Jackson Hintz Poems

Loneliness is a book lined with chapters of silence and paragraphs of longing.
Run on sentences about the emptiness, and words only opposite to belonging.
I study this book, as though it were my life's work, whenever you’re away
And I can’t remember the words that I never thought to say.
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The Truth as True as I Knew it to be

Loneliness is lying down to die halfway through the race.
It's the moment that your shoulders touch the earth and you are pinned there by gravity
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S(searching) F(for) S(summer)
Someone is going to die today in the midst of their greatest adventure.
They'll have grey hair dentures and excuses for days and relay to you the ways they tried to say I love you, but never could.
We all travel through this life like a car with no brakes looking for something to crash into
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If I were a lesser man,
I'd throw my girl into the abyss of my love.
No regard to parachutes. To hell with making it out alive.
I'd drown her in this ancient sea, With the other ships that tried.
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death
there is something to be said about bleeding out.
my skin so fragile and my mind's too willing at the mention of the prospect.
the warmth will wash over me like a baptism at the altar of better times
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