Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”

There was once a time where
I felt so strongly
Within me was an eagerness
cradled by a fire that only
inexperience could kindle

I plunged blindly into
the depths of feeling
unaware that death lied ahead

but o the death did come
with it's menacing smoky
pain. Paralyzed me like a shock,
electricity unexpected and cold

Left me dumped in the stagnant
waters of struck-down lovers
who hadn't quite learned yet

Here I float
face down and
all the wiser

an unfamiliar place
filled with darkened
people with minds that
seem to understand so
differently than I or you

preoccupied with  
how short her dress was or
if she danced too much or
if she had a sip of alcohol or
if she'll ever find a husband

what about him? I wonder

but anyways it can't be much better
in a society that propagates
male privilege in the form of
a different set of accepted
social standards

No matter how familiar
or unfamiliar the place
I am followed by this
****** UP
petty judgment which
shackles me with guilt

But when I look up
and see the natural beauty
which sees no standards
I scream out in gratitude
and the guilt evaporates

*I am free

In a dark leech infested
swamp I found you yet again
haunting me behind the
cage that is my eyelashes

I find no peace within
my own darkness
The sacredness of my solitary
mind has been corrupted by

the demons which have
infested the remnants of
some flesh I once loved

In the swamp I am
choked
and
thrown
and
******
and
drowned

I feel it all but am paralyzed
by the curl of your lips
which seem to conceal a
glimmer of hope

The smell of stale cigarettes and
the moons reflection off a damp street
Somewhere in Europe
Dead, hopeless with
beggars staggering along alleyways

You are lost like those beggars
yet wish to be in their place
i'm stuck here

Darling,
nobody's holding you down

is there a word
for that feeling
where you know
it shouldn't be there
but you let it
sit inside you
because the sting
reminds you
of love