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Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
I am open now
The panic ran all around me
But I still remained calm
With the thought of a hint
That I should have questioned sooner

There are too many things to blurt out
In hopes of making you smile

In stripes of golden feathers
I must not let the black ones in
Their legs shaking me off
Every which way and that
****** me off
Snuffed me out

I pulled away from you
Just to see what you could do
Alone in the same way that
You put me there
With all the love still fresh off the bone

Bring all of my fans and their bottles
You will need my blood remember?

You shouldn't have asked
With the last few remaining breaths
That lay curdled up on my chest
The greatest fear had left me
I am closed now
Over.
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
I would rather eat every grain of sand
Off of every white sand - black sand beach
For a thousand - two thousand lifetimes
Than be anywhere near you or them
and to attempt and cough out every reason
Why I must do this and leave again.

There is not enough fire
On this God forsaken earth
That could come close to that
Inside of my heart and
My eyes will never close
Or come close to your mouth
As long as there is water
In the salty seas and as long as
That blackwater flows
Through the old oak trees. . .

I will never be inside of you again.

There won't ever be an end
As long as you keep adding more
And more pieces to the conclusion.

The story is over,
It's time to go to sleep.
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
The video girl slurs her words
Her ears tame the cages around and
The earth has slowed down too
Into a drooling mad magnetic
Circle of reference and reserves
But somehow suddenly a line was drawn
In the sand, it says cheetah
But the shotgun says “leave her”

I need to leave this chair here and
Put a little letter in its sleeve to
Let the next soul search through the leaves
For the caterpillar that has begun to change
Her small eyes  from blue to black
And I’m not going to go back home
Ever again as long as the tomb
Is sealed and the cocoon has healed or
Seen for sure the honey that drips slowly
Off of and on the off and on pretty lights

The pain and shame of saying the same thing
Is the same thing that you just said after I said
The exact same thing to you

How absurd you can be in the library or
In the North woods when you’re down
There by yourself, by yourself
It is almost certain that she’ll never be seen
By those with green eyes or the black eyes
That have been given away again by wicked time

“Stop repeating yourself!’
“They are ******* tired of hearing your *******.”

******* foolish Taurus tearing out the loving souls
Of those poor mortal men and all of the others that try and
Get close to him

So little girl with the violent eyes, take the time
To breathe the fire out from your lungs
Sit still and listen closely to these words
That seem to drip ever so slowly off of my tongue

This is just too new to know exactly when the two new hearts will let love grow.
But you already knew that. . .
Didn't you two new three?
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
The strangeness arises. . .

I feel your young hand creep up
My old spine, as it crumbles
Apart into four pieces
Knives turn into forks
Like lives burnt into the north star
The big dipper pulls out
And back and forth
Into our only sight and you say

"The sky swims away with the day
and the clouds will all drift away. . ."

Soon enough they will,
When we meet again on those ****** city
streets. . .

Can you believe it?
As a star is made to rule them all!
Collisions make memories
Into classes I'll fail. . .

I'll fall down around you,
Like the comets do
And I will most certainly see it
Happen and I'll just happen to be
downtown where you are not
With me. . .

Alone
           &
Alive for sure!

Until we collide on the shore
I'll be waiting for. . .
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
This morning,*

I confused a moving car
For a running fox squirrel
This is a problem to me. . .
This ****** city is bleeding its
***** blood over my eyes and its
Making me anxious to take that first step up
Up the rain soaked stairs to that quiet home
Upstairs on the dead floor

Not another living soul but me

In this clearing mo(u)rning
The trees still cry out
From over a thousand acres of land
“God’s good earth is leaving!”
I am leaving then!

I’ve said it before*

I’ll push the start early
Just to see it end and crash
Before I can ever get out alive

Watch me bleed over this
This abandoned concrete wall
All over these hollow ******* halls
These imposing empty skyscrapers that pierce
Her skies and my eyes still see you

I will call you out
This will be my final move
Never again will I be back
I will never return to you

The ferocity of my wrath on this feral city
Will start again after the next one hundred days.
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
I will never cease to
   be released to
      the underworld
         above your cloud
In your ****** hair
   the sand says to
      stay slightly shady
        and wave quietly to
           the ghosts on shore
Friends and demons
   Crash on the collapsed dunes
      I'll wait for you
         To marry the sky
            In the silence of the wind
Lady of the night
    Stray the sunshine away
        Glass shards in my red eyes
            Cans of old beer are there
               Still in the grass
I'll be sitting in the memory
    Of the sun from yesterday
        Today's little smile in the night
            Your precious hands carry me there
I wonder why I never tried
   Harder and harder our stone got
        While it was drenched in the rain
            As the trees fell down
               My two palms were set ablaze
We sent up a smoke signal
    To the God(s) in heaven or the hell
        In your life, seven lives, two lines

The otherside will show us a certain door
Where the people all live equally and infinitely
Take me there.
Andrew McElroy Apr 2013
I hurt
          to be
                                                                                   seen                 by



                       Someone
                                        
                                                     other than

                                           the     other
                                                                                                                                Someone
          that                                  I
                                                      must
                                                               hurt
                                                                                                          to       see.
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