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the heart aches
like
earthquakes.

today
i allowed myself to feel
heartbreak
one very last time for you.

the sun was settling,
silhouetting the city

it felt like
the burial site of massacred dreams.
 Apr 2013 Dillon Kaiser
Melissa S
I am the other woman
the one that never gets the man
I am all his lustful thoughts dreamed up
I am her nightmare in a can

You see she will never give him all he needs
and he will never leave her a fact I now believe
She has his family and his past
and I am the woman who keeps coming in last

I am the other woman...
I know I am not everyone's biggest fan
but I loved him the way he really wants
and the way that she never truly can
 Apr 2013 Dillon Kaiser
Melissa S
Piece by broken piece has been taken away
Until I have found I am lost to myself

A friend recently told me when I asked her
totally out of the blue ~ "Who do you think I am?"
She said," You are kidding me...right?"
"You are the glue that holds us all together"

I find that very ironic

Will someone pass me that glue please
so I can start putting myself back together  

                 Thank you :)
Permeating every room, your presence settles quick
But sometimes if I tarry long the air becomes too thick
I know it when I place my hands before my sallow face
That your contagion enters as I memorize your taste
Shuffle, stir but don't react, you'll propagate a sound
And make your body visible to all of those around
The consequence for such a thing will only prove the dread
That living in a world of you makes everybody dead
The dust has settled on my skin and I no longer feel
But since I can't make sense of this I find it may appeal
And though I'm dragging both my feet to keep your hand in mine
I still believe the roads we walk were mapped by hands of time
You stuttered once and spoke my name, I wonder if you knew
That shivers traveled down my spine and turned my body blue
And all the pressure they released pushed blood into my head
Illuminating all the more, once subtle shades of red
My eyes began to harden as a gloss upon them formed
And how I had perceived myself then gradually transformed
In looking out upon the world, my harmony complied
And everyone could hear me ask my memories to hide
So come replace what you began to form within your mind
And use the flesh I've harbored thus to get the bones to bind
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