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We are infinite.
For in my sleep
Where truth does not count,
Love is endless.
When we were little
They used to call them
Spotted
Orange
Lizards.

I think they were trying not to scare us with
The words
Standards
Of
Learning.

Standardized testing.

Those things that you need Number Two pencils for.

Those things that they prepare you for
Every year
For months.

Those things that if a cell phone goes off
The entire class comes back
During the summer
And retakes it.

Those things that they give you hours and hours
To take,
Out of our normal schedule,
Even though they only take
Forty-five minutes

Those things that don't even count
Towards our grades
Because
"They're really assessing the teachers--
But it's important to do your best."

SOLs.
Those things that people stress over.

Even though your answers
Are only
Tiny gray dots
On a
Scantron sheet.
You’ve never once licked my ****

but you’ll play forever with my ***

your such a selfish *****

I’m no longer ******* ****
 May 2013 David Nelson
Mercy B
Without hesitation you sacrificed everything just to give us a better chance.

It was brand new to you and you were all alone but you took it on not giving a backward glance.

I won't sit here and lie, it was not a fairytale, but you did  the best with what you had.

My life has been an intricate web of memories, some beautiful, some confused and some just sad.

You, yourself, as a child were tossed aside, saftey  and love were things you never knew.

You found the courage to soilder on and for us you prayed you'd make it thru.

There were times when your sadness was to much to bare and it caused you to give in.

Like the time we came home from school to find that you had attempted the ultimate sin.

Even through  all of your pain, the one thing  I always knew was that you loved  us more than words could say.

And as I sit here now and write these words, even tho your gone, my love for you grows stronger every day.
 May 2013 David Nelson
Relenymous
I fiddle with these words
They lie naked on my tongue.
But like a broken man
They just can't seem to run.

I've learned not to force this.
To push this past my lips,
A tragedy worse than my travesties.
I'm still a little faint of heart.

When rain falls it does not smear.
It sticks, and then it drips.
Well these 3 syllables are certainly glued,
But we both still feel a little bruised.

When my lips do decide to spill
These raindrops it has coaxed inside,
Will you know that they fall gracefully, honestly?
They were meant to be taken gently.

A cool breeze should encourage them.
Will they wet your worn skin
Soak into you like a refreshing swim
Will they moisten your heart and not just your limbs?

Or where I see a downpour do you see a spark.
Awaiting a new host, softly lighting the dark.
Growing ever closer to your extended fuse.
When you ignite, will I be consumed?

Does it help, when I state your name.
When I beckon, do I carry you close to sanity?
Or do I hurl you farther,
Over the edge of calamity.

Tell me, When you fall
Will it be like raindrops, or a cliff.
At least, tell me, when you fall
Could you find it in your drenched heart,
Or scorched lungs,
To let me join you?
 May 2013 David Nelson
chels
I am your favorite flavor of ice cream;
Melting.

Sliding down your fingers,
Dripping down your palm;
I am your favorite flavor of ice cream,
In a chocolate dipped waffle cone.

Dripping,
Falling,
Melting,
Slipping.
Kissing every inch of your skin I can reach;
Please do not wipe me away before I dance on your wrists,
Because no one ever showed you that scars can be beautiful.

I long to kiss your wrists because I know that no one ever has.
Fingers trailing my spine

turns me on every time

sweet nothings in my ear

gets me into gear

Kiss me with no speed

I’ll devour you with greed

Set the pace to slow

I’m always raring to go
 May 2013 David Nelson
st64
she manages to twist things into a lifetime wonder
but life is made up of losses, and finally
the picture stuns with clarity.

that she is merely an inexperienced truant-player on a roll
a rather silly heraldist of mundane matters
an astounding figment of wonder.

she holds in her right hand jagged wedges of exquisite thrills
which she feeds slowly to the roiling storm
one by one - by one.

on the edges of the larcenous cloud, she sits and waits
while throwing down pebbles of trying events
all soft-cloaked in secret mirth.

she grips in her left hand a galaxy of recalcitrant injuries
that, two by two, she lets orbit off into space
greet them in serene farewell.




S T, 10 May 2013
no-one knows who she is, but she waits for you....when you visit venus :)

yeah, I think I will visit this venus one day.. gotta go there..



venus-dweller

storm-eater, sea-stirrer, mountain-lifter
careful how you tread, mordant one
there's a heart inside of this..

secret-finder, fantasy-******, space-hider
withholding so, only to please another
ends in paranoiac cries of loss

range-crusher, sky-creator, venus-dweller
how pithy seems a deliberate stance
mere weak bids to seal mars

ocean-stepper, country-hopper, desert-swirler
oh, can you sense the finer pictures inside
whirl and eddy, down..down..down..



yeah, have a fabulous day!

:)
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