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SJ Dec 2017
I can talk to you about the stars and the sun.
I can talk to you about Technicolor and the different shades of gray.
I can talk to you about the heat from the earths core.
Or the freezing temperatures from the vacume of space.
I can talk to you about books and their scent.
Old tomes with stories of love and heartache.
I can talk to you about war and peace.
Politics and race
I can, talk to you about most anything.

What I can not do is talk of Love and the drugs it exhumes.
I can not talk of longing for all the things this world teases us with.

But I can talk to you about desire and suffering.
For that is what you are to me.
What others are to you.
We desire
So we suffer.
One of many lessons taught by the great master.
You know this to be true.
Being low is my greatest inspiration. How sad is That?
SJ Dec 2017
It hadn’t occurred to Laura that love might not be how everyone described it to be.
That love won’t always be the type to sweep you off your feet.
Taking you on a whirlwind of confusing emotions and nausea.
That love might be as quiet as gentle summer winds, or winter suns.
Warm on your back and distant rays shining light on a dark path.
That love won’t be kisses, stolen in the dark or in the public eye for all to see.
That love is a small smile barely seen.
An arch of a brow fighting against the urge to laugh.
No, it hadn’t occurred to Laura that love can be a dull throb behind breast bone.
Or a sweep of hunger in your belly.
That love isn’t fireworks and the loss of breath.
But a steady rub of something warm against your skin.
A smiley face in a text.
A hum of agreement at the grocery store.
Love is not the shine in one’s eyes.
Or the curve of a smile.
Love is the scrawl of a pen leaving messy tracks of jacked up English.
Love is a sad day hidden under covers sleeping all morning.
Love is the two sugars in their coffee or the two spoonsful of honey in their tea.
Laura realized that love is pain and joy all at once.
That love Is broken dishes on the kitchen floor.
With your arms wrapped around the broken thing and never letting go.
Love is standing by the one you love as they tear themselves to shreds.
Trying to tear out the demons in their heads.
Love is sitting still at the fingers gripping feather light against your wrist.
Love is sharing food without being asked.
It is sitting in the shower fully clothed under sprays of hot water.
It is standing in the middle of a concert swaying back and forth.
Love is quiet and dull. Painful and blissful.
Love is giving the meds needed to function.
Love is humming their favorite song.
Love is understanding.
Love is not questioning.
Love is being strong.
Love is smiling when they pull you into a dance.
Love is devouring the food they worked so ******* making.
Love is encouraging the purchase of prints and trinkets from their favorite artist at a con.
Love is dressing up for a midnight screening.
Love is ignoring each other in favor of the books in your laps.
Love is watching a movie at the same time in two different rooms.
Love is when Harry met Sally.
Love is Hachiko. Faithful until the end.
Love is letting go. If you have to.
Love is sacrifice and giving.
Laura understood that Love is never ending yet forever ending.
I might be in love. (it's also been a while since I last wrote anything.)
SJ Jun 2017
The music beating in the damp dark room made her spin in half circles. Her hips swung side to side as her arms lifted into the air. The glint of jewelry sparkling in the dim lighting of the packed space.
A soft smile, lips curled just at the edges with eyes closed to the world around her. Dark auburn locks hung past her shoulders in loose waves. By the gods above and below she was a lovely sight.
Those who's eyes fell and lingered about her frame watched in admiration. Thick thighs and strong shoulders rippling under soft brown skin, exposed by the strapless tank she wore.
Men tried to pull her into a dance of grinding hips and over-reaching touches. Women watched carelessly, few approached her. Always managing to slip away from the heavier petting she would drag the ladies who she saw staring with desire.
Enticing as she was few recognized what she was; a deceiver of fools, a heartbreaker. With her pretty smiles and soft eyes.
A light press of lips against the shell of your ear, a warm hand just grazing against heated skin, and a laugh that has your heart beating frantically.
Soft as a dream kisses just as sweet. She is the best thing you will ever have, touch, feel, breath.
She sinks into the earth as the sun rises in the east.
Never to be seen.
Yeees, you have seen the title somewhere before. This poem (??) was inspired by the Weeknd's Can't Feel My Face
SJ May 2016
RED
She sees the red dripping from her wrist.
Onto the floor as she walks,
Staining against thick thighs.
Swirling down the drain while washing her hair.
The red drips into her food as she cooks.
Sizzling when it hits the comal.
She sees it smear on her lovers flesh.
Riding slow or riding fast.
Paint on hot living canvas.
She watches as it soaks into her dogs leash.
Leaving red prints on the sidewalk.
Marveling at the hue, arms pointed up wards.
The sun, bright and warm against her skin.
A smile forms upon thin lips.
The red splatters faster on all she touches.
It's not that she wants to die, it's more like she sees the option but refuses to opt out that way.
SJ Mar 2016
A dream.
You stand across the room.
A dream.
Hot breath across my skin.
A longing.
Biting the straw of my *** n' Coke.
I drown in despair.
SJ Mar 2016
Yearning spills from my mouth,
A lonely sigh against flesh,
Long hair fans upon the pillows.
Shoulders kissed by sunlight.
Eyes that hold too many secrets.
Warm.
Above me.
Icy
Beneath me.
Lungs constrict, the body convulses.
Lightning quick the thunder echoes.
SJ Mar 2016
It sings in my veins,
Every trace left behind,
Hitched breath,
We fall,
Rough pads on soft silk,
A heated touch,
Wet and cool,
Stretched below the stars,
They burn bright as we fade away.
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