Video art by Leanna Rose Davis, free verse by Harriet Pok

Loving someone is always complicated and scary.

For this piece i’ve gotten the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Harriet Pok (video model and writer). We sat down to find a piece she had written that resonated with the both of us. Which includes the feeling of love and lost, and wanting something you can’t have. To work with a piece that I emotionally connected with, made the editing process a lot smoother and with that, YOU’RE ALL I EVER WANTED was created.

Free verse by Harriet Pok:

Life floats by and I think I’m falling in love, but my wish is a fantasy and you should mean what you say if you want to talk to me.

Talk to me then, the words coming through flood my head with you, flood my heart, stay true.

But truth is a vice we don’t stick to. Some nights, I’m gum on the bottom of your shoe— most nights I spend still loving you.

Black spots on the pavement, I’m all worn out so wipe me off, chew but never swallow.

So spit me out, faded taste, you know. Always a silver lining on a silver wrapper you can’t be bothered to use, and lies are bitter so we forget the taste and in the moment they sound honest- succumb to the sweetness, melt-in-your-mouth goodness

And we fall and we let loose until it turns sour, but it’s worse to become bland— honestly it’s the worst to lose the power of a feeling as it slips right through your hands.