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nirmal-riaz
nirmal-riaz
Faltering declarations of love Floating like incense on our fingers Like slime on moribund monuments Like filth lingering on the dead Like wasps on an infected wound Like babies of bats Kissing your gangrenous feet Like hollowness of two hearts Enclosed in a horrid infinity Like lungs filled with black water Like bones intertwined with each other In a discomfort so immense Like a cat choking on her mother's milk Like a scar that heals and still exists On our bodies like a curse Like an air balloon that bursts in our chests But doesn't **** us And still the pain of our dying love Is greater than all the ghastly metaphors And we know we can't save it So we have to let go of the dead fishes We have to let go of the dead wishes
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 4:44 PM UTC
Ghastly Metaphors
You make me feel the plasticity in my blood It resonates through my words It resonates in your world It resonates in your fake convenience And if I could, I would run away From myself, farther away that I've ever been Farther than your touch Farther than your "I love you very much."
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 10:37 PM UTC
I Love You Very Much
The laments of little men, little hearts Ashes to ashes, lurk beneath Fear of breathing supersedes The joy of longevity The madhouse is filled with them With these little men With endless dreaming With fumes of kerosene And unpleasant breathing mouths And uncouth, torn linen clothes In dreams of dying with hopeless love With promises of dreary kisses The laments of little men, little hearts Dust to dust, float above
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 10:14 PM UTC
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
I stand quietly At the precipice of this world Questioning how thick the Abstract existence of these clouds is I looked at the possibility Of touching them As if they were tangible Corporeally soft And then I looked at you As if you were my cornerstone My valley oak Every fragment of meaning In this corrosive place And I was scared to say the words That cancel out all that is ephemeral Words like forever, always, eternally Words that mean nothing Cause we haven't felt them Like we couldn't touch the clouds Like we couldn't touch the soft breeze And I was terrified Of what I felt I was terrified of feeling nothing
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 10:06 PM UTC
Terrified
This ceiling that I keep staring at Has a sickly charm to it And my words are infested with Perpetual nausea
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
Nausea
I don't know about your convolutions Neither you do about mine But we came this far, we did We conquered, we lost, we forgot While reading Frankenstein I built you in the snow, I drew you in the sand We saw construction and destruction Walk together, hand in hand You think the wind moves on when it blows? But when love blows and dies, where does it go? Does it emulsify in my heart again? I wouldn't ever know Why not be grateful for this evolution? For it brings just another poetic revolution And you know you don't have to Compliment Compliment my ****** poetry anymore Or my face that has vaccine scars Or my hair with split ends For we are split too now, like two dead stars Things that make me sad: permeable curtains The rusted hooks on my fairly old Brassiere, hair fall Not using conditioner, slowly losing it all
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 9:32 AM UTC
Separation on a Saturday