You’re almost asleep and
I’m jealous of your sheets because
Nights like this I wish I could be them.
You’re in my poems.
In my head and in my heart but
You’re not in my arms and
The countdown could not go quick enough.
I wish there was a fast forward on this thing.
Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 2:35 AM UTC
I am homesick,
But not for home.
There are places I have never been
And yet, I miss them terribly.
There’s a whole world that
I’ve never seen, but
My soul screams to experience and
I think that’s my cue.
One day, my feet will touch
Red sand and
Black beaches and
Mountain tops.
I will absorb oceans and hurricanes
And build myself so strong that
you can find the universe in my eyes.
Maybe then, I will
Find you.
Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 5:18 PM UTC
You told me to watch that film,
But I spent more time searching for spaces
I’d kiss you in
Than seeing what was on screen.
Your lips are distracting and
I don’t even know what you
Taste like,
Yet.
I can only imagine.
There are times when my
Waist calls for hands and
The gaps will only accept your
Fingerprints.
How can you miss somebody
You’ve never met?
I wish I had the answer to
That question.
Maybe then I wouldn’t have this hole
In my chest.
Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 5:16 PM UTC
I ask what your favourite word is.
You say you don’t have one, and
I don’t understand.
See. I’m a poet.
I tried hard not to be,
Rejected it with every
Fibre of who I am but
Words form in ways I can’t
Negate.
See,
You speak and I notice
There’s more in what you say than
You know.
Your voice is delicate,
Not in the way you sound words
But the way you phrase sentences,
Like the subject is something to be
hidden behind premises.
Some people grab chance by the throat,
****** you right into the center,
Until you’re drowning in meaning
And unable to listen to anything but the
Beat,
B-,
Beat,
Of your heart but
Not you.
I can respect that.
You’re all tact and logic and
It’s not about feeling
It’s about thought process and
I still don’t understand.
See, my tongue is clumsy,
It stutters and stumbles and smashes its way through life,
But it finds meaning where there isn’t any,
Notes how you say “Spoke”, not “talked”,
How you dance through every word in the English language because
Deciding on the right one
Has to be perfect.
I think that,
You are perfect.
My favourite word is puddle.
I don’t know why, but
When I say it, my tongue kicks
my teeth and
It reminds me of the way my
Consonants get heavier with
******* in my brain.
It makes language ridiculous,
Because the end of its vowel is so sudden
It should cut
But it’s so ******* round.
Puddle.
I can’t explain, not in words,
But I smile when you say it and
I promise you that sometimes
language is less about logic
And more about that feeling
in your gut
When you look
at me and verbs flow out of your mouth
And for once you’re not thinking
And, -
"I love you."
If you thought, it wouldn’t be true and -
"I love you."
Cogs whir to a halt and,
"I love you."
I don’t trust you for a second because
My mind is now skipping stones across oceans
Waiting for depth to show, yet
There’s nothing below,
but still,
Sail away with me.
Let’s leave language behind and use touch to define
The borders between where I start
And you stop.
We’ll find they’re less obvious than we’d thought,
Because I love you.
Not in the way that I say it but
In the way that your presence makes my stomach churn out musical notes
And I was broken, but I don’t want to seem desperate and
I guess that when you say you that don’t have a favourite
I realise,
Puddle’s a scapegoat.
My favourite word is whatever name you’d give for the
Goosebumps on your skin when I touch you.
My favourite word is the colour of your eyes.
My favourite word is the way your voice goes real high when you’re excited.
My favourite word is how I can feel where you touched my flesh, for days after we last met.
My favourite word
Is you
But I’m too shy to say it.
So here, take puddle,
And run away with it.
Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
I say,
Tell me about the last person who
Made your voice catch in your throat.
I want to know them through you.
You say,
Tension peaked and you couldn't
Breathe.
I don't care that it wasn't me.
If I could find a hundred people, and
Bring each one home to
****** breath from your lungs,
I would do it every day.
The passion in your words is deep enough
For me to bathe in and
I want to soak for hours.
Tell me more.
When you talk of how your stomach twisted
Into celtic knots,
Your hands shake with recollection.
I am hungry.
You feed me romantic lines about
People I've never met, yet
I see their faces in your eyes.
You absorb everything.
Teach me what it's like to be
A butterfly in your gut
And a tremor in your fingertips.
Absorb me, too.
Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 1:26 AM UTC
I curled inside myself,
Bit my tongue and
Forgot the lessons
They taught me, but
No more.
I have oceans beneath my flesh,
Roaring with the sounds of
Lost civilisation and
I could not be quiet if
You begged me.
Listen,
For I am Earth and Air
And holy Fire, sent to
Cleanse your violence
With something so fierce it
Burns.
I am alive,
And I am bigger than
Every load you ****** upon my back.
I shall not carry your burdens.
I shall break them.
Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 12:44 AM UTC
I want you to
Press your fingers so
Hard into my flesh that
I can feel you there
Weeks after you've left.
Let me hear you beg forgiveness
With your tongue, but not your
Voice,
Until all you can utter are
Groans;
You know, I
Had you all along.
Come,
Collapse into me;
We can connect our hips
And our minds until
Shudders subside and the
Morning steals soft kisses
With sleep.
Then lips, smoothed raw with
Exertion,
Will no longer cry out for more,
Because we are,
Finally,
Whole.
Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 3:55 AM UTC
1am, and secrets
Spill to the surface like
Sleep somehow has a truth serum
Effect.
At 4 in the morning,
If you catch me awake I'll tell you
Everything you need to know
And more,
But come sunrise I,
Like a tortoise scared,
Will curl back into
My shell and
Hide til dusk.
Don't think to take advantage
Of my tired tongue and
Truthful chatter,
But when the morning comes,
Remember I hold
Revelations inside me
Until I'm ready
To burst.
Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 2:57 AM UTC
Part 1; Love
I want to climb inside your skin,
Make a home in your brain,
And listen.
I want to know more about you than anyone,
To predict what you’ll say,
But to listen regardless,
Because I love the way you say it.
I want to understand,
To feel each line on your skin,
And scar on the walls of your heart,
And to know the stories that made them.
I want to know you so well,
That sometimes we forget we’re two people,
When it’s late,
And we’re awake,
More comfortable together
Than we are in our own flesh.
Let me in. Let me wear you.
Let me know what it’s like to suffer your downs,
And ride your ups,
And I’ll show you my wounds,
And expose to you my thoughts,
Until we know each other
Better than we know ourselves.
Part 2; The Boy
If I am careless,
if I allow my mind to wander,
I sometimes still
taste
the smoke from your lips.
It’s the wrong place,
and the wrong time,
but my heart still
jumps
into my throat
when I remember your touch.
If I could pick up the phone,
and tell you how I miss those
stolen kisses,
I would.
But jeopardy terrifies me
and I’d rather not dive headfirst
down that whirlpool just yet.
Part 3; The Reconciliation
I know that we used to be
so different,
so full of life,
so full of love.
That you were once
energetic,
excited, and
enthralled,
and I, for a time,
was compassionate,
caring and
considered.
I know that we were once
different people,
with different stories
and different hopes.
We may have lost our way,
become somebody we wouldn’t even have
recognised as being
us,
if we met ourselves 5 years ago,
but remember that
we recognise each other now.
I know your innermost
thought
and your
deepest distaste,
and I will
never
ask you to be anybody but
who you are today.
We might not be the same people
we were when we were 15,
but we are people who have
grown together,
and laughed together,
and loved together,
and we are people who have shared
so much
it would be impossible to leave this partnership
whole.
We have fused souls.
And as much as we may reminisce
and remember who we
used to be,
let’s just tonight remember
something more important.
Let us remember
who we are now,
and that it would be more
difficult for me to
tear myself from you
than to tear myself in half.
Part 4; The Decline
Postpone.
The silence at home
kills me,
so what’s the harm in
one more smoke,
anyway?
I spent more time
travelling miles to see you,
than I would ever care to
admit,
battling on bikes,
through sleet and snow,
to spend 30 minutes
over coffee.
Where did that go?
Now my house is not
my home,
because space to breathe is
scarce
and I am breathless just thinking
of the travel to my front door.
What do you do when the foundations
become unglued?
Nothing can rebuild
something that’s not demolished,
but destitute.
Part 5; The End
I can see our future,
Clearly,
For the first time,
And I hate it.
There are no fuzzy young faces,
No unknown sticky fingers,
No pattering of
A strangers’ feet
That somehow sound like
Home.
All I see are false smiles
And fake conversations
And the knowledge that
I’ll never
Know you
Again.
Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 7:52 PM UTC
You ask again for words that will explain
What made me who I am,
But I can’t find them,
And you wouldn’t want to hear them anyway.
To what end would your knowledge be?
For what purpose
Do you need to be told
In clearer terms
That I had my life ripped out of me
By the same man who gave it?
That I am a shell of a person,
Living a life I never asked for,
And don’t want.
What good would that be?
Can you find a way to fix wounds,
To take back scars?
You ask again for words that will explain,
How I came to be so
*Arrogant
Manipulative
Repulsive*
And I have no reply -
My armour is too strong for even I to break.
If I were to look through the visor,
I think that I might find
A scarred and blackened girl,
Sure that she is dead,
For her cage could only be hell.
And again you ask for words.
And again I have none.
How can I articulate the way I’ve been
Hollowed out,
Except to say that
There is nothing worth knowing here.
Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 7:46 PM UTC