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 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Caytlin Rae
Empty
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Caytlin Rae
Emptiness swarms me,
Taunts me in my sleep.
Reminding that I’m alone.
Listing off the reasons.
Telling me there’s something
About me that nobody wants.
I try to decide what it is...
Maybe it’s my sarcasm.
Or the fact that I’m too short.
I’m “cute” but never “beautiful.”
Or my standards are just too high,
But are they, really?
All I want is someone who I can talk to.
Really talk to.
Have a deep conversation about everything.
Someone to trust.
Is it too much to ask?
Emptiness.
It takes me over
When my mind tricks itself
Into thinking I’m happy just how I am.
Taunting me
Until I just can’t sleep anymore.
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Redshift
diaries
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Redshift
i stare at these
pages
with my glassy
dead
eyes
no connection
no palpitation
nothing that brings my heart
back to life
almost two years
and the pain is so deep
under the surface
like the memories...
i can hardly
bid them
rise

maybe this is good
and maybe i would think it was
if i could feel something
anything
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Antelope
Her hair smelled of the sweetest fruit and fell on snow white skin
Her lips he wanted to devour, they were so soft and thin
He gazed into her eyes so blue; like deep caves of sapphire
And saw her soul so pure and true, dancing deep inside her
She gave a coy smile, his heart skipped, a beat never returned
She felt his joy envelop her, and of his love she learned.
She threw her arms around his head and laughed a seraph's song
She gazed intensely through his soul and then their loves were one.
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
ivy jubjub
halfway to infinity,
three quarters 'round the sun,
one of the many things she said to me
after she was gone
she said that's where you'll find me, love,
and breathed a slow slow smoke
halfway to infinity,
love, that's where i'll be
and with her words
her strange, strange words
she only could confuse me
and her charcoal lips would smile
as she said such strange and unreal things
yet paradoxically wrong, they sounded
or maybe halfway right.
right, i'd say, and where is that,
halfway round the sun and moon?
you'll find it someday, silly love,
but i can't tell you how.

halfway to infinity, she said,
three quarters round the sun,
i wish i knew what she meant by that
for now she's dead and gone
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Craig Verlin
Pulse
 Mar 2013 Uhh Who
Craig Verlin
Waiting for a miracle. Seems
we took the wine
and
the candle oil a little
for granted,
should
have left
us with water and
shadows, eight days in the dark
doesn't seem so
terrible
compared to this.
They say that it's cancer,
slow and steady,
they
say it's
irreparable,
that
it's
late,
much
too late,
they say not bad news
only bad luck. Nothing left but waiting for
a miracle. **** the waiting
of this world, of
this
life.
Repressed tension in
muscles burning to break free, to flail
out, to hit something
but what
good
will that
do?
Deep
breaths.
nothing left but
to wait for that bomb to fall,
that plane to crash,
for that
baseline
pulse
to
whisper
mono-
tone
in
my
ear.
No-
thing
left
but
a
miracle.

Not bad news
--they say--

only bad luck.
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