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 May 2015 E
Taylor Henry
The Buckets
 May 2015 E
Taylor Henry
The clouds are the same shade of purple as her bruises on her knees
From stumbling around
Drunk. Always drunk
The sky spits on the roof of her top floor apartment
Heavy rain leaking from little cracks and corners of the ceiling
There's a *** on the kitchen floor
A bucket on the bathroom counter
An old ice cream tub on the couch
All collecting the steady drip from the walls
Sometimes she kisses and feels nothing
Sometimes she kisses and feels her ribs crack open
Most days, she feels hollow
You can see her, a smoking *** of boiling water
Her blood bubbles boiling to the top
Rusting thrift store cookware flooding onto the floor
Even after you empty all those buckets
They will always fill back up

****, I wish it would stop raining.
Suicide awareness. Self-inflicting wounds.
For all the pretty things that left too soon to see themselves bloom.
 May 2015 E
halioth
realization
 May 2015 E
halioth
Ever since you left me
I haven't been able
To write a decent poem
Worth two likes
You were my
Inspiration
I guess
 May 2015 E
jeffrey robin
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What could be more lovely than

The image of a young girl

Who has just cut her wrists

Lying naked

In a pool of blood

On the bath room floor

Her cute little *** pointing

Up towards the sky !

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Gather round boys

Gather round

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She'll be so happy when she

Finds out you were there

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She'll be so happy to know

That you care

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She'll be so happy

She'll probably do it again
 May 2015 E
Duzy
I wonder what goes through her head
She's like a book I've never read
The cover both enchanting and confusing me

I comment how her hair looks cute
And peel another piece of fruit
Turns out orange will rhyme with something

With pith under my finger nails
You interrupt, rebuff, regale
You said you know that I'm waiting for you

It seems the radio concurs
The DJ spins 'Venus in Furs'
As you amuse yourself to cure me

While that's less quote, more paraphrase
And now it's weeks instead of days
But you still get to stay equivocal

I'm feeling far too old to care
'Bout books and covers, pith and hair
So I'll just take it out on poetry
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