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addy henderson Dec 2014
Consider an upright pavement covered in tears
Engulfed in several drops of liquid that's clear
They trickle downwards through gravity
Can get stuck in cracks
Or go faster through humidity

No matter how fast or slow
They all have one place to go
To the end
Where the body of water flows

As they trickle down
A single drop can manifest another in its path
If it gets too immense it's divided in two
Who travel a different route until another act of math

However,
There's always the drips of liquid
Not too small not too big
Who stay in one place
And are missed by the other drop's trace

But on these shower walls
Oxygen laced with hydrogen continues to fall
There's no room for isolation
For every square inch
Is covered in beads of liquid

Surrounding me with the four corners
I scratch the tiles to my left
Four lines with the tips of my fingers
Leaving to my right,
I do the same and turn back left to see what lingers

There was no trace of me
Because the flow of activity

So possibly
If we continue to surround ourselves in energy
Like the drops of animation
There would be no room for manipulation
Only room for movement, growth, and separation

If I could be God for just a night
I'd change the globe to this pavement that's upright
And every drop of you would be alright
I got the idea of this poem from sitting in my bath tub in the shower
addy henderson Nov 2014
Oh programmed youth
youll forever be confined by the lines you're assigned

Youre taught by a rubric for a purpose
so no other thoughts may surface

Youre wordless
worthless
addy henderson Nov 2014
Two
Im always conscious of your ten fingers
nine in the morning and that touch still lingers
you're the eight ball that conquers me
if you fall
seven days of the week
I faintly hear you speak
for the six missed calls
id **** to return them all
the five stars in the sky id multiply
just to get you by
four walls never felt so strong
when they reflect what you speak as a song
those three words always felt so true

two
Is better than *one
I found you quietly settled into my bones
an evangelical arthritis that cracked not only my structure but also my soul
and you slid down my spine for enjoyment
I found you clogging my veins after I told you to leave
flooding my lungs making it impossible to breathe
you shined with harsh lights that sting my eyes which had only known the dark
but the sting was unbearable

two people in love
as much as in hate
too proud to abandon this ship and save ourselves
we are falling like an airplane; plummeting through the sky
we have lost all hope
you can see it in our eyes
we ride this plane down
alternating between holding each other
and yelling from opposite ends of the plane
even as we are plummeting
we are torn apart
yet unable to let go
as the ground approaches now i desperately scream "save me! hold me close to you!"
so we can stand together
one last time
as defiance to the wreckage
but you stood there
watching me engulfed in flames

so when you asked to leave, i was relieved to be alone
i wasn't even hungry
and incase you wondering
it didn't take a pill to keep me sane
i have almost breathed deeper knowing that
you are on your own tonight
I didn't drive home in tears this time
when you said goodbye
instead i revved my god ****** engine
my heart is still beating
my ribs are not broken
my mind was never ruined
i am not brewing in darkness, wide eyed and hopeless
pleading to an omnipotent being
that 17 is just too young
  Nov 2014 addy henderson
rachel
You paused to look at me as if you were browsing a book shelf
and your fingers brushed ever so slightly across my skin
hesitating, lingering, at my spine.

Then you chose me
you laid me down and opened me up
it wasn’t easy because not many have read me before.

Your eyes looked me up and down, side to side
taking it all in,
engorging yourself.

You licked your fingers before you turned my pages
for a steadier and more meaningful grasp.
You said paper cuts were pretty
and that they were safe with you.

But then,
you read something you didn’t like
slammed the book shut
and shoved it back on the shelf.
We hear these stories of what love has done?
While known truthfully love has never hurt anyone.
More likely you misused love with someone.

We see the things love get blame for.
While comprehending love accept the blame from everyone.

Love don't cheat.
Those in love uses it to escape blame.
Of being an adventure one.
Love don't hurt.
We know its the tool often stated.
When proof is needed to explain yourself.

Signs are there long before things goes deeply wrong.
Words was said.
But in many cases those words was spoken too.
Didn't take the matter serious like me of you.

It takes no mind reader to predict your situation.
When you're very aware of your own situation.

Still we hear the stories of what has done?
Then again, we aware we all need to blame something or someone.
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