We Once Knew People We Could Have Been

and here we are... 

two people pretending to be 

people we are not, 

two people wanting to be more. 

so when we tell other people 

we used to know each other, 

it is just us saying: 

we once knew people 

we could have been 

and 

maybe when all of this 

suffering is over I will see 

you on the other side 

and we will build something 

real, and we will be 

happy there

R.M. Drake

TO DIE A LITTLE IN MY ARMS

I want to pull you into me.

The way a kiss pulls the soul

out of you. I want it all,

everything inside. I want to

open my mouth and see you

drowning in the bottom of my

stomach; where my laughter

dwells. There is no other way

to put it, I want my smile

to burn through your skull in

the worst way possible. I

want you to remember what it

is like to die a little in

my arms. To remember what it

is like to love. To fall and

barely survive the way down

R.M. Drake

THIS LOVE WE SEEK IS NOT REAL

There will  be times when we

feel like we are meant to be

alone, like this love we seek

is not real and we created it

to make sense of our emptiness.

And because of that, sometimes

some of us become bitter with

the idea that love is only the

anticipation of finding someone

we will never live to meet.

So we live our lives looking for

something to fill us and give us

meaning. Only to discover that

in the end, love was never meant

to be received by one person

but rather all the people who

made us feel at home.

R.M. Drake

WE ARE MOMENTS

We are magic.

we are moments.

we are dreams and

we are memories.

we are everything.

and in the depths

we swim deeper to

discover that we

are not born whole

so we cannot be

broken. we are born

searching, searching

for the other piece

that other person

to guide us home.


R.M. Drake

WHERE THE GENTLE MADNESS IS

The night was meant for

people like us. For people

who use it to get away.

For people who see themselves

in the city lights and for

those who lose themselves in

the long walks home.

The night is where the

gentle madness is, my friends,

and that is where people

like us belong.

 R.M. Drake 

KEEP EXPERIENCING YOURSELF UNTIL IT TERRIFIES YOU

Fall deeply into something

indefinable. Believe me, it is

a beautiful thing. Let it grow

inside you until it becomes you,

and then let it grow some more.

And when the indefinable becomes

the familiar, then I urge you to

keep going, to keep finding,

there will always be more. That

is your role, to keep on experiencing

yourself until you know so much

that it terrifies you.

R.M. Drake