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What if
I'm the sun and
you're the moon

What if
'never' is our soon
 Mar 2014 Michael W Noland
kgl
after the last time
I don't even want to admit
that I feel something akin to a connection
to a person with the potential
to so easily tear me apart

I am frightened
can't begin to think about
how I would ever be able to tell you
that I walk home every day
just to see your face
to watch the sunlight reflect
from your ocean eyes.
 Mar 2014 Michael W Noland
Ghazal
That sight of the scars
Painting her young wrists
Shook me with with disbelief
Yet overtook me with jealousy

I'd never be able to express pain
Like she did in her poetry

The crispest of papers
The finest of inks would falter
In front of that beautiful, mangled mess
Her smudged, blood-tinged words would author
Can I be cavalier with a heart
That doesn’t belong to me
Can I afford the same careless
Actions to be inflicted onto someone else
As I have inflected them onto my own heart
Will I not feel knots in my stomach
And pains in my chest if I allow
The dread in my heart
To stain another’s who
I promised to keep untainted
Promised to hold with gentle hands
And look at with kind eyes
To blow off the dust that settles
On it after too much time
Without enough use
I said I would love your heart for
As long as mine would pump
But is that promise broken
If the beating slows so severely
It severs the sound of the second hand
Tick of a tenuous time keeper
My heart as always been my keeper
And it’s working at a slower rate
Than is needed for oxygen
To run through my veins
And into to my muscles
Making my mouth lethargic
And unable to not be cavalier
With the words I love you
And to shy away from someone else’s heart
I promised to love till mine stopped beating.
Love is a game of give and take,
But what happens when that heart starts to break?

Too much love and too much sorrow,
Causes a yearning of a better tomorrow…
Oh my long hair, bearded, whimsically beautiful friend.
Lily & Lilac bloom from your soul, Baby's Breath nests in your hands.
You happy, hippie masterpiece... Can you explain the tortures beyond your happy facade? Though your sunlight illuminates my soul in the best ways, but I'd still like to feel your rain.

Cry on my small shoulder, if you ever need to & do not ever worry that I'll someday hate you. I'll brush your locks of gold across your forehead
& tuck them behind your ear.
I'll run my fingertips over your shoulder blades & spine,
if it helps soothe you, my dear.

Light some incense, boil the iron kettle for tea, lie on a roof while you
tell me all of your troubles & smoke a little ****.
Bathe in the dewy musk, of August's late rushes
of beautiful, nightly breezes
all in which you may smell the ocean (she teases).

So don't be shy, don't be scared my friend,
a fire like me sees no such thing as the end
of such boundless spiritual energy, between two human entities.
you know... you've always meant so much to me,
so smile & raise your chin.
fly with me
Have you ever woken up startled
In the middle of the night

                   With the thought that your muse has left you
                   And cruelly turned out the lights

Leaving you afraid that in the morning
You'll wake up with no more rhyme

                    More often than not
                    These thoughts enter my head

Although I have often heard
Somethings are better left unsaid

                    I believe these thoughts I have
                    Would be better off dead

And these words that I now speak
Are they my muse or mine

                    And if the lights were turned off
                    Would that be that big a crime

When my muse tries to venture out
I believe the next time

                    I'll grab a hold, tie her up
                   And be the one to feed her the lines
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