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Calli Kirra Jan 2023
We are most alive when we cannot see clearly and the next step could **** us
But to get home we have one less than two options
Again and again
You’re the heavy rain and the thick, ****** wine
And I’m driving and I need glasses badly
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
My favorite song after my favorite song
Each line, yeah we sang along
Me and M
At a show for my favorite band
The band that played while I wailed
And smoked
And snorted and choked
And broke down on the floor
And sang and wrote
And ran around, jumped up and down
Screamed and laughed, they were the background sound
And his eyes were so familiar again
And on my waist, his strong biker hand
And standing there with everything I wanted,
I missed you

I can't hear **** and I love it
Calli Kirra Nov 2021
I’ll move my feet and hands
One by one and side by side
Churn, flow
To make the lights flicker
The wheels go
A waterproof bag of pieces
Dragged through frames of time
Not yet in the room, and not leaving
Faithless lightyear eyes
Sleeping between plaster and wall
Leaking a sticky, red hunting trail
Through moments
From now,
They will only be moments
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
I need a light,
I need a sign
I feel you ripping through my chest with a white hot knife
I fall on the rocks and feel the grind
You've let me down for the lucky thirteenth time
Tell me why,
And I'll tell you lies
Like our sky is blue and my hummingbird
flies
My chest is on fire
And my skin is too tight
I see a fault line in your amber eyes
Holding my wrists,
Should've been our night
Tell me why,
And baby I'll lie

I'll rip her to shreds,
For what you both did
I need to make marks so it won't happen again
Something that says I have the upper hand
Violent red fingerprints around two necks
It's either up in flames, or be a man
You better mean it when you reach for my ****** hands
That held my heart so I could sleep again
That locked in your hair on a dark blue bed
Who's knuckles you kissed when you asked me to dance
I swear to god if I hear that name again
The windows will rattle
The beams will bend
The clocks will fly from two to ten
How could you crush me after all that we said
I meant every word and every second I spent
Watching your mouth, curled into your chest,
Tracing the muscles on the back of your neck
Fighting myself to make sure we would last
You say what you mean
But don't mean what you said
You're an iron brand and I'm solid ice in your hands
Melt me down and freeze me again
Leave me then
Just leave me then
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
**** boy in the courthouse
Dark jeans, button down
Green eyes scannin round
Talking like a king now
And they don't know ****,
But here you are again
Cause you saw your boy Blake
Elmwood beat the **** outta him
So now you gotta deal, cause you saw it all happen
Battle after battle, baby you're the baddest
So **** are your veins when you're at your maddest
Sad boy, dab boy
I'm your glass doll toy
Keep bein a mystery,
I love this part of the story
Calli Kirra Jun 2014
Every once in a blue moon,
I'll try you
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
WE BOTH KNOW BETTER
THAN TO BE ALONE TOGETHER
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
Who knew
Loverboy can dance
*****
So wrong
We'll never be right
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
In silk,
Eyes to the mirror and floor
Hair, swish against all the black,
Sighing for strong arms with wings on the back
The pretty lace, petal place
All glass and dimly lit
In the plush we sit
In the curtains we kiss
Dreams of skin on skin,
Is this as good as pretty gets?
A hundred looks and a cha-ching fist?
Here goes the dress
Always more hope in a dress
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
A failed math test
Meaning no but saying yes
The folded part on a fruit roll up
You're my smoke, but I've given up
A coffee grinder
Bathtub spider
It smells like donuts at four a.m.

One loves his bike, the other has a car
Neither one gets very far
I hope it feels nice wherever he is
Because today was the first day we really had wind
Meet me in the alley right before three
My favorite boy still won't party with me
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
Two blue eyes
Hot fire sign
All the songs bring you to mind
Now, tonight
You got mad at me for the first time
Because there wasn't enough
Time
I promise you Saturday
You can have the whole night
But promise me your lap
To fall into
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
It is not our time
It was nice while it lasted
In these two weeks
There was good and bad
Nice things said
Things said to best friends
When we were mad and high
Tweets posted and then taken down
When all was resolved
But I see that it's not my time to belong to someone
Or for someone to belong to me
We will float on
And you are still a king
Calli Kirra Sep 2016
Is it the truth that I just don't care?
If not, then at least I've learned
To let sleeping dogs lie where they fall
At least I know what I'll see and I don't indulge
I keep the wolves locked up and my chainsaw off
Of course he knew me after my worst,
Just his luck to escape the curse
Of broken windows
In the middle of the night
Waking up to a red torch light
You know I've got a tongue like a knife,
Tell me dear,
Is that your life or red wine?
Oh, the things I'd love to do to those arrogant eyes
But no, I've learned
You didn't mean much,
And it's not my turn
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
Cops came three nights ago
I was being...... bad
Haha, so bad
Tried to leave, and momma hit me
So I layed on my bed
Turned on Degrassi
Feelin so much like Darcy
And she's crying into the phone
"She's out of control!"
And Officer whatever the ****
Came in my room
"Miss, this is enough"
Haha, you're dumb
It's never enough
Ill never have enough
"Have you seen this show? It's really good"
"Your mom says you've lost it. Have you gone crazy?"
"Mm, I think so."
Calli Kirra Jun 2016
My eyes, they wander like a monarch in summer
And I guess I do understand
But the lovergirl in me,
Wishes faithfully,
To do right by your shaking hands

I tried to say aloud,
I love you and I'm proud,
I suppose skin-to-skin it's true
But when I'm out and all alone,
I'm looking for the best,
When all I should see is you

And I know what they say,
You feel it when it comes
Maybe I will never know
My silver heart clangs,
Fighting with my brain
On whether I should stay or go
I didn't want to write about him this way
Calli Kirra Mar 2014
These bees
And this ink machine
Rumbling,
And the rattle never comes
But I wait for it
Come cut the gray screen from me,
The prettiest scissors I've ever seen
But oh, the bees
They, yes, rumble me
"You're okay,"
I hope today's the day
But my LA is full of rain
And so is its gold girl,
It's scene
It's party queen
Calli Kirra Jul 2020
I cut into our tie,
So thin and wire fine,
But thick and heavy as an iron rope
Frozen,
And expertly sewn together
Reinforced and broken one too many times
The scar tissue,
Now ruining my life
Preventing the truth of your heart,
And the freedom of mine
I slip in my sweat,
Each and every night
Going at the tether again
With a dull and desperate knife
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
A beauty born in May
With eyes like September
Her smile's like June
Hair like November
Talks like August
Dances like April
Skin like March
Mind like December
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
Calli the feeler,
And she does it best
Carmen is glitter in a blackout dress
Calli the artist,
Stuck wild in love
Carmen, the girl in all the rock songs
Calli the painter,
Writing on walls
Laughs in the mirror and the bathroom stall
Carmen the switchblade,
Sweet in satin and glass
In the darkest corner doin somethin bad
Calli the lover
Carmen doesn't care
Both on the phone in their underwear
Calli in purple
And rings on her toes
Amber eyes in the window and momma's model robe
Carmen the kisser who gets the deed done
I am them, we are one
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
"Love is kind, love is patient"
I read that at Moms wedding
On the beach
A cold California day
And it seemed so out of place
For it to be raining at the beach
But it was the day of homecoming
And I cried and said it shouldve been
In a church
With a white dress
And family
And a pastor
But I don't even believe in god
So what sense does that make
None
Just like my red mini dress
And the dance floor lights
That made my glitter heels blush and giggle
And the way they called my name
"Calli!"
Yep, just like the state
Calli Kirra Nov 2014
He had blue and orange eyes that were black when he's high
And sweet peach lips that turned white
Soft red hands,
That turned gray from the ash
Toes that were purple in the light
A trembling heart,
That glowed green in the dark,
And yellow all under his nails
Slapped-pink cheeks,
A couple golden back teeth
The same shade of black from before in his hair
Calli Kirra Nov 2022
I know what I did, I know what I did, IknowwhatIdid,
But you haven’t done enough to make me concede again and you never really have
So maybe I’ll beg
You know the more I try to love it,
The sicker it gets
Take my mouth away from me,
I don’t know how to use it
At least for how it’s intended
When I use it to scrape your soul from its shell like a cold-water clam
I’m the captain
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
Angry is sad
When the drinks are strong n bad
You can't do this again
You can't baby, again
Not with her
Spare my wild soul
Calli Kirra Jun 2018
Drinking gin in the park
You look at me
And you’re every single stop, long pause, start
You’re everything that sets a jump in my heart
Everything I want to breathe in
You are mid August
On the backs of my legs
The smell on my hair,
It gives away that I’ve been
Curled into your chest,
My face in your neck,
Pleading for you to stay
Praying to a righteous God
That for us,
It’s just another Thursday
Another fragmented love letter.
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
Open the door before it pours
I don't even know you anymore
There are different shades of green
You've gone through them all
A kiss goodbye, not tonight
Turn the radio up
Don't wanna hear your noise
I can't remember what about this song
I ever liked
I can't remember what about this high
I ever liked
Calli Kirra Jun 2014
Ten for a ticket, come and see
Or you could bring drinks for three
"Sorry babe, I'm just busy"
Busy with sisters and powder
Taking my time calling back about later
Put my Carmen face on,
Gotta get what I came for
No time to think it through
I did what I had to do
Calli Kirra Dec 2016
I've never been inclined to tell a bad lie,
But you may have got me beat
You cut wool for my eyes,
Spun me thirteen times
Left me off balance like a newborn sheep
A few things I caught,
When you sweat, I could tell
'Cause I can spin a strong web
On any old shelf
But my love I confess,
My mind tricks me again
For my lies work best on myself
Calli Kirra Sep 2013
My hair feels like spiders
Do you ever bite her?
I walked in,
You walked out
Feel it now?
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
And oh I ache, like a creaking door, like a rusty faucet pipe. I can hear all the blood running it's errands in the sides of my head, it's this bathroom, this ******* bathroom. I feel like the turning handle on a mall gumball machine, no, then I feel like the ******* gumball, and I fall to the little black crevice with door, and you roll me out and pop me into your mouth, chewing hard and your spit is turning blue and I'm getting softer and softer in your lips. A caged Ocelot, and all I have to look to for a golden tomorrow is the poster of all the colorful wildlife, advertising this sickness. This pinging on a metal ceiling. This brownness. But my posters are of a different pair of devastating blue eyes that I know are evil too, but I pacify myself with the thought that they are so light because they are pure and clear, not because they are cold and hard. I started crying in my sleep. And I wake up with the streetlight shining through the window from that ***** alley that I love, and my face is so wet and so pink, and I say it's better that I cry unknowingly than consciously. I beg and toss for migration and distraction, chaos, oh baby where did you go? You can't leave me here with loose pieces of skin and a sick heart. You can't pick off the bottles on the ledge one by one with a rubber band and some pebbles and leave me with nothing. All I've got left are some nail polish bottles, some concert tickets, a few empty backseats. Things are either so incredible and hopeful or so *****, filthy, like gas stations, like the inside of ovens, and my fingers are becoming calloused. I'm floating like a cherry in a ***** shirley. Oh come, with your fingers in my hair, and kiss me.
Calli Kirra Sep 2013
Red sucker on the move
Down the street, me and you
I would let you take me out, but ill be at the beach
Gettin so gone with the girls on my street
That flannel you love and bought from ten deep
It's next to my bed it belongs to me
Smells like fire so sick with desire
Won't you come and manhandle me?
**** that guitar, boy be a drummer
Your chords feel good but sticks hit it harder
I've always loved the bass more than the melody
Didn't I tell you to party with me?
Calli Kirra Jun 2022
Cicadas are eating my roses again
I wonder how I ever caught and killed any,
Much less a hoard of seemingly hundreds of thousands
Buzzing, electrocuting my insides, there is so much coal in my stomach now
Face too wet to start a fire
Or do anything possibly useful

Still, these bugs punch holes in my flowers
They have blonde hair
And blue eyes
Calli Kirra Sep 2013
City lights, city lights
Blink your bulbs, kiss me goodnight
You're my only hope when the moon comes out
Line the highway, show me the town
Pick me up, spin my skirt around
The Sunset Strip is scary, but it knows me
Blinking honking flashing shouting
Ever since I was a little baby
Rocked in the arms of the LA traffic
Mulholland Drive, my crib electric
**** your god, I got neon signs
And they look me in my giant pupils
"Cali girl, it's alright"
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
Guitar boy, I love what I see
Use those fingers,
Use those shoulders
Use those eyes on me
It's sticky and thick
Lollipops melted off their sticks
But the taste is so so sweet
Use me, play me
Like your 97 Clark
You won't come down from the high you'll get
Well, we can't all be good
Calli Kirra Dec 2014
I'll fall for you like running in the dark
Fall into your quivering heart
Your crystal eyes, and they'll cling to mine
Like Cambria clouds tumble into the night
And the chords you play will clutch to me,
Pull us ever closer, like the fog and streets
Any white room turns green from you,
I would do anything you wanted me to
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
No windows, no doors
She's passed out on the floor
Black nails, red toes
Sick from drinking the night before
And the room is on fire
As she's fixing her hair
He doesn't care
Kisses and blisters
Do you even miss her?
Another cut, another scrape
It all bleeds the same
Shut up when I turn the radio up
Just wait till December when your hair is longer
And aches turn to rain
It'll all wash away
Calli Kirra Nov 2021
England dreams in bruises of sunsets,
Hydrated, ******
Running pomegranate and blue-black
I don’t remember the first time I chose this kind of cold
Maybe these icy feet
I’ve only just grown into
Calli Kirra May 2013
I wanna look dark
Like mascara shadows under you eyes
After Friday night
And I want to wear night colors
And a sinister knowing smirk on my face
And the guys will be like
"**** I wonder"
"She looks poisonous"
And maybe I will be
And I wanna light the bowl
And flutter my eyes while I do it
And I'll look so jaded when I laugh
Black shorts dark top dark shoes
Dark room for dark me and you
I wanna have purple nails
And a nose ring!
Haha
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
I want to be delicate
Like sewing needles
On stilts
Held together
By baby pink yarn
I want my clothes
To graze my bones
Like a new couple holding hands
At the end of freshman year
I want my shoes to look big
On my bamboo ankles
Hollow like a flute
Pretty and silver
Clinking and plinking along
My footsteps will leave glitter in their wake
Calli Kirra May 2019
You,
Like a rose garden in July
Being fed and nurtured by the Sun
All sights and sounds of things grown pure
And of the divine
Not crashing and breaking like waves
But softly swaying and holding a reflection
You are a lake with every color dancing on the surface
Natural, and occurring no matter what
Like the seasons
Calli Kirra Sep 2013
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Calli Kirra Mar 2021
I see how you treat her brown eyes so well,
The most delicate touch
Among the softest air
For if it cannot be mine,
There is nobody I’d rather see protected
And glowing under your sweeping gaze
The most radiant flower,
Shining under a misty rain
She is lucky and I see it most clear,
Your pure sentiments I hear
And when she needs you very most,
You endure a mile backwards
To walk her home
Calli Kirra Nov 2015
Save me with your safety
We both know
Maybe I'm wrong,
And I'll find out late,
Maybe the silence is kind of okay
I second guess, but I feel it in my bones
And I need you like cars need stop and go
Like a light in the sky,
Blue and unknown
That's the air between us
Just as long as you call,
It's cool
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
Drive me off a cliff
Drive me crazy
"Forever and ever"
LA apartments made me
Make me laugh
Make me cry
And when the news goes around,
You'll ask yourself why
Tell me a story
Tell me a lie
It's what you're best at,
And I always catch em
But for a minute I believe
Every ******* time

"What happened to you guys after the party last night?"
"Oh, sorry James, we just had to deal with some....business"
Calli Kirra Feb 2016
Please let me lay here just melting down,
From a love that's locked
And another lost
I push the train onto its tracks again,
And each time,
It cuts up my nine lives
So powder fine,
It expands as one behind the door of my eyes
I'm getting headaches from all the face time
From every lie
From every sorry,
Until next time
Calli Kirra Feb 2023
There are many things to be said,
A tiny bird in a square patch of light
You locked the door but forgot to close it
So it flutters at every banging crash in the frame
Wind will be a guest always, coming in to the city
We have historically excused ourselves and shouted, projecting, over it’s head during dinner

Maybe one day you will hold me close in bed, in the after-dark,
Whispering, and my laugh fogs up your chest

We listen while it rummages for a snack in the drawer
Calli Kirra Feb 2014
I wish your black wings would speak to me
Sunscreen, we scream, for ice cream
Unclean with chlorine
Sublime, why did he have to die?
And Amy, oh why, I could never sigh
Enough
On a scale of broke to come-up,
"How much can we get?"
Enough to make a day of it
Calli Kirra Sep 2015
Maybe crazy, never stupid
We might think twice,
But we'd never do it
And like daisies to the sun, we grow
Calli Kirra May 2021
South state animal
You were hiding in my backyard
For the moment I was starving and needed sharp teeth
To catch me something living and breathing
To eat
You pointed my gaze to the strength of the natural moon  
I found that intuition was enough

Suddenly I remembered I could hunt
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
The message I expected
That message never came
A bandage for a bullet
He heard the liquor in his name
Am I in my room,
Am I ever in you?
For a second
I regret it
But we do it,
Yeah we do
Calli Kirra Oct 2014
Now he's dancing with me to Sea of Teeth
And all the milky air will love our paper cuts
Keep us wrapped up
There won't be any prickles and pins of not enough
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