by Troy Taylor
People who are in love, are the best artists.
You see, I used your red flags as canvas
A canvas to paint what I wanted to see.
Because I saw this relationship through rose colored glasses, so those rose colored flags, also known as red flags just looked like flags.
Did you take the water from the river I cried for you and offer me a glass that was only half full?
I made up reasons to stay with you but I ignored the facts telling me to leave, does that only make me a half fool?
Why were you so bad at showing love and so good at saying I love you?
Did you practice it in the mirror?
Did you get it tattooed on your tongue so it sounds more natural coming out?
So eager to talk to you that when you that when you didn’t answer your phone the automated message became music to my ears.
Your I love you’s started to sound like automated messages that were music to my ears.
We smile at each other like slit throats, and laugh like open caskets.
The tragedy is that there is no tomorrow. It’s just ironic that we knew that yesterday.
That night I’ve had enough...just kidding I spent two more days with you, before I built the courage to snap.
I no longer had butterflies, I had falcons. You were so use to seeing the color of submission in my eyes, so that night, I made sure you saw colors that you didnt even recognize. We became two tongues too drunk on emotion, that argued each other sober.
So sober, it blocked our vision and we couldn’t see a future with each other.
Today I’m celebrating my first day of sobriety.
by Jen Davies
"They say there’s a science to the art of attraction;
that there’s a chemistry between two compounds
which can be determined by balancing equations
and by performing few calculations.
Sparks can light up a Bunsen burner if applied with gentle pressure,
the two liquids mixed and left to sit,
then sifted through life’s straining mesh, leaving- shit.
So, many say that love and science
have an inverse relationship, as love is different for each.
No ruler can measure
it in metric or English units.
But I believe that people in love
are comprised of the same atoms,
sometimes differently wired.
And yet, as a wire, the two are metal,
and oppositely magnetic-
thus, these magnetic forces
can be surprisingly strong
once people know
with whom they belong"
