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Sienna Burroughs Dec 2013
Winds whipping certainties into,
Tiny hurricanes,
Spinning around every drop of thought she
Disowns, discounts.
This turmoil, the only survival she's ever known,
Keeps her in the air, suspended, ambiguous, beautiful or terrifying?
So she shakes and cries in fear,
Of the day she stops spinning.

Surrounded by biting cold fronts,
Pushed around by sparks of warm relief,
She's a hot mess, sticky, humid, and alive with electric charge.

Her pleas bellowed into thunder,
Static shock breaking her voice,
Into something massively engulfing.
The kind of sound that makes a grown man feel small.

You can feel her coming from miles away.
She knows the weight of her presence better than anyone.
So lonely and heavy is her grief,
So bright and menacing is her capability.

Ironically, just the right balance of
Hot,  
           And cold,
                                 Positivity,
                                                     And negativity,
Swiftly reacting, turning, changing her,
Into this rain ridden,
Angst swollen,
Ferociously complex storm system,
Stealing the heat she can,
Clinging to any energy she once drew on.
Never releasing her festerings.
Standing above a world she cannot touch,
Without destroying.
Sienna Burroughs Oct 2013
Loosely withheld fascinations,
Glimpses of mindful surrender through the rustic, burnt, glowing-hot-stove, honey-crisp-apple,mommas-pumpkin-pie, milk chocolate, and old-tractor-yellow colors,
Falling around my clouded Monday morning meanderings.

The jack-o-lantern's toothy smiles,
Mock me,
For someone's cut out their heart,
And left them empty,
And they know, I too, will be hollow soon.

A giant maple sheds, slow, sticky, tears,
As he watches a years work fall beneath him.
He fights the seductive slumber,
For he knows he'll dream of sweet spring.
But to him I say, we all wither in the cold.
While he wonders who could love his bare branches.

But he doesn't see his leaves falling, along with tidbits of seasonal nostalgia, being kicked up by frosty winds,
softening my steps, landing in my hair,
Easing us all into our own winters.
A walk to work to one person. This for another.
Sienna Burroughs Oct 2013
Surreptitious incitement,
Deliberate grazes,
Salacious gazes,
Languid depravity,
Lazily gnawing at my cravings.

Nudges of adoration,
Filling my concavities of falsehoods.
Seemingly small pensive moments,
Instigating momentous intrigue.

Cavernous aches where your heart should beat against mine.
Brushing against destitution,
While we wrestle involuntary solitude.
Day dreams leave me shamelessly wondering,

For you are abstract,
Asunder,
Yet even quixotically,
You leave me enamored.
Sienna Burroughs Oct 2013
My hearts a fickle thing,
Jumping to voracious dreams.

But i feel its beating in every cell i am made of,
As i remember the ghostly embodiment,
Of promises, heavy lids, feather soft touches, and kisses that crawl inside you and live in the empty spaces,
In my sleepy wondering,
Where you always find me.
Sienna Burroughs Sep 2013
i leave pieces of you where ever i go.
you are my foot prints, you are my shadow.

i still feel you in my chest,
you can still steal my breath.
Sienna Burroughs Sep 2013
...
most days you smile at me through memories,
but today i see you in the way snow falls,

we never saw a day of winter,
you don't even know what i would give,
to shake flurries from the tips your hair.
to kiss the cold from your lips.
what i would give to watch the warmth of you spread across your cheek bones,
to be the wind sending chills down your spine.
Sienna Burroughs Aug 2013
My hearts beating,
With each pulse I feel a strengthening,
Then a weakness.
I’m on the stage,
ready to give way to the words waiting to flow from my mouth.
My breath is stuck.
My eyes are watering as the light hits my face.
Why when every voice was screaming for me, I pushed them aside?
The waking becomes cold when ones alone.
What happened to the flame that made me worthy?
The seductive breathe of my mistakes took its toll.
“Take a look.” I sputter
I will soak in all the spent emotion.
Take it back from those who never knew me.
I will tear away all the strings I left behind.
I can reach,
Rip apart all those knots I never meant to tie.
“Take the words,
Take the thoughts,
Take the life from me.” I can feel the after taste of the words now spoken.
The free flowing anger,
Coursing through a body,
To small to hold it.
These short breathes won’t save me.
So why do they come when I’m afraid?
“stare at the person,
Who hide the truth.” I say with fear plainly written on my face.
Each syllable is a breath.
I can’t stop now.
“hundreds of people walk past,
Each one more oblivious then the last.” One tear slides down the contours of my cheek as I look out at the people watching me.
Not one has known.
Yet me?
I have always noticed.
“Don’t utter a word.
I’ve been listening for too long.” my voice cracks.
The faces are spinning..
“see me.
Feel me.
Be me, for a while.”
The lights are dimming.
I can’t see the faces anymore.
“Maybe then your judgments will end.”
And when everything goes dark,
I’ll still be here.
Lying on a stage,
I was never meant to be on.
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