11/9
Tell me, love
Just so I know
How many pieces
Do you plan
To shatter
My heart into?
-Sarah Clinton
Tag: trust
Reading Between The Lines
11/12
Every time you woke up
And murmured, “I missed you,”
I knew that was code for
An “I love you”
That you feared would
Tear your heart in two
If you allowed the words
To escape those beautiful lips
That enthrall me
Every time you speak.
-Sarah Clinton
Trust Falls
9/10/18
Make no mistake:
It is cowardice
To coax a woman’s heart
Into a trust fall
When you never planned
To temper her descent.
-Sarah Clinton
It Works Every Time
10/22/18
Silence my fears
With your tongue
And banish my insecurities
With those sinfully deft fingertips
Which trace the language of
Your desire
Around my hips and
‘Cross the curve of my lower back
Again and again…
Just make love to me, darling.
That’s when all is right with the world.
-Sarah Clinton
This One Thing
10/22/2018
Rest assured, love,
I am not frightened of
The depth of your pain
Your darkness
Does not scare me.
Just promise
You won’t offer me
In exchange
To the demon who
Keeps driving needles
Into your heart from afar.
-Sarah Clinton
All I Ask
All I ask of you
Is that you not sacrifice my heart
As a peace offering
To keep your own misery at bay.
-Sarah Clinton
Self-confidence Sunday #16
Sometimes, people view the decision to forgive as weakness or a lack of understanding of one’s own worth. While I can understand that view, I have decided that in my own life, I will view my capacity to move on and let go of anger–as well as my ability to love and trust again in the future despite the horrible things he put me (well, *us*) through–as a sign of my strength, resilience, and loving nature. My worth was and is not diminished by his inability to treat me as though I am deserving of a faithful partner. S. was a lesson more than he was anything else, and I intend to learn what he was brought in my life to teach, painful though it was. Things will be so much better from here on out. <3
A Stunning Betrayal
My entire relationship was a lie.
It’s Friday now; I found out Monday night. Since then, I have experienced a roller coaster of emotions: shock, numbness, anger, sadness, despair, determination, hope, regret, incredulity, wistfulness, pure unadulterated pain… You name it, I probably felt it this week.