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Oskar Erikson May 2017
There is little I wouldn't do.
For

falling asleep
with your scent as my blanket
your chest my pillow
and your breathing my lullaby

Yes.
There is little I wouldn't do.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
there was an old building
wooden and decrepit
filled with secrets that the children
traded in.

now it's smoothed over.
casted concrete or something similar.
it's the ghost of a house that's gone.
it's eerie how it's inviting.
It's eerie how it's inviting.
but now it's missing.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
There's nothing left*

but the silence of;

*that truth unsaid.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
"can we pretend that this never happened? can we pretend that the photo's on my phone, the pictures on the wall, the poems in my book the endless number of calls, the days out, the days in, the days somewhere inbetween, the nights, the lessons taught, the stories told and retold, till we both know them better than the back of our hands that touched when we didn't want them too, but i did, i did, i did."

tear it out cleanly.
it can heal i can deal with the scars i'm not afraid anymore
but i can't sustain this.
do not resuscitate me.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
dancing on our tiptoes
arms among clouds
our throats turned to birdsong
and eyes star-bound.

How Could We Return To Earth.

soon though
as want to do
our fuel ran cold.
sparks to splutters to shudders to crawls to fingernails dragging the atmosphere
           back
down
           with
us.

clipped wings
our shoes seem so heavy
"I want to be rooted"
"I want to be planted"
"I want to be free."
*"Before I dream of what the sky-"
Oskar Erikson May 2017
because you never loved me,
but didn't think to leave;
i couldn't let dead things be.
**i couldn't learn how to grieve.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
i can recount the cuticles
on your fingers
like lullabies. like home.
And they spiral to your wrists
muscle and sinew dreams
that i can find rest between.
Then upwards to bicep and collar
bone corners, angled love. Curved
solace and icy water skin.
I want to sink
I don't want to be seen.
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