I know how to make it rain,
When I’m broken.
I know how to train the clouds,
To open.

I know how to fake a smile,
When I’m broken.
I know how to train my lips,
To open.

I know how to curb my tears,
When I’m broken.
I know how to train my eyes,
To open.

I know how to be happy, but
When I’m broken,
I know how it rains inside.
Too open.

When I’m broken.

© M.H.

Who said it first?
Who took the leap?
Who opened up their heart,
And let the other in?

You?
Me?

It’s only a couple of months,
But it feels like forever.
How we bounce,
And feed off each other.


It feels like truth.
It feels like home.
It feels like I’m no longer alone.
It feels right.
It feels light.
It feels like you’re with me at night.


How I thank the invisible spirits,
That guided me to you.

And I thank you.

For seeing me.

Like you do.



© M.H.

7:24 pm. 11/08/25

I was stupid

I was carried away

I forgot to not say

The things they don’t like us saying.

I was sorry

That l hurt you this way

I just want to replay

The offending words l forgot I was saying.

But you forgave

You had a life to save

I promise to behave

And think before thinking, stupidity delaying.

I almost lost you tonight.

Never again.

© M.H.

10:30 am 11/08/25

Why do I love you?
All the tiny, unseen details,
That make up your whole,
Your story.

Because.
Just because.


Why do you love me?
All the times I doubt you do,
Then have those doubts crushed,
Dispelled.

Because.
Just because.


Why do we love?
Give ourselves naked to each other,
Ask to be seen, faults and all,
Visible.

Because.
Just because.

Because we do.



© M.H.

2:54 pm. 10/08/25

I do
And you know I do
At times
Then you tell me
“Don’t be silly baby”
“Always”


When you do
And you know you do
At times
Dissappear from me
I say “Miss you”
“Love you baby”


And you come right back.

Doubt

It’s human
We all do it

But
You blow mine all away

Like dust.


© M.H.

10:56 am 09/08/25

And so it was
As it always is
Always has been
And always will be……

That wind will always win against sand.

Build your towers
Fortify your walls
Close all your doors
And all your windows….

Rain will always wash away the dirt.

Tell me you love me
Speak softly of it
Make plans to live by
Plant seeds for a future…..

That time will mock and erode.

© M.H.

It hits me when it’s quiet,
When your voice
Cannot be heard.

It hits me late at night,
When I do not
Hear a word.

I’ve lost myself
Completely to you.

It moves me when you laugh,
When your smile
Lights up the room.

It sets me on my path,
When your hand
Leads me through the gloom.

I’ve found myself
Completely in you.

© M.H.

13.56.  07/08/25

It’s been said
That woman
Is the power
Behind the throne.

Men go to war
For greed
For land
But mostly for love.

And the women stay behind
Holding it all together.

If man
And woman
Were one body
The woman is the spine
The man is the meat.

Bone is
And always has been
Stronger than beef.

© M.H.

My muse spoke to me bb. And she looks like you xx

9:22 pm. 05/08/25

So badly I wanted you,
It was a hunger,
A hole
Inside my soul.


The seconds on the clock,
Would mock this desire,
A place
Behind my face.


And then you spoke,
I drank you in,
Each word
Like I’d never heard…..

Love before.


You knew.

You knew too.



© M.H.

You were never more beautiful,
On the night the moths danced.

I answered your goofy question,
With one of my own.
You asked if they loved the light,
Why didn’t they come out in the daytime.

I said it’s because in the day,
The light finds them.

I asked if you belived in dreams.
If you believed people could meet and affect each others dreams from within those dreams.

You said “Meet me tonight in my dream and we’ll compare”

You turned to go.
Your eyes flickered in the dim light of evening.
You had a playfulness in your smile,
And l never missed something so much since.

We went to a dance but never danced.
Instead we made up sentances,
Word by word.

I
Want
Something
To
Happen
Tonight
And something did.

You floated away in your lilac dress,
And l was left holding nothing but muddy, cold water.

And now all these years later,
I return to you,
Return to find no ghost.

Just the empty space in my heart,
Where you used to live.
And where you still remain.

© M.H.