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Ayeglasses Oct 2021
Such a beautiful sound,
for the birds to cry out at.
It's been awhile since they last painted for me.
Spreading wings like brushstrokes that dot the clouds as if they were born to percolate through them.

Plant

I love my new furniture. I'd always been too worried about spending too much. I can really stretch my legs in-between these walls. My family thinks I chose wisely.
My house is missing the western sunset, and I can only seem to get so much sun. The rain here isn't the same.

Plant

Crimson. It's always the beginning of the song. It sings itself in my head when I drive. Sometimes I sing along if nobody is in earshot. My youth wonders if the trees will hear me if my wheel slips when nobody is around. The sound would be so loud, I imagine.

Plant

Maybe it's the feathers floating down, or the pavement brushstrokes. The sounds are so pretty out here, where I'm no longer in earshot. Am I too far into the echo to come back?
Videos taken in Seattle
Kimbra - Wandering Limbs
Ayeglasses Jan 2023
Bathing in surface tension,
streams of skin left flush in slumber.
Perhaps it’s like being a bird,
trading fragility for flight
and something to fly for

Saddening yet is the absence
that by pulse alone cannot be warranted
for what? By what bounds?
Fingernails and fabrics,
clothing and crossroads,
songs and ***,
that are so wonderful and so
well pieced together. Okay.

Swords and wristwatches -
how dissonant and foolish
- or as it convinces so.
Of which a passing kindness sows
what will reap a morose kind of harvest

Saddening yet again is the absence,
that is because it cannot be the lack that
is forbidden by design.
It is the sadness as taboo
as waiting for you to show up
Jeans and jackets and jokes and comments from the staff
Ayeglasses Jun 2015
She's quantum entangled herself into my heart.
Atom by atom.
Gravity has no effect on us.
We are harmonic.
We are a collision.
And I love her.
Ayeglasses Apr 2013
A puzzle.
To a memory that never existed.
Is, despite all logic.
Missing pieces.
Pop
Ayeglasses Jun 2015
Pop
She kisses me where I am broken
Lips pressing against the fractures
the fractals and pieces that I don't upkeep
while I wait to die for others and forget to live for myself
Ayeglasses Dec 2021
I want it to be a bellowing impact
When I think of it
Repeat and repeat and repeat
A madman I’ve made of myself
Repeat and repeat and repeat

How reduced I feel in this
Barely able to claw myself out
Just for an inkling of perspective
For what?

Hot breath and lungs used liberally?
Hands weak from a grasp unaware?
These moments of affection,
existing isolated in gossamer
drive me up the wall.
This one is about ***.
Ayeglasses Sep 2023
Touching forearms can cause a rash.
At least, it did. Whatever occurred, allergy.
Tanto faz, já aconteceu lá atrás.
Mas o lembrar - ô pra lembrar

May such thoughts exist only in passing,
amanhecendo pra acabar aqui assim
Recordings and so much distance make
a vibrant view. Sinto falta da minha cidade.

Let it be an itch on my forearms.
Allow me to feel touch, to both see and experience
beauty however it so permits.
Não dá pra experimentar tanto assim.

Redemption is not supposed to come as we’d like.
Tô permitido pra fazer isso no outro idioma?
Lembro da coceira e I wish you to be the pain
in my kneecaps.

Critique is a dear friend
Ayeglasses Oct 2020
Look - how long my branches are!
With all these leaves to spare,
the sun must surely like me
because it is always there.

Look - how deep my roots are!
With all this food to spare,
the earth must surely favor me
because it is always there.

Look - how far my shadows reach!
With all this shade to spare,
the people must surely adore me
because they’re always there.

Look - how strong my trunk is!
With all these rings to spare,
the axe must surely love me
because it is always there.
The blessing of stagnation yields the curse of repetition.
Ayeglasses Mar 2018
Lust interweaves the fingertips of it's lover. Dragging across the skin in peculiar form to rest it's fingernails upon a scar. A wish is released from it's lips saturated with a glimmer of comprehension. A resting palm upon the scar. Desire is the muscle below it.
Ayeglasses Mar 2019
I'm good at being a memory.
For those remembering me as a son.
I'm good at being a memory.
By those remembering me as a friend.
I'm good at being a memory.
Thought by those who loved me.
Yet a memory I will be.

I'm a memory for those of my family.
A memory for all those past friends.
A wisp in the mind of a lover.
I'm a bad memory for them in the end.
Rot
Ayeglasses Apr 2013
Don't let the sun come around that wall.
Don't try to move at all.
Don't try even a little to get away.
For I know now why you want to stay.

Please don't start to explain yourself.
Please just place your thoughts upon a shelf.
Please don't stand up and know the difference.
Please, just think there in your own ignorance.

For I know now why you station yourself behind that wall.
I know now how you understood it all.
I understand why you stay behind it and fray.
Because there are  still remnants there, of yesterday.
Ayeglasses Jul 2019
Stuck in the past too
Remember our Saturday
Perhaps forever
Haiku
I need it again.
Ayeglasses May 2013
What have I done?
What did I say?
I fear it is broken.
For I can already see.
The chips and the cracks.
To know that if anything.
I had to lack something.
Something that is far too lost to retrieve.
Ayeglasses Jun 2021
It's my youth
what have I done
to see all this choir
fall through the sand

It's the lens,
the color flips
neon aquamarine
what have I done

It's a call from the root.
Accuse and stave rot
do you remember me?
what have I done

a constellation a day
becoming an adult
what have I done
Golden Gardens roddydjo
Ayeglasses Jun 2019
I taste attachment like an entree
Savor touch like a drink
Feeling stuck in these feelings
Despite my landlock I sink.

I get lost in the hair
I get lost in the jokes
I get lost in the idea
I get lost and I choke
I yearn for potential
I bend towards care
I want to hold someone
But nobody's there
Desert Red
Ayeglasses Jul 2019
Such things happen;
among a pile of bones.
Every skeleton unique
and hidden from eyes.
Yet with pieces constant
the puzzle changes.
So many skeletons,
so many bones.
Skulls pressed together,
but will the rest stay alone?
Dark River.
Ayeglasses Apr 2013
Knowing now what I didn't know before.
How it feels to step down from a shelf.
Of all the thoughts that had been stored.
Where I surprisingly didn't make a fool of myself.
Ayeglasses Oct 2017
By the same meaning stood beside,
Not a monologue or prose,
Contemplative configurations silenced.
A language?
A language.
Swimming into a fractal of personality
It can be heard through whispers
And the gossamer between.
Ayeglasses May 2019
A growth is what I am to you.
One that you seem to care for.
I am not the only bloom,
wanting from you anymore.

I blind my ears and hide my face.
For I feel the things you cannot place.
Let it remain the same; I could bear.
Yet I fear I'll hear you **** downstairs.
I'll tell you later.
Ayeglasses Aug 2019
I had a great time.
A muse, in hindsight you were.
Passing thoughts float by.
Old Texts at Lunchtime
Ayeglasses Apr 2013
The dewdrops that danced slowly upon the leaves just past the edge of my skull.
The creaking of the porch that held us up.
The sound of rocks under my feet as my shoes hit the pavement.
The feeling of a rested mind upon my shoulder.
The little picture that resides on an easel.
The vibrato of the silence that mesmerized the sound of the giggling to my ears.

Which would have been much less fantastic without the girl next to me.
Ayeglasses Feb 2017
Deceit for many moons.
Many days, many lies.
To see you through many moods.
The thought waters my eyes.

How is it I have let this go?
How is it that I have known?
The pain that holding this would cause.
Makes me wish my heart would pause.

I know I'll tell you.
I'll tell you soon.
Yet the more I hate it,
The more I swoon.
Ayeglasses Jan 2019
Plucking dead sprouts from the arms of her harvest.
Feeling the ghostly ambition of their growth,
she removes their threading.
Hemorrhaging liquid wound.
Memories soaked out by her hand.
Still she admires the taste of loss.
Wither.
Ayeglasses Feb 2017
Broken bits and pieces.
Yet we could foresee this.
A very melancholy kiss.
A body focused on three bits.
Centimeters.
Centimeters
They're only barely centimeters
Three by three.
Some of you and all of me.
A bodies broken chemistry.
Some of you and all of me.
A body broken, three by three.
Ayeglasses May 2013
My heart is calm.
In the centre of your palm.
You don't even know it yet.
But I bet.
I'll mess it up somehow.
Don't blame me, please.
The opportunity I will seize.
I think the good outweighs the bad.
Ayeglasses Dec 2021
Claws that sear like roots
Into my skin like,
something. I’m not sure.

Sometimes when I shiver,
it feels gentle.
A deep breath in cold air.
Exhale into warm arms.

Easy to miss it - the laughter.
Embraces of a friend.
That cannot be all the way out here.
Where all I know is the rain.
Booster by Myself.
Rainy day and early departures.
Ayeglasses Apr 2023
beginning of an itch,
a compulsion to recall
wallowing in reminiscence
it flows in one eye
and out the other

hesitant to attach names
but willing to start
for the sake of a source caring enough
to warrant breaching a feigned barrier

the detachment atomizes
so decided against
as it was with a left palm in the sun
with a wallflower valentine
and a song sung at night

I feel the care - I really do
How it feels as growing pains
To grace myself with a belief
One that I so quickly apostatisize
Savor the reverence of it all
Color negatives of care,
visible only for a moment - up to the light.
Lunch Break Coffee Canine
Canada Guatemala and Martens
French Days and Ceramic Nights
Ayeglasses Feb 2020
Soft lips
Speak truths so small
In the moment I slip
You drift away
Away from it all
Birthdays and Boyfriends
Ayeglasses Mar 2019
Small and unassuming, you would be downed by the fell of my trunk.
I remain upright for fear of the saw.
You claw into my bark and drain me of my wildlife.
Could it have been the sap?
Or merely the scratching of those insects within?
Nevertheless, you tear off my leaves.
I remain docile for fear of the bruise.
You claw into my scalp, draining me of my sanity.
Could it have been my fault?
Or merely my mental state a target?
My wildlife drained.
My body violated.
Cut into submission.
Assault.
Ayeglasses Apr 2019
You're in your driveway and the heat is still on. Rain hits your windshield and the streetlights bend their light to your eyes. Shadows make intricate patterns on your skin and you watch them dance as you move slowly in the dim lights. The world outside is silent and the world inside is yours.

You're on some sort of camping trip. Surrounded by trees and the sounds of the insects that inhabit them, you take a moment to listen. It isn't cold outside, but it isn't warm either. You are alone. A moment of your time is spent gazing upon the stars. This is not to worry about the size, or wonder about them. For now they are just art. Distant sounds of other people beckon you to move and leave your place.

Sweat drips off of you as you step away from it all. The song playing now is slower and dimmed by the walls. This room is empty and you can almost feel the romance in the other. This doesn't bother you, as you just need to catch your breath. The building you inhabit is well made. You take a moment to appriciate it. Perhaps you should go home. The party has gone on too long.

— The End —