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461 · Jul 2016
- 87 -
AMcQ Jul 2016
A slow and steady crescendo
Of blended melody and rhythm
Grips the edge of reason and
Pulls it softly, toward contentment.
It feels and folds its way through
Storming emotions and insecurities.
Ushering their voices to calm and follow.
Harmonizing against the pizzicato
Of over stimulated heart strings,
It flows outward from her core.
Its cadence steady and sincere.
As it rushes to alter her face,
The sensory orchestra of
Memory, thought, fear and hope
Culminates in the most subtle of smiles.  

She exhales.

This is LOVE.
451 · Nov 2014
-Broken-
AMcQ Nov 2014
I have walked this road barefoot...

a blistered wreck
maddened by love.
Pain has brought
with it reason.
Clarity.
All this time
it was you alone.
It's always been you.
Drawing me to you.
Of course it was.
You... keeping me aware
of every single beat
my heart made.
Never letting up.
432 · Nov 2014
-Abandon-
AMcQ Nov 2014
Loneliness is that moment
when you enter the room
and my heart longs
for you to leave again.
I am most abandoned
in your presence.
416 · Dec 2014
-#55-
AMcQ Dec 2014
I'd love for you
to feel the love
the way the love
feels for me.
412 · Jan 2015
You Promised...
AMcQ Jan 2015
You promised me the stars.
But what you promised was a ghost;
A last glimmer of light
journeying from something
beautiful
which had long since
collapsed.
I wrote this one a few months ago as part of a poetry challenge on Instagram. The task; to write a poem with the words 'You Promised'.
407 · Nov 2014
-Crystal
AMcQ Nov 2014
If I am to face this life
in the dim of your shadow,
I'd rather it be where harsh
rays of sun beam from crystal skies;
where looking outward
would blotch your vision
with patches of black
and make taut your skin.
Then, tuning back, your eyes
would behold my sunlit face.
You would see me,
flaws and all.
Together we could emerge from the dark.
402 · Oct 2015
-Distance-
AMcQ Oct 2015
You've left a space.
A gap.
A knowledge of prior existence.
The way that bubbles
are there, then gone.
The way that breath
dissipates on a frosty night.
I held you close and
melted into you.
I felt you evaporate
like steam from my
heated body.
A dream-state later,
you had to leave.
The sleep sealed our fate
and reality took you back.

I'll see you soon.
#Distance #relationships #heart #love #poem #poet #hp #poetry #missyou #miss #sad
390 · Feb 2016
-Gold-
AMcQ Feb 2016
They say she has a
heart of gold.
Perhaps that is why,
when'er she dare show it...
They steal it away.
383 · Apr 2017
-Prayer-
AMcQ Apr 2017
Place your offerings
at the alter of my feet;
Bright, jagged colors
Propped up by solid green.
Words poured on paper;
dancing letters of love.
Spill it here, by naked toes
And I will give back
All that I have.
380 · Nov 2014
-Unfelt-
AMcQ Nov 2014
My eyes sting
with tears not spilt
for the touch of a face
which remains unfelt.
335 · Dec 2014
-Reflect-
AMcQ Dec 2014
On reflection, I prefer the moon...
324 · Feb 2016
-See-
AMcQ Feb 2016
I want to know
the blend of cosmic
forces that caused
me to see the world
the way that I do.
318 · Dec 2014
-Mother-
AMcQ Dec 2014
She walked empty and silent
towards what looked like nothing:
The silhouette of an aging tree in moonlight.
The echo of her childhood
curled around her face,
as frost edged its way
into fist filled pockets.
Her thoughts drifted outwards,
as she exchanged them for a deep breath.
Her own feet, now heavier, drowned
out the remnants of youth.
And...with each step, she shrugged them off...
The ghosts of all the things
her mother thought she would be.
289 · Dec 2014
-Trees and Humans- (14W)
AMcQ Dec 2014
Though your roots are bound in darkness,
let your life be fuelled by light.

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