( @asiatheabstract and I wrote together)
Cherry stained eyes, remembering your taste, still visions of your faults all over my bed sheets
cherry stained cheeks
when we argued about who loved who more, when we planned the names of the unborn and made playlists begging for procreation
-cherry stained I hate yous and I’ll love you forever, wrapped and concealed deep in tear stained nights and leftovers
cherry stained lies
taste bitter as raspberries
sweet strawberry kisses clear my mind and my palete
i can never hold a grudge
-cherry blurred mirrors, chasing every corner of every curve of my body, emphasis on my hips, quick trips around my lips;the creases where you had me facing the moon
cherry bombs explode
in my chest when i see you
your presence is magnetic my body cant help but find you
my body can’t help but feel you
old cologne in the shirt that i sleep in
it’s yours
-Cherry cruised Cadillac riding through my hood, with the top down, how you left my top down, it was yours, and I was yours, and this night was yours, and these keys and this old record player, it was all yours, I gave it to you so you’ll keep me, yours, then you left, and everything I granted to be yours, you stole
cherrybushes hid the sunlight
the windy city got too cold
hot chai wouldnt warm the cold nights of reality
-Cherry scum left of those surreal moments between my thighs, holy and righteous like noon revival in a corner baptist church shaped like a house with the temperature past dead, church fans waving around to spread glory
cherry scented secrets
that unstuck any sticking we had
the glue dried right along with the tears.
and left in their place were a few loaves of resentment
& a pinch of salt
-Cherry bitterness of sweet nothing’s, like Popsicles but everything like that first morning light of the sun peaking through sealed blinds, with last night recorded on the bed of the plastic rod, twisted like you had me
cherry blossomed conversations
give me a tour of your mind
then intellectualize the mysteries of mine
mime every promise
show me dont tell
-Don’t patronize, but lead, don’t love in haste, but like in sincerity, the next, cherry filled girl that gives everything to you,who will be ready to slide along rainbows with you, and cry for you and pick out your Sunday tie, to match with her retired Friday night eye shadow
