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Rose Jan 2013
take me some place foreign
a place where i can grow
these skies and i are misaligned

i want to sing
i too can float
set me out to sea
the wind will carry me

lovers become theives
children they believe
dreamers you won't defeat

so i keep looking out the window
i must see past the night
there's someone in the garden
a queen with no stage fright
she's standing at the window
doing just as i do
and would you look at this,
we're wearing the same shoes
Rose Jan 2016
run upstairs
and cut your arm
open deep and wide
open sweetie look inside
blood vessels spilling cries
its 2am
do you know where your kids are?
Rose Feb 2015
I've got a song in my head
I'll sing it out loud for you
It goes like this
Well a la-da-dee-da
It goes like this for you

But I stand
I shiver
I fall
Lips quiver
In love with you
And you didn't even have to try that hard all along

So if there comes a day when you're wanting me
Know that I'll never be free
Free from your arms that entangle me
Know that I'll never be free

I stand
Shiver
My stained
Lips quiver
I'm in love with you and you didn't even have to try that hard all along
Rose Oct 2015
There I go
I lost again
A competition
No one else was in
Me against
My very own
Self against
The outside world
Locked in a groove
Of "Not this
Not that
Just a fool"
So I stay home
Scratch the walls
Till the overgrowth
Is gone
thank you for being my "dark place"
Rose Jan 2015
through all the heartache
through life and death
through all the chaos that lives in my head
we can all be certain of one thing
i was much more clever when i was on ******

way too often i imagine a life where i've never met him
(i never end up any place good)
but in all these imaginings
i always feel like me
i always feel like i'm enough

so now can you un-save me?
Rose Apr 2017
To me, you are love.
You are the quiet tenderness of a serene night and the bright excitement of a new day.
You hold the scent of sweet flowers knotted up in your curls, and the bite of the ocean in your scalp slick with sweat.
Tonight, you hugged your mommy tight. And I inhaled the scent that makes you you,
for the millionth time.
For my dragon slayer
Rose Dec 2011
running up the debt on the American express
it is getting cut at the end of the month
so we might as well buy everything
and if they come and take it all from me
break down the door, rip from my bed the flannel sheets
that's okay, I never needed it from the beginning
"Alright," she said, "it'll be alright."

this is a one hundred and twenty thread count Egyptian cotton down
the winter is here to eat us alive,
freeze our selfish hearts and minds
might as well be calm while we sleep,
warm at least in our dreams
when I awake, I'll be dead center on a frozen lake
all I'll have gained will be a frost bitten face
$200 comforter or not, I still feel without purpose

"Maybe we should - we should get a new shower curtain..
just the liner isn't good enough anymore."
well it was never really that good
but when did you start to care about the unnecessary?
I spend a lot of time with you because I long to be a kid;
to never know the difference, to have never learned what this is
we are hardly civilians in a community,
more-so savage beasts of an economy
lost chickens running around without our heads
we've lost sight of what it means to be human:
to have one limb and no voice,
just Love to keep us alive
we are entitled, greedy, calculated, manipulative
Americans
a different breed
Rose Apr 2020
Your sweet fingertips shine
๐ŸŽ†๐ŸŽ‡๐ŸŽ†
We watched the day go by at night
๐ŸŒ„
Caught stars and hung them inside
๐ŸŒ ๐ŸŒ ๐ŸŒ ๐ŸŒ 
And now
Weโ€™re on the other side of the peak
Iโ€™m in love with you so letโ€™s take our time
๐Ÿ”ฎ
Rose Jul 2015
inhale smoke
burn on the
deep way down
shrieks outside
of a slid-
ing glass door
exhale less
hurt, more fren-
zy of mind.
yellow light,
not so kind
with my heart,
still I call.
though I fight,
no one knows
anything
you're a ray of light and I want an answer I'll never get
Rose Mar 2015
i remember the dream, it was
the heart of summer's heat
stars played across the sky
you pulled a rifle from your
grandfather's cabinet
and shot your ex in the chest

i still wish that was real life
a dining room table and a swing set
wood paneled parlor and a king bed
two hearts dancing in the kitchen,
the world in their hands at last
Rose Apr 2017
When I feel wet
Tight skin tight ponytail so tight
My face is Alien esque
I go underneath the covers and I
Go
Some place else
...
My palms pressed against the furry fleece blanket and I'm in touch with another dimension
I feel his hands against mine
I know I'm his
And he is mine
I've broken a breach with reality
And I am somewhere else
.
The only place that matters
The arms of someone else
Rose Jul 2014
Place my hand over your stomach
Your entire torso really
Just craving some physical contact

I walked along the beach in the middle of the night
My psychosis claimed me
And I became a slave to the sand behind my feet
The current running underneath
You snored along, absently
Alcohol ate you alive
And I survived

I survived

I just want to cover each grain of sand
With a tear drop
A broken heart for all the millions that scatter the earth
I don't want to sob
I want to release
A demon that's been eating at the inside of me
And then I want to laugh
I want to run
I want to fall out of breath and collapse to the ground
I want to dig and find something so remarkable
I combust at the sight
A million pieces
Becoming the sand
Cursed

I want to be nothing like my mother
And if that offends any of my followers
I am sorry
Maybe after the 4th kid
And nearly 20 years between
You stop giving a ****
But all I know
Is I have seen
The tenderness,
The sincerity,
And most delusional moments
All radiate
From the same bright blue green eyes
Frightening, spraying spit all over my face
And sadness seeped in and devoured me
I spill tears (years) as I'm writing
I was left all over
So much hate

Sometimes when I write I try to be dishonest but
What's the point when you can hear me in the next room
I wish I was someone you were proud of
I know I'm just a recluse, but
I'll raise my baby different from you


Most times when I want to hide
It's when you're showing me the most poignant parts of me
I can hear your grandson snoring

I love his sense of sleep
Rose Jan 2012
and so I'll catch the next train
ride a buzz to Tuscan, AZ
where everything looks the same
except the sunrise,
which always changes your mind,
into gold!
and although it's been sold,
you can still reattain
coaxed and waxed,
old souls
We're estranged

and when it rose that's when I knew
I'd always sing of you
sea swept over me
covered me in
hopeless romanticities
when it rose, I knew

I smoke my last cigarette
Fill my lungs with regret
and lunacies
an inescapable dream
I always knew it'd just be me
leaning against the door of an old Chevy
praying the heat won't **** me
but secretly hoping so
I feel it burning through the soles of my feet
something that was just meant to be
but the king knows his place
and I've no say

we're under the same watchful sky,
you and me
Rose Oct 2016
I stay up late
Your body tense beside me
The lightning coming off you
Makes it impossible to sleep

Then you hear me tapping
Tap tap tap tapping
Falling into my phone

"Who are you texting?"

"I'm writing a poem.
.
.
.
Leave me the **** alone."

— The End —