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I may have an inch or two
except if we count when we were two.
Maybe even eight,
but those two didn't date.

But we're them or maybe they're us.
Either way they didn't fuss.

So sometimes they might say hello, because they still reside down low,
but they never knew this love, and one day they will grow, them two
And I'll still have an inch or two.
 Nov 2013 Chris Rodgers
Morgan
brace laced teeth
and an operation ivy t-shirt
converse dressed feet
and a scared look on
his pale face
all alone
tracing street lamps
with his fingertips
all the way from
philly to scranton
he's sketching tattoos
he swears he's gonna
get some day
when things are finally
going his way
and i don't have the heart
to say that most things
stay the same
he reminds me
of everything
i was and all the
things that made me
cry, when i was fourteen
and already a nervous wreck
i said "hey kid you like OP IV?"
and he smiled so wide
i thought the metal in his
mouth was gonna pierce his cheeks
oh i just
hope he doesn't
end up an anxious mess
like all my ***** friends and i
Forgetting fortes
within this conglomerate;
fortified crumble
Waking up in mid morning.
Waiting for your beautiful words to cross my brain waves.
Wondering when I might be graced by your heart racing presents.
As the day goes by I think of you and smile.
I give my dearest to you.
I wait and watch the world pass me by and I wonder are you another passer by,
the man in the mask,
a looker,
a watcher
as well I surely don't know.
Nothing seems to matter in our world everything just floats around as we embrace.
At night I wonder if we'll spend nights together in the future.
Will you be my past and present
I won't ask for future I'll leave that with you.
I feel as if all my little corks and silly fears will never bother you
as if I could be perfect.
Beautiful to you plain to others.
I can wait forever to spend open time with you as long as it takes.
I'll sit on your corner. I always imagine my future not with others in it until you.
I could never hate you.
Love is all I have.
I stay awake dreaming of us.

Waking up in mid morning.
 Jul 2013 Chris Rodgers
flynt
I've made you happy
And I've made you sad
But I don't know which one
To be sorry for.

you wrote your feelings all over me with a blue pen
and i remember all of it



*sorry about everything
Over the ebbing tide of noise
Falls the hush from the sky,
A crimson farewell to the day
Paints a melancholy in the air,
One last flutter the wings come to rest
Waiting for starlight to warm the nest…
Looking back, so hollow the bygone times ring,
As quietly sets in another evening.
 Jul 2013 Chris Rodgers
Julia
Impact
 Jul 2013 Chris Rodgers
Julia
Do you ever think about
what it would be like
if you had died that night?

With bitter words,
I do.

Have you ever thought of
the one less name called
at graduation?

Of all the empty
chairs?

An empty bed,
a disconnected phone number,
a fresh memory,
one less prom ticket,
one less twin,
one more grave.
In my own handwriting.
http://i.imgur.com/6x73lE5.jpg
 Jul 2013 Chris Rodgers
Ting-Jun
Lies will not soothe
a healing or broken mind.
Not now, not ever.
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