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cass Nov 2016
Leave a canvas for me
dear love
to paint
Your paint coated fingers will caress my cheek
And I will cover you in
cangiante strokes of yellow and red
I will fill every part of it
with the story us
cass May 2017
The colors on his canvas were as bright as his mind. He had paint on his shirt front and bed head. He was adorable in the way he rolled his Rs and the way he'd stick his tounge to the top of his mouth after a bowl of ice cream. He was and is perfection.
cass Dec 2015
I've got holes in my shoes, but I've got no holes in this soul of mine
I may not have any money but I make up for it in plenty of personality and poise.
cass Dec 2017
You have exactness in your silence
A mouth full of words lay too heavy on your toungue
We wait in existence for the artist in our minds to create something wonderful

But all that comes out is heavy silence.
cass Jun 2016
She fell in love with a dream of someone
He fell in the love with blond curls and curves
A touch of skin and sight of brallete made him feel human
He was cool to the touch while she was warm
The poetry they made silenced all his bad dreams, but awakened hers
A poem originally written for a friend, but became my own.
cass Aug 2017
The way your smile bends
That's poetry
Lazy circles of half asleep fingers
A hazy look
That's poetry
cass Jan 2021
Maybe we met in a past life
The only way I could feel this way
Our souls had to be intwined for what feels like eons
Twisting and kissing you and me
And I’m convinced
Whether my face was this or another’s
You would find me again
And again
Poetry falls out of me when thinking of you
cass Mar 2017
Remember when we were kids, and our future careers weren't limited to the two page career option list?
I remember.
We were unlimited potential then.
You and I were just phrases on a chalk board.
But.....
for some reason the dream died.
We got old.
We forgot.
But I,
I still remember.
I'm holding on.
I will not loose the child in me again.
She is unlimited potential.
I will keep her close.
cass Jul 2016
In a world full of bipolar emotions I want to be polarized toward happiness
cass Mar 2017
Maybe that's why you forgot me before I left.
cass Jul 2016
I am never closer to my self,
my soul
than when trial is at my back
for she has taught me to find humor
in the darkest of times
cass Oct 2017
the beauty that is more than skin deep
is the beauty of her ocean eyes
that swell and sway
and open to raw divine innateness .
Beauty is in her gentle steady hand and in her open smile.
in the depths of her buoyed soul
so full it leaks from the cracks in her rib cage
onto the pages of her skin
leaving every bit of her heart on her sleeve on purpose.
feminine and imperfect
pink and smudged  
open and raw
beauty is more than skin
take a look within yourself
look at your mother
your cousin
she is loveliness
exterior beauty is bliss,
but a kind soul is wonderful
cass Nov 2016
I want you to grow your hair out. The halo of tiny curls that have begun to tangle and coil around your ears make it impossible for my mind to focus on anything but running my fingers through them.
cass Mar 2017
Every bit of me sings of freedom
From the soles in my feet
To the hairs on my head
I wanna run
I wanna fly
I wanna be weightless
Oh how these strings tie me down
Let me go
Let me soar
cass Feb 2017
If there was something that would tell me how to open my mouth and make you tremble, I would speak and maybe you would listen. For some reason a bucket full of wonderful thoghts gets stopped up in my brain and all that comes out is sorry. I am full of beautiful things, but all that is pulled from me when your around is how you make me feel like I'm the one who messed up.
Fathers forgetting to fufill their jobs
cass Jul 2016
Flowers and skinny jeans, and pretty little girl things are what remind me of you
Tiny smiles and docile eyes that are kind of things which remind me of you
Cheeky jokes and happy blood rushing body rumbling laughs are easy to find with you
For you are kind and wonderful, and poweful. You are my very best friend
cass Jul 2017
Weird things that remind me of you
Beef jerky
Long drives on highways
Clamchowder
Guitar strings
And all at once
I'm enveloped with you
Every time
The smell of you
The way you laugh
Every time
And I smile because I know you will always be there, but its ok because I know I will always be there too.
cass Jul 2018
In the nights when the stars come
And heat from the sun is almost gone
You and I go for a walk
The world around us falls fast asleep
But we are content
in eachothers company
The moon high above seems to whisper
kiss her kiss her
And so you do
cass Jun 2017
I just wanted to say that everything's ok.
It gets better.
One step at a time,
one day at a time it gets better. Smiles last longer.
Relief comes.
It's worth it,
hold on.
Don't give up.
The sun rises.
You can try again.
cass Jun 2016
To tell you the truth
I only really cared about you
after you left
cass Jun 2016
I'm sorry
for promising things I could never give
for not staying up with you
for not making you happy
for forgetting
for not being her
for being human
cass Jun 2016
It's not your head that's hollow, it's your chest
cass Jul 2016
Here I lay down my cross
My sins at your feet
You cast them aside and hold me
cass Oct 2016
Memories of our first date still
reside in my coat pocket.
Tiny stars on my *******
remind me of how I waited
for someone to make me feel
like the sky was made so that we could lay together
and name stars after each other.
I'll always think of your laugh
and how somehow you get it into your mind
that I've done something cute
and it makes me kind of incredibly happy
in a silly giddy, seeing stars, get dizzy, smile stretching way
kissing my hands my head and fingers
you make me feel so comfortable being myself
in the little while I have seen your kind face
I have felt the most happy and the most wanted
cass Oct 2017
It's in the shake of my hands
In the tangle of fingers
It's the smudged mascara under my eyes
It's there
cass Aug 2017
She wasnt the girl who you fell in love with, she was the girl you never had to fall in love with, she was just there one day, and there she stayed.  To you she looked a little different, laughed a little different, smiled a little diffrent, but for some reason you liked the way she danced to John Mayer at 4 pm in the living room. You loved that she was diffrent. You loved that the stars above her bed were the only thing that could soothe her. Sock sliding across her linoleum floor was your favorite sport to play. You Could survive without her, but you didn't want too.
cass Nov 2017
I need to become what I need
so I quit looking for it in the arms of the wrong men
cass Jul 2017
The faces of all those who have touched me in some way,
flicker being me like ghosts.
"Fate."
I say.
Is what keeps them here.
"Will we meet again?"
Oh, I hope so.
I hope so.
cass Mar 2017
So I will write like I promised you. I will let every memory run on the page leaving inky memories
of us
of me
of someone new.
cass Jun 2017
Entire heavens are cheering me on, please don't tell me I can't.
cass Jun 2017
There's something about driving at night,
the way the pavment glows
with florescent light,
the seats behind you
quiet with sleeping bodies.
The soft hum of tire to road.
The moon following you
like a hopeless romantic,
there's something about driving at night
cass Aug 2017
It isn't easy
to become something new
It isn't easy
Just like new babe's we have to discover something new about the world and ourselves.
cass Dec 2017
I wanna be the thoughts in your head.
Is that selfish?
cass Oct 2017
Late at night I have theses thoughts
I dream of you and your tan sheets
When the anxiety and dizzieness leave
I drown in you
My heart is in my stomach
How am I to move it?
cass Jan 2017
The years you wear settle easily on your face, but wrinkle your soul
cass Nov 2017
For some reason the blood that
drip drip dripped
from your lips looked like honey
and the galaxy that poured from your veins looked wonderful to touch
but it took the iron taste on my lips
and the razors in my skin
too see
Love is poison best served warm
cass Apr 2017
She was filled with so much.
So much love.
So much kindness.
She kept pouring into people,
and the waterfall inside her cried.
cass Jun 2018
It seems as though I'm at a crossroads
I do not know yet which way I'll go
Each place seems foggy
Its path unknown
I wish I had the eyes
To see the others end
But for now I guess ill wait
At the crossroads
cass Apr 2017
It isn't nightmares that keep me awake now.
It's you
cass May 2017
She wanted to much,
but when was that ever wrong?
cass Apr 2017
How do you capture happiness?
Is it in cups of coffee or hot chocolate?
Is it in photos of grins spread so wide they fill the 3x5?
How do you capture love?
Is it in their smile?
Is it in their arms?
How do you capture peace?
In the moments so still the oxygen in your chest sounds like a dragon?
In the rain?
----------------------------------------------
How do I capture happiness?
In writing.
In my smile (though its been a while since I've seen it).
How do I capture love?
In books.
In the smiles of friends.
How do I capture peace?
I don't know, could you show me?
cass Jul 2019
I should have left
when you told me I was nothing
to sensitive
When you only wanted me
without my clothing
Should have known
When you twisted my words
To make me feel as if I were to blame
Gaslighting and grooming me for your own
eating my soul
Touching my skin
Making me feel so ******* alone
I hated myself every minute
But still couldn’t pull my hands away
Skin and body and bone
I was yours
I knew you were wrong
Yet still I knocked
Every time I heard your voice
Every time your hand manipulated mine
I broke like glass
Each shattered shard
embedding into my growing places
Making even breathing backbreaking
When I stopped going to classes
Stopped talking to friends
stopped eating
I should have understood
The fog lifts slowly, and when I saw the light I wept
cass Apr 2017
The contrast of space and time and light and dark will forever sting, the dark will forever carry dark foreboding things, but I never fear the dark. I brought a flashlight.
cass Feb 2017
And that's when the peace came
After the storm
All she had left to do was pick up the pieces
Rearrange them and make her heart  home again
cass Feb 2016
When the words fail to escape my lips I will brand them on my skin so that every time you look upon them you remember this body loved you.
I'm not that good at writing poems
cass Oct 2016
Memories of her were like tidal waves, you would get washed up in wonderful thoughts of her
Only to crest and fall to the shore
Once you understood you had only memories
cass Dec 2016
Mosaics, a combination of elememts forming a less coherent whole. That's what we are.
cass Sep 2017
Time is the best teacher.
So in every moment, I'm evolving, just like you.
cass Dec 2016
It only flows when she feels unkempt, unforgiving, and angry.
She knows to write her soul must be mourning.
you
cass Oct 2016
you
Scoop me up and out
leave me with nothing but the pale silhouette of touch
All I want is to speak with you
understand your mind
carry your hand inside mine
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