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297 · Jul 2016
Wicked Wishes
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Delicate ***** soft rhyme
Plush perverse petal lips
Sultry sweet sinful  lines
Pleasure passing thigh to thigh
Heavenly heavy decadent kiss
Hells howling blazing fingertips
Love and lust frolic
Under stars and sheets
Lust and love passing
Through sin to skin
Pulsing beat blood flowing
Beneath rigid flesh growing
Wicked wishes penetrating flower
Dreamful state interpreting scent
Drifting pheromone inhaling moans
Breathing mouths grasping tounges
Staining sheets fluids flowing
Slithering twisted limbs tangle
Silky sliding deeply climb
Cascading senses titilation crashing
Temptatious ****** cusp boiling
Seeping life leaking seed
Translucent liquid clinging vice
Foaming serpents blinded eye
Whisper begging groaning shout
Thickly exhale spewing forth
Lust abonded
Love inhaled
Slowly swaying pulse descending
Swollen passion lingers deep
Softly settles within velvet sheath
Lost to heavens pillow clouds
And hells cavernous desire
Found only in the iridescent
Colors of love and madness
Dancing in your eyes
297 · Apr 2016
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
296 · Jul 2016
Last steps
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Tears fell soft
Eyelashes turned to feathers
Feathers turned to flame
Flame burned body and name
Turning another life to
Nothing but ash
The last flash
Fast bullet
Suicide dance
No painted colors
No written words
No dancing flame
No bird to rise
From the sorrow of embers
No life to return
From the last steps
Of the
Suicide dance
296 · Apr 2016
Before
Akira Chinen Apr 2016
This can not be the first time
I have fallen madly in love with You
Is that not our names
Already written in the stars
Have our souls not danced
Before the dying of the sun
A thousand fates ago
Have our bodies not
Crashed into each other
In passions warm embrace
Time and time again
I know that I've been
Lost in those endless ocean eyes
Every new morning
As time begins
This is not the first time
Our love was oceans
And seas and mountains
And years apart
I will always
Find you
The madmans smile will
Light the way
296 · Jul 2017
where we never end
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
I want to wake under the first morning light
and cover you in long slow kisses
and soft silk words of love
and gentle slide both mouth and hips
along your smooth and milky skin
and tenderly let fingers trace your every curve
until I hear you whisper words that grab my heart
and harden my flesh
and we turn to moaning beasts
and grunting lovers as we twist
and grind and forgot our human names
as we become lost in pleasure
and dance in pure flames of carnal desire
and erupt in a blaze
that drowns out the morning sun
and slowly calm our tempered mouths
to gentle kisses once again
and feel the storm beating through our chests
pass to easy winds and relaxed rhythms    
as we lay on top of one another    
and let sleep take our eyes
to dreams where we never end
295 · Jul 2017
i fall apart
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
I have hid on the shoulders of giants and stolen from the pockets of dead and long forgotten gods
I have swam between echoes and mermaids trapped in tears of yesteryears to steal the key that could have set them free
Only to melt it down and make a silver thread to tie and bind my secret truths to the spine of a book of lies
but I fall apart under the endless ocean blues of your eyes reflecting the stary night of Vincents madness and the soft curve of your gentle smile and the sin of seduction comes from nothing more than the exposed skin of your shoulder and I may never know the touch of your hands but the flames of desire will burn in the furnace you've placed in my soul and love will dance in the fire that spells out your name on the walls of my heart and nothing I've known of beauty was ever as beautiful as you
295 · Apr 2016
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
295 · Mar 2017
the house in her heart
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
Every time his heart broke he found a deeper capacity to love
And every broken piece found a way to forgive
And each new love he loved a little more
By giving a little more
And always found himself broken again
And yet foolishly never doubted love
Love would change faces and perfumes and names and hair style but the soul of its heart and the song of its pulse were forever the same
And he felt it in the air before he saw the color of her eyes
And he was falling before she spoke the last syllable of her name
He was lost in the magic of her gaze as he saw a glimpse of the house in her heart he wanted to call home
And he forgot to wonder
How long it would be
Before he would break again
295 · Feb 2018
bottom of a bottle
Akira Chinen Feb 2018
She looked pretty enough
to **** the boredom between his legs
and he was drunk enough
that she could make him beg
and bark and do anything
she would command
and it was ten past desperation
and a quarter till nothing
but the cold embrace of an empty bed
and nothing really mattered
between the pages
of a dime store novel
drowning at the bottom
of a wishing well
full of bad pennies
and poor luck in the matters
of fairy tale love
and she was too broken to care
and he was too lost to find
and they found themselves
exchanging plastic smiles
and hollow laughs
and there was more ***** and alcohol
than blood inside their veins
and the regret of bad decisions
was something that
they didn’t seem to mind
and neither one could remember
whose house that they were in
as their clothes and inhibitions
were both lying outside
of the bedroom door
and they couldn’t tell if it felt good
because they couldn’t remember
what good was
but he grunted and barked
and she gasped and she moaned
and at some point they felt the need
for cigarettes
so they pretended
to be done and satisfied
and they didn’t speak a word
that didn’t end up in a laugh
and they were both the punchline
of a joke that no one else could hear
and they both decided to drown
in the bottom of another bottle
so they couldn’t see their tears
294 · Dec 2016
bottom of a dream
Akira Chinen Dec 2016
I saw you today or maybe it was just a picture or your name in a mirror and I fell again over my head and to the bottom of it all and nostalgia forgot to worry about the pain of longing just long enough to feel bliss and joy and all the little things that count the way towards love and I felt like a school boy with a crush on the most beautiful girl in the world that he would never be brave enough to talk to but still walked home with his feet never touching the ground and I day dreamed of dark swirling Vincent skys and stars and sailing across the endless ocean trapped in your eyes and it was a brief passing moment that lasted an eternity and then you were gone and all I could see was your name in a mirror that held onto your picture I found at the bottom of a dream where I was sleeping still falling into the madness of it all
294 · Jul 2016
Always begin
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
I wake up everyday dreams lingering
Your vision still laying beside and underneath blanket and sheet
Your fingertips dragging along the heart of my skin
Your name still burning in the fire and flame
The faded stars still singing your name
And it feels like I had just fallen asleep a moment before
Madly and wildly you were dancing in my heart
Wildly and madly I had whispered into the dark
I Love You so completely tonight but come morning
I will love you even more
And every morning and every night it will always be true
I will love you forever and the next day a little bit more
Forever and ever where you end I will always begin
294 · Mar 2017
lost echos
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
I have become a lost sound
within the echos of your name
and the love you left behind
294 · Jun 2016
Beneath my skin
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Open eyes and outstretched limbs
Dreams still lingering
Beneath my skin
Your light and warmth
Still hold my heart and soul
And in the quintessence of my pulse
My every fiber
Reverberates these words
*I Love You
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.
294 · Apr 2016
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
294 · Aug 2015
falling...
Akira Chinen Aug 2015
Falling in love is difficult...
No....
Not reallly, it just happens
Enjoy it when it happens
Know that your lucky
  to have it happen
No matter if its at first sight
Or years of work
Enjoy it
Be lucky
293 · Mar 2018
bricks and feathers
Akira Chinen Mar 2018
Why does an empty heart fell so heavy and a full heart so light?
293 · Jul 2016
Losing...
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
There lies a consciousness to the soul
That most would ignore
But if you hear its call
I must implore
That you listen to it close
For it is the difference between
Complicity and slavery
Don't sell your mind
For pennies on the dime
Embrace the possibility
Of freeing yourself
From mental slavery
Don't allow your children
To fade into the masses
Of the simplicity
Of being *****
Stand strong and fight
Love and unity
Is our last hope
And its drowning
To greed
And fear
And hate
And profit
And it's still
A world of US
VS them
And we have them outnumbered
But we're still losing
But that doesn't mean
We should give up hope
It isn't a world yet
Where Dollars
Beats sense
It's not too late
As long as
We still have at least
You
You to make
A stand
The world as it
Is today
May not be worth
Fighting for
But should that mean
We just lie down
And give up
Tomorrow

...

So please...
Take a breath
Even if it is your last
And listen
To your souls consciousness
And fight for
What your
Heart
Knows is right
Even if we are
On the
Losing side
293 · Oct 2017
broken fairy tale
Akira Chinen Oct 2017
My eyes crack open
and my flesh is still hard
from the dream I was having
and your name falls from my mouth
like a prayer made of silk and sin
and my dead heart beats
once and twice
and bleeds at the cracks
and there's an echo in the abyss
where your love once raged
with the fury of a burning sky
painted with the colors of lust
dipped in the golden honey
made out of a stars blood
and an oceans  tear
and I can still feel the warmth
of the fire left behind
from every kiss
you every tattooed and bit
into the soul of my skin
and my whole body
is a burning effigy left hanging
on the cruel smile of the moon
that won't let me forget
how god ****** beautiful
your eyes use to glow
when you used to whisper my name
in slow syllables and long moans
as our bodies ******
on beds and floorboards
and carpets and couches
and over counters and coffe tables
and our hearts made love
far beyond the grace of heaven
and burned our names
in the secret corners of the universe
even the devil dare not go
and now all that is left
that I can do is pretend to love
and pray that forever
won't last as long
as you once promised
because without the sound
of your voice
or the touch of your love
I am nothing but a ghost
with a dead heart
waiting for his
broken fairy tale to end
293 · Mar 2017
nickel nights
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
In a world of nickel nights of lust all he wanted was a pennys wish for love
293 · Sep 2017
monsters like us
Akira Chinen Sep 2017
The world is going to hell
and we're knitting the hand basket
with the blood and bones
of our children's innocence
all the while pretending
nothing is wrong

Hate and fear is foaming
at the mouth of ignorance
and we just strap the blinders
on a little tighter
and hope if we don't pay attention
it will go away

Big brother is watching the dream die
and Uncle Sam is out burying the knife
and isn't it strange
how it went straight down
with expert precision
almost as if it was choreographed
to take a tumble
and give in without a fight

When we believe
the lie to be true
we all become liars
when we witness evil
and turn away
what are we but evil too
when we turn away those in need
to protect those of greed
what are we but monsters

How much longer will we
let the noose tighten
around our necks
before it cuts off our last breath
what will we accomplish in death
when we did nothing of grace
when our hearts
still beat inside our chests

The way things are going
I have to wonder
when the world gets to hell
will we all just be turned away
for hell is too nice a place
for monsters like us
293 · Sep 2016
threads
Akira Chinen Sep 2016
Your colors spill out of me
As your nails slice open the sky
Our lips are sewn together with the
threads of lust and passion
and love
Our bodies twist and slither and tangle
And I fall deeper into you
As your velvet flowers envelope me
And we melt and merge until
We become the stars in the sky
And its all just a dream
Of a dream of me dreaming of you dreaming of me
As I count the stars up above
One by one
Counting the ways
I love you
293 · Apr 2016
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
292 · Jul 2017
OUT(T)A LI(V)E
Akira Chinen Jul 2017
Buzz cut
  Rope tie
BANG!BANG!
Someone's gotta die
Pray to cash
  Bleed for oil
It's the smell of death
  That the blind dogma
    Loves best
Grind the gears
  Toss your bones
Keep the Kings safely
  Up on their Thrones
**** **** ****
  To feed the HATE
We can't let the illusion
  And FEAR dissipate
BOMBS BULLETS bodies
  we need
MORE MORE MORE
WAR is Big
  BUSINESS for
All them political
   ******
BOMBS BULLETS bodies
  So easily replaced
Are all the things we waste
Buzz cut
  Rope tie
BANG! BANG!
  Only DEATH makes
     it OUT(T)A LI(V)E
292 · Aug 2019
love and hate
Akira Chinen Aug 2019
love capable of creating
hate habitually destructive
we would rather
spill each other's blood
than find a way
to mend one another's wounds
and why?
when hate nourishes the mind
as well as cyanide
poisons the body
and love can tend the broken
of past and present
and bring warmth in days to come
why do we give into
the short quick fuse
of anger and hate when love
is always there
patient and waiting
292 · Jul 2016
Of all People
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Let us celebrate a day of history
When the separation of a single people
Was a willing act of treason
And an act of chasing freedom
Let us not forget history as it was
Not as how they want it passed down
The blood and stain of shame
Is still buried deep down in the soil
Of a troubled nations ghost
Both past and present
The last empire to commit the near complete genocide of a proud and fierce true native
Then built up a monsterous industrial complex plantation
With workers bound by chain of ignorance and hatred
Men and women and children treated less than animal
Remind me again what am I to be proud of
And some will say we've come so far
Then why are lines still being drawn
Why does the world continue to separate
Why are children still dying in the streets
Why are soldiers coming home without their feet
Why are our mothers still plaqued with grief
Nations still using bullets and bombs
To argue that we are always in threat of harm
From the unknown
And like children afraid of the dark
Everone is trembling under sheets
Afraid of an invisible beast
But fear is still fear
And fear is what betrays us
Keeps us from unity
Keeps us fighting each other
Instead of fighting for each other
You can keep your pride of nation
I will keep my fight
Pushing towards
The union
Of all people
292 · Aug 2016
Secrets at oceans end
Akira Chinen Aug 2016
There are secrets at oceans end that not all mortals could fathom to understand
A weight of sadness and despair not even the strongest arms could bare
It is a place out of the reach of dreams and death
And also the place where
Death dares to dream
And
Dreams dare embrace death
Nothing here is as it seems
Except to those who dare to sleep to die
To dream
Impossible dreams
To bend time and capture eternity in a single kiss of innocence
To forge the wheels of fate by twisting tides  of lustful currents flow
To lull the sun to sleep
By turning flames to dancing waves
And dream the universe as tranquil magenta seas
And by blinking turn each celestial orb to creatures of fins and gills
Letting each planet swim free of thier chained paths
And by daring to give life through impossible dreams
They find thier hearts and souls in the hands of death
And in these cold hands they find the warmth of sleep
And in thier sleep death finds its way back to dreams
And dreams find hiding in the breath of death their hope to live again
Here where nothing is as it seems
Except to those who know and keep the secrets of oceans end
292 · Oct 2016
the girl in the book
Akira Chinen Oct 2016
time bleeds over wounds
that become scars
that hold the secrets
of an unforgettable love
and the name I whisper
as I cry in my sleep
and I would send flowers
but the house we once shared
has burnt to the ground
and she thought
the death of a rose
was a waste of beauty
and a silly way
to express love
she broke my heart
as I was slowly killing hers
I had grown too comfortable
and forgotten to tend
the garden that we shared
she once claimed it was her mistake
but I know I'm the one to blame
shes the star
of the old black and white film
playing on the skin
of a ghost
shes the girl in the book
about the one that got away
292 · Mar 2015
Just Pretend...
Akira Chinen Mar 2015
Its easy to pretend as I dream in never never land where love is an eternal blooming flower that is  not just devoured by the hour But when I  wake its my perpetual fall from grace that keeps you out of reach And even if you were near it would be simply out of fear that I couldn't hold your hand But back to sleep I'll go and see your face behind a veil and hear the moon and the sun and stars sing of how beautiful you are in white But it's only make belive and its the kind of love that
looks good on paper The kind that would never end if only just pretend But eventually I'll have to go The dream will end a heart will break  but somewhere between forever and never I can always find your flower
292 · Aug 2014
Kiss full of venom
Akira Chinen Aug 2014
Her kiss was full of venom
Her teeth were made out of
  broken pieces of glass
Her tongue was a slithering snake
  that crawled down your throat
  and squeezed all the blood out
  of your heart and swallowed
  your soul whole
She couldn't help but stab you in
  the back, her finger nails were all little
  daggers... she couldn't hold or touch
  anyone without cutting to the bone
She was beautiful though, and even more
  beautiful to anyone who looked at her
  with heartache in their eyes
And she could smell heartache,
  heartache and loneliness and all
  the foul smells of a broken soul.
She was helplessly attracted to the scent,
  she couldn't control herself around the
  aroma of misery
You could never tell by looking at her, but
  she was miserable too.
She was as every bit as broken as she
  was beautiful
She made a deal with the devil the first time
  her heart was broken, she just didn't want
  to feel the pain she told him
So he shook her hand and numbed her wounds
  but he never took the pain away
Her heart is still broken but she doesn't know
Because she can't feel what the devil
  made numb
292 · Sep 2015
why
Akira Chinen Sep 2015
why
Why do I love you
Why does this passion
Grip my heart so tight
Always left dreaming
Of you
Both when I'm asleep
And when I'm awake
And I imagine you
Sitting near
Your hand and mine
Holding down the night
My heart and yours
Beating and naked
On an endless shore
Love never dying
Finding eternity
With a simple kiss
I would find
An endless bliss
If you only knew
Why I love you
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
There was only the silence of words unspoken swimming in her tears and he understood every word as they hung like little black stars in the dark and as he pulled them down one by one to help ease her pain their sharp edges cut his fingers and through his bones and seeped into his soul and mixed with his own familiar aches and he knew he was falling alone and that in the end he would be only find disappointed and still all he could do was comfort her until the storm and darkness passed and she would find her hearts beauty again and be whole on her own and find her own ambitions and reason to smile and it would not be his fate for anything but to only be quietly in love and when her day to fly back into the world came he would then be surrounded by the silence of his words unspoken that swam in the tears she would never see him shed and he would still be falling and still be in love and would still find her his reason to dream and smile
291 · Jun 2016
Midnight Howl
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
Lets get drunk
And howl at the moon
Lets steal a smile
And **** an innocent kiss
Lets tell a golden fib
And ****** the moons sweet lullaby
Lets dance naked under stars
And taste the flower
Between your thighs
Let our souls descend
To devils fire
And flames of sin
Lets find pleasure of heavens pulse
While lost to acts of hell
Let our voices growl
And whisper heavy
With drips of love
Let us indulge
In merging heart to heart
While commiting deeds
Under sheets of carnal beast
While the ghost
Of the murdered moon
Raises from its ash
And drinks the overflow
Of our love and lust
Not able to distinguish
Between the two
It spreads a drunken smile
Across the night
As it watches
Our madness burning
In time and song
The moon lets out
Its midnight howl
https://soundcloud.com/jason-hughes-240320794/midnight-howl
291 · Jul 2016
Dreams do bind
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Under depths
And darkness
My dreams do bind
My soul and heart
To this endless
Storm beneath
The sheets of
Endless time of
Forevers night
Where I am tied
To eternal midnight
Of love and dream
And my footsteps taken
Have left these words
Written in the dust
Of the moon
*I Love You
291 · Dec 2019
to pass and go again
Akira Chinen Dec 2019
the gently sun peeks through
the long clouds stretching out
across the horizon
and up into the morning sky

a parade of silhouetted leafless trees
march up and down the hillside

the earth spinning in a perfect
and endless pirouette

the seasons always on the move
coming and going
gone and here again

nearby the moon practicing
her crescent smile
the stars applying
their shimmer and shine
the night dying its blanket
in a new wash of pitch black
the shortest day of the year racing by
collecting the last
of what it can find for warmth

and somewhere off in the wings
winter is shaking the last
of autumns dusk from her coat
waiting for the curtains to close
the stage to be reset
the lights to dim

waiting for the moon to walk out
on her tightrope
far above the crowd below
to see her perfect practiced
crescent smile light the stage

winter enters on the back
of the great north wind
a wind that in a certain light
at a certain angle
sometimes looks like
a great white wolf
with mischievous eyes

winters footsteps litter the stage with snow
her skin reflecting cool blues
and cold lights
somehow offers a special warmth
the warmth of

sleeping children dreaming
of snowmen and sleigh rides
little mice finding feasts
in what we would call crumbs
far away fathers remembering
quite nights and home fires
expectant mothers waiting impatiently
for cozy blankets and bedtime stories
for the long and lonely grief
to remember what once was
and to feel that joy again
and to smile in knowing
that no one is truly ever gone

and as suddenly as it began
the night though long
seems too short

the moon tired but still smiling
trades places with the sun

and the clouds stretch out
to cover the long horizon

and winter marches
with the leafless trees
up and down the hillside

waiting with the trees
for their leaves to bloom
and her time to pass
and go again
291 · Jul 2016
Clouds whisper
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
My heart rocks and
Sings sweet lullaby
Of everything
Perfectly you
And I drift through dream
And listen to
The whispers
Of pillow and cloud
As the softly say
*I Love You
291 · Mar 2017
common thread
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
Equal, equality... It is not enough to think that all men, all people, are created equal.  For true equality to exist it must come at the constant strive and struggle to maintain equality among all.  Let not anyone fall down without being picked up, let no one go without shelter or food or kindness or compassion.  If we are able to help the less fortunate it is our responsibility to do so and those in need should never be meet with shame or guilt.  Life is not about fair or unfair and the only fate we should have to meet in this life is to give and receive love.  If we are not lifting one another we are not striving forward, if we are not attempting to meet eye to eye and heart to heart we are not holding hand to hand of brother to sister to mother to child to father to stranger to friend to push against the struggle of the great injustices that still exist in a world where there is no reason for them to exist at all.
Equality should no longer be a dream, it should not be a prayer dripping from our ****** lips with hands clasped with bruised knuckles.  We should not be kneeling on our broken knees anymore asking the sky to save us and shower us with the sweet promise of grace to one another.  We should be standing on our feet and moving forward as we lift and hold each other up in the earnest pursuit of true equality.  It is through acts of kindness and generosity and compassion and empathy that we find we are all human and we all suffer together and we are all in this struggle together.  It is within the beat of our hearts we can find the common thread that unites us all to love and it is with love we will find and keep equality.
291 · Nov 2017
mindless intelligence
Akira Chinen Nov 2017
Artificial tears from a mindless intelligence
as the masses devour the minutes of the hour
in a hushed drone of a hive mentality
and everyone is watching
but no one is looking at anything
other than their own contorted faces
as the snap snap chat chat selfie
is taken again and again
got to hide our faces where everyone can see
because its all unlimited vanity
for a small price and snip snip
sign quick don’t let the devil hide in the details
because wouldn’t that be a waste of his charm
as we’re all going to hell
may as well cozy up to the fire
and set the finger free
to be the bird we all love it for
because what else are our hands good for
other than saying **** this
and **** that
and **** it
and no one gives a **** any more
if you want to believe the common trend of memes
and its a mix of the sad truth and bad tides
and the television spitting out lie after lie
and an honest politician is nothing more
than a puppet with one foot in the grave
and the other hand in your back pocket
digging through your wallet
and a crooked politician doesn’t even hide it anymore
and is shoving his hand down your throat
to drain your gut and twist your spine
because he has to bleed you of every cent
but not to worry he’s a god fearing american gent
full of compassion and caring and *******
well just *******
but you don’t need to know that
buzz buzz fly home
the t.v’s calling
you wouldn’t want to miss
the artificial tears of a mindless intelligence
291 · Jul 2019
magic and books
Akira Chinen Jul 2019
I pulled the book off the shelf
ran my fingers down the spine
and then up again
feeling the magic bound within

I wept inside with tearful joy
my heart listening to the happy songs
from the pages waiting to be opened
read intently
gazed at endlessly
and finally turned

I held the book to my chest
hugged it tightly
as tightly as a mother
hugging a child
she thought lost to war
a husband hugging his wife
afraid if he let go
he would wake
and find his wife
had just been a dream
a child hugging everything
and anything

this book that is as much of my heart
as my hearts own flesh and blood
this book
the first book that taught me
life and love are so often the same thing
in all of their beauty and joy
all of their desperation and despair
love and life
pressed between
and printed on
the pages of this book

a good friend
a friend from long ago
an old friend
that will never grow old

the book opens
and my heart applauds
290 · May 2016
The paint and magic...
Akira Chinen May 2016
Your heart is trapped in the cold and the numb
Behind a wall inside of you of impossible heights
I have seen these things behind your eyes
Your eyes of infinite tears of salt and oceans blue
Your pain painted with brush strokes
Mixed with the colors of lunacy and magic
Swirling like stars of Van Gogh
This is where and how I learned to love you
Fall madly for you
Devote my heart and soul to you
And only you
Your eyes lead me into the mouth and madness
Of my own heart and soul
Showed me the true reflection of my love and spirit
Never before had love bloomed more wildly and lovely
Never before had there been such a garden inside me
Never had the flowers swayed and sung so merrily
I had known both love and madness before
But never had I known or been so madly in love
Never so perfectly connected to my inner being
Never felt the harmony of the universes heart beat in sync with my own

Here...

Lost in the paint and magic of  your eyes
And the pain and ache of your soul
The hopes and dreams of your heart
All your perfectly beautiful frailties
Here in your shrouded darkness
I found your light
And in your light I found
A touch of unknown delicacy
A color unkown to mortal eyes
An exquisite madness
And I found the lost truths of love
Whispered and shouted
Dancing and twisting
Entwining with my blood and marrow
Lifting the lost and dead pieces of both my heart and soul
The unknown secrets of life and joy pulsing throughout me
Bringing me whole and making me complete
I have become part of something more
Than life and death
Than love and sorrow
Than suns and moons
I have become the freedom
Of the sins of angel and beast
Of the beginning and end of time
Of heaven and hell

I want to be tied to your bed
To keep the monsters beneath
And the devil out
I want to be chained to your wall
To always be bound inside with you
And to help tear it down
I want to be buried in your heart
To keep its flow and pulse forever warm
I want to be the war of the wind
To blow away the coulds
And **** the rains of doubt
Let me live and love you
From within your darkness
And by your side
I will always be yours
Even if you will never
Be mine
I cannot stop my fall
And love for you
I cannot control
This fate anymore than I could willingly stop
My heart from beating
And my heart
Will beat for you
Past the decay of my bones and flesh
Past the ends of the world
Past the broken ticks of time
My heart and my love
Always set
Always rise
Over infinites horizon
Singing for you
And only you
290 · Jun 2016
Bad day
Akira Chinen Jun 2016
It was one of those bad days that followed me as my heavy weary eyes fell to slumber.  Soon nightmares had wrapped their blanket of fear and doubts around my heart and lungs.  My bed turned to a turbulent  ocean soaked with tears and silent screams echoing in the lighting streaking between thunderous clouds.  I tried to scream back but only silence slithered and slid out of my throat.  My sweat collected into thick crimson red puddles and claws reached out and strapped me down farther into the darkness.  I knew it was a nightmare but everything was eating away at my senses and no amount of struggle could wake me.  Arguments and memories haunting me and dragging away the joy in my heart.  My eyes held open as I was forced to watch another dream die as this nightmare unfolded its dark corners.  
I would have started crying but I had died with the dream... turned into a ghost to wander aimlessly through its death.

My eyes creaked open but my mind was still lost in the nightmare.  My heart beat slow and cold in my chest and pulsed a living numb through my bones and marrow.  I had no urge to get out from under the blanket the nightmares had tangled me in.  All I wanted to do was let the misery wash over me and drown me... I couldn't even start crying, I just didn't have the will to do anything.  I layed there in dark, staring off towards the void... just wanting to be swallowed out of existence.

I start to move subconsciously as my hand reaches blindly for my phone and my fingers strech out across its surface.  I'm not aware of what is happening... and then your picture appears in front of my dreary eyes and the words just fall out in a hushed whisper... "i love you.. "
In an instant, the blanket disappears and warmth resurges within my heart.  The dream resurrects itself and puts the nightmare in the noose.  I press my lips to your picture and repeat the words again... "I love you"
Somedays thats the only thing that can get me through another day
https://soundcloud.com/jason-hughes-240320794/bad-day
Akira Chinen Mar 2017
I want to ride the rails and pass through the city of brotherly love and find your hand to hold and share some time and coffee or wine or your favorite kind of tea and we could tell each other lies and say we're both ok and read the truth within the space between our eyes and see how many scars we could count hidden in the stars beneath the lucidity of our sins and we could pretend to care or do far worse and fall in love and both leave this world behind and find a train on the rails to eternity and dream
290 · Jul 2016
Kiss me
Akira Chinen Jul 2016
Kiss me until I forget my name
Then peel away my skin
Reveal my death within
My flesh is yours for the taking
For pleasure or for feast
There is no denying
You bring out my savage beast
Kiss me until my mouth is broken
And my tounge is swollen
Then force me to say your name
I'll be your beggar
Your fool
Your slave
Just put me in my place
I'll be your sin
I'll fall for your disgrace
Kiss me until I've been consumed entirely
**** all the of my devotion from my breath
Drain all the blood from my chest
Wear my completion as pearls hanging between your *******
Leave me limp and lifeless
A soul of only ghost
Then with teeth of fierce intention
Bring my body back to life
Kiss me
Kiss me
I would ****** to know
Your bliss
290 · May 2016
Kid at heart
Akira Chinen May 2016
He's only eight
But he already has that old soul
Thinking and creating and learning day by day
Something new something new everyday
The universe and the meaning of life
Play things at his fingertips
Dreaming of the this and that and the hows and the whys
Telling me "You're the best dad"
Never knowing how easy he makes the privilege
The privilege of parenthood
Always eager to help
Eleven cents in his hands and behind his back
Smiling wide, "Dad I have a surprise for you... "
Handing over two nickels and a cent
"To fix your car!"
That was back when he was five...
Now when finances seem a little tense
He smiles again
And tries to refuses his allowance
And when he has the chance of charitable acts
He gives more than he keeps
My little guy
With soul of old
Too smart, too smart
But still and always
A kid at heart
You have to make time and magic for your kids too...
289 · Jun 2017
bones of life
Akira Chinen Jun 2017
We are the walking bones
of eternal death
  as flowers bloom
on wilting vines
Flames burning
on the wings of butterflies
  pinned to the wheels of fate
Dreams of dreamers
floating along
  the cosmic river
of eternal stars
Small beads of sweat
on the forehead
  of lunatics
who think themselves gods
Brief flashes of illusion
and illustrations
  of hell and heaven
painted on fragile walls
We fade into dust and crumble
  as time and love and death
Are the marrow within
our bones of life
289 · Feb 2017
never quite
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
He found her at the bottom of a broken dream drowning in an ocean of tears and he stripped his soul bare and fashioned it into a rope and dove down through the raging waves and torrent undertow of her sorrow
he found her barely breathing with blue lips and broken pieces of her fragile heart bleeding through her chest
she was perfectly human with  beautiful flaws and her love was pouring out in storms of loud roars of electricity and silent screams of thunder
yet she was still more alive than dead
but wanting to not have to feel anything at all
he reached out his hand and waited for her to reach back
and she sat there quitely trying to hide all the tears that surrounded them both
and the longer she sat without moving the deeper he felt himself fall
he wanted desperately to fall by her side and hold her close
and tell her she would be ok
but he knew she wasn't ready to be held or comforted or to leave yet
so he waited with his hand outstretched and he would wait until the end of time
not in hopes that when she was ready she would fall too
but because he had already fallen so far that nothing else mattered more than being there for her for whatever she would need and whenever she would need it
and love had never quite felt as beautiful as it did now as it beat wildly for her in his chest
289 · Aug 2017
while she slept
Akira Chinen Aug 2017
I meet her while she slept
under the dreams of a moon
on the other side of my imagination
and in a city where the trees
spoke to the breeze
in a languague I was unfamiliar with
and her skin moved like silk
and snake and wrapped around me
in places of marrow and soul
and heart and pain
and I felt every inch of me
slide willing inside the beauty
of the ever changing color
of her eyes and hair and skin
and I heard a distant song
in whispers and moans
echoing from the soft lips
that were the same hue
and shape of her smile
and reverberated in the sound
of wet kisses drowning
with the taste of the sea
and the storm of flames
in which forgotten gods
and demons created
the nameless emotion
of being completely consumed
by all of sin and lust and love
when flesh and soul danced
under sheets of starless night
and within furnace
of blood forged fire
and I was devoured
by all that she was
and could be and had been
all the beauty of her pain
and all the horrors of her love
all the soft spots
and sharp edges
of all the hearts
she had lost and held
and given
and watched break and shatter
and beat and spit and shine
and tremble and quiver
and shrink and burn
and turn to ash
and rise and beat
and love again
and I feel asleep to the sound
of her breath singing songs
to the trees in words
I did not know
yet understood
as they wrapped around my heart
in the shape of love
under the dreams of the moon
where she slept
289 · May 2016
My Inspiration
Akira Chinen May 2016
My heart never so open
To breaking
My soul never so ready
For the taking
I am hoplessly fallen
Given to madness
Sickly in love
Dreaming
Dreaming dreams
In my every breath
In and out
Another dream
Of you
I keep falling
As I've fallen
Through time
And logic
Only madness
Crashing through
The floor
And earth
No stopping
My descent
Fallen to these dreams
Begging for realease
Break my soul
And take my heart
My life
My love
My inspiration
All yours
For the talking
289 · Feb 2017
the sounds of time
Akira Chinen Feb 2017
You started as a spark of hope and now I am consumed by flame
You broke down my walls and stripped my soul and heart bare
And now you have become my heart and soul
Leave now and I will vanish within this fires rage until the smoldering coals are reduced to ash and then carried off with the wind where this love will echo throughout the sounds of time
289 · Feb 2018
felt and known
Akira Chinen Feb 2018
A silent conversation where everything is felt and known
in the soft quite space between our eyes
and nothing but slow rhythmic breath passes from our lips
and we don't have to force a smile
and just enjoy the silence wrapped around us
and the noise of nothing tying us together
in a locked gaze free to be ourselves
without the judgment of sound
and happy enough with being bored of being
and still brave enough to poke around
and dare to be a little more than just be
and finding a connection in knowing
together we are still alone
but there is no need of feeling lonely
because all we ever wanted was someone
that understands they don't have to understand
every little thing that isn't said
because there is often a deeper story in the pauses
between each sound and syllable
and each sigh and moan
and sometimes it is better to just lay there
in the comfort found outside the reach of our skin
and listen to the meaning of why
our hearts are beating beneath our bones
in the silent conversation
where everything is felt and known
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