Tag: Relationships

  • Let’s be harmless to each other

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    EM Morgan

    “You and me? We’re different. We agree to be harmless to each other.”  – Abby Jimenez in Yours Truly If all the words I want to say to you, filled the rooms of this tiny home, they’d spill out of the windows and doors. They’d float like slips of paper…

  • A Roller Coaster – A Poem of Love, Longing, Passion, and Futility

    A Roller Coaster – A Poem of Love, Longing, Passion, and Futility

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    EM Morgan

    Like a roller coaster . . . This is like a roller coaster.A wild ride of desire andAdmiration and love and frustration.I’ve never felt so crazy.For more of you.Crazy for you. Crazy to tell you howBadly I want you.How much I miss youWhen we don’t talk.I ride this rickety pieceOf…

  • Things I Would Like to do With You – Love Letter #7

    Things I Would Like to do With You – Love Letter #7

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    EM Morgan

    Things I Would Like to do With You – A love letter #7 There’s a vision of my future that seems so far away – improbable, even. After meeting you and fighting with myself over how I felt, I gave up. I realized a while ago how much I cared…

  • How to be Open to Love When You’ve Been Hurt

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    EM Morgan

    Lately there’s been a theme to my short stories, novels, and {terrible} poetry. While I can’t exactly say that my fiction or poetry is always biographical, there’s probably an element to all writing, for writers – that is in some form or fashion. It may not always be an exact…

  • Everything Makes Sense Again – A Short Story

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    EM Morgan

    Everything makes sense again. But it took nearly a year before it did. Kurt simply left. No fanfare. No argument. No conversation. He was gone – just like that. All the shit he brought into my life, was left there for me to clean out and clean up. How like…

  • The Love We Both Deserve

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    EM Morgan

    Find me again someday – if you’re free and you know what you want. I don’t want to be any man’s second choice or the person that entertains you when you’re bored and done chasing someone else’s attention. Find me again someday when I don’t have to fight so hard…

  • Would it Matter – Poems of Longing & Hope

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    EM Morgan

    Three separate thoughts came to mind this evening. Turns out there’s a connection between all three – longing and hope. Would it Matter? If I told you I needed you,Would it matter?If I said I needed you now,Would you come to me?Never mind. I know the answer.Would it help if…

  • I Hate the Way You Love Me

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    EM Morgan

    I hit play on my phone and Aretha Franklin’s (You Make me Feel) Like a Natural Woman, plays through my stereo console’s speakers. I pour a glass of Matthiasson’s cab and chop the vegetables I’ve just washed, for dinner. A few sips into my glass of wine, the door from…

  • Absolution

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    EM Morgan

    Absolution I forgave you.I forgive youAnd don’t knowHow not to. Even when itHurts. I chooseForgiveness. It’sNot hard with you. My heart resetsEvery time I see You.I know why theTempests rage Between us. Even still,I love you, baby.The storm can rage.It doesn’t change a thing. When the storms rage,When you are…

  • Things I Would Like to do With You – A Love Letter

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    EM Morgan

    Things I would like to do with you – a love letter . . . I would like to wake up next to you and start my day in your arms. I would like to savor the last few moments before the day begins, clinging to you. I would like…