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 Nov 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
The lights had melted softly
As my mind sank into the memory of summer
Of you
Winter winds stole you away
The grieving soil knowing no solace
Frozen solid with no place to bury
Soon I turned
Once again blooming after the darkness
Salt water rivers no longer flooding my face
Replaced by the gentle smiles of remembrance
The cavity of loss remains
Filled in with rough scar tissue
Aching still in it's journey of healing
 Nov 2013 Brandon
mûre
You could win my heart with peanut butter
or with passion for the never ending quest
of finding the perfect running shoes.

You could win my heart with literature jokes
with Kishi Bashi, Bach, or Bocelli
and if you play with me, I'm yours.

You could win my heart with affection
honesty, cleverness, and candidness,
I'm addicted to non-corporeal human evolution.

But I'd rather you didn't.
Not yet.
I'm a very simple equation.
(Just don't try to solve me)
 Oct 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
An empty room seared into memory
It once held your breathless form
I listened to that heart go silent
Crying wet, hiccuping tears onto your heated skin
I cleaned you up, kept you warm
Tried desperately hard to shut your eyes
Knowing that you would never smile with them again
I cannot say for sure if you heard us
Your father breaking down through the speaker
Mitchell, your best friend, sobbing through the phone
I held each call gently, wishing not to cause you more pain
My voice softly singing the song we danced to at our wedding
The stark, violent feeling of your loss
When you were finally free'd from your mortal prison
For you that word took on a whole new meaning
I have never been so proud as the day when you made me yours
But watching you, fighting along your side
To not give up
Even to your last ghost of thought
I was even more so
Left with an aching dark moon
A dead sun
No light to reflect off of my screaming face
I grieve in darkness
Where I can still feel the weight of your  hand in mine
I will always miss you. Some moments more achingly, vicious than others. This being one of them.
 Oct 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
You have to do it all
Just to know where it gets you
Spilling *** and secrets through verse
Begging me with lined pages to give in
I am the mountain
You are monsoon season
Wearing down the face of my resolve
The echo of our mingled passion lingers
Like the scent of your skin against mine
From pushing to pulling we are connected
Through fingers buried deep in pulsing veins
"This is where you belong"
You slither along my curved neck with a southern draw
I wish miles were clouds and we could sleep forever
The comforting eclipse of moonlight stopping time
I apologize for nothing
As shadows fall across your smile
You will not wait
I am not the one
 Oct 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
Shadowed
 Oct 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
I have heard that those that die live on in the hearts of those they love
What if those hearts whither with that weight?
Hollow. Aching. Raw.
I want to be ready
For smiles. For secrets. For love.
A hand in mine wards away the numb
But it is not the same
Never is.
Your hand is ash now
Laying quiet, a sentinel in your tomb of gray marble
The color of Ohio skies in winter
Cold just the same
I grow weary of sleeping alone
Unable to bring myself to form a permanent fixture

For that empty space next to my bereaved heart
Is yours and no others
 Oct 2013 Brandon
Wanderer
"You be the hurricane
I'll be the eye"

Your too often silent lips whisper against
The soft inside of my thigh
Just before you send me over the edge of your teeth
I moan and writhe from your sharp attention
The storm of release leaving your mouth wet
**** aching
Somehow it is never rough enough
"Bite harder"* you grit out
"Push deeper" I beg
Our back and forth battle to leave marks
Crescendos into a category 3 screamer
After glow sets in, wide you-rocked-my-world grin
*"Next time we will try for a 5"
 Oct 2013 Brandon
mûre
When we met I was one half
A sob stifled beneath coquettish laugh
And then you came, drawn to my hurt
You knew how to listen. I knew how to flirt.
Don't take everything I say too seriously. Sometimes I just like words for their own sake without revealing a personal truth.
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