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mpumelelo-msomi
mpumelelo-msomi
twitter: @msomifaya / the eyes are fine; it's your perspective that needs a new lens.
you are a bathtub of balloons. lines of tears angels left on the counter above the cabinet your prescribed reasons used to stay. a hot shower away, from fixing your lovers face with teeth cut lips. blaming the steam for all the red in your half truths. teachings of sorcery mothers enchant their wombs in. a lesson to the future of how destiny was born tied to something greater. two fingers looked for god in the galaxy between your legs. an altered state of awareness passed around like the last hit everyone wants. you are 'fuck it' you are 'fuck me' you are 'fuck this' a function unto yourself, embraced unashamedly by passion. you are ******* revelry. politeness tiptoes at the edge of your spirit, tamed tirelessly through stares and the longing of freedom. you do not have the keys. we are candor, casually exchanging giggles at fear's table; ravaging silliness naked. splendor sprawling back, upwards to you and i. i, a gang of sighs and of panting. a church of wonder; a held promise of sequels. together our names produce dua; an etched ancient time. society: a middle finger we **** rigorously. the lust of nations who dared before us and are yet to come. we lived in visions. a moment from forever will appear, with us deemed illegal. chests pressed to eternity, the melody will thud thud thud risks are for lovers.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 5:46 PM UTC
the secret of us
*i remain forbidden in forests. a crown of thorny ventricles. mend yourself to me dear. this practice i call stichcraft.*
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
stitchcraft
make peace with the pieces read fingers like pages. print your ideals on karma. forget the sound of loss. pray your presence into being. carry your struggles on wind. a hollow silence eerie. the common constant concerned only with thought. mind mouthing reasons, behind the affront of being heard. head heavy & compressed, there is lead between my ears. eyelids stapled to the floor. amassed angst, my gravity consumes me.
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Jul 19, 2014
Jul 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM UTC
maybe you too
i think you like me but you are afraid of hurricanes. you have never met someone who has outlived a natural disaster.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:46 PM UTC
unnatural
did you know the shade of your skin appropriates some behavior and not others? your world already knows how to treat you nameless one
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:43 PM UTC
shades
i want to dance at the tip of your tongue and have you try pronounce feelings you thought did not exist. i will make you a love linguist.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:40 PM UTC
love linguist
god is a broken window please let breath in tomorrow monarch butterflies nest on the crown of my soles, heels too eager to fly crushed heavy in religious longing pavements hiss loud colours, i’m bottling it up again you ask what like like you’ve forgotten you kiss storms with those amnesiacs lips fire presses the stairs of your spine giggles clicking into place, come soon midnight pale and soft for us, home is dark but true clutch your insides like pearls, barbwire smile, a hollow cast of awards you didn’t deserve, marking them ‘ex’ encore *stage screaming a seduction of violent, how could you i loved you* scene
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:37 PM UTC
playdates
cause sometimes I count all the ways you couldn’t have existed and always end up back at square one; you
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM UTC
you
you shatter like rain clouds, heave like thunder, feeling the lightning trickle down the heaven of your face as you taste the ashes of the promises they made washing your mouth with wind, your heart beats like a hurricane and the monsoon in your mind leaves your soul ashore to feel the defiant lump in your throat sink once more splinters of snow blanket your bones and an icy chill remembers you spoke nothing of forgiving seasons
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
strain
i exist in the 4th dimension you got stuck in the 3rd cause you didn’t stop to think for a 2nd if it was not the 1st time you had been lied to
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 4:28 PM UTC
dimensions of thought