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EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
Imagine a cold winter day
You can't see five feet past
your face
and street lights look like
anorexic giants
watching your every move

The icicles kind of, in a way,
seem to replicate themselves
they are everything,
everybody
and everywhere
shades are shut and although
you're surrounded by life
you feel as though your
soul shivers alone

The blood flows slowly in your veins
but your heart beats faster
and faster
and in your gut, no matter how
hard you try,
you can't seem to relax

And that is how every today
seems to take me and go
but that's life
on life's terms, you know?

it happens sometimes,
& at this point,

I just hope
I can remember my way back home
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
I would never guess
you were like me

with the way you carried
yourself
the way you made me laugh

out in a distant town
not too far,
actually

But the people are
Unlike anything I've ever experienced

I'm not religious
but the way you sang
the way you swayed
the way you threw
Yourself,
in that moment

To me

My god
Your god
Ours, whichever

I won't be able
To sleep
Without you
Possessing me
In
My
Dreams
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
and to think
that right then

I could be waking up in
some strange woman's bed
confused
&
overflowing with self-loathing

the empty words
bouncing back and forth
or
the chill of the morning air
as I searched for the warmth that wasn't there

no kiss goodbye
no real regard

with the drive back to life
spent too much in my head

in some ways I envy those
who can act
without
feeling

But in more ways I'm grateful
I'm only capable
of real
human connection
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
it's all come to this
the lacking
the yearning

at this point i'm not afraid
to admit to the fear
i
have
of the
loneliness

it's been so long

long
long
since I've felt a hand on mine

since the warmth of another
vulnerable and fine
lay entwined
body and mind

& and it's hard to bear

just convince
me that
you care

at this point
"you"
is a generalization

please just come to bed

give me that release
help me find that peace

aid me in knowing
the comfort that's growing

perhaps
for once
won't cease

come
to
me
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
chill in the stars
and the brightness
in the air

cloudy skies
clouded vision
cluttered thoughts
and inhibition

surrendered
to the ascetic force

guiding my
shaking hand
to-and-from
the ashtray

& in the smoke
and the doubt

mind and soul
became one

rationality resists
fantasy but
coalesces into
lust

and on this night
so black and white

You stood;
serene and from a dream

casting over
every ray of light

You
lovely
merciless
enamoring
thing
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
those left
to row the boat
with flag flown at half mast
cry,
"tragedy
tragedy"
humbling tragedies
lives lost in but a flash
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
comfortable
careless

content high up above

people like ants
problems like the breeze
making home on the ground
was lounging on clouds

foolish
fearless

untouchable

from the turmoil
and tides
raging below

humbled
& hurled

back down to reality

the foundation
i strengthened
crumbling
before me

underneath the weight of the world
the pressure forces diamonds

somewhere down here,
there is beauty

somehow
there is happiness;

one just has to learn to see it
while crawling amongst the filth
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