This Is How To Love From Afar

You were gone, but I could still smell the way you were in the morning before the baptismal droplets of shower water washed away the sins of the night before.

When the Winter Sadness Creeps In

An intense loneliness takes over me the second the temperature drops. It’s unsettling, the way I can be surrounded by people but still feel as if I’m alone.

When The Storm Leaves

But it’s not enough. Not until every last shred of hope is torn away, out of my life, out of this town.