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Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
Standing in between two bodies. One is the same and the other I'm not too impressed with. What gives me this lump in my throat is knowing that I may never see either of these two again if I don't choose. I hold each individually. A warm tear rolls down my cheek onto the boy that lay in my arms dying. His red and black jacket that hid his worst fears. His torn jeans I couldn't ever find the time to sew for him. Never finding time to listen to his stupid insecurities.  His breath slowly reaching the point of no more, The feeling of holding back what I need to say to him burns almost as bad as the heart break he faced the day he was left alone.
I hold him close. If only I could have explained to him how stupid he was being. I sat there, I could hear the footsteps. I can feel Myself begin to walk away. And so he lay bloodied and bruised. Alive, but very much dead. I turn to Myself who is already halfway out the door? "Will he be alright?" I ask Myself. Taking a longing look at the boy on the floor.
I couldn't lie to myself anymore. I walked over, my eyes became solid,  no more blue and green with a sense of instability in my nature. Just a solid cold blue. I put my hand on my shoulder with a half ***'d grin. "No,but he's better off dead anyway." I look at the buzzing flies crawling on the boy, the supposed man holding him close. I know i'm only wasting words on a soon to be dead idiot.
I don't take anything with me, And maybe this explains my lack of baggage. But i'm just too tired of watching myself die with each passing chapter. I'm sick of the "soon to be" and the "potentiality important" person I always seem to be.
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
The motions of your lips as they wrap around the words you say. Respectively disrespecting every piece of fact as fiction that no one knows what to live in anxiety is like.
What it's like?
What is anger but the misguided targeting system of a fathers hand to his sons face.
What is denial but a sweet cherry with a pit you chew on remorsefully. The sadness you feel is a bitter memory of every memory you had standing next to me.
like confectioner sugar
like snow in the worst of storms.
You covered us up like a scandal for double homicide when in actuality you left wounded
I lay on the ground gripping my skull hoping it would end.
What was the point of all the sweet words you spoke,
when you left with a wet cheek and raw throat
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
Vaccine in the chamber.
Bringing down the hammer
Ready for the medicine.
"I'd throw up the sickness, but my stomach is withered"
"I'd cough up the disease but my lungs are bleeding"
"I'd cut out the corruption but it's already gone to my head"
No change in our pockets
only Posies
No heat in our house
only holes in the ceiling
When your world comes crashing down
When your mind just wants rest
Bitter words hang in your ear
"The American Dream"
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
I wont lay down and die
I wont read your poems and weep
take my hand.
Life *****, sure.
It even gets worse.
When you race against the reapers blade
Why would you stand still.
Why would you wait to die
Get up
Grab your pen and paper
This is your taxi
There is his horse
Lets go
No time to waste
Courtlyn Quay Jan 2016
We love to hate
What we find purist in hearts
When in truth is a lie hidden by society
Yet,
the truth is
We hate to love
That the purist of hearts are not yet alive
to see this hell on earth
Courtlyn Quay Dec 2015
I am the temper in your steel
I am the steel in your resolve.
let there be no other like me
and there will be no other like you.
Trust me and I will show you new heights
Betray me and I will let them tear you down.
Courtlyn Quay Dec 2015
To the world they left Behind, they sadly bid adieu
To the nights that were kind, they wept away like tears
For the night that swallowed them whole, their thoughts are gone
And with them, their dreams
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