Please.
Give all your pain to me.
Please.
Give all your pain to me.
You got two left just
flush 'em down
or give 'em both to me, just
tell me that this loss I feel
I'm not feelin' for free, and
please.
Give all your pain to me.
O God,
help me to stop
borrowin' your time,
'cause where we're from
there's not much left
unless
you make it out alive,
but I see
it ain't that easy when you
visit home and find that
Please.
Give all your pain to me.
You ran up to the mountain top but
pain don't give up chase or stop
just 'cause you think you're free,
you **** it in the way
your mama taught you on her knee.
Please.
Give all your pain to me.
I know two folks
who died
the year you
cracked my wrist with
sudden strength, hot fear, you
seized up on my floor
my GOD I cried
so hard
when I found out
what the pills were for.
I made a call for you
and still today
you called to say the
same old ****
Give all your pain to me.
No I ain't mad, how could I be?
I wish I hadn't done it too and
made it out all safe and ****
and what makes me so different?
I sit up high in Boston,
far from home, so far removed
I didn't even know (her name here)
died real quick then
got up slow, I had to hear it
in a booth with you and
now I'm thinkin'
'bout the odds that you die too,
so young like (his name),
still a teen, still
runnin' on the football team
'til everyone in school just
cried 'cause
he weren't comin' back.
And (her name here) with
flowing hair,
she couldn't breathe.
She used to sit right
in the chair
I sat by in our class.
It doesn't matter
'cause you cleaned yourself.
But now we're here.
You promised me and
I believed
that I would never
have to see you
scream like that again, but
please.
Give all your pain to me.
Oct 28, 2021
Oct 28, 2021 at 10:16 PM UTC
Dad
dragged and draped
a crucifix over us
while we
wondered why.
the yellow cotton,
warm spring, and
understanding,
all painted with
fear.
Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021 at 1:15 AM UTC
collect my fears and my wounds and
my hearts and my tombs, all the
dead that i've buried
and the living things too.
wish it weren't over.
take a look through
the steeples and pews.
underbrush fire, pious desire,
pale-soft leaves that cut you
like briars.
Dec 5, 2020
Dec 5, 2020 at 4:30 PM UTC
it always feels like a scream-
too silent, but trying
to break free.
inside of my heart.
inside of me.
and then it makes it's way into
the world, in forms
intangible but deadly.
flowing water,
sharp air.
sharp silence.
an absence.
i don't care.
do my friends think of me
at all?
besides when they're
looking for a good time,
a free spliff,
a hot touch, a tear.
i just wish
they would.
Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 10:02 PM UTC
I wasn't expecting
to miss you already,
but.
I'm waiting for you,
warming for you,
heartless because you're gone.
Hoping to see the dawn
through thick strands of your hair,
through the air that surrounds
which you bless with your touch.
You clutch to me tight
through the dull of the night.
Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 9:29 PM UTC
How simple it feels
to let go of the strings
and fall upwards
into
the stars and such things.
How hard it must be
to love with your heart
but fear that your head
will tear it apart.
What name should I call
when I’m all alone?
Whose hands can stretch out
with one pool of hope?
Whose hands can stay clasped
but gentle- devout-
to keep that wet hope
from drip-dripping out?
From running to drought?
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020 at 6:27 PM UTC
Some cancerous form
and it's hard, rough
and it's hard
and it hurts and ouch
and,
and I breathe and it passes
and I breathe and it's back.
I can pinch my thigh
if I want,
it won't help.
I can breathe the sky
and take it all for myself,
now it's mine, not yours.
I'm selfish.
I took all the blue for myself.
I get filled up but not enough then
I crumble down into myself.
Rock solid.
So it spreads but then I cage it in
with words,
AHA! It's conquered.
(At least for now.)
Nov 9, 2020
Nov 9, 2020 at 6:44 PM UTC
Carbon Monoxide is seeping,
it's seeping,
I don't seep, I sink.
I sing,
like the breeze.
I sleep like the sun
in the months
of perpetual rain. I slink
and I hide
from the fire and sage.
And nothing
could stop me
from feeling this way.
Sep 19, 2020
Sep 19, 2020 at 6:53 PM UTC
oh god,
if only i could hold you in my arms
tight enough to confuse your
romanticized emotions.
oh god,
if only you would keep me safe from harm
and not step down
until you've found
the source of my boundless devotion.
oh god,
if only i knew what you speak about
when you speak out
in tongue so sweet,
with deep red heat
which strokes your cheek
and drowns your guilt
along the deep
red ocean.
oh god,
if only i could show you
how you look
through a lover's eye,
and how the hook
of your nose
or your laugh
locked away
paints my world complete.
oh god,
if only i could tell you
how much you mean
without scaring you away
or losing your cold hands,
if you draw back
i don't know how
i'd live again
in crooked lands.
oh god,
i wish that you would think about me,
even for just a moment.
or more.
my greed demands that you
lay your mind around my body
enough to know
you really want me.
my soul demands you show no mercy
and tell me all the things which hurt me
and love me 'til the sun comes early.
my lust demands you stay while i meet
all the needs you never knew
and cradle you in the space
between the sky and heaven.
oh god,
i hope you find a man to love you
good and real, to never force you
down to kneel, to make your
summer dreams look real.
oh god,
i hope that i can move past this.
Jun 2, 2019
Jun 2, 2019 at 8:33 PM UTC
i never dreamt about you.
my dreams are just extensions of reality
but sweeter,
and with you,
what is there to improve?
May 25, 2019
May 25, 2019 at 12:25 AM UTC