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EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
one can't hope
to measure a night

by the meager things in life

it has nothing to do
with what
you ate
or how good (you think)
you looked

the faces in the fray
the ones that stuck in your head
or

the miles you drove
or how drunk you got
or wanted to get

or if you ended up alone
at the end of it,
because in the city filled with lights
and laughters
and distractions & disasters

you know that you always end up alone

but
it's measured by

whether or not
you can count the stars on your fingers
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
walk with me
 
tell me
your
hopes & fears
 
i want to see
your reflection
in the starry skies
 
sweet sweet melody
when you sigh
 
you called to me
specially
 
abnormally
transforming
the blackness i see
 
but i embrace
the feeling
 
the terror
 
the shaking
 
as every second of
silence
 
is a decade 
of your judgement
 
just walk with me, darling
 
life is hardly much a thing
with your desire on the shelf
 
i'll save you from your higher power
if you
keep me
from
myself
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
can't help but wonder
when it all comes to the surface

the product
of all the things

you didn't do

the petty
inconsequential
choices
that
you made after

thinking too much

like grains of sand
but soon
fertilized by
the passing
of time

consume

& you're left
sitting
in the same spot
homeless now
and all alone

because

you think too much
you think too much
you think too much
you
think

too much
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
fiery
hardly
contained
by the body

that I see
swaying
and preying
upon me

a familiar
situation
as is your
demeanor

And against all
second thought
I dream
between her

but when she's
gone by daw

the liquor will
still be there

spinning with
the room

erasing
her stare
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
i need
someone to
tell me
just how
drunk i am

to remind me of the cruelty
i exercise in conversation

to lay around in bed
all day
& count the
breaths of
one another

to

make sure i
stay somewhat human

and to

make sure i
know that i am
someone
to somebody

i need to be called an
******* when
i am acting like
nothing less

to be embraced
in the coldness
i exhibit

though i long so
to warm you

validation
idealistic
romanticized
pessimism

i need someone to
make me feel

i


want



you
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
cigarettes &
the bottle
to

usher in
drab tomorrows

there's no
substitute
for
human contact

nothing that brings
the body to shiver
like the touch

nothing that makes sleep
sweep in quicker than
the heat of another

but

smiling is much
easier
when you're so
drunk you
can't feel
your face
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
thinking
waiting
whiskey
drinking

tossing
turning
turmoil
seeping

into
dear &
lucid
dreaming

& in
mornings
lacking
meaning

no one
nothing
void of
feeling

so more
drinking
reading
writing
singing
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