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jean-marie-sullivan
Lost my way in a rainstorm. No hope, of getting home. None of which there is anymore I am drained from the streets. Like the flurries that dance on Your eyelashes. Chills your breath And shakes your abdomen. Sun beats, and heats my frost away. I am a silent voice in a quiet room. Eager to hear the words form. To delay the truth, I disappear To find a way to keep them warm. Fallen leaves, scattered on the Pavement. Autumn mess, Breezes flow through thin clothes. Tough hands rake up my damp blades. Seasons flee and blend, Like watercolor. Making shapes, Making images, you've never seen before. And beyond the disastrous beauty, Lies a smudge of error, you've never Seen. But from a wrong motion of An amateur artist. Lies the imagery of me.
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 1:28 AM UTC
Untitled
You don’t understand why he hates you You don’t understand why he doesn’t want you You don’t understand why one day he can humor your persistence And another day he can’t stand your presence But you know you love him And from the moment you entered this whirlwind of life, He was there You knew you were dumb and confused You knew on some level, everybody was But you knew he was a little less dumb and confused than you were And as a new blossom it is much easier to relate To a ripening sapling than to a forest of tall oaks He was your sapling But rather than provide you shade he deterred your sunlight You were an orchid growing on his branches And despite the fact that you belonged there, alongside him He ached to rip your petals off of his bark You don’t understand why
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 12:42 PM UTC
The Things You’ll Never Understand by Being a Younger Sibling
With shaken hands, she reaches up with a wand in defeat. Performing magic on herself, Artifically covering what she wants to hide. The blemishes, the mistakes The hurt, she has felt. The tear stains, quite possibly. The facade does not mirror the interior. The mascaras flakes off her lashes, When she places more than she should. But her hands shake too much, to stop. All of it, she wanted to cover. She hears the voices, Telling her to stop, telling her to go on. She does not hear them, The pounding pain in her heart silences them all. She continues, then it gets quiet. But she still carries on. Shattered breath, love that had left. The tears drag the culprit down her cheeks. She drops the wand, All is gone. But pain shall always prosper, It shall always live on. Through the quiet, yet labored breaths A voice has returned, The same voice has returned. Asking her why she hides what she is. She says, You are the reason to start. And you are the reason to stop. What shall I do then? You tell me yes, then it changes to no. Acceptance, than denial. Back and forth again, Swaying like a swing. Whether up or down, I am always left. With this pain, So how must I cope? Split response ring through her ears, Telling what to do. Telling her things she does not want to hear. So she hides, with hatred pouring down her face. I live in a world, That hates me. But loves me. I am who I am by this world. You are my world.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 6:14 PM UTC
Mascara Flakes
you're a stairway to heaven your voice reverberates in my skull like a hymn in an empty church your fingers flutter across ***** keys as they use to grip my thighs under wooden pews your lips purse against my sins as chilled sangria pools from your warm, parted mouth your heart stutters out prayers as your veins pump out wine instead of blood your body quakes above me as you're converted from man to meal I shatter beneath you as I repent for all that I have done you're an elevator to hell
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 7:42 PM UTC
Sunday Evenings
you think they get it, and they try to get it, and all the pieces you allowed to slice into your palms for so long shatter to the ground, and they help you sweep them out into the backyard. but they begin to forget, they forget to wipe their shoes off at the backdoor and they trail your pieces back into the kitchen. they continue to forget, they forget that those were once pieces of you and not eggshells that they must tiptoe on, pieces that still shatter under minimal pressure. and then they forget altogether, they forget the way your body curved in on itself and the way sobs wracked up your spine and across your ribs, like a fervent storm slamming into the base of a teetering tree. they forget the way you were unresponsive for forty five minutes, staring blankly out farther than your weakened eyesight could perceive. they forget the way you eye steak knifes like exit ramps off of long highways and the way your gnarled nails press crescents into your palms until stars flash across your vision. they forget these things, and the soles of their shoes splinter those blood soaked pieces like fractured glass, and they dig deeper into your palms this time when you have to pick them up alone.
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 12:33 AM UTC
Kitchen Floor