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Tupelo May 2018
When the brick and the mortar
finally gave way to a swan dive of defeat
I remember how my mother cried an ocean
How my father's warmth sputtered to a halt
The streetlights flickered
The dribbling across the way subsided
And all fell to a hush
Tupelo Apr 2018
To be honest
I miss my home
The absent minded drives
Back to the street I grew up on
The nights on the pier
The smell of a twilight
To be honest I miss the people
The quirks and the oddities
I miss the way they speak
The comfort it all can bring
I miss the way she looked at me
So much has changed now
Maybe I have too
But certain parts of me long
for the way it once was
But what I know can never be
Tupelo Apr 2018
It's funny how silver tongues
can rust when the storms
finally decide to pour

It's funny how fragile we become
when the lights come on

It's funny how easy mistakes are made
when the heat begins to rise
Tupelo Apr 2018
This heart is an ocean
No winds set to sail
No oars to row
This heart is an empty water
An island amongst us
The only oasis
Such a paradise at sea
Love is a gateway
And my dam can not bleed
Tupelo Mar 2018
Why unearth the bodies
that were already laid to rest
and grew flowers on graves
watered with tears?
Tupelo Feb 2018
Blonde beauty
Green eyed thief
Stole me away
Upon twilight hours
You’re lungs sing
Songs of forgiveness
You’re mind speaks
Lessons of longing
Blonde beauty
Green eyed thief
Steal my heart
Leave me to be
Tupelo Jan 2018
I've been writing
To remember
All the things
We chose to forget
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