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 Aug 2015 Meteo
Disappear here
if you fall for someone's leaves and not for their roots

what do you do when autumn comes?
 Aug 2015 Meteo
Nicole Hammond
i have spent my entire life being sad solely because it is familiar
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once i cried for 13 months over an 8 month relationship that ended within a phone call
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i wasn't ***** but they stole something from me and i don't know if i'll ever get it back
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sometimes i refuse to wash the clothes that you've touched and i just say that i forgot
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showers used to give me panic attacks and instead of seeing a therapist i cut all my hair off
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i sleep on my stomach in hopes that even just once someone would check to make sure i'm still breathing
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i get on buses alone in the middle of the night just so i can feel unknown to something else again
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when i told my father that i was feeling scared again he couldn't understand why it was so relieving
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i push people away and then i cry when they fall into someone else
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i'm terrified of adulthood so i stopped celebrating birthdays in hopes that they would take the hint too
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this barely makes sense to me, but i guess poetry doesn't have to.
one day i'll wed you
said the child to the girl much older than him.

echoes of her laughter rippled the winds
planting a rose on the child's cheek.

the child said knowing nothing about wedding
and nearly nothing about her
except

she filled him with a vague feeling
that made him wait to see her
when she was not around.

she was lost many decades ago
and the child moved far away
from that wedding vow.

the news came through the wind
she had died of cancer
somewhere far from homeland.

the child still dreams
her laughter rippling the winds
echoing by the lake

remembers his wedding vow
on that summer noon
still knowing nearly nothing about her.
 Aug 2015 Meteo
Seán Mac Falls
At pond she undressed
Clothes fell as joyful sun rose
Blushing— twice naked
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