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May 2016 · 968
By Metaphors Betrayed
Akira Chinen May 2016
Goodbye world
Goodbye poetry
The metaphors have sold me out
And exposed my lies and lies and lies
And now I have no where left to hide
The doctor tried to lock me up
And tear off my new head
But worry not for he did not succeed
I pushed and knocked him down
He yelled,

"Come back!  Come back! You're  mad!"

But I knew
It was he who was crazy
Fallen I may be
But I know my heart
Is exactly where it belongs
That doctor would rather make me
Numb and dumb
He doesn't know all love must be
Mad
Or not be done
So I jumped the wall
And escaped his Loony-Bin

He gave chase
And yelped for help

"Stop him! Stop him!"
"A stark raving Lunatic is on the loose!"

Having taken lessons from my fallen heart
My feet did race fast and quick
Oh my metaphors, my metaphors...
How could they!?!?
Exposed my lies and lies and lies!
Now where can I hide?
Oh woe oh woe oh woe...
I've got nowhere else to go
But to take the trek
To the forbidden
Hills of madness
My crayon eyes of red
Now turning blue
As I run and cry and cry and cry
Why oh why oh why
Did my metaphors betray me?
My heart head
Feels doomed to breaking
But broke or whole
To love you
Was the only sensible thing for it to do
Even if it seemed crazy
I run and sing
Off key and out of tune
And horribly
But no choice left
All other words have disappeared
No more metaphors
No way to lie and lie and lie
Only three words left to sing
And scream
And howl
And I trust the moon
To pass my song to you
Across the sea between us
It may be small
Only three words long
But these three words are true
And this may be my last breath
So here I sing

"I Love You!  I Love You!  I Love You!"
Kiss me today and **** me tomorrow
Loving you was easy
And if this heart does break its love will not
And forever will it sing off key
May 2016 · 735
Rumors from the metaphors
Akira Chinen May 2016
He lies and lies and hides his truth
He thinks himself clever
But is just a twit
He claims that he is falling
And perhaps yesterday that was true
But today for sure I know he lies
And lies and lies and hides
Because he stopped falling
And has fallen
To the asylum I say him visit
And I heard him howling
At the moon
I tell the truth that he is no longer falling
Because I heard the doctor through
The hospital walls
He has fallen into madness
Lost all hope from reason
The doctot clearly said
No hope at all
For he has fallen hard
So hard he has lost his head
And replaced it with his heart
Fallen mad
His heart for his head
Drawn his eyes and mouth
With crayons every shade of red
He no longer talks
He only sings
And to make things worse
In a dreadful voice
He sings off key
He sings his lies of falling
Falling falling
Lies and lies and lies is where he hides
You can check the chart yourself
Thr doctor left it out for all to see
He isn't falling
He has fallen
Fallen mad to love
And that loves
For you
The only cure
The doctor fears
Is an axe to remove
The heart he claims as his head
But even then the doctor fears
Its too late
To stop whats already fallen
And that no matter what
You do
He will always
Be in love with you
May 2016 · 360
Forevers Days
Akira Chinen May 2016
Please don't fly away yet
My red feathered bird
With endless ocean eyes of blue seas
Stay at least one more day
Where my heart will dance forever under
Your songs blissful grace
And If the moon you must chase
As the sun gives itself to death for night
With forever tucked safely underneath your wings
I shall wait for chance of your return
And live through long lonely days
And cold endless nights
No heartache or ruin in my chest
Just a smile spread cross my lips
At the memory of your hand
That touched my soul
And lit the eternal flame
To light the fire
For my heart
To dance
Around and round
Forevers days
And the beauty
Of everything
Of you
May 2016 · 340
I Want It All
Akira Chinen May 2016
I want it all
All the good
All the bad
Push your hair
From your face
Wipe away the tears
And when you need
Sit and cry with your pain
Until its consumed by us both
Becoming each of ours to bare
Whatch you dance with
Monsters of gloom and doom
And take over when your feet hurt and start to bleed
Sleep with your demons and depression
Absorb their tooth and claw
No pain of yours would I not share too
Never see the moon again
Never dream under the star filled sky
I would die by your side
Ask nothing in return.
I don't need heaven
There's no paradise
Worth staying in without you

To love you
All of you
I would glady stay
Eternaly in hell
May 2016 · 690
Messages and Poems
Akira Chinen May 2016
The poems were just falling out, I was walking into words much like stumbling through spider webs in the dark.  Some coming too fast to have time to find a sketch pad, or a new one already dancing in my head before the last one was written down.  Post it notes started to come in handy.  Waking up in the middle of the night with words waiting and glowing on my bedroom wall, hands stumpling in the dark for my phone and my eyes not yet focused but my fingers tapping away.  My admiration and wonder for you started to bloom into the sensation of falling... and then I started to fall.    

Messages weren't so easy... no where to hide.  My fingers would hover over the keyboard and my eyes transfixed on an empty message box for hours...sometimes  even days.  My heart wanted to shout and shout and shout, but my mind was terrified and shy and wanted to stay silent.  Reason and sense said say nothing at all... just walk away.  But my heart was caving into the madness of impossible possibilities and beautiful tragedies with happy endings.  I ended up stuck between the two and sent small talk, constantly afraid of saying too much and steering  clear of all the things I really wanted to say.  Hiding all my secrets in the plain sight of poetry and silencing my heart through the messages...

What was happening
How did I fall so fast
It was crazy
And mad
And beautiful
And it made me smile
And the simplest message
Made my heart howl
And race
And I felt
Excited and
Exhilarated
And
Terrified
And
Happy
And everything
No matter how
Repetitive or mundane
Or ordinary
Everything was
Suddenly beautiful
Every part of
Every day and
Every night
And every dream
Everythig beautiful
Everything about me
Started falling
For every part
Of you

And I could keep everything safe as long as the messages stayed simple, careful to never say too much.  Save all that for the middle of the night, stumbling in the dark, out of focus, over the top poetry.  Writing between the lines and hiding  behind metaphors of falling, careful not to let on that I'm madly and completely In love with you.  Because that... that just doesn't make sense.  Unless, you ask the mad truth beating in my heart.  There, in the crazy beauty of it all it does.  It makes perfect sense.  Because there I can hide behind...

Every word
Every syllable
Every letter...
And I fall a little more
Falling faster
Falling deeper
Every sound
Every image
Every message
And my heart escapes me
Beating wildly
Flying madly
Every morning
Every day
Every evening
Always dreaming
Always smiling
Always falling
For everything
Of you
All last weekend I stared at the empty message box... not really wanting to say more than, somehow I miss you... but never did
May 2016 · 322
Fate or Chance...
Akira Chinen May 2016
Memories and poems
Leaving the bad ones
Lying with the good
Writing out of habit
Lackluster of passion
Stirring letters in the soup
Sculpting metaphors
Painting words
Yawning in my sleep
My life a month ago
Was more just a dream
Of nothing much
But past lovers
And regrets of
What might have been
Made up stories
Or truths of rage
Trapped living the lie of freedom
From the saftey of my cage

Then was it by fate or chance
Or coincidence
I really could not tell
A harmless message
Sent forth then back
A single image
And a voice
Words both written and spoken
With such beauty and such grace
My curiosity wanted more
And shyly I feed that cat
Another message sent and read
Inspiration whispered to my ear
Then heart
Then soul
Was it flirting or simple kindness
Maybe a little bit of both
My curiosity wanted more
And In truth so did I
I feed and feed the cat and I
The cat grew fat
And my heart grew found
Each new picture seen
Each new word read and heard
Unexplainably
Unplanned
I slowly began to fall
And in falling
Through the darkness
I quickly found
My heart giving into
Madness

Now I start dreaming
Before I fall asleep
And keep dreaming
After I wake  up
Dreams so vivid
Dreams so real
Dreams of falling
Through the madness
Of this love
You have never been in my room
But dream after dream
You have already shared my bed
We have never kissed
But my heart is convinced
It already knows the intimacy
Of your fingers touch
My soul spread with fire
Has burned your image
Upon my eyes
My pillow no fair substitute
For your head
But it knows every secret
Love and lustful whisper
I've wanted to say to you
And I know I shouldn't
But I cave and give in
Because it feels so good
And my senses
Say impossible
How could I have fallen here
Fallen so deep and quick
Into the blazing temptations
Of the devils smile
And the promised comforts
Of arms of paradise
The dark songs
The wailing warnings
The monsters beneath your bed
The devils waiting in your chest
I have fallen still deeper
Wanting all of you
For the delicate warmth
Of your smile
For the sweet songs
That beat in your heart
I would sit with you through
The blackest day
And hold your hands through
Every storm
My heart would want nothing less
Than all of it
To fly next to you
Be it forever
Or just one day
It's love for you
Will never fade
May 2016 · 532
I Wish You Where Here
Akira Chinen May 2016
I wish you were here notes
Tattooed  up and down my arms
Written in an empty coffee cup
On a lonely chair at the dinner table
On the empty couch with the tv off
Waiting on the extra pillow of my cold bed
Sleeping on the clock I can't stop looking at... almost 2:32 am
Sitting silently on my phone that doesn't make a sound
Little squares of paper with five words
Caught in this storm
Repeating repeating
  I WISH YOU WHERE HERE
And the largest note
  The deepest cut
Those same words
Carved across my heart
May 2016 · 373
...As Poetry...
Akira Chinen May 2016
What started off as poetry
Turned to shades of love
Deathly did I fall
Into woeful crimes of verse
Waking into dreams of you
So lovely that I wept

The endless ocean of your eyes
Has caught me in their storm
Wave after crashing wave
I have been tossed
In this love I am trapped to
Forever drown

The monsters beneath your bed
Have dragged me underneath
They have stripped me of my clothes and flesh
And broken every bone
But my heart still beats and sings
In this love to forever dream
Dancing down there with them now

Then the demons from your dark
Took and stabbed my soul
Both front and back
And as it died there in their arms
From its blood it scrawled
And painted images of you
The last words on its breath
In this love bury me to forever keep me here so that I have not died in vain

Then madness stole what was left of me
And jailed me in its heart and teeth
In this asylum I wander now
With the ghosts of my body, heart, and soul
Each one of us with our tales of you
Each word more beautiful than the last
Each story we all fall again
And again
Forever to walk in what started as poetry
In woeful happiness it's true
Now each and everyone of us
Fallen eternaly in love with you
May 2016 · 336
Did you see it?
Akira Chinen May 2016
"Did you see it?  Oh... god, please tell me you saw that.  It was ******* beautiful, the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.  I mean... I never... never saw anything... ANYTHING.... GOD.... just tell me you saw that....  It h..ha..happened so fast...was...was that even real.  It was crazy.... Her hand, it just...She just slipped it right through his chest... like he was a ghost or just air... and pulled out his HEART.  It was a beautiful thing to watch... and the air went electric, you could feel it in the  air... so much love.  His heart, there in her hand, it was singing and purring.  I never felt so miserably happy in my whole ****** life.  What a thing to see,  watching it beat there in her hand, It was flopping around in her hand like a fish, jumping, and I swear, barking and whining like a little puppy.  It filled the air with such love and happiness...oh... If I could have just stayed there in that air.  Then she smiled, and he... he was smiling too, the whole time, frozen with his eyes glazed over, a hauntingly beautiful smile... but her smile...wow... I couldn't breathe or move either.  God and the Devil, they would have wept to see such a beautiful smile.  And then she kissed his heart and I swear,  you could just tell...it kissed her back...  The electricity and music in the air,  it grew louder... it was like heaven and hell opened up and ever angel and devil and god and demon started playing a symphony.  Then,  this was the best part, she pulled wings out of thin air and started to sew them onto his heart... while it was still beating and singing and  jumping  around in her hand.   What a show... Unbelievable.  The wings came to life as she tied off the last stich... they streched out their feathers and then flew off with his heart... And... then they both turned to smoke and vanished.  Can you still hear it... the music... Can you still feel it... The love, here in the air... Its... Its amazing right... I could just stay here forever... couldn't yo...Hey, where did you go...where'd everyone go?... Hello..."  
But he was alone...
No one was there and it suddenly went black and he felt empty and he knew before he put his hand over his chest... his heart was gone
May 2016 · 288
Every
Akira Chinen May 2016
Every word
Every syllable
Every letter...
And I fall a little more
Falling faster
Falling deeper
Every sound
Every image
Every message
And my heart escapes me
Beating wildly
Flying madly
Every morning
Every day
Every evening
Always dreaming
Always smiling
Always falling
For everything
Of you
May 2016 · 224
Too Deep
Akira Chinen May 2016
No picture tonight
No sound tonight
No words tonight
I'm in too deep
Way too deep
Just one more look
Just one more listen
Just one more read
I'm too weak
Way too weak
So beautiful
So kind
So sweet
I mustn't weep
I have to weep
May 2016 · 435
I'm Not Proud
Akira Chinen May 2016
I'm deep down in the thick of it all
And its hot and hummid
My flesh naked and sticky with sweat
From this loves hot hands molesting me
With echos of your picture
And dreams of your fingers raining down
Plucking on my hearts strings
Making it scream like a blue guitar
And it has never sang a song so beautiful and pure
And I know I shouldn't be here
But like when Blake married hell to heaven
And the needle stitched itself to ******
I just need a little more of this sweet sin
I'm not proud
I'm just a beggar
And I'm begging for your kiss
Let it burn me
Let it **** me
Won't you be my suicide
Because I can't get any higher
Because I'm not just falling
I have completely fallen
Let me die here by your side
I need your darkness
I need your demons
I need your pain
To to be my bride
And thats the madness
And the nonsense
Because I know
You can't be mine
But ****** to hell
I'll forever wander
Because from this
Dark delicious temptation
I cannot hide
I'm not proud
I'm just a beggar
I'm not hoping
I'm just hopeless
And I'm an addict
Begging for your lips
To steal my final breath
Apr 2016 · 465
One Last Time
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I've never been good with
Women or girls
Never brave, never able to speak
Mumble was the best I could do
And I did that too quitely
And too often
No... never good
Lucky enough though I guess
With the wild ones
The ones that didn't play chase
Or damsel in distress
The ones that wandered the night
Hungry for life and pain
The ones able to see me hiding
And mumbling to myself
Being shy in the corner
The ones that weren't afraid to strike first
They bought me drinks until I was drunk enough to forgot who I was
Or that I was shy
They lite the matches and the cigarettes and the fires and the madness
Took me back to their homes smiling
I was always too innocent and naive to know why
Until I woke up naked beside them in the middle of the night
And we would do it again
And in the morning too
Sometimes I got lucky for months
Sometimes years
And sometimes I got lucky
And fell in love
Thank the gods for the crazy ones
The stark mad lunatics
Crazy for the beautiful pain of being alive
I never would have known love without them
Would never find it again if they weren't still out there
Dancing in their darkness with their demons and heartache
No I've never been good with women or girls
But I've been lucky more times than one man deserves in a lifetime...
Still, it would be nice to fall madly in love one last time
Just one last first kiss from lips burning with the madness of love
Just one last time...
Apr 2016 · 331
Dying
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I never imagined myself with one of the incurable disease...Things like cancer always happen to some other poor soul.   And we all sit and talk and pretend to care... "Oh... How horrible... What did the doctor say... How long... Just so sad...poor, poor, thing".  "Thing"... like now that they're dying they are somehow less human, not worth anything but petty small talk to inflate our own self worth and ego.  That's what most of us do, living, if you can call what we do living, with blinders strapped tight to our heads so we can ignore as much of each other as possible.  Interacting only to satisfy our base carnal desires... stripping each others clothes, dignity, souls... stripping everything from one another but leaving the blinders on.   No one wants to watch the ugly act we've turned making love into.  It's not even ****... just empty bodies grinding in filth stained beds for cheap ******* trying to fill the painful moments before we fall asleep.  
And we have the nerve to call the lucky ******s dying, "Things".  Everyone can look in the mirror but no one is willing to see their actual reflection.  
What abunch of chumps.
Today, I became a "Thing"... No I didn't go to the doctor... I woke up and just knew.  I felt it crawl up from the depth of my very being and could see my reflection before I even made it to the bathroom mirror.   ****,... it hurt, hurt bad... the kind of hurt you know, just know, is gonna stick there with you to the bitter end.  It came on quick, it came out of nowhere... A little thumbnail size scratch right under my hearts skin.  It happened maybe a week ago,  I couldn't tell you exactly when or even how it happened.  It became infected before I could stop it, although looking back..  at my life before... why would I.  Dying like this... I never would have dared dream to be so lucky... Good god it felt good.  It even made my **** hard, it made it seep without even being touched, a ******* without the shame or guilt or lust... I woke up today and knew,  just knew, I was dying of love.  Dying for love.  Dying just to love her with my last breath... did she love me?  Would she?  Could she?  It didn't matter... I was going to die loving her either way, scrapping and stealing as much pain from her heart as I could on my way out, dragging every monster and demon and devil I could find in her burdened and black soul with me as I marched toward death.  If there was every I more beautiful way to die I wouldn't want it.  No, this was my exit to Eden, the only way for me to die.  Dying here in her eternal hell... Yea, it hurt... but it hurt so bad that it just felt right, that it made sense.  I was going to die and that was the best news of my life... I laughed, a good hard laugh, the kind of laugh you hear echoing in the halls of a mad house, insane asylum, a loony-bin if you will.  God forgive me, all the hurt and pain... I needed it,  I needed to see and feel it all.  I needed to  bathe in it, wallow in it, and swallow it all.  It was sweet and glorious, sticky and hot, dark and bitter... so much beautiful pain... it felt incredible.  Still, I laughed tears as it hurt just to breathe.  I couldn't help but smile, I was dying and dying the best way possible, my Eden and last breath at the end of her fingers, the end of her ocean, the bottom of her fallen heart..  and I was happy just to be there.
Apr 2016 · 250
Perfectly You
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I don't love you because I think your an angel
No, I love you because your able to be human in a world full of monsters
To expose your heart to the unbearable act of living and breathing
To rather bare the painful ugly trurh
Than live the beautiful comfortable life of the lie everyone else  swims in
I love you for baring the pain and heartache  no one else dare touch or even look at
For breathing through the hurt days and cold lonely nights
For breaking and crying and falling weak to your knees in the darkness
While everyone else just pretends that they are strong
I love you for the sadness you accept
The bad unexplainable hours your heart beats and bleeds through
I love you for the beauty you carry that comes without aid of ribbons and bows and heaven
The beauty only found in the tears of a devil with a broken heart
I love you for being perfectly you
Apr 2016 · 407
All of You
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I  can't sleep for dreaming
Keeps my heart awake
I can't stop my mind thinking
Or my heart longing
To have you in my arms
Holding you while crying
Being there in your darkerst
Waiting out the storm
Pushing back the pressure
On your lungs
Give you time and space
A moment of pure
Unpainful breath
Dance with the monsters
Under your bed
Crawl with the demons
Under your skin
Hold my burning heart high
Use its flames
So you can see that your
Heart
Lost in the dark
Flows with only the purest
Colors of love
Nothing else
As beautiful as you
Every tear
Every pain
Every good
Every bad
Every piece
Of you
Has me
Falling
Farther
Down
Crushing
Down
To my
Kness
I'll never find
A better place
To be
Than with your
Heart
In good storms
And bad weather
Hurt with you
Share your tears
Drown with you
Till it clears
Hold your hand
With my heart
It beats
To be
With you
All of you
They way
You are
Apr 2016 · 869
The Misunderstood
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
The misunderstood
The kind beautiful souls
That care too much
Love too deeply
Laying in bed
With monsters
And demons
And devils
Holding their hearts
Hiding in their arms
Crying
Because everything hurts
Seeing the world as it is
Watching nothing change
It's painful just to inhale
And exhale
The simple act of breathing
Hurts
Nearly unbearable
And they breathe
And live
And survive
Through the pain
And heartache
Day after day
Stronger and more
Beautiful
For the happiness
They sacrfice
From themselves
By caring and loving
Too much
They see beauty
In the world
In other people
Sometimes real
Sometimes illusion
But rarely do they
See that in all our world
In all our truth
And all our faults
That it is from their
Own hearts
That the purest
Beauty shines
Feeling trapped
And chained
And lost
To darkness
Never knowing
Never trusting
Never loving
Their own light
Often not being able
To see it themselves
No one stopping
To say

It's ok...

I'm here with you...

Its ok to hurt
It's ok to sleep
With sadness
Buried deep in
Your marrow
It's ok
To be depressed
To crawl under
Your bed and hide
With your monsters
It's ok to dance
With your pain
Dance and dance
Until your feet bleed
And your whole being
Aches
Dance until the pain
Is part of you
Because
It is part of you

It's ok to be you

No one is free
Of suffering
Of sickness
Of death
But not everyone
Really feels
It's the misunderstood
The kind
The beautiful
Caring too much
Loving too deeply
That feel
Everything
And to feel
Everything
You have to hurt
Hurt down to when
Your soul was pulled out
Of the void
And into existence
Hurt back to when
Your heart took its first beat
Back to your unbearable
First breath
All alone in the void
Rushing into this life
Unknown...

Hurting

So feel everything
For those that hurt the most
Also love the most
And it is the purest love
Everything about you
The pain and hurt and heartache and depression and suffering and love...

Everything...

Everything makes you beautiful
Apr 2016 · 935
No Logic or Science
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I've grown ridiculously fond of you
With no logic or science on my side of reason
A soulfire burning wildly
Flames growing out of control
My heart dancing in the middle of it all
Adding turpentine and gasoline
More fuel for its desire
In this sweet dream I long for the comfort of your lips
To find love hiding within
And in lust I cry
For the sin of your hips
And long to explore every strand of your hair
Every breath of your soul
And the depths of your eyes
I want to see everything you have hiding inside
Laughing in the hands
Of madness
I walk through a mirror in the dead of night
And find my reflection crafting dream after dream
Pulling and forming the blood from my heart like porcelain
Into beautiful sculptures of you
And as I watch
I see that my reflection  looks more like me than I have looked in such a long while
Everything paues
And the air and time stop
My heart rises and floats
To where I am standing
Frozen and smiling
And then my heart speaks to me...
"I've been broken
And I've been bruised...
It's true...
Over and over...
Time and again...
But...
Have I ever been
Wrong
When it came to falling
In love?"
With no logic or science to argue
I had nothing to say but nod in agreement
And my heart just explained
Why I'm ridiculously fond of you
Apr 2016 · 250
Not Enough
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Not enough hours to lay in bed
Not enough tears of love and joy
Not enough wishes whispered
To satisfy my hearts burning dreams for you
Not enough words to express
Not enough paint to capture
Not enough ink to tell
The endless beauty and vibrance of the fires that burn in your heart
Not enough time
Not enough space
Not enough life
To love you
Not enough to give
Not enough to build
Not enough to share
I would give you my all
Life after life
But I would always feel that I never had enough love for a beauty such as yours
Apr 2016 · 463
Lovely Things
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Death dances with a beautiful soul tonight
And though my face is streaked with tears of mourning
My heart will celebrate all the Lovely Things you taught me
And the life and love you gave me
When death bows and thanks you for the dance
The Lovely things will lift you high in the ever after
And make you queen of all the Lovely Things

I'll miss you mom...
Fb decided to punch me in the face on my 1st break at work... which was ok because I've looked through sketchpad after sketchpad and could never find this.... I hadn't heard of hellopoetry when I originally wrote this so i posted it on fb...
Apr 2016 · 458
Ravishing Storm of You
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I hear the clouds shout your
Name in the thunder
I see your eyes in every
Drop of rain
The lighting streaks through the night Painting your beauty
Across the sky
My heart consumed by this storm
Falling deeper
And deeper
As the water
Raise higher
And higher
No shelter from this flood
No reason to run
No more beautiful way to drown
Than drowning in this love
No other hope
No other dream
No other heaven
As lovely as you
No tempation
No sin
No deepth in hell
As alluring  your eyes
No promise spoken
No story told
No seductive whisper
Could tear my from your soul
I will not run from this storm
I will not pray for this rain to stop
I will stay
Laughing madly
Smiling wildly
Dreaming
Waiting
To either live and love and die
With your hand in mine
Or die longing and craving and loving
This ravishing  storm of you
Apr 2016 · 275
Too Much...
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
All I want is too much
Too much for me to ask
Too much for you to give
I want to make you laugh
I want to make yo blush
I want to make you love
  and love and Iove
Love me for loving you
Love you for loving me
Endless circles going
Around and round
All I want is too much
Too much for me to ask
Too much for you to give
I want to steal your heart
I want you to steal mine
   in return
I want to walk hand in hand
Until we wear out our feet
Then crawl on our knees
Then slither on our bellies
Until theres nothing left of us
And we both become a part
Of this road to forever
All I want is too much
Too much of you
Your love
Your heart
Your soul
Your everything
Apr 2016 · 287
Dreamt a Dream
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
With your pictute
Before my eyes
I did fall asleep
And in sleeping
I did dream
I dreamt you
Where here
And I
Was there
We fell into
Each others arms
It felt so real
I felt your warmth
Your voice
Your lips
Sweet scents
Filled the air
My fingers
Passing
Through your
Alluring hair
We laughed
And talked
And cried
And loved
And it seemed
To last many
A night
And days
And then
I turned
And my heart
Ached to wake
And lying still
In empty bed
I wept
And wept
Tears of joy
Pouring out
Of me
To have
Dreamt a dream
As beautiful
As you
Apr 2016 · 270
Mad Dreams
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Crazy thoughts
Mad dreams
Have I lost
My mind
Is my heart
Just a fool
How can
These feelings
Come so
Quick
Dreaming
Daily
Nightly
Can't stop
Just smile
I've gone mad
It has to be
No sane mans
Heart
Could feel
Such joy
And joy
Has infected
All of
My being
Trembling
And terrified
Such pleasure
Can't be
True
But my
Heart
Won't stop
Singing
Your name
It shouts
And shouts
Begging me
To let
It fly
To you
I have
No choice
And set
It free
Off it
Goes
Across
The sea
And warmly
I fall
Into
Crazy thoughts
Mad dreams
Apr 2016 · 969
Terrifying Exhilaration
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I crawl slowly
Into my empty bed
My mind heavy
My heart light
Dreaming of what could be
I've been falling
Too quickly
Too deep
Terrifying
Exhilaration
I can't stop my thoughts
Of you
This feeling consuming
My heart
My soul
My whole being
Has long sought
Such fire
My body
Drenched
In pure
Desire
Trembling
My hard
Flesh seeps
Life and
Love
At your
Every image
And
Every word
My hands
Shake
To write
This down
But my
Heart
Smiles
For your
Name
Falling
Falling
Fast
And
Deep
Apr 2016 · 288
Moons Away
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Driving through the night
Towards nowhere
The radio turned off
Home is where the heart is
And my heart is countless
Moons away
My vacated chest still echoing
My hearts song
And my heart is still singing
And it sings for only you
It sings how
No star
No moon
No heaven
Is as beautiful as you
My heart is so far away now
Searching across the sea
For your arms
Your touch
Your smile
Exhilarated I lay here
My empty chest
Somehow full
I hear my hearts song
Still repeating
Its love and dream for you
So clear
I'm terrified of how lovely
This vision is to me
And yet I fall asleep
Still smiling and whispering
Your name
Apr 2016 · 426
The Red, Dead, and Blue
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
The world today... ****, what can I say... for the most part it's just one big dung pool filled with the **** and bile of humanity.  Things have gone from bad to ******* right out absurdly ******* horible.  At least here in the U.S. it has, and almost everyone just walks around like nothing is wrong.  We've turned off the fire under the Melting *** (and lets be honest, it was barely a matchbook under there in the first place... burning a single match at a time) and freed the hideous multi-headed snake of racism and bigotry.  It's embarrassing and disgusting to hear politicians spewing hate filled reterhic and then pretending that their **** filled speeches are inspired by the voice and righteousness of god.  These ******* wearing ******* are ******* on the devils **** while mumbling out their pathatic lies, claimng to have scientific fact on their side of reason.  They would rather protect the unborn spawn of ****** than the lives and hearts and minds of the women *****.  Build more prisons and invent more crimes than feed those who need food, educate our children to be better and do better, poison water for outdated resources we truthfully no longer need... and the list is nearly endless.  There are more criminals hiding in plain sight in goverment chairs than there are in our slums and dark alleys.  
In part, I envy those  that we're able to afford the luxury of suicide... Hunter, Cobain, Williams and all the other genius minds and beautiful hearts to kind and caring and passionate to take another day of watching this world sink any deeper into its own excrement.  Tired of trying to save us from own stupidity, their voices hoarse and hearts bruised, caving into the comfort of leaving this mortal coil, not able to bear watch it collapse and bury itself.  So they jumped the line, rushed to the front and flew over the edge... laughing I'm sure.
The world today... It breaks my ******* heart... Humanity as a whole?... **** IT! Long have we been capable to do better, to clean ourselves of hate,  to raise up and join hands and hearts and souls and love one another.  Instead we turn our heads, plug our ears, and hush our voices.  Letting greed and corruption **** on our dinner plates and then gobble it all down like we are nothing more than starving orphaned children.  
Is that all we are?  Blind, deaf, mute and starving children?  Willing to swallow anything placed in front of us?  Changing history books to their liking?  Placing Moses next to Jefferson,  erasing the actions and voices of King and Parks and Mandela... I wish I were lying, but in hopes of a more obedient society these same ****-wits want to stop teaching of civil disobedience.  They want our children to do nothing more than sacrifice themselves to the endless crime of war and to the gears and teeth of the machine.  Feeding and defending the crimes of the dollar while  grinding pennies into dust to make the ink they sign our paychecks with...
I don't know what else to say...  to those with the heart and the voice and the hope... Keep at it.... write, sing, scream, dance...
Love your friends, family... Raise your children to be better than we were, than we are... let them become the ones to bring about a world were compassion, empathy, and love define the success and wealth of a good life lived.
Apr 2016 · 880
Lingering
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I wake with you
Lingering
Your dream still
Warm
In my bed
Your kiss still
Haunting
My mouth
Hungry
For more
Of the sweet
Taste
Of your
Love
I've never
Had
But need
More
My heart
Gone
My chest
Full
Overflowing
With
Pictures of
You
I hear
Madness
Spreading
Consuming
Me whole
Monsters
Dancing
The devil
Laughing
My soul
Sold
Without
You
My heart
Will never
Return
Home
It has
Devoted
Its beating
For you
All of
Its dreams
And
All of its
Blood
I lost it
To the
Fires
Of your
Heart
The
Compassion
That dances
In your
Words
The hypnotic
Allure of
Your voice
And
All the
Endless
Beauty
Of you
Apr 2016 · 310
Dead Things
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Why, why do so many people die before they ever get old?  Their hearts still beating in their chest, dust instead of blood running through their veins.  No thoughts or dreams in their heads... every movement they make is boring and repetitive, choreographed by the machine, feed by conformity, kept alive only as long as the monsters of money and big business can make a profit.  Living dead things that traded their souls for a comfortable pair of shoes and a cookie cutter life, stamped out and pre-made decisions for just the cost of the fires burning in their hearts.  Everyone so willing feasting on the foods of stupidity, lining up one by one to gorge themselves at troths of ignorance.  Self medicating nations into normalcy, inventing diseases to propagate mass hysteria and distract the idea of ever creating cures for actual illnesses.  Keeping those with gold lined pockets with more and more than they need, making sure they never fall into acts of compassion by feeding their demons of malevolence and greed.  
It's a scary ******* world.
No souls growing old, no hearts staying young... just living dead things.  The gears of the machine grinding loud and strong, quick to find and ***** out any heart still burning with fire and life.  Monsters and beasts walking among the masses, carrying  bone crushing scissors to clip any wings they might find hiding between the cracks and crevices of this ugly world they forced our fathers and mothers to build.  If they find a pair of wings they can't break or bind or crush... they drag that person kicking and screaming and throw them into the teeth of the heart of this vile world.  Slap them on the operating table and surgically transform them into hideous bats of conformity.  Such a scary ugly world to live in... All of it, the whole ****** place is drowning in bat **** crazy, with no Hunter to keep the bats and monsters in check... it's all just out of control.
We have to keep moving and running and hiding, leaving behind bread crumbs of hope for the few living left to find.  Throwing pockets full of seeds of love into the wheels and cogs and sprokets of the machine... trying to get flowers and life to bloom inside to break its gears and bring the whole thing crumbling down... All along the way, searchimg for old souls to grow young with.
https://soundcloud.com/jason-hughes-240320794/dead-things
Apr 2016 · 437
Beauty
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
You are
Breathtaking
Heart racing
Dream filling
Beautiful
And I'm mad
With love
Foaming
With lust
Raging
In oceans
Of dream
After dream
For your
Dream filling
Heart racing
Breathtaking
Beauty
Apr 2016 · 603
Bookstores and Libraries
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
The thing I like about bookstores and libraries is that the front door isn't really a door... or at least not just a door.  It's a trans-dimensional portal, a time machine, a gateway, a secret passage, a hidden staircase... all of them leading into worlds within worlds of wonder and fantasy and facts and science, some made up, some real.   Worlds of good vs. evil and dimensions where monsters and dragons are heros, times before war and planets that have never known peace.  We walk through these doors that are much more than just doors  and we find thousands upon thousands of villans and victims from unknown  cities and deserts.  Sitting on shelves waiting, just waiting for our hands and our fingers to pull them down and open up their stories and turn their pages.  Their lives eager to unfold and dance before our eyes and our minds.  Realms within realms of worlds within worlds within universes and timescapes.  Some filled with goblins and kings, beasts and queens, others demon and magic and possibilities endless.
And as if that isn't enough...we walk into history and future, fill our heads with knowledge and know how, customs and facts, lives lived and lost.  Artist tortured by their craft, celebrities killed by their name and their fame, poets and writers that traded their lives and their souls to solitude to leave us the gift of their words.  Infinite possibilities to teach and inspire ourselves to become anything our hearts can dream of.  The thing I like about bookstores and libraries is that the front door is so much more than a door, it is the first step of a journey, the first word in a book...
Apr 2016 · 307
Why do we...
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Why do we do it?
Why do we fall for
  The girls and the boys
   Over mountains
     Across oceans
      Through rivers
        And streams
And he loves her
  But she loves him
    And he doesn't care
     About anything but
       The silence
         And the solitude
           And the
             Word
We form triangles that
  Turn into squares that
    Make circles and
     We're all trapped in
       Roundabouts going
         Around and round
Always out of reach
  But not too far apart
   For our hearts
     To dream and
       Long and pine
         Of the possibility
And I weep for the broken
  Heart that won't break
And I die in this love
  That cannot die
And the knife in my back
  Is in my own hand
And a gun with no bullets
  Has shoot down the moon
And I'm drowning in this
   Endless breath that I
     Stole from a fool
       Who was dreaming
          Of you
Apr 2016 · 251
Translator of Silence
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I "met" someone about a week ago... A stranger living across the ocean, and something clicked or turned or fell in just the right place.  And suddenly I found myself in a place where I don't really write as much as pull words from the air around me and trap them down on paper in ink.   More of a translator of the silence than anything else.  Stories and poems and songs and even love... are all just sitting in the quite still air waiting to be noticed and felt and heard and written down.  It has all been said and done before... but now, right now, I can just hear it louder and clearer than ever before.
Apr 2016 · 246
Before Eden
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Your heart must have bloomed
In a garden long before Eden
Before god gave us
The burden of evil and shame
When love was only pure bliss
No act of it considered a sin
A carefree song of long ago
Only remembered and echoed
In the heart of the devil
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Another celebrity has died and we're all crying how unfair and cruel life is.  Telling 2016 to go **** itself... But maybe we should stop whining, maybe we should take this moment and appreciate how lucky we are to just be alive.  We're on a planet that happens to be just the right distance from a sun, just the right size to support life as we know it.  And if you're reading this you were the first little swimmer that shot out of your dads **** to make it to your moms eggs, congratufuckinlations on that!  Life can be great and life can be horrible and horrible can always get worse.  So every time a celebrity dies, lets stop complaining how unfair it is.  Lets be grateful they were the fastest swimmer, that they existed.  Lets be thankful we heard their music, read their books, memorized their poetry.  That we were moved by their art and craft, inspired by their work.  Death may have taken their bodies, but their music and art and souls belong to time and the world.  Celebrate and be grateful for the gifts they gave.  All of our lifes are finite, treat all your friends and family and loved ones with gratitude for just existing and being a part of your life.  None of us are safe from death, no ones life will be free of pain and sickness... mistakes will be made and hearts will be broken.  Like I said earlier, life is a circumstance of miracle and luck.  So live and learn, get hurt and grieve, love and love,  fall whenever you're lucky enough to find it... even if its with a stranger on the other side of the ocean.
Apr 2016 · 757
All Day
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I don't want to stop sleeping
I want to spend all day
Laying next to this dreaming
Of you
It feels warm
It feels right
It feels like Im falling
For you
No escaping this longing
No use denying
Every moment my heart is singing
Of you
Come fall asleep
Take my hand in this dreaming
Come dance under these sheets
Take my heart to forever keep
I'll be here waiting
For you
Apr 2016 · 285
Strange Dreamers
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Strange dreamers
Mad lovers
Crossing oceans
Stealing stars
Drinking moonlight
Killing suns
Making night
Forever ours
Silent screaming
Painful dreaming
Aching feeling
Too far
Too deep
Two hearts
Beat...
Beat..
Beating
Bleeding
Needing
Strange love
Mad dreams
Too much
Not enough
The never
Ever
Never
Is forever
Ever
Never
Mad love
Dreaming
Dreaming
Strange love
Apr 2016 · 261
Nothing
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Somethings got to break
Somethings got to give
Somethings got to hurt
Somethings got to spill
Somethings got to ache
Somethings got to fall
Someone has to dream
Someone has to leave
Someone has to hope
Someone has to cry
Someone has to love
Someone has to die
Sometimes its just nothing,
Nothing at all
Apr 2016 · 252
Morning Drive
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
He woke up with his dreams still wet in his eyes.  His heart greeted him, already awake from being up painting all night long.  He got out of bed and started his usual routine, getting dressed and eating the same dull food he ate day after day.  Today though, it tasted as if it were a meal fit for a king.  He finished his breakfast, gathered his things: keys, wallet, glasses and walked outside.  The sky was moonless and the sun was still hours away.  It was dark and the air was crisp and cold against his skin, on any other day he would have grabbed a jaket,  today though, he didn't mind or even seem to notice.  As he got into his car he was smiling a wide smile.  The angel and devil that would usually be on his shoulders where replaced by the Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat.  They whispered tales, poems, and songs of her deep beauty  and pure heart into his ears.  His heart jumped and raced with excitement as it listened. They spun stories of her every strand of hair streaked with hues and shades of red mixed with the purest colors of love.  They sang sonnets of the deep magic and wonder and oceans of her eyes.  They recited verses of her lips, as fragile and delicate as the pedals of orchids.  Lips he had never touched or kissed, lips that still somehow burned and satisfied his soul more than any other lovers touch had ever before.  He drove  down the the long road towards work, another day of the same pointless repetitive movement.  Working side by side with people who had died inside along while ago.  Mindless, mind numbing work... but he didn't care.  Not today, no today was different.  He listened as the Cat and the Hatter kept spinning yarn after yarn,  her heart and soul glowing through every word they spoke.  He drove through the darkness, his smile growing ever wider and his heart filling with warmth.
Apr 2016 · 374
Such...
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Such a beautiful mind
Such a delicate heart
Such a burning soul
What else could I do but fall
What else could I do but dream
Where else could I be than love
Such lovely eyes
Such fragile lips
Such a heavy soul
What else could I do but wish
What else could I do but want
Where else could I be than love
Such heavenly pictures
Such woeful verse
Such mad mad soul
What else could I do but long
What else could I do but cry
Where else could I be than love
Apr 2016 · 590
Sweet Love
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Sweet love won't you stay with me
Stay here in my bed where I'm lost dreaming
Stay here under my sheets where my body aches with longing
Stay here by my lips whispering your name into my pillow
Sweet love won't you stay with me
Stay in this day where I fall into you a little deeper
Stay as the stars come out and hear them sing in envy of your beauty
Stay under this moon with me and watch the sun go down as my admiration grows ever brighter
Sweet love won't you stay with me
Stay here in my heart that beats quicker for your name
Stay here by my side and in my arms full of desire
Stay here where my soul is yours consumed by your fires
Sweet, sweet love won't you stay
Apr 2016 · 200
Captured
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
You have captured my heart and imagination
And set my world on fire
Every new word I read
Every new picture I see
Cause the flames and my love to grow wilder
You are in my every thought
My every dream
My every wish
The fire growing ever wider
The love pulling me ever deeper
May my imagination and heart never break free
Apr 2016 · 253
Murdered by Eros
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I heard a gunshot in the middle of dreaming
I awoke to find Eros at the foot of my bed laughing
I lay there bleeding and dying and with my last bit of strength I wrote your name on my wall
And my last dying wish as I feel to the floor
Was to love you again in the next life
Over and over again
Apr 2016 · 331
My Love
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Come with me my love
Under the depths between us
Under the darkness within us
Under the dreams that bind us
Come with me my love
Under the sheets of endless time
Under the night of forever more
Under the moon where I'm eternaly yours
Come with me my love
Take the blood in my heart so your heart may live
Steal the air from my lungs so you may breathe
Use my bones and my marrow and all of my thread
And mend your wings
Find your voice
Let your beauty shine through
I would be less than nothing
Without this dreaming of you
Come with me my love
I'm dying for you
Apr 2016 · 238
Home It Can Never Be
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
Home it can never be when you're across the sea
My hearts flown off to you
And there's nothing I can do
Lonely beneath the moon
Wanting only you
Home it can never be when your hands are in a far off land
My dreams have run to you
Leaving me blue alone under this dying moon
Longing to sit with you
Home it can never be when you're not filling my empty arms
My wishes would die for you
And I would pull down this fading moon
And cross the sea
And find the land
Where I would find you
And then at home
I would always be
Apr 2016 · 341
Through Your Darkness
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
An ocean apart but only a moon away
I would climb through your darkness on broken and ****** knees
Drown in your tears to hold your heart up
Sacrifice my soul and turn your lead wings back to gold
I would give my heart to your prayers
Your beauty is more important than air to my lungs
Cross the ocean by moon
And slide into your dreams
And you can slip into my bed
Where we'll  both fall as we sleep
Apr 2016 · 315
Broken Wings
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I would pull the threads from my own heart and let it fall apart
To mend your broken wings
And weep to watch you fly away
For after falling in love with you
There would be nothing beautiful left for me to do
Apr 2016 · 293
Her Voice
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
All I know is her voice
All I've seen is a picture
I've read her words
Again and again
And my heart has been stolen
And it flys over the sea
Hoping
For a cup of coffee
At a table for two
For a warm hand
  to hold
During a long walk
thirty-two minutes
  past last call
To hear a soft whisper
  that quickens the heart
To get lost in the
  comfort of her arms
To lay awake through the
  night in a warm bed
Exchange a shy kiss
And listen to her voice
  until the morning sun
   crashes in
And we would laugh as the
  morning bird sings
And then sleep
And long
And dream
Of living in tomorrow
And escaping today
Apr 2016 · 310
Waiting...
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
In the field where flowers go to die
She lays in wait
Writing beautiful pictures with the last drops of blood from the pedals of the dying orchchids
Painting living songs  from the dying breath of lilies
Singing stone into lovely sculptures from the soil and the roots of fading snap dragons
Changing the the color of the sky using tears from her own heart as it cries and doubts with too many questions
As it fears the death of poetry
And the air around her is filled with her beauty and light and magic and dreams and hopes
Yet she fills empty and dark and sees her own ghost drifting away
Longing and fear settling into the bones beneath her wings
Snaping them from deep within their marrow
Her soul starving for the love she writes of so elegantly to write back and find its way to her
Either through bottles  lost at sea, songs whisperd by falling stars, moonlight typing deep beneath her skin...to find her anyway at all
And fill her empty chest
And replace all the love her heart has lost from loving too freely
And to fill in the empty space between her arms
And she waits
In the field where flowers go to die
Apr 2016 · 442
Helplessly
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
I'm not writing anymore
As much as I'm
Watching in helpless wonder
As the words
Fall out from my fingertips
As my heart flys
Off towards the songs
Of her voice
And I find myself
Hypnotized by her picture
Framing her perfect
Endless Ocean Eyes
And would the effect have beeen the same
Had we meet
After one too many
Or spilled each others coffees
In a crowded café
If I held her hand on a late night walk
Instead of this longing
To know her touch
Instead of dreaming of what could be
If not for the ocean
And time
And distance
Would I have been too shy
To say word
Had she danced or chanced
Before me...
I know
I would have froze
And quitely walked away
Never to say a thing
But maybe one day
Write of the regret
For the dream that I let
Waltz right past
And never took the chance...
I cannot explain
Or dare question fate
Of the why
All I can do is watch
As the words fall out
And helplessly stare
At her eyes
Perfect in their frame
Its easier to write poems than to send a simple message... I'm more of a coward and a fraud than an artist.  Dam, I think that's the fraud police at my door... don't worry they'll never take me alive (I'm already dead)
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