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aspen wilde Aug 2021
stuck, like in mud.
drowning, like in water.
strangled, like in air.

lost, like in myself.
My simple canvas
And I paint it
I stroke it thorough
My single woe
Be that I paint it blue
I want it to scramble
The oil preamble that sink by candle
But they do not want
They want dreams and fiction
Pink in premonition
I feel blue

I pick my paint
But fortune demand
I deny feeling so quaint
And just so mix the two
Art in simple pink and blue
Mix together and we are lost
Two diverse only to single brown
No heart or soul
Only creation bring me down

What it be to live stung
In the sharp ending of one
Be burned in a brick of ice
Please
Let me express
Just how I feel
Fine, to listen
Grab pink
Paint blue
Live life held by another hue
Donations shy of my next clue
Painted pain and supported flaw
Brown on white canvas
To be one
Life in pink, feel in blue
Pencil and pen
Canvas reign true
Surprise follow-up to a poem that deserved no sequel.
Riz Mack May 2019
I just went to bed
left you on Read
I did it on purpose to mess with your head

Laid in gossamer sheets
tinged sickly red
with the blood of words
that went unsaid
hard to deny
who made the bed
who caught whom
in whose spinnerets

Distraught with rotting thoughts
locked in my own stocks
stalking twisted halls
the clocks have all stopped

Stuck in my head
kicking myself
with broken knees
and buckled legs
struggling to free myself
from myself

Entombed by one I never could deceive
darkness abounding when all that I need
is to catch the right light
and stop trying to fight
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
The prompt was to use Walter Scott's "..tangled web.." line in a poem, this was what came out.
Jack Feb 2018
Tangled within each other against the bed
Intense eye contact held throughout,
Your blooded hands wrapped around my bare throat,
Squeezing
Trapping
Encapsulating.
Sat across my stomach,
Your titan grip constricts around my neck
Crushing my weaselly windpipe,
Savagely
Murdering
Beautiful.
As my life seeps away
Your loving, murderous grip holds tighter,
I smile at you and you at me,
Give.
Me.
More.
I am choking, on the things left unsaid;
I am drowning, in their dread.

Smothered by the weight of my own tongue;
Coating my larynx, begging to be wrung.

My breath, stifled by unwritten letters draining into my esophagus;
Strangled words, using my body as their sarcophagus.

That one day, when I'm stronger, I'll find the courage to excavate.
Until then, I'll slowly ,**asphyxiate.
Hannah Mary Sep 2014
you're the kind of love
that makes me reach into the dark
and accidentally grasp
onto what I think is your heart...

what I thought was your heart
is really just a snake...
a snake (that is indeed alive, unlike our love) that wraps it's life around my heart
and suffocates me
until I can't reach
into the dark
and can't open my eyes to glance at your silhouette over me.
maybe I imagined you during my death... or maybe you actually did 'love me enough' (or so you said)
to watch me gasp for air
but you just watched...
but hey, I guess it's okay. leave me in my tombstone.
no visits are permitted to you.
thank you for your love (not really)
actually for a guy I think I have feelings for. I do, but I don't, ya know?

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