Every day, people fall in love;
Compose beautiful symphonies exalting the descent.
All I can hear is the somber echo of my own voice, reverberating in the air.
A piano key struck, the note sustained.
I can still see his hands on the keys, practiced and deliberate.
Mary Had A Little Lamb dropped my jaw.
I still don't understand why bad things happen to good people.
In time, he will be gone,
And even now, he is gone still.
Protecting me by hurting me.
Every day I live his death.
Every day I break my heart and tell him to stop scraping his knees.
Go slower.
He wrote me a letter: "Dear ______, I know".
He stopped there, but I never could.
Nightmares of words that filled those pages.
He closed his chapter while I tried to write in the margins.
Please do not stop writing; finish that letter.
Tell me there, or in the space between our fingers. Tell me what need be told.
End the story, or start a new one, but please do not stop writing.
Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 4:20 AM UTC
Want for affection.
First, inspected;
Discovering flaws leaves lips barren.
Apr 25, 2013
Apr 25, 2013 at 1:10 PM UTC
When words appear,
Give them as gifts
To the heartsick.
Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 12:56 AM UTC
I feel broken
Shattered
My existence split in two
One lives with him
And the other quickly fades
A whisper in the dark
Of my hollowed breast
These things should never happen
Words erased from language
Pain drawn out in syringes
And burned in brilliant holocausts
We did not ask for this
For the eyes of God
To shadow our lives,
Apparent pity abound
But no mercy from His hands
Where are you now, O God?
How doth thy affection lie?
Prostrate on the ground,
Bury my face in unholy text
Chanting diagnoses
And the time he has left
Apr 20, 2013
Apr 20, 2013 at 1:15 AM UTC
She's not pretty like an aurora;
She's pretty like a hurricane.
Yeah, but I still love her.
Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 11:22 PM UTC
I count down
Days on the calendar,
Each it's own reminder;
Rows of red X's march
Across April like
You must march each morning.
The possibility hangs
Like a cartoon piano overhead,
Waiting to plummet down
With its true crushing force.
Hear the clang of
Misfired keys,
And there will be no more
Wildflowers pressed,
Sent away in sealed packages
Alongside smiling photos
And handwritten postcards
Entailing sentiments that only offer
Temporary comfort.
There is no security
In the promise of return
When it's told from lips
That have lied this before;
No solace in hands
That deliver folded flags
To crying former wives
Who prayed like I do;
No hope in eyes
That have seen unspeakable,
In headlines shouting nightmares.
Apr 13, 2013
Apr 13, 2013 at 10:34 AM UTC
I feel like you
Don't take serious conversations
Seriously,
Unless it's serious
For you.
laughter
Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
Rain is
Falling
Outside, a
Downpour for
Three days
And three
Nights.
In the
Dark,
It whispers
To me, secrets
Like an old
Friend.
Cool silver
Over my wrists,
My neck;
Falling.
Shiver of
Antici-
Pation tremble
In my fingers.
Electricity
Hums,
Thunder
Rumbles and
Crashes overhead.
This is where
I am
Home.
Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 3:57 PM UTC
consciousness
breaking to
light through blinds
stained carpet
starched sheets
euphony in
a name
first and last
all the same
freckled shoulders
dimpled cheek
mirrored
***** laundry
***** dishes
in the middle
making love
little pieces
not broken
scotch tape
Christmas fights
and snow flurries
cigarettes smoke
skin on my back
sweet scalding
stolen kiss
only borrowed
no need to
return
the beginning
chance and fate
balanced.
Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM UTC
I am not in love with you.
But I am gravely
(And rather ungainly)
In like with you.
You told me you were
Smitten with me.
Of all things, smitten.
I had never been so flattered.
You played me a song:
"Baby, baby, baby,
Won't you be my girl?"
The day I became yours,
And you, mine.
You played me a song:
"Dream a little
Dream of me,"
And I knew my sleep
Would be haunted.
You played me a song:
"There is nothing for me
But to love you
And the way you look tonight,"
And I knew
I needed help.
Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM UTC