7amThey said that I’d forget you, and I knew it wasn’t true. But sometimes I wake up now, and my heart’s no longer blue. I press the Keurig button, dancing across the room—Sometimes it’s nearly seven, before I’ve thought of you. And though we sleep together, all night side by side, one day I’ll have my coffee without you in my mind.

— Coco J. Ginger

A POCKET-SIZED Girlie keeps me in his pocket for a rainy day; he swears I'm not an object as he yo-yoes me away. A friend is what we'll call it, but my friend, he does not know, each time it rains I love him— so to his pocket, I must go. He thinks he's being clever, but I am not a fool;his love ain't worth a penny, so to my heart I must be cruel.

— Coco J. Ginger

A WISH Sometimes I wish that he will live and I will see him. But mostly I wish that he will die, and take my memories with him.

— Coco J. Ginger

I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. But without the having there was nothing—so to the nothingIhold.

— Coco J. Ginger

MY MOON'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, you're light. I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say. And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.

— Coco J. Ginger

WORTHY If you ever decide to feel— feel this:I love you. I always have. I always will. Not because you're charming, beautiful or lovable. But because I choose you.Every day, I wake up, and I choose you— again, and again, and again. But if you cannot feel, and if you never feel this, then know:I do not love you. I never have. I never will. Because you're not worth my love.(Come back my love, I am drowning.)

— Coco J. Ginger

Your face is engraved in my mind. I can’t erase it. I don’t want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.

— Richelle E. Goodrich