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 Dec 2014 Ryan
RS Williams
sleepy
 Dec 2014 Ryan
RS Williams
rolled over
past the entry of sunlight
no spark of lust
receded back to base
like an animal
nothing to gain
no one to concede
quietly suffering
could not go get
could not get up,
the burn
was painless
for I was already jaded,
no lesson to be learned
nothing to be redeemed
just the quiet anticipation  
of forthcoming heartbreak
to engender upon
my delicate hands
just the stillness
before the unrest
the calm
before the cry
 Dec 2014 Ryan
Kate Irons
Loving you is like watching my own blood run down my arms and screaming 'it doesn't hurt'
 Dec 2014 Ryan
Kate Irons
1/2
 Dec 2014 Ryan
Kate Irons
1/2
maybe my hands
are always cold
to show
that
i would be nothing
without
you
 Dec 2014 Ryan
abby
{great lakes}
 Dec 2014 Ryan
abby
there were great lakes
pooling in the vibrations
of your voice
lake superior begged me
to love you
lake eerie screamed
and cried
and lake michigan lied
to my face.
they were too massive to overcome
and too swellingly deep to swim
i wanted to cross the lakes
from america to canada
and run across solid ground.
but a tide washed over me
and now i'm lost at sea
i didn't think you could ever
forget how to swim
but my muscles are weak
and the water so cold
and dreams so peaceful
that i think i'll just
let go.

*(a.m.c.)
 Dec 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
you'll be all better
i'll repeat and repeat it
until you believe it
i'll sing it and dance it
and be and mean it

feet don't fail me now
it'll make sense somehow
i say in between
heavy pants and second
thoughts and undertones

it's all for nothing though
and that's quite alright
i'm one with the universe
and the stars out tonight

but don't try and make sense
of what i confess, it's all just
some ploy to get you undressed,
i guess, you said it- i'm a mess

you can see right through it
and if you do know what's best
you'll not spend one moment
and you'll avoid my caress

i'm just playing my part, though
it's all thoughts and undertones
and the cold air that breaches bone
the one thing i really own

is this senseless need to be what you
see, when you're laying in bed
and you're thinking of things
that kept you from flying
from dancing so free
a form of bravery an image
beautifully obscene

the chaos of all things drenched
in *** appeal
draped in fine fabrics
with nails made of steel

but look how you make an
impressionable mind rant
yes, i know, i should really just be in bed
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
just know my friend
I'm not here out of pity

you don't have to admit
that right now you're needing

I'm here for a reason
that exists separately

I've been around because
you've been there for me
For Kyle, we're here for you
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
the man you thought
you wanted is on the ground
and nearly dead

with thoughts of
empty promises still
racing through his head

his time was running
down in numbers to
a timely end

crawling over to the
gutter he'd sing the
name of long lost friends

the echo would rain
reality on the dreamland
he was in

set fire to the statue
of you he erected
in passionate sin

you asked me here
to let me bleed and
writhe upon the floor

I've since forgotten
all those petty things
I loved before

you implore me to
substitute the cold
air in the room

that now lies empty
of memory & it is
now set in with gloom

you need somewhere
to stow away your
sickness and grace

you want to feel like
the muse, flower
petals on your face

a work of art that must
be exposed in some
dangerous place

to juxtapose
all of those whom
love will not embrace

I know too well the
doom and gloom
conspiring with the moon

I feel fate now frowning
and the feeling
start to loom

& I'll never understand
the way you manage
to twist that knife

I'll bleed to death with
a sense of warmth deep
somewhere inside

I'll relieve that breath
of relief from the
torment in my mind

I'll be the awful thing
your soul needs
at this point in time
thank you, Uncle Lenny
(Leonard Cohen)
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
I am metaphorically crippled
to begin with

I long to write but I refuse
to force it

so I will leave it at that
thought

because of course, to no surprise
with discourse and poetry aside

I do feel rather lonely
tonight
fill it up to the wine line
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
as is
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
I want you like one
who only sees sun
through one window
well known in
the darkness alone

I yearn for you like
grass for morning dew
the stars for the moon
with the rising tide and
nighttime gloom

your perfume drives me
mad, it drives me forward
towards the steep cliff
of self-destruction
but there are such pretty
flowers down there
among the rocks

the way you talk makes
me feel alone, my desires
still unknown to you
but my pain & time
are but sorry gifts
distractions from my
short comings

how do you feel knowing
I suffer for you?

how would you react to
knowing I die a little
when you smile?
the world around gets
drained of grandeur
with your beauty
so imposed and
thrilling to endure

your scent makes me
me mad with want,
it's peppered with
my own lonelines

far more intense than a need
I want that perilous leap, though
I am not a man but
mistakes laid in heaps
at your feet

allow me home,
that fleeting feeling of it

shelter from the storm
that rages as time
wears thin the sin
now left drably within

I will find your center,
with it my own,
in flesh & bone
I shall crumble

I am humbled

I am what you see
now before you
silly silly silly
 Nov 2014 Ryan
EJ Aghassi
coming of age
is the phrase
that reads on the stone slab
above the lonely grave plot
that sits silently with
the wide-eyed ambition
you laid to rest,
limb by limb

it didn't go down easy
it never does

Gravity works in reverse,
while you choke the voice
in your heart,
indefinitely

growing up is the force
that carries down to dirt
the pure desire you harbored
the wishes you whispered

time passes through you
greedily carrying off
speckles of soul,
those precious crystals,
one and only fragmented
flames

nurtured regret will silently snicker

as nature inevitably
throws flowers upon the grave
funeral for fun lost
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