Parched

 My love your love

Acid Rain

Pouring down on me

I raised my face

Drink it in

Burning

My eyes my throat

So parched

Thirsty for any

Drop

Bottled

 Ill-fitting

Overflowing

Chaotic

Bottle it up

Pack it away

Sensitive 

Needy

Overbearing

Take space

More time

Rejected 

Wounded

Distanced

Handmade Card

 I traced and cut and glued and folded

Learned a new technique

Making that heart shaped card

Inside a line from your favorite movie

A romantic phrase to reach you

You barely looked at it

Shoved in a box hidden on a shelf

Beside my other tokens and expressions

My time and love tucked away from you

Gathering dust at your back

Iron Maiden

 She said

Take off our armor

I will hold you

Abandonment Issues

 I loved you 

More

Than I loved myself

You needed it 

But

I did too

Sunday Kind of Love

 I wanted all Sunday Afternoons

Slow mornings

Reading and writing in the sunlight

Your hands in my hair

Otis Redding and Beach Boys

Connecting

Truthful teary eyed conversation

Resetting it all