EJ Aghassi

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

you smile
you flaunt

and he's driving me insane

two dimensional
two sided
one of his heads leading
his game

but that's how it goes
it's one in the same

I'm just another face
in a drab sea of names

money lines his pockets
empty words
to keep warm

and on the other side
of the room

reality rocks
to sleep

the dreamer
the realist
the sadist
lost in wanting

a familiar scenario
not so long gone

a familiar feeling
emptiness in arms

soon enough, though
you'll be here

soon enough, I feel,
dreams will breach reality

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

juxtapose (greyarea reprise)

she's out there, somewhere
but you can't be sure

in your arms
while you daydream

in the air you breathe;
intoxicating and elating

at your bedside,
keeping you up at night

it'll become too much

& you'll reach out
but you spend even more
time in your head
and you can't be too sure
of anything in this world

but you can be sure
she's out there

more than just a thing of dreams

she's out there, somewhere
alive with laughter

with a thirst for attention,
desperation in her demeanor

& a mouth full of midnight

In the end it's really all just black & white.

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

transparency

You got what you wanted

all that I could not be

but I still remember
the night we danced

& how my feet missed every beat

I've yet to meet your equal.

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

insects

the butterflies
have lost their wings
but i can still feel
them crawling around in there

just like you once lost your hair
but you came back stronger than ever
maybe this will be a similar case

they don't flutter
they long to

though in their excitement
they just squirm

but they are accepting of their particular predicament

i look at you
and
they
wiggle
& wiggle

they are okay
with their particular predicament

and so am i

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

c-section

and it all has come to this
poor working girls of the world

lethargic
psuedo sensual
gyrations
to appease
sleepless
pigs

my money is your aim
the way you whisper in my ear

and wherever your hands have
been
your touch is still
feminine

no mind games
no third dates
no humoring of parents

& you get to see it all

but it still has its price

there's no hiding the scar
and now we all know what you've done

and while you try to
tease
and please
i'd ask you up from your knees

and give you all ones you wanted
if you promised to spend it on your son

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

regrets

it's the world we live in

or the one of my own
fabrication

where

nothing is really as it seems

it's always something
no matter what

nothing is as it seems

I want to see you
but

precautionary measures
turn to screams

but what is there to lose?

life has grown so
drab and boring

important for a moment

and the ease you
move forward stings

try to be

all the things we
both want me to be

life's not fair

but then again it
molds to how you make it seem

you're over there

and I'm standing with
a heavy lean

if I could I would

sweat and
make us both believe

that these sins

of the flesh
are what we need

your body on mine

slowly
gently
makes me believe

your lips on mine

capture the breathe
we share and heave

your soul with mine

share meaning
I'll conceived

please don't remind

me where I've failed
and leave

growing numb

I want you to
relieve

I want you now
I want you with me

EJ Aghassi Oct 2013

I Can Do It Too (10w.)

boxed wine
is my most
favorite
shape in
the world

See?