you are the only one
who knows how to unfold me
without tearing the pages
you find the places
I have kept carefully creased
the corners I tucked away
from everyone else
you learn me slowly
with fingertips that never rush
finding the language
beneath my silence
you know where I am soft
where I am guarded
where years have taught me
to close myself tightly
and somehow
with you
I don’t have to hide
between the lines
you unfold me
until there is nothing left
but the truth of me
in your hands
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Still water
you hold them carefully
the way a library guards
its late-night quiet
iris pulled tight around a dark
unwritten center
I look
and the room tilts
there is a city under your lashes
wet asphalt reflecting traffic lights
that blinked out twenty plus years ago
there is a boy standing on a sea wall
looking down at his watch
that never leaves his wrist
learning how silence feels
when it fills a room
a million little ghosts
wearing the clothes you used to wear
living in the spaces between your blinks
I see the map of every turn you took
and the quiet side streets
you wanted to walk but didn’t
triumphs no one clapped for
a hard word held back
a morning you chose
to pull the curtains open anyway
heartbreaks that never bled out loud
just turned to salt and settled
at the bottom of your throat
you blink
and the light shifts
a chapter closes
another page turns
over in the dark
you ask me what I’m looking at
and I want to tell you
I am standing at the edge
of an entire ocean
watching the tide bring in everything
you thought you had forgotten
Everything unsaid
there is a heavy geometry to silence
a physics of all the sentences
we swallowed to keep the peace
they settle in the marrow
dense as lead
turning quiet rooms
into glass jars
a whole geography
lives in the throat
unsaid apologies
the truth that arrived
five minutes too late
the sparks
that could have lit the path
or burned it all down
we carry them
through ordinary days
their anchor-weight
tethered to our ribs
our lungs adapting
to the smaller room inside us
learning the art of moving forward
under a sky we built from silence
but how free we would be
if we let go of the unsaid
Everywhere you are
your atoms are the essence
of every scattered dandelion seed
I have ever blown into the wind
I want you alive
in every strange corner
of the world
in the warmth
that settles against my skin
on summer afternoons
in the gold
that spills across the grass
just before evening
in the tiny white parachutes
lifting from a dandelion
when I breathe against them
and watch them disappear
because maybe
they aren’t disappearing
maybe they’re carrying you
your atoms are everywhere I look
threaded through the flowers
sleeping beneath the soil
floating through the air
between my fingers
and maybe mine
are somewhere inside you too
maybe when you laugh
some part of me is already there
a molecule of my existence
moving through your lungs
becoming breath
becoming warmth
becoming you
I like thinking
that we’re not as separate
as we pretend to be
that the space between us
is only an illusion
made by distance
and skin
because everything is borrowed
from everything else
the stars gave us
the elements in our bones
the earth gave us
the minerals in our blood
the wind carries
pieces of flowers
from one field into another
and somehow
out of all the infinite ways
the universe
could have arranged itself
it made you
it made me
so I blow the dandelion
and watch its seeds rise
not as wishes
but as little pieces
of the same universe
that made you
Her favorite color is blue
her favorite color is blue
maybe because the sky
has always known
how to hold something beautiful
without ever asking it to stay
she looks up and there it is
that endless shade above her
the same blue that somehow
makes her think of him
and wonder
if he sees the same shade
maybe that is why
she loves the ocean too
not just for the way it moves
or how the waves
keep reaching the shore
even after being pulled away
but because
somewhere inside all that blue
she can still feel him
the ocean reminds her
that some things can be far away
and still feel close
blue lives in the little things now
the quiet of Saturday morning
the late night dreams
the confessions shared
in the moments
that seem so ordinary
and somehow in everything
he is the first person she thinks of
blue is the color of almost
almost touching
almost saying what they felt
almost closing the distance
and maybe that’s why
she never stopped loving it
because blue doesn’t remind her
of something she lost
it reminds her
of someone she loves
of the way certain colors
can carry certain feelings
of how one shade
can make an ordinary moment
feel a little more like him
so when someone asks
why blue is her favorite color
she smiles and says
i’ve always loved blue
and leaves out the part where
blue was never just a color
it was the sky
that made her think of him
the ocean that somehow
feels a little more beautiful
because it reminds her of him
the quiet color
that found its way into her heart
long before she realized why
and maybe that’s all blue has to be
a color she loves
a feeling she can’t quite explain
and a little reminder
of him
wherever she finds it
Endless poetry
your love does not fit
into neat stanzas
it refuses the cage
of a rigid rhyme scheme
it is the sudden
breathtaking metaphor
stumbled upon in the dark
the kind that makes the chest ache
with a quiet undeniable truth
you are the cadence
of a late-night thought
the deliberate pause
between heartbeats
where everything unsaid
finds its perfect resonant weight
I do not need
to count the syllables
of your laughter
or measure the meter
of your breath against mine
like the best lines ever written
you simply exist
raw
untamed
and beautifully alive
we are a living draft
written in the margins
of ordinary days
turning the mundane
into something sacred
no rules
no boundaries
just the effortless poetry
Captured
I do not photograph the world as it is.
I photograph the moments when it reveals itself.
The sliver of light that finds a forgotten corner. The hands that carry years of stories. The glance that disappears before anyone else notices. The quiet places where life leaves its fingerprints.
Photography, for me, is not about simply capturing what is in front of the lens. It is about noticing what others might pass by. It is about finding the quiet details, the fleeting emotions, and the pieces of life that often exist for only a moment.
I walk through noise searching for silence. I look through glass searching for truth. I wait for the heartbeat between what happens and what is gone.
A photograph is not just an image.
It is a promise that something existed.
A feeling.
A place.
A person.
A piece of time that refused to disappear.
I do not chase perfection.
I chase honesty.
The blur.
The shadow.
The imperfections that make a moment human.
Because sometimes the most beautiful photographs are not the ones that are flawless. They are the ones that feel alive. The ones that hold a story, a memory, or a feeling that brings us back to a moment we thought was lost.
My camera is not a witness.
It is a translator.
It turns light into memory, seconds into stories, and the invisible into something we can finally see.
Every photograph is a conversation between the world and the person behind the lens. A quiet reminder to slow down, to pay attention, and to recognize the beauty that exists in the ordinary.
I photograph because the world is always speaking.
I am simply here to listen.
Dawn’s Embrace
take me where the light is gentle
barely waking the world
where shadows stretch
like whispered secrets
and the air holds its breath
skin glowing in the hush
between night and day
open without shame
hands tracing
the quiet promise of morning
slow and deliberate
like a vow
spoken without words
touch me
in this fragile light
where everything feels new
and everything is possible
where the warmth of your breath
presses softly against my skin
and time slows to the rhythm
of our joined heartbeats
hold me here
in the light that drapes us
like a secret
and let me melt
into the soft edges
of dawn’s embrace
My favorite chapter
if love had a language
your eyes would be
my favorite chapter
the one I return to
when the world forgets
how to be gentle
they speak
without the burden of words
holding entire seasons
inside a single glance
a quiet alphabet of warmth
of storms survived
of dawns still waiting to happen
I have learned the shape of hope
in the way your gaze lingers
how silence becomes a sanctuary
when it is shared between us
every blink
turns another page
every smile hidden there
is a sentence I never tire of reading
and if one day
the rest of the story fades
if time scatters its pages
to the wind
I will always remember
the language your eyes
taught my heart
that love is not always spoken
but endlessly understood
Memorized
I know each line of your face
like verses in a poem
I’ve memorized by heart
the gentle curve where laughter lives
the faint crease of past storms
weathered in silence
the soft trace time has dared
to leave near your eyes
not as a thief but as an artist
each line is a map
of joy
of ache
of sleepless wonder
I’ve traced them with my eyes
a thousand times
and still they catch me off guard
like a favorite song played
slow and low in the dark
to know your face
is to know a story
without needing words
a story that keeps unfolding
even when you’re still
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