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 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
release.
 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
Hills are climbed for coasting
Trudging the upward *****
crunching your breath
legs burning and aching
pressing the pedals to the pavement
for the thrill of the drop

but darkness can hide in overactivity
insufficiency
inadequacy

and after the climb
I find myself pumping the gears
desperate to catch traction on the fall
to keep pushing
when all the wind wants me to do
is

    release.
stop pedaling
 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
Every time I look down
The ink on my chest burns red
The taste of the shades of pink in your lips
Grabbing my hips
In selfless descendance

I can almost feel it
Your fingertips
In soulful bliss
I beg for it
is it you?
 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
we were, we are
a hurricane
a wayward train
torrential rain
scattered, scorched, and singed terrain
but we are NOT debris,
remains

we're beautiful, and effervescent
caliginous, bold
eclipsed fluorescence
tapered in incessant lessons
and garnished in moments of
  
                                                    Heaven

n­o longer in hiding.
march 2018
 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
I love hearing people make promises

  fantasizing about the way they're going to



break them
you ruined me for a moment, there.
 Jun 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
Silent screams from the rooftop
as the night ended in a bit of an anti
******
Rounded out by your hurry

but never discoura-ging

I watched each defined crystal line bring forth from the depths of the lead in our chests
a divine struggle

of life and highs

Cliche though it may sound
the round
-ness of your face
with your hair at my chin brought me exactly what I was looking for

By giving me nothing that I was looking for

Ink stands forever in skin
And I still think you deserve that

Your words will spring forth from my lips
And I still think you deserve that

But the ethereal place that I cinch at my waist will leave empty a canister once filled by your name

Though you did not leave of shame.

Just like the encounters of those in my art
your shaded brown eyes brought the start
Of me

Spurred by the Heart
of you

And in that, we will share, although you were somebody that I never knew

And I, somebody you will never think of

A saunter in the dark, strange conversational
spark;

Silent screams from the rooftops
and the fire

                   Restarts.
for me.
 May 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
tired.
 May 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
I’m tired of people meeting me

And falling in love with somebody


Who doesn’t exist
I’m not here yet
 May 2021 Johnny Dust
Kelly
with each short beat constraints bring pain
like tortured boards
sliced, lost remains
The stark confines
these tethered chains
They weigh me down
They haunt my brain
let yourself out.
Moments still eat seconds that
eat from minutes that feed from
hours while we toil at jobs that
steal from ticking life's hourglass
sand in tiny pieces never quit
until we are just dead clocks.
What becomes of them
those who let others decide
more fertilizer

                    Kelly McManus
What compels humans
to be so much less than their
capability

                       Kelly McManus
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