I don’t know if love is supposed to ache like this, a bruise that glows instead of fades, a hunger that doesn’t starve me— just
more loveAuthor: Scott Burton
Scott Burton is a writer and artist from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, whose work is rooted in
raw honesty, emotional survival, and the haunting beauty of what lingers long after love or loss.
A dreamer by nature and a romantic to a fault, his poetry spans decades and carries the weight of
lived experience… Thousands of pieces that speak what couldn’t be said out loud. His writing
walks the tightrope between ruin and reverence, reaching into themes of longing, emotional
vulnerability, missed chances, and the ache of memory. He writes in free verse, often in a stream-
of-consciousness style, allowing the poem to breathe and break as a heart does — unpolished,
unguarded, and always reaching.
Scott is the author of Forever is Tomorrow, a deeply personal collection revisited in a newly
expanded edition, and the currently releasing ten-volume Chaos series, which chronicles the
emotional anatomy of being human. His work isn't interested in perfection — it’s about truth,
even when that truth hurts. His ongoing creative identity also lives under the moniker
ks.bleeds.ink, where art and vulnerability continue to meet on the page. His writing remains a
kind of devotion — to love, to memory, to all that lingers after the moment has passed but
refuses to let go.
