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207 · Aug 2017
Hand off
Oskar Erikson Aug 2017
But why do we find our hearts
in the palms of others?
in the cracks of the paint.
in the makeup.
in the books.

it's always somewhere unexpected.
like venom you take with honey.

filled with sweetness,


with satisfaction. *Are you satisfied?
Oskar Erikson Jun 2019
force your words into my mouth
veins of vowels constricting around vocal chords
and the consonants crushing
my windpipe.

start to understand the violence alongside the language.
206 · Dec 2016
In Cheek (10w)
Oskar Erikson Dec 2016
Chose to bite my tongue.
I should of
Bitten yours.
204 · Jul 2017
Unfortunately (10w)
Oskar Erikson Jul 2017
All Suns
Must Set.

All Moons
Must Rise.

  It's   *   Life.
203 · Apr 2016
Oh
Oskar Erikson Apr 2016
Oh
We agreed, did we not?
On the way we'd love.
Till we got caught
when your heart became tough.
Hammer came down with a thud.
Crystal future to mud.

Take me home, it's too painful
lull me to sleep- is this what we came too?
Still you promised me.
Guess all love leaves eventually.
Wanted to try another love poem!
Oskar Erikson Jun 2018
I found between your fingertips the unknown.
The dark beauty that bleeds
otherworldly blood.
And as is with war torn lovers
mistaking red for green.
Left us both ruined
but you perhaps more so.
202 · Jul 2017
Expanse
Oskar Erikson Jul 2017
take me
to where trees
only shelter
the midnight Moon.
202 · Jan 2017
Lack of Love
Oskar Erikson Jan 2017
Fear not; The thought of loveless life.
For even the Moon is kissed by the Sun.
201 · Aug 2019
essence
Oskar Erikson Aug 2019
This     gap
between out lips as the kisses become longer
that     vital
intake of air to keep the love/boredom/sympathy/pity
alive    until
this is snuffed out in the hope of something tangible
200 · Sep 2018
school days
Oskar Erikson Sep 2018
(i)
you used to sit two seats away from me.
probably never realising the glances stolen
from behind notebooks and pencil cases.
i was happy to hear your laugh and the tapping of your feet, of your hands upon the table.
it was puppy love, it was my only.
the days you weren't there were the ones that lasted the longest
and the days you were, ironically, the fastest
i did not know how to switch the two.
but then you caught me.

(ii)
you used to sit a seat away from me.
with words that spoke softly now
and mutterings i no longer had to second guess.
to the crinkles in your eyes when you smiled
and the cuffs of your blazer a mess.
you rarely looked me in the eye
so i could never tell if you were listening but
i was just too happy to care.
but then you caught me.

(iii)
you are the gaps of my sentences.
and i am a memory you'd sooner forget.
200 · Sep 2016
Midnight messages
Oskar Erikson Sep 2016
When I was younger, through many nights I felt my dreams
turn to premonitions.
When I was younger, through the days I felt my actions
turn to decisions.
But now I deign to lay my head.
For no longer are my dreams, dreams-
But you instead.

And who knows what I'll prophet,
without the Suns rays to stop it.
Anyone else had dreams that the next day occurred?
199 · Apr 2016
Only so many words
Oskar Erikson Apr 2016
Such a shame
"I love you" Can't contain,
the true extent
of these false
feelings.
do i really want to love you?
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
i was always scared
that each day would be the
last
and the next day was always
worst than the
past
but now all i hope
is somehow this borrowed beguiled friendship will
outlast

Me.
   I'm here for as long as you want.
I promise.
198 · Apr 2017
It only hurts for a second
Oskar Erikson Apr 2017
Even if i bleed a little;
at least I'll taste something we share.
Oskar Erikson Apr 2019
couldn't summon
your warmth
and your voice
to my ears
the
daydreams satisfy loneliness like candy does coke
i missed the childhood we could have had
i miss not knowing what it was
we had
i hate knowing now
what that was
196 · Feb 2017
Inhale/Exhale
Oskar Erikson Feb 2017
"Breathe me."*

why not
fall again
since we're so
good at it
...
196 · Oct 2017
fragile
Oskar Erikson Oct 2017
You know something has changed
when you can no longer
write poetry about them.
193 · Dec 2016
Meaningless (10w)
Oskar Erikson Dec 2016
Aren't
You
Loving.

let me believe
we
can
become
something.
193 · Feb 2017
connection
Oskar Erikson Feb 2017
stop searching for gazes in glazed over eyes.
192 · Mar 2017
Poetry
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
it is preferring to dream;*
*
rather than sleep.
192 · Aug 2019
e-boy lover
Oskar Erikson Aug 2019
slicing my tongue against your shades of pastel
in hopes of seeing what being instagram famous is like
finding that internal "like/subscribe/follow" spot
tasting influencer on your breath
painted nails trailing my cheekbones for something more tangible
wristbones that angels would have fallen for
my e-boy lover
whispering how you love to perform

your face afterwards dejected
as the camera
wasn't even
rolling.
192 · Jan 2017
Untitled
Oskar Erikson Jan 2017
I dreamt it finally
Saw it in
all its glory.
But even in dreams
There's still no hope for  you
for me.
Soft. Silken. Warm.
Intangible, without fear
Without form.
I dreamt it finally
and to an end I hoped to see
to see you
and me.
192 · Apr 2017
Shred
Oskar Erikson Apr 2017
when the kisses turn to bites
and the mirror reflects his love
more than you-
"DONT BELIEVE IN ACCIDENTS!"
-think about the times where tenderness was supplanted by need
by want-
"WILL IT BE SATISFIED?"
-or perhaps how you never get looked in the eye-
**"I need you."
Oskar Erikson Apr 2019
you wasn't ready
to
communicate what i really felt
you
were to much rawness
not enough
sharpness
just words thrown at paper in anger and sadness and a desire to finally get them out

i wasn't prepared to fix you up
because i'm in no position
to tell you how to be made right.
190 · Aug 2018
respite
Oskar Erikson Aug 2018
take rest
beside my tongue
and i can tell you stories
only heartbroken lovers can tell.
188 · Jul 2017
cruel
Oskar Erikson Jul 2017
leave the Roof to cave in....
its been dying too.    
i mean it fell in love with
the Floor. (literally).
anything less would just be cruel.
188 · Jun 2019
not above surface level
Oskar Erikson Jun 2019
coulda let you hold me close,
love saw something deeper I suppose.
187 · Feb 2017
Overhead
Oskar Erikson Feb 2017
i can't go stargazing anymore.
i mean; after the moment was ruined by a not too snarky comment
"They're dying- it's not beautiful-"
you wouldn't expect it. now i look to ceilings
with cracks and caves from upstairs dances, naming constellations
from memory

wishing i could look at my night sky stars.
without you.                                                  
                                                                          "-but this is. We're beautiful."
183 · Jun 2016
Request
Oskar Erikson Jun 2016
Forsake my heart;
just as i left yours
RUN
before love'll start
on these barren shores.

My soul is all-consuming,
and i will swallow you whole.
183 · May 2017
Sculpt
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.
183 · Mar 2017
Day to Day.
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
but the tides change.

Sunlight's embrace through leaves
to caress cheeks and chin;
dancing on your features.

To a computer screen.
Reflected on glasses, with
tensed teeth and eyebrow.      unseeing.

The moon sits somewhere out of view. It does not intrude.

Sleep does not take me this night.
Hazy irises seek out your face in the gloom.
found in a bed an arms-reach-eternity-   away.

                                                          (i dont want to look away)

so i watch the sun through curtains. throwing greetings upon the wall.
to caress your eyes and hair.
the first blink of morning.
a smile.
sleep...over.....
182 · Feb 2017
Standard
Oskar Erikson Feb 2017
Do not ask
to be loved in your dark
if you are unable to
love in my light.
177 · Mar 2017
it just never settled
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
scar tissue
beating within my chest;
let you never know healing,
let you never know rest.

scar tissue
tapping to a one-two-one-two-time;
you know it'll never be right,
you know it'll never be fine.

scar tissue
that was once called a heart:
we can't stop the bleeding
we can't restart.
174 · Mar 2017
trust
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
something i no longer receive.

so leave me in my overthinking

so just leave me to grieve.

.
170 · Jan 2024
under the radiator
Oskar Erikson Jan 2024
corrugated;
this love like
an ugly curve.
draining the airpocket
dry.
nails, wood wounded.
all right, all right, all right then.
165 · Jun 2018
Incorrect inference
Oskar Erikson Jun 2018
I woke with you on my mind.
(but not on my lips)
I walked with your words.
(but not in your hand)
I slept with your goodbye in my ears.
(but not your good morning in my heart)
163 · Dec 2023
sideout-in
Oskar Erikson Dec 2023
maybe it’s
not about the love
of my life;
but the life
inside of my love.
Reverse
157 · Aug 2020
confession {1}
Oskar Erikson Aug 2020
i learned
to navigate by
charting the dreams
i snatched from opposite side of the bedroom
like stars.
“The blue grass stuck to my skin-snakes like to pretend to be vines-I saw you writing-I was so happy-we lived together-you burnt the rice-i had to clean it up-you looked happy-couldn’t get to sleep-hurt my head-didn’t dream today-didn’t happen again-why do you ask-i can’t remember-don’t really care-they
don’t mean anything-
right?”

left on open waters
without a sky full of stars
drifting away from land
by the waves.
157 · Mar 2017
delusion
Oskar Erikson Mar 2017
it's a not love kind of love
155 · May 2017
parking lot
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.
147 · Oct 2018
sunk
Oskar Erikson Oct 2018
all of this love
is sunk
and i can’t dive deep enough.
121 · Apr 2017
to reach
Oskar Erikson Apr 2017
out into an abyss
finding fingers in the dark
to curl around my thoughts
and leave an impression.

it's not finding a hand to hold
or to sweep out the mist.
it's to find shelter from the cold
and lips you once kissed.
109 · Oct 2024
acid scar
Oskar Erikson Oct 2024
the fire at the corners of my eyes -
- smoke billowing -
- make blinking that much harder -
- once in awhile ash collects in an iris -
- a promise to burn things -
- blind.
106 · Oct 2024
holding
Oskar Erikson Oct 2024
a man sits in the corner
in his hands; the small bits. the aches.

I couldn’t have loved you once
in a voice holding
a feeling stronger than regret.

on shoulders not broad enough
a shadow, heavier than memory.
91 · Jan 6
limited liability
on the shelf there’s a framed photo.

a photo of you.
one print, plucked from your polaroid
post picture,
post posing.

processing
i couldn’t have possibly
taken it myself.

practically then, i’m replaying a feeling long since perished. purposefully.

kinda sad to be planning out pity parties
periodically.

maybe i’ll write the patent on recovering from players like you.
get a legal practitioner in Intellectual Property and beg for peace.

they’ll tell me all about limited liability.

— The End —