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 Jun 2014 Deanna
Jenni
Hey, here's a crazy idea
You know that thing
That happens when we're together
Where the air gets thick
And the tension is actually tangible?
What do you say we do something
                                                      a­bout
                                                           that?

I have a few ideas…
Turns out we should have just hooked up back in high school.
 Jun 2014 Deanna
Jenni
Hey.
                                                            ­                                                 I miss you.
What's up?
                                                             ­                                                I miss you.
How are things?
                                                         ­                                                    I miss you.
Hope everything's well.
                                                           ­                                                  I miss you.
We haven't talked in a while.
                                                                ­                                             I miss you.
I'm sorry I'm bad at communicating.
                                                  ­                                                           I miss you.
I still think about how we used to be friends.
                                                        ­                                                     I miss you.
I was thinking that maybe we could try that again?
                                                          ­                                                   *I miss you.
 Jun 2014 Deanna
Jenni
I've seen the constellations across your arms
And I know the stories they tell
I thought I saw Cassiopeia the other day
But I guess I was wrong

Tracks
Not the kind left by gulls at the beach
Or dogs with wet paws
These were left by hard times and desperate measures
I wish I could wipe them away
But they aren't so easily undone

You weren't looking for salvation
Just an escape
By the faraway look in your eyes
I guess you found it

I just wonder what you'll do
When your retreat becomes a prison
This is how it ends
Fading out again
 Jun 2014 Deanna
Jenni
All the clocks in my house are wrong
I check different ones
Depending on my mood
The one in the living room when I'm feeling optimistic
"It's only been 5 minutes. He'll respond."
The one above the stove when I'm feeling practical
"It's been five and a half hours."
The one at my wrist when I've lost hope
It's arms haven't moved in weeks
Time always seems to stop when I'm waiting for you
I really need to go to sleep
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
26.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
26.
on that cold and rainy night
amidst delayed flights and the six strings on your guitar,
you told me that you got a concussion from playing soccer
a little too rough in my hometown
and how you couldn't wait to get drunk with your grandmother
on Thanksgiving.
you enjoyed going through the security line at the airport
because you "loved looking at your **** in boxes."
how did you and I end up coming from and going to the same place
without finding each other in between?
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
gray.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
most days, I walk around with my head on completely straight;
remembering all of the mundane things that I have to do before bed:
study for your history test, do your laundry, call your mother.
but then I see a boy who looks a little too much
like you did when you were seventeen
or a car that looks like the one that you drove
home from soccer practice junior year.
and all of the sudden, I don't have any clean socks
and my mother is worried because she hasn't
heard from me in a few days.
I think that's the worst part of being in love only sometimes.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
at two o clock in the morning,
it feels a lot like love.
but after I've had my first cup of coffee,
I ask myself "how can you be in love
with somebody
when you can't even remember
the sound of his voice?"
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
they say that you shouldn't
make homes out of human beings,
but material things don't complete me
the way you do.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
here.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
it's funny how you think you're moving
in the right direction,
but then one day, you're driving down I-195.
windows down, blasting the song that goes
"oh dear, you look so lost."
not sure if you're running towards something,
or running away.
 Apr 2014 Deanna
kaitlyn-marie
they say that
"the world will break your heart
ten ways to Sunday,"
but it's only Monday night,
and I already don't want to
get out of bed tomorrow.
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