Kissing your cheeks
Is like kissing the ocean
When speckles of salt
Drip down my lips
My mouth full
Of these waves and whispers
Like I drank the Atlantic
In the smallest of sips
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:50 AM UTC
It was like being too big
Wishing you could disappear
Inside the ever-growing
Crowd of people
As their eyes wander onto yours
While you try to ebb away
In the corner
But much too small
Inside this body
Like it could not contain
All your bones and muscles
Like your skin
Needed to be stretched out
In order to hold it all
It was an awkward in between
Of being too big
But also too small
Of being too much
But not enough
Like being nothing at all
And everything at once
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:42 AM UTC
The creature trickles
To your mouth
And pools around your lips
He drapes your shoulders,
Wraps your arms,
And licks your fingertips
The monster pouring
Down your spine
Demands your every breath
Cascading through
Your velvet soul
Hungry and obsessed
His golden hair
And amber fangs
Bronze your milky tones
He slides his teeth
Down to your knees
And craves your fleshy bones
He soaks your skin,
And steeps your lungs
In black and smoky fumes
His appetite
A savoring light
Until you were consumed
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:37 AM UTC
She often said ‘I love you’
But not for statement of a fact
She just liked the way it sounded
To hear someone say it back
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:34 AM UTC
And this love was not the quick kind
Nor the drink of cheaper wine
Of lovers stricken blind
It was the champagne in the sips
Snuck by the cracks of time
Until you burned inside my swallow
Kisses never mine
And it was this tender crushing of my back
Like shoulders bent to snap
Like crunching in my spine
That chiseled all these hollowed cracks
Within my bridled sighs
And when these lacy fingers seeped
Like icy creatures bravely creep
Around my waist; forget to breathe
Double-fisted hands you shoved
Into my stomach; reach
And pull these wiry tendons
I forbid all men to keep
And it was this love so deep and aching
Like teeth jarred and breaking
Like freezing in my sleep
That caused this marrow scraping
To leave me empty ***** and weak
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 12:32 AM UTC
And this fire deep within my writhing bones
Became intensely hot and burned the town
In hues of red and marigold
Mixing ash in shades of black
As the whole world screamed in terror
Running with all their might
And you just stood there roasting marshmallows
And singing campfire songs
Until you fell asleep next to my warmly kindled wrath
Like the entire universe in flames
Was not as important
As laying next to me
Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 8:50 PM UTC
You wanted to know if I loved you
So you plucked my petals one by one
Throwing them off to shore
And by the time you found your answer
I was not a flower anymore
Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 8:41 PM UTC
Constellations glazed her cheeks
And graced her button nose
Leo and Orion’s Belt
Penned in perfect prose
As if a brave astronomer
Had scooped up all the stars
Collecting bits of diamonds
In his cherished mason jars
He scattered them along the soul
Of the girl he deemed deserving
Poured out his containers on
This coruscating earthling
So that galaxies could dust her skin
And the universe could taste her
An interstellar miracle
Of flawless illuminators
Now we find the Milky Way
Engraved upon her skin
Supernovas radiate
A trail down to her chin
Every verse in twilight
Inscribed on this mere human
Dotted down her arms and back
Celestial contributions
So when she looks up to the heavens
To beaming lights of fascination
There’s never want or lack within her
For she is made of constellations
Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 8:17 PM UTC
She flirted with death
Fearing no harm
But death fell in love
And she in his arms
Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 8:12 PM UTC
But nostalgia still leaves ink
On my palms
And she leaves stains
On my lids
So when I close my eyes
I can only see you
And see you
And see you
And occasionally she
Will drip down my lashes
An arduous descent
Down the path of friendship
And silently
Blot my cheeks
In blackish hues
Of me and you
And I have loved you since December
Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 7:44 PM UTC