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Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
it's all just one big balancing act on rope that's slowly getting more and more frayed with every half step or jump or skip.
No one ever thought that a net would be worth installing, what's the risk of falling when no one wants to take the plunge?
It's zero.
Not ground of course, but you get
the idea.
take a walk with me.
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
my words are capped. Over
with.
half-started sentences.
they just get cut
into somebody else.
they just get -
- -body else.

and i want to ------
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
Candles;
alone in the rain
Snuffed out
simmering in shame.
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
"I mean we were destined to fail, I've read every card in the deck, scry'd every crystal in the store. Looked for meanings in the Stars, the tea, the cracks in the pavement. Fishbones, wishbones, my palms and the swirls at the back of my eyelids. Can't you see?"

"I see. The magpies came in two's."

"Exactly, there's happiness somewhere."

"Just not here."

**"Yes. Just not here."
I've picked up tarot reading again, missed it!
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
I remember
even if I don't want too.
Seeing you climb over
obstacles of your own making
and jumping from post to post
with no other feeling
but a smile.

Its a still image

repeating again but different;
like waves that break
or waves that smother
or waves that never rise at all.
But it's better to break beautifully
than stagnate.

I didn't belong in someone else's heart

**That's what I believe.
Oskar Erikson Jun 2017
Do my oceans,
taste like your tears?
Drown me in both
and my answer
you'll then hear.
Oskar Erikson May 2017
and to swear
the last air i breathe*
is to have you
*in its smoke.
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