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ben-raifsnider-jr
ben-raifsnider-jr
American i steal too much from Bukowski and Stephen Crane.
it wasn't really that cold but i pretended and you went along so you turned all the lights out in the house and came to bed and after, you had fallen asleep and i got up... the floors creaked and it was so god **** cold my feet ached and i got up to write and listened to sad records and pulled on my sweater and wrote nothing
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 2:56 AM UTC
freezing (part 2)
and it's so ******* cold i can't breathe i want you to know that i want you to be here when i wake up, in case we both freeze. i pull you closer, for warmth, to me and i want you to know that i want you my sweet whispers like chimes in the breeze.
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Nov 17, 2011
Nov 17, 2011 at 2:48 AM UTC
freezing (part 1)
you get me and that's not true at all and every time i say the stuff that makes me me you scowl or roll your eyes *let's fumble through the *** part* and get it over with *1 **** i don't need your life story i don't need a date to prom you get me is it true? at all? i just need you to validate the parts of me that make me me when i speak you seem uninvolved or somewhere else *let's just stumble to the *** part* my hands on you, your hands on me *1 good **** i don't need reality i don't need you you get me– you don't get me at all and you can't find love in a bathroom stall
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 1:41 AM UTC
you get me
my eyes were wide open when you pulled the trigger but i said love like i meant it so all is fair my pockets were empty when you put the barrel to my head but you said love like you meant it so... and it's figurative or metaphor so it's not as serious but just as dangerous because i gave you the gun and all of the bullets and i said love and i meant it so all is fair so shoot point blank in my face my eyes will be wide open when you pull the trigger but i say love like i mean it so all is fair
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Oct 23, 2011
Oct 23, 2011 at 12:34 AM UTC
we are at war/we are not at war at all
fingers on fabric electric and prickly rigid with tension excitement without limit the whole time i was thinking directly of this the nerves don't shake like i suspected they would
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Oct 18, 2011
Oct 18, 2011 at 1:21 AM UTC
exactly like this
you wanted louder so i increased the volume and let my emotions fend for themselves you wanted softer so i released my fists and took blows that i did not deserve you wanted more so i stopped speaking and let so many things slide that i would not have tolerated before but you asked & asked and my love for you would not let me refuse so i became less of me and more like your idea of me… you wanted true love for ever so i said okay and now i hide behind your ideals
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 2:06 AM UTC
ideals
mortality is beautiful like a fragile bird on a floral print or a bandage on a wound the truth is always tangled up like vines with the untrue but mortality won’t lie or turn away its glance mortality is beautiful like knowing a sad ending and smiling anyways
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Oct 8, 2011
Oct 8, 2011 at 1:20 AM UTC
mortality is beautiful
you have taken up the habit of ending all of our conversations by saying “touché” leaving me with the sense that i have won something and lost absolutely everything
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Oct 8, 2011
Oct 8, 2011 at 1:07 AM UTC
touché
it was cold and i was waiting for you in the car and i would wait for as long as it takes until my hands wouldn’t work and my breath was ice because i love you but it’s cold and i wish that you would hurry
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Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM UTC
i need my fingers and i love you.
there were several times when i said the truth with pride just because it was the truth and i got older and realized that the truth is a dangerous weapon and i became a pacifist.
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Oct 6, 2011
Oct 6, 2011 at 2:49 AM UTC
truth