A restless ocean heart By Niles King 19/11/2014
nature + more
A restless ocean heart By Niles King 19/11/2014
nature + more
let me grow a garden with you, so I never run out of flowers to put in your hair.
“I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower
If I fell in love with you
would you promise to be true
and help me understand?Because I’ve been in love before
and I found that love
was more than just holding hands.If I give my heart to you
I must be sure from the very start
that you would love me more than [them].If I trust in you, please don’t run and hide.
If I love you too, oh please,
Don’t hurt my pride like [them].
Because I couldn’t stand the pain….So I hope you see that I
Would love to love you.
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
I want to be soft and gentle and kindhearted and warm and loving and have open ears and an open heart and have people know that I care about them and I’ll listen to them
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Our relationship might be dead, but I still get a thrill in my stomach when I think I might see you again. Your eyes haunt me like a tune that’s stuck in my head. No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to put these feelings to bed. I try to remember you took razor blades to my heart many times…leaving me broken and bleeding inside. But, I see ghosts of you in the faces of people I pass by; I’m jonesing hard to have you by my side. Maybe someday I’ll let the memories of you die, and I’ll undo the knot that has our souls tied. Until then, I’m linked to you across oceans and between skies…I’ll never forget you were the first to bring my heart to life.
I don’t spend my nights crying over you like I used to. My heart no longer aches, my stomach doesn’t churn at the sound of your name and my pillows aren’t soggy with tears. You’re gone and I’ve accepted that. It took me a while but I’m here, I’m smiling and laughing and I’m going out on coffee dates with my besties again and I’m just living life to the fullest with the ones I cherish the most, and you never really cross my mind anymore; and hell, I’m fine with that. It took me awhile but I finally realized that I was crying oceans for someone who didn’t even deserve a single tear. You came into my life as a lesson, my god my; it’s a lesson well learnt. I’ve realized not to believe words but rather actions, and all your actions ever showed me was how much you wanted to break me and you did and I’m glad you did it, because truth me told all the hurt you caused me made me into a better me; a stronger me. But a thought still lingers in the back of my mind, if I could go back to the time I met you and gave my heart to you, I would turn around and walk away.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
