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Falling in love with words
Freed from your mind and pen
                  Naked soul
It's beautiful how human you are

Let's sign our names on tombstones
So one day somebody can see
                                                                                          We lived once too
One kiss and you've caught me again;
A fish in your net,
I wriggle.

My scales chip off,
                 My defenses lowered,
                                    And again you win.
In the black of night
I walk alone
except for the glorious memories
of you,
of us,
being poured into my mind through a pitcher
and overfilling,
and droplets of memory sliding down my cheek,
and arm,
down to my hand,
which I hold beside me
and curve my fingers inwards
as if it were holding yours;
I can feel your little fingers
in between mine
and I smile
but I dare not look to my side
for fear of my dream
being discovered as untrue.
Written 1/5/14
Spirit desire, will you find me now,
Amidst the chaos, clouding perceptions
Of desire, blindly taking a bow
For the leaders of your misconceptions.
Falling slowly, wake ev’ry day anew;
Springtime awakens my thoughts and visions -
Visions and visions, thinking thoughts of you,
Ripping apart my old indecisions.
In bloom, budding buds breaking the past,
Bushes burning up in smoke, lingering,
Dissipating. This must be the place; last
With me a while: something is forming.
For when I wake and snow has coat the ground
I smile to think of all the loves I’ve found.
Tired
Sleep in your eyes
You’re at your most beautiful

Waking
Next to you, my heart cries
Tears of joy, your face so pure

Entangled
Legs, wrapped around your thighs
The warmth spreads between us

Alive
A love that never dies
Lying by your side
Written within five minutes of waking up on 1/7/14. One of those poems that seemed to write itself.
Average aesthetics impressed upon
the dreamers asleep with the television on.
They are selling validation,
the slippery crutch of the only comfort craved.
Forget the details,
we are ****** clockwork,
counted on to come,
but never arrive,
where saying no to yes
likens to tallying time
until what you are chewing
wants to be swallowed.
Pearly white definition grinding moments into pulp
for the insatiable,
that never goes hungry.
This is all of it.
******, ***, and the rest.
The patriarch in his Sunday best.
The wild generation,
rejecting the paranoia of their parents.
The whole of the ******* world
who copes with a regurgitated existence by selling narcissism.
Ours is a secret we are trying to tell with our lives,
when it’s realized it dies,
causing mystics to spill their insides
over silence, the answer that can never be vocalized.
Lo emotion,
the romance of confusion!
The one thing that can have no institution,
in our modern illusion.
I was watching "The Talk" in the doctor's waiting room. My repulsion followed as such.
Little buddy
Reliant friend
Stream goes strong
Yellow tinge

Forceful power
Sends the water
To the island
It's final destination

I see my friend
Little buddy
Grow from nothing
Knees like putty

I can't help but feel
Scared and quiet
My future is going past me
Responsibilities stacked higher and higher

The road to the future
Is long and twisted
The stream to the past
Is solemn and wistful
You'll run away,
But all your things are here to stay.
I'm tapping on the glass,
Won't you give me one last glance?

I'm fighting to give our love
One last chance.

Reach into your heart
And find the words so hard to spill.
Don't leave to find your next fill.
Love isn't just another pill.
you love him
you love his smooth hands and his rough cheek
you love your hands in his denim shirt
and the cinematography of you together
everything else is an afterthought

the knife in his eyes that is not always pointed at you
but when it is
you kiss the fist that rattles plates
the lips that wrap around clenched teeth
melt him

fail to understand his poison tipped arrows
that are aimed at the mother who threw bottles
if he could only pick one more fight it'd be with his father
you kiss him when he knocks his brother's teeth out

he leaves in the morning for coffee and comes back a day later
welcome him with open arms and abundant questions
he will be a tower of irritation and concrete
he will point fingers that will curl into fists
but they are not fists for you
they are for the devils that dance within him
and behind his wild eyes
and in his childhood home

you will not be fooled
he loves you
you know by every sweetheart and the lips on your forehead and the way he smells in between the sheets each night

he leaves
he comes back
purple flowers that bloom around his eyes are the bouquets he brings home for you
the front porch sags when he puts his hands in his pockets
his face buried in your chest
on nights when the lamp swings a little too low
and his body is wracked with sobbing and shoulders shaking

he mourns the gentle temper he never had
he mourns what he would be like without you
he mourns what you would be like without him
this is how he loves you

your hands in his hair easing soothing shh shh
you are the mother who left
you are better than every last ex-girlfriend
for reasons he will be happy to name
this is how you love him

you came because you are drawn to the shipwrecks
but you stayed in the water for him
ancient child
furious soul
you salt his wounds
and then you clean them
this is how you love him
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