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 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
I told paul that
i am convinced
everybody is conquering
the world while I am just
sitting in this town full of
old angry white people
growing smaller by the
minute. There is either a
light too bright about to
henceforth burst out or
i am just simmering down
to a low boil destined to be
only half as special as what
every boyfriend has ever
deemed me.

Paul said a lot of things about
"my own journey", terribly cliche
things about success and happiness
but one statement that struck the
right chord

Aren't you realizing the good you're doing for yourself?

Something I could understand. Yes, I realized this.
but that didn't change the fact that the good I was
doing for myself seemed so utterly boring in comparison.
(c) Brooke Otto 2013
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
Sleep Tight.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
you cannot
unknow the
warmth of a
body.
(c) Brooke Otto

I can feel it in books.
 Oct 2013 avital
Taigu Ryokan
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
I'm wondering if the surface of our passions
is all that we've been scratchin.
We take small bites like rations
and always do it the same old fashion.
But the passion of sweaty spasms
that let us play Eve and Adam
get us by but I've fathomed
that our ******* are also our chasm.
So could that make a ****** cause fallout?
And if you were in need would you call out?
or would you hide it inside you like
the sympathy I have is all out?
I'll be honest: I never saw doubt til it hit like a bus,
but then again all that lust
usually comes with some trust
It's a must.
Somehow it's lackluster from something so wanderlust.
I dunno if confidants correlate to confidences
but the way that we've been feeling
couldn't be just coincidences.
and I'm not defenseless,
I've grown thick skin with thin pretenses.
so I wish you the very best
and I'd never wish any less,
you always got a place in my chest
but this thing is better off put to rest.
so its over, I'm going forward but behind me I won't find regret,
cause I'll still be having good times but the old ones I won't forget.

Listen here. -->  https://soundcloud.com/mcvegh/a-parting-of-ways
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
Edit.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
we aren't pretty
enough without
filters, we like our
faces better with
faux overtones
people like
us better with
faux overtones
but really we
just want to
be loved
in honest
to god


daylight.
(c) Brooke Otto
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
when you see in me
the store, outside of
public servitude and
are reminded of my
humanity; my smile,
does it stir you?
(c) Brooke Otto

The person behind the counter is human.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
Glimmer.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
His smile
reached
through
my hair
(c) Brooke Otto

September 29th.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
Currents.
 Oct 2013 avital
brooke
i want you to
take photos of
of me as i shift
unexpectedly
i want to know
what I look like
when I see you.
(c) Brooke Otto

this deserves back-story. No one has ever bothered to take pictures of me while I was unaware and this makes me sad.
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