As I walked through the flames of my insecurities, I became the fire I feared. ~N.V.

Your fingertips pitter patter against my skin to the beat of the rain on my window sill as I fall further into the storm raging in your eyes. ~N.V.

You look at me as I stand in front of you, triumphantly disheveled, and ask me with a touch of wonder, “How do you walk through every storm I can’t survive?” ~N.V.

For all the slurred proclamations thrown my way to change the things I do and say, all I have to respond with are the lack of fucks I have to give. ~N.V .

I looked into the shimmering horizon and lost you at the point where my worry met the sea. ~N.V.

This I know in the hollow of my bones that some of my greatest adventures lie in the people I’m yet to discover. ~N.V.

It was when your gaze had me pinned to a corner of your heart that I knew I was trapped within the scars of your past. ~N.V.

A brush, a glance that unsaid dance of not-yet lovers, with the hint of a new romance. I look at you while you look away. And you watch me, silent; there’s so much unsaid in the things we do but do not say. ~N.V.

At the meeting of our lips is the sigh that speaks of a thousand lies. ~N.V.

It was only once the passion of your ragged breath slipped off my naked shoulders, I realized what it meant to be the ‘other woman.’ Because as the whispers of your sweet nothings slid off these sheets, the only lingering words left on my skin were the broken sounds of her heartbreak. ~N.V.

It was at the point where I got lost between the path created by my lies and the light shining through someone else’s eyes that I found my home in the touch of every person who made a dead end seem like an open road. ~N.V.

Woven through the lingering words left on my skin by your lips is the whisper of everything forbidden. ~N.V.

I looked forward to falling in love all my life, that I never anticipated the crushing need to fall out of it. ~N.V.

Within the dying embers of once-raging lovers, and the rays of every long-gone sunset, your afterglow became the only light my heart could catch. ~N.V.

In a world torn apart by religion, strife, and the sharp edge of political knives, I seek comfort in the unity created by heartbreak. With each being different from the rest, it’s funny that every beat behind every chest creates the same symphony. After all, a broken heart is the only thing you can’t fake. ~N.V.

Of all of my memories stuck within worn out photographs -the ones I’ll never be able to touch again- I miss the child trapped within those frames the most. ~N.V.

You watch the smile on my lips and the war in my eyes to tell me how it’s always the ones who don’t stop laughing that live their lives behind broken lies. ~N.V.

My shallow heart learned to swim in the depth behind your eyes. ~ N.V.

My eyes have always told a story too damaged for the world to want to read. ~N.V.

I loved you with a wildness not even your touch could tame. ~N.V.