it's when the winter
melts away
gives in to the rising sun
and lets the living things thrive
you know it's coming
when every day
is a few degrees warmer
than the last
and it's near
when there's one less snowstorm predicted
in the ten day forecast
or when your soul
is warmed
by the trees
Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 2:08 AM UTC
you start off with a structure
the bones
and the bones are covered
by flesh
and flesh is covered with hair
and freckles and things like
ears and eyes and a mouth
for hearing
seeing
and breathing
and then you get into deeper things like
the lungs and heart and various organs
and the brain somehow controls all of this
every thought you've ever thought
every dream you've dreamt
it's all happened
inside of an ***** no larger than your two fists
put together
so when they say that it's all in your head
they're telling the truth
Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 3:00 AM UTC
it's one thirty six am
and i am no closer
to sleep
than i am
to you
Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 2:57 AM UTC
the sounds fade into the distance
and become so familiar
that absolute silence seems abnormal
and we're told that we don't even see
all the stars at night
because of the persistent light from the city
and i wonder where we went wrong
somewhere under this moon
a child will die
and a girl will lose her virginity
and a boy will try lsd for the first time
and we'll never know
what our actions mean
on a larger scale
but keep going
because you're good for something
eventually
you'll be the one dead
and she'll be the one getting ******
and i'll be the one doing drugs
and no one will know
the difference between us
and them
but keep going
because you're good for something
Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
when i was little
my christian parents
would tell me not to be scared of the thunder
because it was only god moving furniture around
making room for me in heaven
they told me
that the lightning was only angels
accidentally dropping pieces of gold to earth
sometimes i would sit outside with an umbrella
hoping a piece of gold would fall on our driveway
but angels don't exist
and neither does god
and the thunder is only echoes of the lightning
and the lightning is only columns of electrons
at approximately fifty thousand degrees fahrenheit
vibrating the surrounding air like a tubular drum
causing the sound of thunder
i won't ever forget their reactions
when i told them i didn't believe anymore
my grandmother gave me a bible the following christmas
but i sold it to a used book store the next week
and i used the money to buy a pack of cigarettes
i remember that day well
because there was a thunderstorm
but it was probably just god
moving my furniture back to how it was
because he knows i won't be getting into heaven
anytime soon
Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 2:53 AM UTC
generally
people like to measure success
based off of worldly matters
such as how rich you are
or how many possessions you have
or how many people you know
but me
personally
i will be rich enough
if i can count your kisses
instead of dollar bills
each one set upon my lips
is worth more than anything
the u.s. mint can offer
and i will have enough possessions
if i can possess your heart
and keep it safe within my chest
safely guarded by my rib cage
right next to mine
and i will know enough people
if i can know you better
than anyone ever has
or ever will
every passion in your heart
and every thought in your mind
i will consider myself to be successful
if i can wake up next to you
every morning
trace your sleepy lips
with mine
and remain that way
for a long while
Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 2:12 AM UTC
you are inches away from me
i can feel you
i can hear you
i can taste your thoughts
and swallow them whole
delve into your mind
and read you like a book
when you're inches away
which you are
i can smell your lovely scent
of cigarettes and cologne
it fills the space between us
which is only inches after all
but inches means miles
and miles means away from me
and away from me means--
you aren't here
i've got to stop looking
at these maps
they will ruin me
Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 2:12 AM UTC
you are tangled
among the loose threads of my thoughts
inevitably lingering in my dreams
you are first to appear on my mind when i wake up
in the early hours of the morning
and you never leave
not even when i fall asleep
much too late at night
although sleeping without you next to me
is considerably more difficult
than sleeping with you
silently wrapped around me
your heart beating with mine
your gentle breathing on the back of my neck
sending warm shivers down my spine
and i know
that the words i'm saying now
aren't nearly enough
but understand
that i've spent hours contemplating
over the right words
but no combination of twenty six letters
could ever capture even a fraction of this feeling
that i have for you
Jul 29, 2013
Jul 29, 2013 at 12:50 AM UTC
they say
that if you drop a crumpled piece of paper
and a rock
at the same time
they will reach the ground
at the same time
they say
that it has to do
with mass and surface area
also weight and gravity
and loads of other things
that i don’t pretend to understand
however
it doesn’t take a genius to see
that i am falling for you
faster than you
are falling for me
it doesn’t make sense
because science says
that no matter what
the two objects should reach the ground
at the same time
so why am i down here
looking up
at you
Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM UTC
i just need to sleep on this head
full of forgotten strengths and ever-present sorrows
and hope that the stale morning will come
within the blink of an eye
and
like thick steam
my thoughts will dissipate into the cold, dry air
and become nothing but a homogeneous mixture
of nitrogen and oxygen
soon consumed
into my waiting lungs
too damaged by smoke
to know the difference between clean air
or anything else
Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:40 PM UTC