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  Feb 2015 DMorenoCamargo
bones
We danced toward
each other's wounds

with gentle step
and touched inside

and now the bleeding
has resumed

and all this blood
is hard to hide.
  Jan 2015 DMorenoCamargo
berry
i wonder if the doors in the house you grew up in
started slamming themselves to save your father the trouble.
i wonder if you can remember the last time you prayed,
and if you had trouble unfolding your hands.
i wonder if your mother knows
about the collection of hearts you hide in your closet,
i wonder if she could tell mine apart from the rest.
i wonder if your shoes know the reason why
you keep them by the back door and not your bedside.
and sometimes, i wonder
if you ever think about that night when i told you,
you wouldn't need to drink so much if you had me.
but it seems like we only speak when you've got body on your brain,
whiskey in your glass,
your judgement is overcast,
and you know i'm too weak to ignore you.
i learned how to translate your texts
from drunken mess back into english.
i am fluent in apology, but i don't ask you for them anymore.
this is just how it is.
it's not enough for either of us
but ******* it we are not above settling.
so i will ignore her name on your breath,
and you will ignore the fact that this means something to me.
i always thought the first time i kissed you,
it would be on your mouth.
i just wanted to be something warm for you to sink into,
something that could convince you to stay a second night.
but i sneak you out in the early morning,
and you take a piece of my pride with you when you go.
i am left to nurse the hangover from a wine i've never tasted,
wondering how this is possible.
waiting for the next drunk call,
for the next time i get to pretend we are lovers,
the next time i get to live out the fantasy i am most ashamed of.
it is the one in my head where you want me when you're sober too.

- m.f.
DMorenoCamargo Dec 2014
Kiss me
If you dream of me
Kiss me
Tenderly
Maybe
Someday
When I dream of you
You'll be kissing me
DMorenoCamargo Oct 2014
First you go and fill my ears
Kind words over our last kiss
Said you'll miss me and that your heart belongs to me

I buy it

Every one of your treacherous words
Sound like music for this hopeful boy

I buy your mid-way smiles
I buy too, the tears you shed that afternoon
And I made the choice
Completely sure it was the right call

The universe loves to prove me wrong

You flew
While I stayed. Feet glued to the Earth
And I long for your return
While you long for someone else

I buy your lies
Your let's-keep-him-clueless hurtful lies
The delicious sounding I'll be thinking of you
That is a knife aimed at my back

A month and three weeks later
The tears in your confession were just make-believe
All damage already done

Two once-upon-a-time lovers looking at the aftermath

Gasping breaths
Pleading sorry's
Broken hearts
And I buy them
But this boy's hopeful heart has given up

Live happily ever after
Just not with me, and
Buy my tears
They're not resentful
They're the clear-cut evidence
This hopeful heart
Loved you once

— The End —