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 Jul 2014 Michael Amery
SG Holter
One lover's hand reaches for her
Lover's humble question,
Another's travels slowly across
The impression of her body;  
Ghostweight on matress from
Miles away in mind and matter.

She embraces new scent,
Hands once bored now learn
Warmth and texture that once
Too will feel  
Too familiar,

While another reaches for a quill
And another and
Another to write himself wings
That span
Across time and tragedy,
To fly him too close to the truth

Of why he never could write
Himself to
A safe landing on firm
Fact, but rather spin images of
Coloured in connections between
Dots to form elequent
Lies such as:

"I'll never want another,"
"This will scar my soul forever,"
"I cannot live wthout her,"
and
"She'll never want another."

A fading faint figure on the horizon.
Slow motion flash backs of days and
Days and days to slow, sensitive
Music. Yesterdays all, for my own good,
Completely and utterly

Out of my reach.
I'm getting happier about
It with
Every
Passing
Heartbeat.
I've lost myself along your way
And I'm honestly not sure that I care today
Because we're going no where
Tired of you tearing me down
I need a space to call my own
Need to find myself on this road that leads me home
Here I am waiting until you let me go
Here I am and now you're all alone
How long can we wait for things to change?
How long before we just turn to dust and fade away?
Need to figure ourselves out
Cut through the flesh of our own self doubt
Never thought it would be this way
I am the worst and you are to blame
You're in my bloodstream
Drying my veins until I'm just a silhouette
Of what you viewed as perfect
Discerning the subtle changes in our love's hue
The lies fall into pieces that I left for you
Now close the door and lock it tight
Then I'll know you're safe tonight
Turn on a song that means something
Believe I'm still there but you're only seeing
The ghost of what you wanted me to be.
 Jul 2014 Michael Amery
Hayleigh
The fog that night doesn't compare
With the smog you left in my mind
 Jul 2014 Michael Amery
SG Holter
"How come you are the one
Comforting me,"* she says after
Blowing her nose with the
Tissue I dispensed,

"...when I am the one leaving
You?"


So I comfort.
Swallow my own despair
And dry tears with my name on
Them that missed by a heart's

Depth and hit her face.

"You're not my girl anymore," I say,
Watching a red moon rise over
Woodland summer nightscapes.

"But that only changes so much.
I'm here for you. Just like before."


That's what friends are for.
Misguided fire of passion
Burns one’s own abode
Even the tears of remorse
Can’t douse the raging inferno
 Jul 2014 Michael Amery
Peach
I dreamed of tomorrow
But chased my yesterday
I wear my heart like a dried ink stain
Black and misshapen
I like to pretend it didn't happen
Some things bring it all back
Memories fatally attack
A scent
A stray thought
Frozen on the floor
Trembling in knots
Perhaps I really am that *****
I know not when I became filled with such rot

© 2014 Peach
 Jul 2014 Michael Amery
Peach
My own darkness terrifies me,
I am right to be afraid
For there is nothing...
Absolutely nothing,
That I wouldn't do
To avoid this unforgiving hell

© 2014 Peach
My mind is the best prison, it tortures me so well.
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