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Sadness clusters my chest
The phone woke me up this year
And now I’m mourning, this thought,
Your loss, even though you’re here

If atoms are what you’re made of
How’d you slip right through my hands
I dreamt of you last night
Sinking into death, falling into quick sand

You’re skins not wrinkled
You’re so young, so why are my eyes red
It’s just a touch of cancer
That they found inside your head

I’ve done enough of research
I know how cancer cells grow
But this isn’t how I pictured
One of us would go

They told me they would slice it up
Cut it out of you
This poison that’s taking over
And turning your lips blue

I told them not to wait one minute
Every second counts
I left for lunch that afternoon
Before it was announced

Last night I dreamt that
I was holding tight your hand
But your grave sights full of dirt
They filled your lungs with quicksand

Chemo shrunk the tumor
But killed the you inside your brain
The left side of my bed is empty
It’s just the mattress, and the frame
I'd call you a monster,
but I am one too
and you already know.
It takes one to see one.
 Jul 2015 Camron Elliott
Ash
They say there's no such thing as;
time travel,
Yet gazing into your sullen aged eyes,
I see the pain this world has caused you,
the memories you wish you could erase,
I see the glint in your eyes past adventures have left you,
As if I was reading a bittersweet;
mystery novel,
Or watching a replay of your life,
Though your eyes are pools of;
chocolate and locked up secrets,
I can almost feel the bruises and;
aches this world has left you,
Your eyes are an abyss of secrets,
I've been ****** in to your  alluring;
past,
Lost in the small world in your eyes,
Ive found its too hard to come back
I breathe in the smoke. It goes into my lungs. My eyes turn red slowly. I began to think. Nothing seems to matter. Everything is okay. He looks at me and talks to me. I start to smile. He grabs my face and kisses me. He slowly kisses my neck. He begins to make love to me. After we both fall asleep. I wake up at 4. I smile and he looks at me. I kiss him and he walks out the door and I go back to sleep.
-Hannah Rae
Submerged underwater—stayed right there,
letting my body loose and my eyes slowly open.
I took a breath and watched as the bubbles
escape from my nostrils—I could clearly see this
vast blue ocean before me as I drift away from
All I Once Knew.
Sunk back to the phase of being kept in the womb
My mind has now been refreshed, awaken.

© Cyrille Octaviano, 2015
Our world collided
When your lips met mine
The sun shined brightly
The stars aligned

You closed your eyes
But it didn’t last
I barely blinked
It was over fast

Like a head on collision
We spun out of control
You ripped out the breaks
No one told me not to fall
She says-
I get lost in her smile
In the simple way she tucks her chin beneath the book

Listen to this
It's something about the sun
But she lost me after that
I was gazing at her mouth

Listen to this
She says, her eyes following words
Pressed into a page
I put my finger to her lips

Listen to this
Two bodies converging

Listen to-
Our hearts
They're
Listening
Sometimes, I feel like we are a galaxy;
But you call me,
Your star
There's a leak in the faucet
It drips your name
The right pedal on my bike
Keeps coming lose
Like the way you tugged at my heart
I let it fall apart for you

You ripped up the floor boards
Stripped me to naked flesh
And bleached bones
i looked away
While you stared in silence
Uncovering the person beneath my shell
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