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What if I were there?
       I'd sit in the dark and hope you left. I won't tell you that you make
        me nervous.

And then what? ;)
      Please don't think I care about you.
Send me a pic.
      I know you don't care about me either.
Oh yeah baby
       Is this what we have come to call intimacy?
U know what I'd do 2 u?
      Emotionless exchanges, just for a moment of pleasure and a lifetime
        of shame.

What r u wearing?
      *I don't want this. I wanted love. This isn't love.
Beauty,
Reveal thy*
(inner)
*Beast
Faith protects the soul,
knowledge protects the mind,
and armour protects the body,
but what then, protects the heart?
~    
        All the poems I write
     are
just the beginning
                              and end
               of every thought
   I've ever had about you.
Sunday morning,
the air froze, the dahlias
once bloomed angry,
now they shiver and sigh.

Autumn breeze, faint but still,
the padded ghost-steps
of your laugh, running wild,
like vintage photographs;
scattered Polaroids of
my memory - a smile here,
a grimace there.

How the heat of
emotions buries itself
in the clothes of yesterday,
How difficult it is to
fetch from the seams.
The needles only *****
at a faint feeling.

I wonder; do you forget me
as winter forgets the living?

Because once an old man
told me I had sad eyes

Sunsets melt to chalky lines,
like cigarette stubs, they died
when you met her.

These days only my fingers
remember summer,
I touch the hearts of others
to warm them too.

My voice wind chimes,
the eulogy of the storm,
when I breath your
name I shudder...

And listen-
because I am in
the echoes
of her, of us.
© copyright
  Mar 2016 Bellinah Mammosi Zwane
emily
before

i used to think
i couldn't get addicted to anything
but when i see you smile
before you kiss me
i found myself awake at 3 AM the next morning
craving nothing but you
and that moment

after

like waves in the ocean
you crashed against my shore
only to recede away

now i'm stuck
on this miserable beach
waiting for your wave
to come crashing again
before was written before he left,
after was written 6 months later
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