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487 · Oct 2014
Autopsy
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
At my autopsy,
Unfinished love poems to you
Found stuck in my throat
485 · Feb 2015
Smolder
Michael Humbert Feb 2015
I find that as I get older,
Cuts take longer to heal,
Scars stay longer, deeper

Inconvenient reminders of my failures,
Trophies of inadequacies,
Agonies made tangible

You are the cut in the roof of my mouth,
The one I keep tonguing just to feel it bleed
Just to feel something

I have starved for your lips,
Reliving endless memories,
Passion and flesh ethereal

I am the ongoing experiment to see if a man can die of longing
And I have no endgame in mind,
I will build my life around this hollow

I will move forward as this gulf grows wider,
As the streams of our lives flow in parallel,
Never to cross except perhaps in cruel dreams

I've let go of every flame but you,
You, who will never burn for me again
While I continue to dutifully smolder
474 · Dec 2014
Appreciation
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
appreciation (n): a bitterness tasted in retrospect
474 · Jun 2015
Radio
Michael Humbert Jun 2015
As miles fly by
Radio stations fade and melt
Into new songs, voices

And I wonder
If moving on
Was just as easy for you
471 · Apr 2015
Dressed
Michael Humbert Apr 2015
Dressed to impress
And I must confess
How full of **** I really am
470 · Sep 2014
Natural Disaster
Michael Humbert Sep 2014
She was an earthquake,
Leaving death in her wake

She was a hurricane,
I swore I'd contain

She was a blizzard,
And I inexplicably miss her
470 · Oct 2014
Painting
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
You once told me about a painting you drew,
You told me there was a painting underneath
But when I asked of what,
You wouldn't tell me;
It was too soon.

Everything about you felt like an enigma,
Even though you bared so much of your soul to me,
Your secrets, your fears, your burdens,
And much like that painting,
I felt that I could only scratch the surface of you

You beautiful, mysterious creature,
Enshrouded in secrets,
Wrapped in riddles

I still wonder about that painting,
And what I would have learned
But you were a tome that I'll never finish,
Your pages left to be read by another,
Who would drink in your rich stories
And savor them like a prized wine aged by time and effort

And though I am merely a footnote in your storied history,
I am grateful to be associated with your name,
To have touched your life,
And have been there for you as I have
465 · Dec 2014
Silence
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
Silence is a language in itself,
It’s poignant, peaceful, deafening, soothing
Silence transcends trite words,
And its meaning is known by the way it settles in your bones
Whether it’s a silence shared by two lovers cradling each other in bed,
Oblivious to anything but their sacred bliss
Or a silence spanning years by lovers turned strangers,
Long entrenched in new lives and new souls

Silence wraps itself around time like ivy on gnarled roots
Intertwining itself with life
As time grows, it can intensify, become tangible like cream
When you are all alone, embrace silence,
Do not fear it,
For it can be your solace or your doom
464 · Apr 2015
Fruition
Michael Humbert Apr 2015
Flesh firm ripe
Juices spilling
Carnal fruition
462 · Jun 2015
Static
Michael Humbert Jun 2015
The miles tick by
As the radio plays its tune
A wounded singer fades in and out
As verdant trees whip by

In time, the music tapers
Increasingly drowned by static
Volume turned up in desperation
A losing battle

Eventually the singer croons his last
Static having its way
Suddenly, a new voice rings
Unfamiliar, pleasant melodies

A new song beckons
Undiscovered
Eager to please
Tantalize

Drink in these new sounds
Let your heart resonate
With these new vibrations
And leave sadness to the static
458 · Dec 2014
Descriptors
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
Starved glutton
Hopeful pessimist
Cognizant ignoramus
Overeducated fool
I am a roiling sea of paradoxes
I read books to describe what it feels like to love you
455 · May 2015
Cease
Michael Humbert May 2015
I miss that which has long ceased to be
I'm sure you're still beautiful
I know you are
But you're not who I fell in love with
Not anymore
Time has done so much
Changed, gnarled, skewed

I wander through graveyards of dead memories
Fondly reminiscing warm hands, soft lips, radiant sunsets, cruise ships

We amass stories, experiences
We adapt and change
What is left of the person you were 3 years ago? 5? 10?

And so again I'm sorry
(I've learned the taste of that word well)
I've no idea who you are today
But I love you, whatever that means
However I can, I love you
454 · Oct 2014
Aborted (10w)
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
Everytime I pass a graveyard,
I mourn our aborted future.
454 · Oct 2014
Ticking
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
I can't stand ticking clocks;
They remind me of every second that
*you're not here
452 · Feb 2016
Unmarked
Michael Humbert Feb 2016
I stared at the sunset, fading, shedding its radiant tears smeared across the sky, purple, blue pastels
And counted the seconds I had left to hold your hand
I see you in everyone else's grief
And I never really stopped to think what "You're dead to me" really feels like
Not malicious, no, just an unmarked tombstone in my head I visit on occasion to pay respects and remember a beautiful mistake
451 · Oct 2014
Sculpture
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
You are a sculpture of human beauty,
A gilded paragon of sexuality
The likes of which bring even gods to their knees,
Wailing and gnashing their teeth
At this affront, this mockery,
This proof of their own woeful inadequacy

You make trees strain to shade you,
And the sun blushes to bring light to your eyes
The winds gasp to cool you,
And the clouds shed tears at your paralyzing grace

You are shock and you are awe,
You are passion and you are fire,
And I long to be doused
In your everlasting flames
451 · Jan 2016
1/31/16
Michael Humbert Jan 2016
All he knew was that kissing her just felt right
450 · Mar 2016
3/6/16
Michael Humbert Mar 2016
I would rather be alone than make you unhappy again
450 · Aug 2015
Blood
Michael Humbert Aug 2015
Deep in my chest you carved your name
Fresh blood rushes to fill the ridges, trying
Dragged away by current
Originally written 8/10/14, one of my very first writes
449 · Feb 2015
Absolve
Michael Humbert Feb 2015
Absolve me of sin
Dissolve me in gin
446 · Oct 2014
Kiss
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
Her kiss flowed like ruby red wine,
Never have I known a sweeter narcotic,
Nor ever a deadlier poison
445 · Dec 2014
Craft
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
This is performance art of the worst kind,
And the artists are performing against their will,
Trapped in glass boxes, pounding on the walls,
Screaming at ghosts

They mime at passersby for help,
Anything to relieve the pain,
The interminable burden,
Strangers sadly shrug and walk on

And so these ****** souls
Toil away at their craft,
Scribbling nonsense on bits of scrap,
Trying to fill the void
444 · Mar 2015
Oasis
Michael Humbert Mar 2015
Drink from her lips like
The desert oasis you've
Been searching for years
439 · Oct 2014
Flowers
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
Flowers wilt as a reminder
that nothing beautiful lasts forever
439 · May 2015
Cinco de Mayo
Michael Humbert May 2015
Beaten, slit open, and bled
Eviscerated piñata
438 · Sep 2014
Virus (10w)
Michael Humbert Sep 2014
You're the virus
that will live dormant in me
forever
437 · Apr 2015
A Word
Michael Humbert Apr 2015
a word for beauty
for yours I've never enough:
pulchritudinous
434 · May 2015
Shame
Michael Humbert May 2015
(n.):* the kind of bitterness plaguing your tongue no matter how you drown it in liquor
433 · Feb 2016
2/23/16
Michael Humbert Feb 2016
It still kills me to see your name in print
432 · Jun 2015
Words
Michael Humbert Jun 2015
So many words writ
Maybe if I write enough
I'll find the right ones
Related: https://twitter.com/avxlanche/status/515222693449576448
432 · Oct 2014
Dance
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
We once danced to The Beatles,
Blaring through headphones as makeshift speakers,
Slowly circling on the balcony overlooking the ocean
And lost in each other,
I still remember your black and white polka dot dress,
Your charming fascinator,
And I remember wanting nothing more than to kiss you,
And envelop myself in your essence,
As tendrils of young love wrapped us tighter
Than the empty sheets I grasped this morning.
I guess it’s time to wake up.
429 · May 2015
Chapter
Michael Humbert May 2015
My life is starting a new chapter
While nostalgia's fingers firmly grasp pages dog-eared from wear, despair
Refusing to lose their place, to let go
Stubbornly bookmarked a time pockmarked with sorrow

Oh foolish persistence!
Look ahead to new endeavor
Love's too clever to predict
427 · Nov 2014
Shards
Michael Humbert Nov 2014
Throat, torn and bloodied
Spit up shards of memories
Every wretched night
425 · Mar 2015
Graze
Michael Humbert Mar 2015
Fingers grazing collarbones
Staining her skin
With memory eternal
421 · Jan 2015
1/20/2015
Michael Humbert Jan 2015
The one who got away
Is the one
Who was never supposed to *stay
421 · Apr 2015
Stain (Haiku)
Michael Humbert Apr 2015
Wine, coffee stain teeth
Your memory stained my life
Out stain! **** stain. *Out!
420 · Dec 2014
Silently
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
If we silently missed each other, a million worlds apart, would it matter?

If 2 trees fell down 2,981 miles apart and no one was around to hear them, would they make a sound?

On the day that you drove home alone from the airport, did your tears run as silently as mine did on the morning I texted you, "I'm sorry for everything" before deleting your number for good?
420 · Jul 2016
All I Have Left
Michael Humbert Jul 2016
Hello, I miss you
Sometimes I tell strangers about you,
Sometimes you're still all I think about
And sometimes I wonder if all I have left is a really good story

The things you left in the past could have changed your life
The things that wouldn't last, still alive, just barely
A tempestuous undeath unto your frail memory
Just trying to make it through another day
419 · Aug 2015
Bite
Michael Humbert Aug 2015
"You can bite," she says
Clutching fistfuls of my hair
I live for her gasps
419 · Sep 2014
I hate
Michael Humbert Sep 2014
I hate how I love you
I hate how I have no choice in the matter
I hate how you still hold a special place in my heart

I hate how I felt depression for the first time in my life after losing you
I hate how I could let you affect me so profoundly

I hate how not a day has passed since you left that I haven’t thought about you at least a little
I hate how I have to live with you occupying this space in my head

I hate that you’ll always be in someone else’s arms
I hate that I don’t want you in mine

I hate that I can’t just turn off the memories
I hate that I can’t turn off you
419 · Apr 2015
Bridges
Michael Humbert Apr 2015
Sitting on these shores
Bridges incinerated
Missing yours dearly
417 · Sep 2015
9/6/15
Michael Humbert Sep 2015
Here I am again at the corner of "What the **** am I doing?" and "I miss you."

We didn't turn out to be a fairy tale,
And instead I'm sleeping with a girl I text, "Come over tonight."
I kiss her with open eyes. It's a moist charade.
She keeps my bed warm though.

I wonder if you're happy
I'm still vague on the term
I just try to keep busy

It's getting harder to write you
But these notebooks won't fill themselves
I trust you will wait
416 · Feb 2016
Incongruent
Michael Humbert Feb 2016
I apologize as I dry her eyes
And I know that I'll never be enough for her
Two pieces from different puzzles
And I'm still puzzled how I ever found her
Incongruent, I ******* blew it
And I'm still trying to make sense of it all
I laugh, there's no number to call
And she's gone as I continue to fall
415 · Dec 2014
Stars
Michael Humbert Dec 2014
I envy the stars ablaze,
Surveying nightly infinity,
They are lucky to feel your gaze
414 · Jul 2015
Worth
Michael Humbert Jul 2015
She prefers silence to words
Redundant noises vibrating emptily like the buzzing wings of a gnat
Her quiet will shatter you like a bullet through a windowpane

But look at old photographs, see her beam
Look closely and you can see the sadness seeping through her smile
She's seen enough to know what's worth suffering for
And she knew you weren't worth the fight
414 · Jul 2015
7/27/15
Michael Humbert Jul 2015
I kissed her while grinning
She left my head spinning
My favorite kind of kiss
413 · Sep 2014
Trigger
Michael Humbert Sep 2014
Pull the trigger,
Do it,
Set in motion this cascade of events

Lock and load,
**** the hammer,
This firing pin demands action

BOOM!

Muzzle flash,
Smoke,
A bullet case innocently falls

Tear through bone and flesh,
A maelstrom of destruction,
Who will be your next target?
412 · Aug 2015
Blades
Michael Humbert Aug 2015
Whirring blades decapitate hubristic
verdant stalks stretching beyond their station
8/23/14
411 · Jul 2015
Self
Michael Humbert Jul 2015
Denigrating mind
An assailant of the self
Punishment of crime
409 · Oct 2014
Heartbeat (20w)
Michael Humbert Oct 2014
Looking up at the night sky
I guess I just want to know
If this heartbeat was meant
*for you
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