Gerald: Poems

,.......

Gerald Nov 2021

,.......

You play hard
to get, and I...don't play fetch.

go... love yourself

....

Gerald Dec 2023

....

I have
woven you
into metaphors
and similes.

You are
embroidered
on the fabric of
my heart.

@catch.inthe.dark

....

Gerald Jun 2021

....

To want to speak. And not to know how.

To feel. And not to know what.

To be dead, and breathing; somehow.

#dead #feel #breath

🌕

Gerald Jun 2023

🌕

She holds the
moon in her eyes.
His eyes hold
the sea.

Her beauty enchanting;
casually, she'd make
him cry if she
pleased.

Witches worship her aura.
Wolves bowl, howling.

She knows she is magic.

@catch.inthe.dark

#moon #magic #beauty

💕

Gerald Oct 2021

💕

"You speak
    to me as if
       you're
            afraid
    we'll fall
               in love"

14/02/03

Gerald Oct 2023

14/02/03

A moment in a
lifetime.
you placed your
hand in mine.

For once I got a
glimpse,
"souls intertwine"

And if we touched
our lips?
Put a pause on time.

The apocalypse.
Your tongue dancing,
on mine.

A haunted place

Gerald Aug 2021

A haunted place

And there I was;

alone again.

But it didn't bother me anymore. My heart had become a harbor for ghosts.

They come. But they don't stay. But they also don't really leave.

#haunted

Bullets

Gerald Mar 2022

Bullets

Standing amidst
bullets blazing.

They never quite
see just how much
their words affect me

Darkness, my old friend.

Gerald Aug 2021

Darkness, my old friend.

The light knows me; however, in bits and in pieces. The darkness knows me well.

Darling

Gerald Jun 2020

Darling

You hate me..

'cause I'm the one
person you couldn't fool.

Hexes and spells just
don't work on me.

Darling,
I'm the very
darkness that makes
up you.

@catch.inthe.dark

Doomed

Gerald Aug 2021

Doomed

I broke silence
to keep me from
drowning.

But a monster was
lurking on the
surface.

Double Date

Gerald Aug 2022

Double Date

Your demons can come too.

@catch.inthe.dark

Drunk & Driving.

Gerald Mar 2022

Drunk & Driving.

It pours, when it
rains.

Drunk on thoughts
of you, driving
down memory lane.

E-M-O-T-I-O-N-S

Gerald Feb 2021

E-M-O-T-I-O-N-S

Where do all those unexpressed emotions go?

Do they die, or maybe they just wander around inside?

Is my heart a grave yard...Or a town full of words yearning to be heard?

Falling

Gerald Oct 2021

Falling

Maybe that's the point of it all.

Maybe we have to fall,
and we have to
break, until we cannot
break anymore.

#falling

Farewell

Gerald Aug 2021

Farewell

I guess you like it when
I'm begging.

You thought you'd always
have me at your mercy.

Well you should know;
even the strongest feelings
fade, when taken for granted
and ignored.

G3R4LD (2.0)

Gerald Sep 2021

G3R4LD (2.0)

He is everything
I'll never be;
enough and appealing.

I'm everything that
he isn't; broken and
entombed. Put away.

But becoming - blooming.

#bloom #become

Hearts

Gerald Sep 2021

Hearts

Hearts don't
break like glass.

Hearts break like cables;
they bend and they twist.

It hurts a lot before they snap.

#hearts #hurt #break

Holes

Gerald Oct 2021

Holes

How foolish
of me to think
I would heal.

I tend to
forget I've got
holes in my heart.

It can never fill.

I feel tired

Gerald Oct 2021

I feel tired

The horizon...

..at that place where the sky meets the sea,
    you'll find me.

  I'll be there resting.

                   With my heart
                                in my lap.

Incomplete

Gerald Jun 2020

Incomplete

You gave back only a fraction of what I gave. Leaving me to wonder where all the other pieces went.

And I gave you all of me.

#pieces #piece #incomplete #all #give #wonder #leave

In the end

Gerald Oct 2021

In the end

'eventually'
came too soon.
And while
he knew the inevitable,
he never expected
he'd fade away
that quickly.

I said "I love you" but I lied.

Gerald Oct 2021

I said "I love you" but I lied.

Words meant for you, I told someone else.

When I should be in your arms, I find myself lying some place else.

Is love dead?

Gerald Apr 2022

Is love dead?

..and now we are just rolling the dice. Stripping our souls naked for nothing, but flimsy feelings of love.

Were we born too late? Do our hearts melt to stone as the world gets warmer.

Is love dead? Take me to the grave, I pay my respects. Are hearts born this cold or they freeze when we grow older?

Was I foolish to love, or was I brave for trying? The first cut is the deepest, but how excruciating the healing!

Perhaps, I should've been told...that love lies deep, six feet in the ground, burning in the cold.

It goes on...

Gerald Nov 2021

It goes on...

..but life happens, and
            promises don't matter.

Later we learn,

         that bottles break; and
         those pieces can
         shatter...

                               further.

Just to know how it feels

Gerald Aug 2021

Just to know how it feels

She drunk his sweet
words like poison;
She knew they would **** her eventually.

She wore his
compliments like bait luring
the demons. She knew they were coming.

@catch.inthe.dark

Just to know how it feels. "Put dracula in charge of the blood bank"

Let me be

Gerald Aug 2021

Let me be

But if
you chased
my demons away,
what am I
really
left with?

Angels
don't know what
it's like to
be an outcast.

#demons #angels

Maybe

Gerald Jun 2020

Maybe

Maybe something I don't know about happened in the past.

Perhaps someone took away my heart.

Or is it just me?
Because everyone I meet makes me feel like I'm just so hard to love.

And now...they find it odd, that I like it so much in the dark.

#love #dark #heart #odd

Memories

Gerald Jun 2020

Memories

...you will forget that you forgot. Then tears start to fall.

#forget #memories #tears

My girl

Gerald Sep 2021

My girl

You carry my worth
in your eyes.

Like the moon
and the sea...with his tides;

you make me fall.
you make me rise.

Pain & triggers.

Gerald Sep 2022

Pain & triggers.

They will tell you different. But real pain, never really goes away. It is just latent.

Adjective
latent (not comparable)

1. Existing or present but concealed or inactive.

2. (biology) lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.

Put the blame on me

Gerald Jun 2020

Put the blame on me

I have myself to blame.
Every "stop sign" I knocked down is a witness.

Sometimes

Gerald Jun 2021

Sometimes

Sometimes
you can feel the void.
The emptiness.
You can feel the wind
blow through the
chambers of your heart.

And sometimes,
there's a haunting silence;
The sound of ghosts of all the
people I've ever loved.

Superman

Gerald Jul 2022

Superman

She said, "I love the hardest.
My love can hit you hard like a train."

He said, "it's okay, I can take it."

"And my soul has a certain darkness, it will sometimes drive you insane. Poison you, like kryptonite does Superman."

He said, "it's okay, you can be my weakness."

To Nat..

Gerald Aug 2021

To Nat..

...and this is what you've taught me; how to love someone deeply, and not want them close.

So this is what you've done. You kept me warm: and now I know to feel the cold.

Trapped

Gerald Jun 2020

Trapped

Its really hard to escape,
When the thing you're running from is yourself.

Truth/Dare

Gerald Oct 2021

Truth/Dare

You don't
need wings to fly.
You just need
a really tall courage,
then you have
to jump.

Untitled

Gerald Jun 2020

Untitled

You loved me like they do in the movies.
Perhaps thats the reason why it ended.

#love #movies #end #perhaps

Untitled

Gerald Apr 2022

Untitled

I will unlearn your heart.
I will forget your ways.

I will outgrow this pain.
I will sprout from this grave.

The stars have burned a billion
years, but refuse to burnout.

I will love again. These scars
will be a light.

What better way to feel
that pain,than to light the
path as you burn.

@catch.inthe.dark

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Gerald Jun 2020

Untitled

Sometimes I ask for nothing but a feeling.

Somedays all that I want is to just feel something;

A little worth. A little pain. A little love maybe.

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Gerald May 2023

Untitled

Heart on my sleeve. My soul on a leash.

@catch.inthe.dark

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Gerald Feb 2022

Untitled

Strange how I crave love and deny it too.

Why the flowers start to wilt the moment they start to bloom.

How the warmth of a fire in winter and the pain of getting burned remind me of you.

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Gerald Jan 2022

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🌕

The moon never asks for
attention after all,

It just glows.

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Gerald Jun 2020

Untitled

You can throw me to the wolves, they won't hurt me. The wolves know my scent. We howl at the moon together.

You can take me to the demons, they don't terrify me. The devil knows my name. We spend nights together.

You can give me up to ghosts so they haunt me. Oh! How they like it; this void in my chest, where my heart used to be.

@catch.inthe.dark

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Gerald Sep 2021

Untitled

We fed on each other's soul,
until we both ran out...

We are just looking at each
other now.

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Gerald Jun 2020

Untitled

I had to stop.

Because what else
is left to give,

when you
give it all you got?

@catch.inthe dark