Mr Shankley: Favorites

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

it’s true that love really is the best medicine

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

max

it’s true that love really is the best medicine

aching bone
chilling thrones
sit with me
i’ll be home
warm and loved
taken care of
let’s escape
build a cabin in the woods
with our minds
this time it’s strong
i can feel it
let me be your medicine
it’s a high dose
try not to overdose
into comatose

you’ll be okay
it’s just a sick,
sick day

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

I wish I knew too

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

John Edward Smallshaw

I wish I knew too

I feel the winter sharpening my eyes,
my nose now knows that when the icy wind blows
it will be blown too,
noses know
no, they really do.

and yet as sharp as my eyes are they cannot cut through the snow, it's a good job that my feet know where to go,
feet know,
no, they really do.

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

Violet Light

Dec 2021 Mr Shankley

Ciel Noir

Violet Light

Close my eyes
Open my mind

I want to understand

Time

A voice says
"I am in all things"

Bright violet light
In my third eye

Nov 2021 Mr Shankley

Fading Friendships

Nov 2021 Mr Shankley

AE

Fading Friendships

I am lost on these paper boats
Floating somewhere in an old laugh
We once shared
I am lost in these baskets
Made of woven conversations
And now you, right here in front of me
Are someone new, I've yet to meet
I guess my weakness has gotten the better of me
Wishful thinking had me fooled
Things were as they used to be
But here you are, and here am I
A world of differences between us
Born out of the blue, paving our departure
You toward the forest
And I, towards the sea

#friendships #sadness #fading #broken #separation

Oct 2021 Mr Shankley

overnight

Oct 2021 Mr Shankley

youcancallmesierra

overnight

getting that one last word in
before the door gets slammed
ignoring boundaries
crushing hands
spitting on my shirt
contorting to rage
i know the signs
i read your face
hours of interrogation
my answers don't change
i understand where you're coming from
but i still feel the same

Oct 2021 Mr Shankley

reduced

Oct 2021 Mr Shankley

youcancallmesierra

reduced

misshapen
graceless
beauty for a price
i wanted
to make it
but i fell just shy
much shy
too high
to buy
your love
but mine
is here
if you'd like
for now
i'll just die
as another
catches your eye
i'm nothing
if i'm not fine
i'm nothing
when your not mine