shed so
many layers of love

and still
i can close my eyes

and feel you
breathe in my skin
and your heart
beat in my chest.

~e.i

like the firefly
i set fire to my body
in hopes of lighting up
your dark world.

~e.i

let’s stop the pretending.

you with the caring
and
me with the being okay.

let’s admit that

you hit reset
and
i hit replay.

~e.i

maybe i keep my head
so high in the clouds

because i know
of no other way

to stop bumping
into my old stories.

~e.i

you should rejoice.

my heart has
finally gone still
beaten into
submission by your
friendly eyes

because today
you oblivious,
smiled at me and
my lips were able to
smile back at you.

~e.i

i was thinking about you.

about how being with you
made me feel like
I’d just noticed that
i’d been wearing a sweater
that had shrunk.
making me feel hot,
uncomfortable, stifled.
and i finally pull it off,
over my head

and i feel liberated
i can breathe again
my skin tingles
as cool breeze
and warm sun
rush to kiss it.

i was thinking about how you made me feel.

~e.i