M/Bottom of the Jar It’s late
I must sleep but my soul speaks
“Just one more rhyme”
and so I rest now
because of this line
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Some throw themselves to fire Some to a raging wave We throw ourselves at words Doubly as dangerous…but brave We string along a sentence We bleed line by line Scraping along defences We grind the grit and rhyme Defying the babblers battle Waging war with a world where words have no meaning or power when they’re hurled We’ll never decay or go rotten We’ll be writing till we’re read They may shut us till we’re forgotten But they’ll quote us when we’re dead
My breast had been your pillow my body became your bed You lay yourself down upon me and dreamt yourself inside my head You slept a million moons with me we swept and swayed your soul to rest Beneath the quilted cover of my skin upon the mattress of my chest Only to wake and find beside me the creases where your body laid And in your eyes the empty sheets where my heart was left unmade
You kissed me like a promise You kept me like a case You held me like a picture You passed me like a place You left me like a thought You hung me like a bell You judged me like a court You wished me like a well You released me like a sparrow You sealed me like a will You waited like tomorrow You searched me like a hill You forgot me like an orphan You missed me like a kiss You lay me like a coffin You liked me like this
What becomes of a mind when the thoughts that you bind are filling up a cracked shell and every moment of dull poured into the skull will only implode if you don’t tell
So if you’re falling apart pour out your heart or that too will fall out of place speak and reveal all the hurt that you feel let it beautifully leak from your face