There's Distractions And Then The Feeling Slipping In Between Your Ribs, And It Doesn't Go Away It Doesn't

it always came down to this, since the very beginning of time but if we keep wanting it, we're told it's pathetic, by the time we act tough, it might be gone. fools.

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

and I'm not gonna share any of it with anyone

i want romance. i want intimacy. i want the 2 am love making. i want consistency, loyalty. i want the random looks of admiration. i want to know you're just for me. i want date nights. i want love so pure and true. i want it because i can return it.

last day of august.

a love like that, all mine🫀

Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021

You are going to be okay.

anyway, don't be a stranger

p.s. i still wait for you

I am sp ready love, I hope the universe brings me a good guy this time.❤️

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us.”

Will I be too needy and greedy

to be asking for a 50mint long hug?

Cause, I want to be swallowed by the

feeling of warmth in my body

I can feel my heart turning to a stone

Everytime I run towards love, i could

feel my stone cold heart knocking

against my rib cage

it breaks my bones

it hurts a lot

and sit still for a while

until it goes away.

Until I meet someone new

who again makes me want to feel

embrace the warmth.

But the cycle continues.