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Rolled and tossed
A couple of lost socks
Found each other in the wash,
A bed of warm sheets
Without any soothing pillows
Fire
Without sugar.
Their bodies slept
Connected just like numbers
Surpassing lust.
The music kept us busy
Wandering nowhere.
The twang of guitars,
The soft percussive sounds,
The echo through the air.
Just as the buzz was wearing off
Ringing came from overhead.
Selfish voices, questioning choices
The rumors that we'd spread.
Logic all but ignored.
Didn't see that she was so serious.
Never saw her act so serious.
Could be she'd be so serious.
My jaw hit the floor.
The painter took some brushes
On a canvas made of clay
He chipped out intertwining bodies
As the black and the grey flew about
And the dust was settling
We'd arrived far too late
But the beauty is in the peace.
I just pray I look as good
In the morning's clean light
As I do the night before
Though I know that's strange
A little pathetic
And a bore.
I could capture the sighs
The taste and hurt in your eyes.
You've got the biggest heart I've ever known
Though you're only half my size.
This is a poem I wrote two years ago for a poetry festival at my college.  I hope you enjoy it.
My hair falls in waves that curl around and
 frame my broad shoulders,
my clicking clavicle, and the beginning of my body's
latin waist

My hands, calloused, cracked and bruised
proclaim that I have lived a hands on life
I have struggled with weights
ten times my size both physical
and emotional
that I have dropped the reins
on an unruly horse
grabbed mane
and held on for dear life
terrified, excited
our nervous systems communicating
her centuries old wisdom  
in the marrow of my bones

My hips do not know how to be silent
as they walk
They flow in movement like a snakes serpentine
leaving statements of "I am here"
in the desert sand
My body walks into a room and these hips shout
I, me, my womanly body is here
together with my waist they etch out an hourglass
of time
but my body... is timeless

My feet that walk away from you and most of your kind
Wide and arched they have helped my body flee your kind's
prodding, squeezing, clasping grasp
many a time

My tongue short, smaller than most
that did not say what my body collectively
begged and pleaded for, for such a long time

Do not touch me, my waves of curl,
my outreaching shoulders, my latin waist,
my outspoken hips, my survivors feet.
Do not touch

because
Its MY BODY
MY BODY
MY BODY
Its a beautiful lie
A perfect lie to believe in
Its time to let go of the truth
Its time to forget
I cant do this
I need someone to set me free
Lay awake at nite missing you
The perfect denial
With
Misplace love
In a beautiful lie
I need the one
To make me happy
To make me smile
Be the one i trust
Be the one i want to be with until i die
Be the one to make me feel better about myself
And
Think about our life
The perfect denial
With
Misplace Love
A beautiful lie
Love is a game
 Feb 2014 BaileyBuckels
Isis Moon
Remember the time
Our lips met
And Chihiro left on a journey
That will never be as good as
Mine.
My spirit meets yours
And cleans up the sadness
In the dark shadows, just as she does.
Our lips exit the bathhouse
Hand in hand.
Hold your breath across the bridge
Until you're safe against the base of my
Neck once again.
sure, you can sleep with me.
lay right next to me
in that comfortable spot
i have been saving
just for a moment like this.

yes, you are lovely.
and if i felt like opening my mouth
i might tell you so
but at the moment
i am perfectly unaroused.

no, i will not kiss you.
or take off your clothes
or touch your *******
or satisfy your needs
whatever they may be.

instead, i will fall asleep.
and i will dream
of walking down a dark road
with a glowing lantern in my hand
searching for the one i love.
 Feb 2014 BaileyBuckels
Augustine
We're never who we were
         last year
            or the year before
We change as we grown old
Letting our bikes rust in the rain
Because we never have the time to ride

We change as we grow old
           and we lose time
                  and we forget
                        Faces
                             Motivation
                                    Memories...
But I can't forget you.
intoxicated by madness
within my head
makes me feel worthless, makes me feel
dead; leaves fall in
the autumn, snow falls in winter
but my heart, it stays as bitter as
the wind that whips
my hair into my face, the ends
tickling my
rosy red cheeks; numbness taking
over me in
more than one way, you see my cheeks
aren't the only
rosy red parts,
if you know what i mean; i mean
the cold metal
sliding across my skin, i feel
it deep within
i am in love with my sadness
we shall never part
for it is in me, in my heart
may seem **** but i tried to go for a patters of 8 and 4 syllables per line
 Feb 2014 BaileyBuckels
Candace
Still

Her pale skins scabs over and grows back translucent.
She’s disappearing but she glows like starlight,
It bursts from her pores, shining and silver and still.

Still, so still. She is unmoving.

Inside she’s screaming, clawing at the nerves of her brain
Spiders crawl across her arm,
But she’s a prisoner in her own skeleton.
She breaks her skin but she can’t break through.

Still, she cannot move.

Her body fades into transparency as the world looks on oblivious.
Look, class! Look how she rattles at the cage of her bones.
Look how they shake and lock her in tight.
Look how still she sits, so still.
Look how beautiful she’d be if she smiled.
Let’s stitch one across her face and tell her she’s fine.    

Still, I watch her from a distance.

I can’t look away but I can’t help. God knows I’ve tried.
I kiss her lips, hold her wrists, try to tell her body it’s still alive.
I try to tell her that life is more than the bones which imprison her.
I try to see her though she’s disappearing.
I try to hold her though my hand passes through her like smoke.

Still, I try.
 Feb 2014 BaileyBuckels
aviisevil
Waiting , endless nights carved on walls
Head phones blaring , a moment to forget it all
Cancelling out noise the world makes
He just wants to be alone and cold
Never listening to what they're saying
He never does what he's told

Their words never make sense
How can he smile when he's too afraid of  what lies beyond
His eyes always searching for solitude
At the end of the street where he thinks he belongs
He never opens his mouth if it's not in a song
In words , where he carves his heart of stone
Where he's not afraid to show his every bone

And You want to talk about butterflies
But he ate them when he was eight
You want to see shine in his eyes
But all he has for you is just pain
Everyone has a different story
Maybe you never grew up in hate
You don't know what those eyes see
Every moment in their mindless wait
For someone to come and smoke away this haze

He pours his heart out for you
And  all you do is laugh at how hurt he is
Just 'cause you don't understand
Doesn't gives you a right to scream how shallow he is
Maybe he is , ever wondered what made him this way ?
Maybe everyone else can see the 'colours'
But what if all he can see is grey ?

I know it's too hard to digest
But depression isn't something you can feel if you never had one
I'm not talking about the 'emo phase'
But the real one ,
Have you ever even come across someone ,
With no life in his eyes and no colours on his heart
I bet you've never seen someone just tearing himself apart
'cause he's too lost in this disease
I know it hard for you to believe
But pain is the only thing that brings them alive
The only healing balm in their twisted little life

Tell me how will you feel when you all you can think about is hurting yourself
You won't even last a minute in the dark places where these 'kids' dwell
They've seen enough of hate and their share of those 'stares'
So when you come across that 'someone' real or not
At least show a little care
For you may never know how your words can affect these little souls
All it takes is a moment of love to bring  them back on the road


Longer the story is , more is their desire for an embrace
So just show them kindness and don't bring forth your ugly face
The one you think makes you look better than you are
No , your mindless blabbing about something you know nothing about
Won't make you look smart
For all it will do is make that blade more sharp
And it will have your name on it as someone rips themselves apart


Kids will always look for attention , maybe it's their curse
Maybe some of them are just plain stupid , to use these words
Maybe  they don't realise that their 'story' is someone's else life
I condemn you too , for you can never find love in lies
You talk about razors but I can see you know nothing about them
All you have ever scarred yourself is just with a tiny little pen
And 'cause of you , they pounce on everyone with a blade
Anyone who says he likes playing with a gun
Maybe you'll smile to yourself when that gun finally goes off
Sometimes death is too easy and you know what ,
Sometimes it Doesn't even knocks


I've seen too much but I've heard too little
Every fool claims to be wise , claims too see every word as a lie
But again I guess you've never see true misery ,
Every word still misses your eyes
You've never come across real nothingness
And the question 'do you even want to be alive'
For these 'kids' may yet have a chance at a wonderful life
You're job is not to degrade them but to open their eyes

I've said too much but I know you'll hear what you want to
These things are all 'fake' that's what you want to say
Now , don't you ?
You've never seen out of that window at the setting sun
guess you don't like the view
Maybe if you could you can see there's an army of creatures
Coming right at you.


Can you spot the 'kid with a razor'
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