Analyzing The Poem 'The Poems Of A Relationship'

Crush to Closure: The Poems of a Relationship
 This poetry collection includes many of the poems that I wrote before, during, and after a year and half long romantic relationship that I had. They follow my emotions from my initial attraction to the individual all the way up until the present day. These poems are arranged in chronological order and follow the course of the relationship and the process that I went through to understand it and move on. The themes that these poems cover include loss of innocence, abuse, romantic love, and self love. Thank you for considering my work. Hypothermia

I leave the windows
Open all night
Just in case
You want to come in

I’ll take my chances
With the cold
If there’s even a possibility 
You will warm

Eventually,
That window will close
And you will be the one
To shiver alone Secondhand Smoke

Sometimes, 
I wish I smoked
Just so I could
Make you feel like I do

How my adrenaline spikes
When you pull out a lighter
And let fire
Hang on your lips

When you take a drag
And hold it in
Looking me over
Just before the release

It drips from you
The danger and anguish
And pools together
In a bundle of ash

You make disease 
Look elegant
Let me take it in
Secondhand Locks

I do not know
How to make you happy

If there’s a key
I don’t have the spare

And if it’s a code
I’ve forgotten the sequence

But I am willing
To break your locks

With my hardened heart
And pull you close to me

So I can suck the sorrow
From your damp skin

But if none of that
Will do for you

Just remember
That someone out there

Wants to kiss the cheeks
That your tears fall on Baby

It’s nine in the morning
The last time I checked
It was only seven

And I am already
Beginning to miss you
As you sleep next to me

Your lips are parted and
You’re laying on your stomach
Like a small child would

And I want nothing more
Than to kiss your forehead
And run my fingers over you

But sleep is a precious thing
In this little world
So I keep still

Closing my eyes
And trying
To dream of

Only softness
And truth

Tugging gently
At your vocal chords

Until it tumbles out
And falls into my lap

So I may cradle
Your love for me Bend/Paper Doll

Fold me up
Your origami girl
Take me with you

Let me nestle
In your pocket
Listening to your body’s rhythms

I can rest against you
Quiet and calm
Until the day is through

Unfold me in your bed
My paper heart
Will flutter at the sight of you

Fold me up
In your arms
I will bend for you Roots

Let's put down roots
Plant ourselves together
Right here in the dirt

It's only been a year
But our garden
Is blooming already

My wild little dreams
Dance like faeries
Hiding under leaves in my mind

Building images of us together
Out of dried petals
And broken twigs

I can't help but wonder
What it would be like
If you wrapped me in white

And spun us together
Into a web that hangs
On the hinges of the world

But I don't know
How to make you see
That I can bring the sun after the rain

And I know that we are young
But all of my grandparents
Built their own houses Reply to “Roots”

Once, I wanted to be buried beside you so badly

That I began to dig my own grave

I thought that I’d crawl into the Earth with you

And we would wrap our roots around each other

I didn’t realize then

That gardens don’t grow that