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 Feb 2014 AJ Claus
Jack B
Cursor. Stare vacantly back at me.  A pair of rough hands scrape against cheeks.  My own.  
A faint yet familiar soreness in the back of the throat.  
Christmas lights procure rings of color on the walls and make still for an instant
mounting apprehension.

Count the days.

Recount.

Plan each day, hour by hour. Compelled to use them to their fullest potential.
Productivity.
Type without fear. Without concern for that looming pair of eyes to examine this.

A verbalization of [my own dark thoughts] “It’s not good enough.” “ It’s garbage."

Jagged hands. Jagged hands to delicate hairs on the back of the neck.  Above ear and pushed from forehead.  Soreness in throat keeps me [grounded].  
Soreness in heart sends me to dream.  
Soft groan escapes a pair of lips as a pair of eyes find a likeness captured in pixels.  
Close it shut put it down look away deep breath in.

Distract.

Distract with learning.
The inextinguishable desire to know, to see, to understand [this]
existence.

Will one day I allow for eyes not my own to bear witness to this love poem?
This love poem to life, both in a particular and universal sense.

With timid hands and trembling insides I surrender

*my words.
Lustrous brown pearls,
No words of a poet conscientious
Beautiful dark blonde curls,
Mystic her melodies mellifluous

Beloved her beauty beyond belief,
Her countenance immensely immaculate
Her appearance with minor mischief,
Her pulchritude leaves all in disbelief

Her eternal beauty so luminous,
Her personality voluminous
Endless azure skies, dancing
Over infinite copper fields

In her it is captured:
All the beauty the galaxy yields
How do I make the lines normal again?
 Feb 2014 AJ Claus
Cynthia Malta
I know she hurt you.
She took all your love and then she left. And now, here I am, ready to pick up the pieces. Even when the pieces of myself are still untouched, still sting by the one who hurt me. I know about the nights you cry yourself to sleep, tell me it’ll pass soon. I know how it hurts. Because I’ve been there. I’ve hurt like you have. I want to hold you in the most innocent, yet intimate way. And let my endless love seep through me and into you, to dry your tears, steal your sadness. I want you to smile at me the way you smiled at her. I want you to feel my love. I want you to know of my love. But how can I say what it is that I feel, when you are the thunder before the storm and I am the puddle after? When I am not worthy of your sunshine? How then, can you love the girl, who cannot truly trust her own love?
 Feb 2014 AJ Claus
Maggie
I am a mystery of the earth
Created by the imagination of children
and yet I am real
The world teaches me to be questioned
by those who don't believe
turtles show me wisdom
sharks, survival
I hide like an octopus, blending into my surroundings
to keep me out of the naked eye
***** teach me how to defend myself
and whales teach me patiences
I travel with dolphins, and have fun on the beach
I appear to humans rarely, but only for their minds to wonder what they have seen
I live at ease but often in fear, because the world has changed through out the years
I don't know where Im going, but I know I am the only Mermaid left to keep the world wondering.
 Feb 2014 AJ Claus
Maggie
...

free
alive
energetic
and imaginative

thats what I remember from my childhood

running
playing
hiding
playing duck, duck, goose under a starry night
those were the days i wish i could go back to

riding my bicycle through puddles of mud after the rain had stopped

the feel of fresh cut grass in between my toes

laying down in the meadow in my backyard
letting the sun shower me with warmth,
gazing into the clear blue sky where clouds formed marvelous shapes
while inhaling the most cleanest, freshest air

those where the days when i was so carefree

taking adventures in the forest
collecting glittery rocks because i thought it had fairy dust

oh, how i believed in fairies

id sit at the edge of the river making small tables and chairs made of grass, bark, and moss
decorating it with flowers that i gathered from my mothers garden
using walnut shells as the vase
listening very closely for the sound of tiny bell chimes nearby
paying very close attention to my surroundings in case id run into one

this was my Neverland

i remember how happy i was
how life was so fascinating
how i was one with nature and its mysteries

how i believed

now

i don't know what is wrong from right
what is good from bad
now
i live in a world of evil thoughts and misguided people
in a world where others control how i feel

in a world filled with lies

that is why i choose to never grow up
to never let myself forget how i believed in the most impossible things


and that is how i learned

to fly

...
 Feb 2014 AJ Claus
Surrationality
I can't sleep. I don't want to sleep. I don't know which it is but it's happening, now and infinitesimally forever my eyes are open and not shutting down for the day, not recharging, not doing anything but waiting for something to see and perceive and solve, a problem to appear before them and present itself begging to be taken in and toyed with like a Rubik's cube. I don't want to sleep because sleep is giving up on the day, it's saying the day is over and it's giving up the chance to accomplish the innumerable tasks yet to be accomplished before I sleep that I haven't done and won't do if I sleep now, if I lie down in that bed and pull covers over my head and let myself drift away. I don't want to drift away, can't let it happen, can't let go of control over really the only thing I have left to control which is when and if I go to sleep so I don't, I force myself not to, I expunge the records of thought from my head into a text box and hope that the soft rattling that had droned there softens because now after all of this my eyelids get heavy and I may have to let sleep win, give up the day, defeated, fight again tomorrow because I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm tired of fighting, fighting against the minute tedium tripping along, fighting against transcendental ecclesiastical endlessness, tired of fighting when all I do is get bloodied and bruised, tired of fighting when I can't win because I'm tired. Rest now. Fight again tomorrow.
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