CE Thompson

CE Thompson Jul 2015

every song is dripping irony
because they say how much you love me
wide as the ocean or beyond stars
deeper than caverns and brighter than the sun
but our love is small
like nervous glances, sweaty palms,
our heart is loudest, but our mouth is silent
it is nervous and tedious
creeping through us only on occasion
like mice skittering or butterflies,
landing briefly
only to see shadow and escape towards the sun
careful, careful
but don't leave this yet,
butterflies traverse the world for their desires
and they haven't broken yet

skinny love i guess

#love

CE Thompson Jun 2015

June 15th, 9:00 P.M.

little scraps of paper
strewn across the hall like its
over
but with crimson stars on musty bedsheets
we realize it has only begun.
good, better, best, work early so you aren't late,
late as in 6 feet under...
just push it all away with high scores and hard work.
who cares about your bleeding heart
or those odd marks you can't see from far away.
youre a star! stars don't take breaks,
they burn forever,
and then implode.
silently.
beautifuly tragic.
"what a way to go!" the sticker says.
one hundred percent.

Ugh.

#space #star #school #work #pressure

CE Thompson May 2015

impact

the sudden collision creates a storm within her,
thunder rolls in her ears
lightning explodes in her eyes
and the electricity goes shooting through her veins
and she's feeling lightyears away
as it travels from her temple to her arms to her toes to her knees
to her lungs
to her heart, it beats ecstatically
jumping for joy in the rain
feeling it wash down its skin
feeling it enter every artery
feeling it muddy and dissolve
feeling it degrade and destroy but
feeling
feeling
feeling!

the storm cannot be contained much longer
the rain pours softly from her eyes
as the thunder rumbles in the back of her scratched throat

#help

CE Thompson Mar 2015

Sirène

Si le sable tombait de sous mes pieds
comme j'etais courait vers tes bras,
je voudrais nage à travers la vaste mer
vagues me tirant vers le bas en l'obscurité.
j'etais dehors de toi
et pour tu, je chanterais
jusqu'à ce que ma gorge ne plus pourrait parler
et ma voix deviendrait le vent lamentations.

i am currently learning french. i apologize if this is terrible french, i'm trying really i am. i just thought poetry in another language would be really cool

#water #french #la #mermaid #mer #francais #sirene

CE Thompson Mar 2015

7:00

drearily she rises from the sunken sheets,
shaking dreams from her head, each sound of the alarm
shooting down fantasies, one by one, into reality.
time has never been crueler than when it exists in darkness,
because the dark provides time to feel.
but though the sun shines bright, the illusions remain
his drunken eyes, his tousled hair, his skin, soft as rabbit's fur.
but it all feels much more dangerous when the night invades the morning.
but it all feel much more real when the night invades the morning

#love

CE Thompson Mar 2015

your eyes are a sea

deep and unexplored, endless and full of life
birthed from within we broke the surface, gasping in amazement
and there we return in awestruck wonder

his eyes were emerald, and her eyes were sapphire
but your eyes are a sea

heart beating fast, enamored with the thunderous crash of the storm
heart beating slow, content with the light at the brilliant sunset
home again on the sturdy rocks, home again on the shifting sands

his eyes were shining, and her eyes were bright
but your eyes are a sea

creator of myth and legend, vast and eternal it stands
building a map to the ends of the earth where silence sleeps
beyond the flight of the birds and the reach of the sun's arms

his eyes were rich, and her eyes were rare
but your eyes are a sea

cold and unforgiving the earth remains
rubies and pearls measure wealth and gains
but when they are gone the waves shall reign
your eyes are a sea

CE Thompson Feb 2015

how you see me

someday she'll be a lawyer
she'll be a doctor
she'll be a revolutionary
someday she'll give love to the poor and nurse the ill
she'll protect the oppressed
she'll tell them what they always knew -
they are strong
someday she'll fly across the sea
she'll use seafoam in her hair
she'll let sunlight kiss her skin
someday she'll move mountains with monologues
she'll write a sonata
she'll recite the words of God
someday she'll become the words of God
she'll bring stars down from the heavens
she'll wrap herself in this great expanse of universe
someday she'll bring that universe to earth
she'll do it for us
she'll do it for her

but someday

she will still
be
alone

#lonely