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arubybluebird Nov 2013
1.
I'm
in love
with the sound
coming out of your mouth
when you say
*I
love
you
arubybluebird Nov 2013
Is the moon dead
or is she alive
or is she, said moon, really a man
and does he have hands
and does she have teeth
and do they wonder
as they look down
what kind of star I am
if I am even a star at all
perhaps I am a meteoroid
I seem to be small enough
or perhaps I am a comet
pale, cold, and *****
constantly shying away from the sun
leftover from the beginning of time
~ ~ ~
Dear Cascabelera,
I am writing to you because
I've grown lazy in my heart
less patient in my mind
and my eyes, wide and salty as the sea,
foam with fear of depths

As you stand there, brilliant and luminous in all your ways
I lay here faithfully underneath you
as I have for the past twenty-one years
there is no greater devotion than ours, I know

Yet as I lay here, still,
underneath your gloaming
with nothing to feel
and no one to hold
but my sadness
I cannot help but wonder
are you dead
are you alive
are you here by choice
have you any tears to cry?

Cascabelera,
I want to embrace you sweetly in the early morning
lunita, lunera
I want you to lay with me in the dark
arubybluebird Oct 2013
I'm a lost beat in a generation that I don't belong in
This accent isn't my own, and nothing is really just nothing
On drunken nights I feel you, your words stumble upon my sight
And I feel, I feel... static, ecstasy, loneliness

This beauty which you claim of blossom fields and grey empyreal
It mimics my inner-manic. Estranged voice that dauntingly whispers:
don't claim to the beauty you see

Satellite heart, you're losing your signal, again
I'd build a ladder to the sky and climb every star,
past the moon and beyond, if I could.

I've tried, you know I've tried.
Although I refuse to recline,
denial itself fixates truth:
I'll never be able to fix you.

To quench your thirst, to ease your pain, keep you awake
I'd make you stay, forevermore upon your desire, you know I would.

In my mind, I'll hold your hand without interference
And if tears do in fact dry on their own,
I'll cry yours along with mine until they do.

Feverish trembling of reminisce will not exist, not here
Outside these city walls,
To a place afar from calendar days and neon glistening hours
We will dance atop telephone wires

The soles of our feet tracing back to the sound of that very first call
gliding, floating, drifting
recklessly, carelessly, quixotically - - -

And if we fall, love, imagine that imaginations fly.

It's been said, as they say, that everything, everything ends
We are not everything, however. We are merely ourselves alone
You and I, it is just you and I, dispersed, coffee of the sea
For no reason other than our own, we rage in reprise as
Metaphors among caffeinated tides.

We are not infinite, immeasurable, imperishable
Our ancient bodies have long been buried in one-an-others heart
We are our own. Constant as the silence of sound.
Ceaselessly, immersed in the slumber of our dream
*We are, we are,   w e   a r e
arubybluebird Oct 2013
there is this boy, he writes beautifully about this girl
she is his best friend and he is in love with her
and she might be, too
but love can be so strange at times
and just breathing in general, it doesn't make sense
and I am writing this while walking
and my cursive looks utterly ******
and I would take a fall and
scrape my knees in the name of poetry
and I would stand tall and
learn not to slouch my back so much
if you asked me to
but you don't, because you like the way
I walk with this sort of shy ghost over my shoulders
and you'd rather watch the way my lips move when I talk
and count the times I push up my glasses during mid sentence
and I just like the way you make me like things
and I like that you like me more than I like myself
arubybluebird Oct 2013
I just want to go to sleep
It's been a lifetime and I am restless
I often write your name repeatedly on paper (eric eric eric)
only to emphasize to myself that my longing for you is real
I remember the first time I fell in-love with you
The cuts and bruises on my skin make it difficult to forget
These words aren't coming out as sweetly as I intended
I want the vertebrae of my voice to make you feel at ease
So I'll keep quiet and let you speak
come and go, passing cars, change of season - - -
How much farther, dear?
The college-ruled lines in your eyes warn me it's too soon
Yet with so much time to waste, can I waste some time with you?
Yes, I'd love to waste it again
I'll take you afar to dimensions of unknown pleasures, if you let me
The moon itself is a possibility
10 : 11 PM
Both falling so tediously
                    upon the mattress of my mind
Sleep immune, volume mute
          Tonight, your blood flows through my veins
Tonight, the heat of sun on your soft skin
Shifts to meet my own
I **** the nectar off of your lips
You pluck the petals off of my skin
Both falling so tediously
                           upon the mattress of your bedroom
Risen light, morning furor
Today, my blood flows through your veins
Today, I've rearranged the bones in my back
To meet your own
       To love you less
                   To watch you go
                                     *Perpetual shift
arubybluebird Oct 2013
Angel, I feel sad
What a stupid thing to feel
But I do, for you.
The lonesome feeling is mutual.
I've replayed your words in my head probably more than I should
And I want to cry
What a stupid thing to want
But I do, for you.
There’s this indiscreet place within my body
That refuses to acknowledge that what you say you feel is real
Through photographs and words, I let the world know that I love him
Through photograph and words, I try convincing myself that I do
There’s a chance that these same words and photographs taint your heart
A little, just a little, it could be.
I've never acknowledged this thought until now
And the slight realization of it turns my stomach.
You are not a poem.
You are its meaning.
I’ll still be here after the parting
You’re with me until my bones decay.
arubybluebird Oct 2013
I feel as though I am drowning in a song with no sound
Faceless voices echo the anxiety reflected on my keyboard
The mirrored image in your midnight gaze is that of my own
After life, oh my god, what an awful word
You should have held my hand
You should have kissed my *******
You should have busted my lip raw and tender
Perhaps then would spill the poetry lost and forlorn inside of me
Inside of me, you want within?
Your ears pressed softly against my chest
My thighs pressed tight against your hips
Mezzo forte, pianissimo, fortissimo
....

*Do you want to step outside, or do you want it right ?
I don't know just what I feel, but I feel it all tonight .
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