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I wake up in a dream where I'm dreaming
  you're by my side
I hold your hand and pull you close
I can feel your heart beating against mine
I brush your hair from your neck and start
  to whisper in your ear "I lo..."
And then the dream is broken as you  
  dissappear.
I roll over to see your ghost walking out of
  my room
I try to call it back by finishing the words
  I had almost said
But no sound escapes my mouth except
  an echo of the dead
I feel my blood racing with my dreams
  courage turning cold
I hear a bird singing and beating its wings
  against my ribs
Shh little bird
If I could I would set you free
I know you're too beautiful for me
I close my eyes again and try to dream
  within a dream
But the words I never finished speaking
  haunt my empty room
And I find myself unable to even write
  them out
The words keep repeating
The bird keeps signing
But my doubts keep drowning their
  beauty out
I still get shy... even hiding so far away... I want to say "hey" or "hello" or "How are you" or "..." but then I over think and over analyze and second guess myself and tell myself you're  probably busy and convince myself it probably isn't a good idea and then write another poem to hide behind ...  and I spend the day thinking and sighing and dreaming about you...
I never thought that I would find myself
  here...
I never imagined I could feel this way
  again...
I was thinking as the years have past me by
That the only love I had left to share
Was for my one and only little guy
I had convinced myself
No one could compete or get near
  or take a residence in my heart
No time for crushes or falling and I would
  certainly never be lost and in love
No...
I love my little one
So completely
So fully
Theres no room for anyone else...
That's what I had been thinking my life
  had become
A beautiful life with a beautiful son
Nothing else needed
Nothing left to find
...
And then a single picture
Caused a domino effect
And somehow I'm...
I'm falling and dreaming
  and weightless and lost
And madly and impossibly
  and blindly and completely
And I'm over my head and
  I'm all out of breath  
And my skin, my blood, my bones
  my monster
Their all dancing and singing and
  shouting and dreaming
And dreaming and dreaming
  of you
And I'm lost in this place and this feeling
  I thought I could never find again
 Mar 2015 Laurel Leaves
Samantha
I got lost searching for your heart.
And I'm still wandering.
 Mar 2015 Laurel Leaves
Tryst
The bird has flown far far from home
where none will ever find her;
she left behest a vacant nest,
and crumbs as a reminder
of all the things her mighty wings
have borne of her creation,
and now she's gone to fly anon
and left a ruination

Far far from home the bird has flown
and time is ever fleeting,
a vacant nest she left behest
in silence of her beating
her mighty wings; of all the things,
she knows the sheer elation
to fly anon, and now she's gone
to seek her own salvation
There is a whisper in my heart
  louder than the roar of the sea
And there is a storm raging
  in my blood
And in the boom of the thunder
  your name echoes in my bones
And in the chill of the wind
  your ghost still haunts my soul
And in the flashes of lighting
  I can still see your eyes
And every rain drop is dreaming
  of you and screaming at me
And I try to shout out but my voice
  has  coward below
And I can't see the shore and I
  don't know if its night or its day
And I can't tell if I'm floating or
  sinking or falling
Or if I'm just dreaming and sleeping
  and wishing
You were lost out here in the
  middle with me
How is it she make him happy from
  so far away a place?
How is it his heart so full when he has
  never held her hand?
How does it feel so much like love  
  every time he awakens
    in the middle of the night
How is it as if it has been there
  all along
Like she has always been the bird
  singing in his heart
He must be mad or crazy or completly
  lost it all
No skin no bones no blood no soul
How is it that he's smiling while
  lying there all alone
How is it he cant escape from a love
  he can't embrace
I'm weightless and I'm falling
Not up
Not down
Not left
Not right
Just forever falling
All through the day
All through the night
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