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386 · Sep 2014
Untitled
EJ Aghassi Sep 2014
never trust what you say when you're lonely

I'm loathing the pending regret in the morning
and it came.
385 · Sep 2013
bad habits
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
384 · Dec 2014
bangz
EJ Aghassi Dec 2014
I guess I've always loved bangs

I suppose I am a fan of work parties

Maybe the outside world ain't bad

But in reality it is, there is no shelter

the moonlight hit you just right and

you seem so genuine & intangible

moving quickly under my skin

to no one's surprise at all
I'm sure I'll never talk to you
EJ Aghassi Dec 2014
where exactly does the anxiety come from?
the pit in my stomach deepened a bit
nothing feels as good as you're expecting
when you are expecting it to feel good

the weather is a reflection of something
found within myself, but i don't know
how to quite put that into words so
i will just leave it at that i suppose

i was told by someone i've known long ago
to make use of these perpetual sorrows
that follow that carnal pull that men know
when they must make time somehow slow
guess
375 · Dec 2014
you're the worst
EJ Aghassi Dec 2014
such I fool, I am
it's hard to think about at times

I pulled into the parking lot
found the idea of you and
sped off like the fool I swore
to never be

you do this to me,
time and time again

but I think if I let myself
realize it, I'd realize I
missed you more than I
thought I never needed
you, dear. have mercy.
find compassion. release me.
but obviously not
373 · Jan 2017
five
EJ Aghassi Jan 2017
idolatry

i dote on thee
if I had to summarize
370 · Aug 2014
okay reprise
EJ Aghassi Aug 2014
smiles are misleading
screaming
and pleading

smiles are fleeting,
but this one's for you
369 · Mar 2014
awake
EJ Aghassi Mar 2014
life has its own kind of humor

but it brings you
far from
laughter

the way things just happen
& take you closer to madness

but sanity is so boring, anyway
and so is sleep
and so are people
and so is peace

and the way it all ties together
in the end

& if time is made up
then we don't exist

as every second
is devoted to the way you move

in which case

every sip
is slowing down
nothingness in
it's purest form

lavender tinting
all my wildest dreams

"that's life", they say

and I'm still trying
to figure out what that means
365 · Sep 2013
thoughts
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
360 · Apr 2017
onwards, still
EJ Aghassi Apr 2017
look at how we squander it

essence, pulse,
all perfect fits

the meanings, feelings

senses filled
we project *****

hatred and ill-will

what does that say
about a kind, that

sifts in its own ****

to calm its mind
while making a break

towards some horizon

but just imagine being
beyond, any need to

feel shallow belong

oneness,  one wholly
you whole thing

to bring whole one

feeling within, the
shallow makings

of humanity, in this

perpetual state
of apathy
357 · Sep 2013
heights
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
If I were just
one bad experience younger

We would be the perfect team

I'd treat you better than any
queen of things

Only where you've dared to dream
is where else you'll see the love I bring

Every moment a memory
Every inch of you appreciated

All the wonderful complexities
That make you a woman

But I've had
one bad experience too many
And I'd rather have much more
To drink

And the world would
Much sooner end

Than you ever seeing me
on hands & knees again
356 · Oct 2013
regrets
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
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
355 · May 2014
please relent
EJ Aghassi May 2014
yours is such a
pretty language
and i wish
i could speak it

but it's a matter
of circumstance

and that's just the way it is

again, i find,
once again i am
prodding at
my "wit"

to guide me though
i have no chance

and that's just the way it is

you smile, i wallow
you laugh
and i sigh
your aura never quits

mystified by just
one glance

and that's now how it is

i wish i knew
just what to do
with all this pent
up ****

but i pursue
hopeless romance

i want you, that's how it is
How do you tell a stranger that they've become sort of a muse to you?
351 · Jan 2015
O kaptain
EJ Aghassi Jan 2015
O kaptain

this ship is out of control
I've never felt
so sick at sea
and it's all so wonderful

the stars are swirling
waves are crashing
the tide is running high

the salty breeze
on wounded knees

and sickness
soon to subside

across the unforgiving sea
you are wherever I will roam

this ship is a feeling
a mansion, prison

& it's the closest thing to home
this is old

it turned up
349 · Oct 2013
walk
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
348 · Apr 2014
late
EJ Aghassi Apr 2014
I was half naked
and reeking of inspiration

but if you saw me then,
you would brush me off

vulnerable creature
bathing in perfume

basking in the comfort
of smooth skin

leave me
to be free

whatever I think that means

you know you are
the pretty cage
I've gotten so comfortable
inside of

please oh please
just let me free
348 · Mar 2014
she
EJ Aghassi Mar 2014
she
the night sky
is showcasing

the best
****** shot

I've ever seen
The moon is beautiful tonight, eh?
348 · Feb 2014
3:15 I am
EJ Aghassi Feb 2014
yes
the world can be
a scary place

yet
much more frightening
is the mind
345 · Jun 2014
self
EJ Aghassi Jun 2014
you're right
you're absolutely right
I fake I lie
exaggerate & write

what does it matter
what I see
I'm convinced that
they're all parts of me

it's a matter of
self-importance
of fear of faith
of fear of death

it spreads thin
the fabric of soul
of heart and all
things kept consoled

it's all things
I think I need
to transcend time
and my being

don't listen to
the things I say
I sit and dream
and think of ways

to make me what
you always see
eyes open, closed
or in between

I long for worth
for meaning
I'll find it somewhere
in anything

don't consider
what's conveyed
rambling appeasement
from my head

it won't matter
long from now
when nature
reassumes control

it shouldn't matter
but I'm convinced
it won't matter
at the end of this
339 · Jan 2014
that poem you wanted
EJ Aghassi Jan 2014
i am 7914 days old as i type this
and those days have been a blur

but nonetheless,
from the beginning-

those countless hours
spent on earth-

to this very
moment in time,

i don't think i've ever seen a more beautiful smile
337 · Nov 2014
new low
EJ Aghassi Nov 2014
happiness is a lie
and its pursuit, a gross waste of time

there is nothing but strife
in life, a bending & breaking of will

or for some, resolve is strengthened
but it all leads to the same end

the only true freedom
the only true happiness is
the separation of oneself
from the damnation that
is mere mortality

pain is the constant

suffering is the center of
the universe, the thing
that keeps the cosmos together

it is our instinct to think
there is relief,
that there has to be and end
to grief, self-loathing, lacerations
and deep wounding

but we are subject to an impartial pain
in the end that's all we've ever had

our name and the thing that killed us
slowly, quickly or otherwise

at this pont there is only one
salvation, one true complete separation

maybe it
will be
the one
thing I
finally
can do
correctly
This was very genuinely a low point in mental stability that I don't hit all too often. Looking back it is a little unsettling to feel so different from the person who was in this particular state of mind at the time.
335 · Jul 2014
shot
EJ Aghassi Jul 2014
"I'll make you feel loved
and I'll lead you astray"

Or is that just what
you're hoping I'll say?
335 · Aug 2015
unfortunately
EJ Aghassi Aug 2015
you were never
anything more
than "there"
327 · Sep 2014
number whatever
EJ Aghassi Sep 2014
If I can't be with you

Paper Mario will do
next best thing
327 · Apr 2014
cycles
EJ Aghassi Apr 2014
I tried to count all the times
I've ended up just like this

awake in the dark

& then I tried counting all the
times I've tried to do even that

but I lost count

I gave up
and once more I'll
rise with the sun,
soon to be wrapped
in the dark
yet again

and like countless times before
the cycle will continue

all those things I know
better than to attach
myself to, will sustain
weight on my mind

on and on it will go
until I've no desire to keep counting
321 · Nov 2014
blank American holiday
EJ Aghassi Nov 2014
let's have one or two or ten

you know, for the veterans
It's what we're drinking for

Wait, sorry, I meant fighting for
319 · Sep 2013
the times
EJ Aghassi Sep 2013
It's at times like this
that I see your face
in every crevice and empty space
Those haunting eyes held locked
             in place

It's at times like this
that the memories ambush me
Wearing animal skin diapers
Fixing to gut me
            with their spears

It's times likes this
that all the empty words shower me like rain
droplets crawling about my skin
Soaking into open
             wounds

And yet it's at times like this
that I wonder what kind of sound it would make
If you hit the pavement falling from a
very high
             building
319 · Dec 2013
modern men
EJ Aghassi Dec 2013
Bust your back
So you can bust a nut
318 · Nov 2014
insomnia
EJ Aghassi Nov 2014
sleep never comes
when you want it to

neither does

a voice
a touch

and the bottle is never enough
when your lungs are filled up

inhibition cuts
desire short
and money keeps you
locked inside

but yearning
loneliness
& wide eyed
hopefulness

keep you up at night
Tonight of course is no exception
309 · Jul 2015
three lines, drab reply
EJ Aghassi Jul 2015
all I want is to say it back
but I can't do that
**I can't do that
309 · Nov 2014
pretense
EJ Aghassi Nov 2014
never ask a woman the
truth of her age

nor a poet which pains
take the center stage
just a thought (incomplete)
305 · Sep 2013
usual
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
305 · Oct 2013
repeat
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
Again
Again
Again

My soul
Is

Riddled with
The sin

Of once more
Never giving in

To what
My
Conscious
Apprehends

But it makes no
Sense

Nothing ever does

There is no
Innocence

There's hardly
Love

But I still hold
On

When pushes shove

I still hold on when
Pushes shove

I still grip tightly
To what I think
Is what I need
And I can't see
It's just what I want
and it won't be
But it still
Hovers over me

But at this point
There is no point

To keep running circles
And appoint

A role to someone who'll
never know

The way
They make
Time
run
painfully slow
302 · Nov 2014
11:43 11/23
EJ Aghassi Nov 2014
well then who is really fake?
does anyone have to be fake?
if reality is but an illusion
then "fake" is as fake as fake
299 · Nov 2013
either or
EJ Aghassi Nov 2013
anything
and
everything you
hear from my mouth
can be

credited to fear
and
cast aside

anything and everything
you hear from the
tips of my fingers
is a product of too much
thinking

and

too much wanting to
get
further

and



further away

and should all be kept to myself
298 · Dec 2013
"love"
EJ Aghassi Dec 2013
i was asked to define love*

love is finding
that there are only
those two end
pieces left
of a loaf of bread
and throwing
them
away

even though you really want a sadwich
279 · Aug 2017
drivel
EJ Aghassi Aug 2017
‪consciousness ‬
‪the chemical reaction ‬

‪the growing of trees ‬
‪and the silent cascade‬

‪of hardened browned‬
‪leaves, dropped to their knees
and it never makes any more sense
275 · Nov 2013
diggidy
EJ Aghassi Nov 2013
My spirit animal
must be dog
you see

I certainly feel like one

but throw me
a bone here
or at least let's
do just that

Because I really want to--
even though I know
that I really
shouldn't
270 · Aug 2019
prism
EJ Aghassi Aug 2019
Heavy rain shatters the earth.
Reflective shards fly upwards,
Spelling out the meaning of life.

‪Consciousness,
‪The chemical reaction,
The purple end of Winter
‪Whispering,
‪Molding the
Silent cascade.

Exchanging shoulders on
The park bench, wind
Wiping away the strands
Of history from her face.
Trees dripping with sweat,
Leaves rustling and buzzing
Around our earlobes
As the forbidden skyline
Sings in black and white.

Orange light finding me
Again within the kaleidoscope,
Scattering a distant caress.
The world bending and
And breaking to compliment
The shape of my aching eyes.

In this prism I’m witness to
Every crime, I savor every
Love etched into the sharp
Edges of every lost soul.
I smell the ashes of
A fallen empire;
I hear the wax sigh of the last man
Sitting across from an empty seat
When the bar lights come on
outside of time, inside some space
249 · May 2014
to you, the muse
EJ Aghassi May 2014
don't let on
my words you've read

don't let me
get it in my head

you all profoundly
tint with red

lavishly, this
dull strange life I've lead

don't let on to
that what I've been through

how I felt is now
a part of you, too

help me relax
let things be simple

there's reasons why
I can't resist you

but

please

Don't let on
My words you've read

but remember
everything I said
244 · Oct 2014
make my words
EJ Aghassi Oct 2014
this isn't hate
but it burns

it burns & it burns

I don't know
what the goal is

but this suffering
has to have reason
223 · May 2014
Untitled
EJ Aghassi May 2014
my favorite thing
to do these days

is drink at bars
torn by the way

pretty creatures
paralyze

my soul, my body
with their eyes
219 · May 2014
yukimi
EJ Aghassi May 2014
you make me feel
the most incredible things
216 · Nov 2017
mantra
EJ Aghassi Nov 2017
It doesn’t
Have to be
A negative thing

Just because
It doesn’t make
Sense (yet)

Right?
:read and repeat:
211 · Oct 2013
I Can Do It Too (10w.)
EJ Aghassi Oct 2013
boxed wine
is my most
favorite
shape in
the world
See?

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