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I could write poems about you forever, because every new day with you will bring a flood of things I need to get out of my head. Yet I still cannot bring myself to write a single line. You crash into me like the high tide. I could take you into my lungs without drowning, because you’re addicting in so many odd ways. And I have to ponder whenever someone asks me what my favorite sound is, because I’m caught between the sound of your voice and the way you laugh, and they both make my heart swell like a furious sea. I was a dragon with a mouth full of teeth and a thunderstorm in my heart, but one look at you makes me choke on my own flames, and somehow you’ve escaped my desire to bite. You have the rumble of a storm in your eyes and a wildfire in your soul, and I can see the stars you breathe, I can feel your greatness in my bones. Haley Hoyt Empty Bones and Hollow Homes 74