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Take me to the peak,
Show me how to get there, I
trust you with my life.
Is this a haiku, or a senryu, or something else...? Not sure.
Injecting poetry and high on the verse in me,
I am ****** on the edge of free
and I want to jump.
 Mar 2014 Dave Gledhill
Kari
Anxiety
 Mar 2014 Dave Gledhill
Kari
Teeth ground to dust
Dirt, where it lies
6 feet under    wringing    hands
Ringing knell,    bells burned into
Ears popping vessels out to sea
Storms making waves causing wrecks
Biting nails between teeth
Ground to   dust.
I struggle with a major anxiety disorder. This is what it looks like.
some things take time,
experience,
100 bottles of wine,
lovers of all kinds.

some things may never hit you just right,
bittersweet melodies,
beautiful in its own light,
perhaps at its best past midnight.

but you are not an acquired taste

and these may suffice, for some,
but passion...
it will never ease their long nights,
bashful whispers leaving so much to entice.

silken skin aching,
your hand on the back of my neck,
fingers trace that which they fear breaking,
delicacies of flesh we never have forsaken.

slipping into a dance,
you'd think we'd known it our entire lives,
your body and mine, spinning into a trance,
in step, in motion, thrilling me with just a glance.
  
kisses on my forehead,
4am, and i'm still in his bed.
he loves that i'm well read,
"oh honey its not like we're dead."

but he is not an acquired taste

they will never know our craving,
for the life of each other,
and even if we're both caving,
no one here needs saving.
i want to crawl into your bed
while it's still blue outside
and the sun has cold feet
because morning hasn't broken
and your body could curl around mine
like a scarf in the winter
 Dec 2013 Dave Gledhill
moonlit
i miss you more than you think.
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i haven't smiled in a while, but when i think about you i do.
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you left your sweater here. i wear it to bed sometimes. do you want it back? [it still smells like you.]
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i still remember how your favorite color was the sky right before sunset.
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you said you loved me, what happened?
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i'm still so sorry. i didn't mean to push you away.
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please just hear me out. let me explain.
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i left my beanie at your house. i know it was your favorite. can i come get it?
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i wish you knew how i still felt about you.
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i hope you haven't moved on, because i sure haven't.
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i listened to real friends today, i remember when you made me listen to them. all i could think of was you.
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do i still mean anything to you?
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god i wish you knew how often i think about your eyes. i still think they resemble forest trees.
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it's been two months. i'm still torn up.
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i have spent so many night cuddling up to my pillow wishing it was you.
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i can't think straight because i keep thinking about what you're doing right now.
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do you still think about me?
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i didn't know my heart could shatter over and over until i met you.
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we could've been in love. i'm so sorry.
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is this still affecting you as much as it is me?
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Can't sleep
My heart heavy
Knowing the truth
Only setting me back
Reality sets in
Deep.
Mind racing
Eyes flutter
I can't fight it off
I'm falling
Farther, and farther
I can't reach the bottom
When will it end?
Never.
Ill continue to spin
Until fate sets in
Urged to inhale
The breeze of death.
A constant battle
Playing a game
Is it all in my head?
I'm lost
No, confused.
Someone love me?
Someone want me?
Loneliness seeps through my soul
I can't bare this existence
With no one around
To hear my screams
Of insanity
Or fantasy?
Ill be gone...
Before you know it.
Reaching out
With no one to catch me.
Drifting... Down.
As I spiral into infinity.
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