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Elise Aug 2013
Inhale. Let the oxygen fill your ribs, and permeate your bones. Exhale. Your breath is painting dreams of oceans deep below your eye lids. You are endless. Weightless. Suspended in colorless silence. Tiny echoes caress your palms yet none of them reach your ears. You are alone, but surrounded in blinding light. Moving is slow, effortless, underwater. Something has shifted in your mind, your eyes. The world you find yourself in seems fragile, one fast movement and the moment will be broken. Dissolved into a million tiny pieces of atmosphere. Feel that? It’s your heart beating, your life force, your veins just a road map of yourself. Stronger than ever, driven by the waves. You are floating in peace, you are whole. Such a small yet vital force of the universe.
Look at your hands, swirl your fingers around of you must. You can manipulate the currents and make the seas calm at your call. Let the water take you. It’s a delicate balance of time and eternity and you are spiraling down
                         down
                                   down
You are endless. Weightless. Suspended in colorless silence.
Softly, the tide brushes its lips against your cheek. You can feel nothing, but at the same time everything. Every tiny movement of the living, breathing ocean that has encased you in such echoing quiet. Focus, there are vibrations running up and down your spine, your own melody of existence.
Comfortably numb.

Let go.

Don’t be afraid,
Until you must once again, gasp for air.
Inhale. Exhale.
Elise Aug 2013
I keep dancing with strangers
Hoping to look up one day and see your eyes

And I think I've found someone perfect for me
The only problem is

He isn't you
Elise Aug 2013
When a line is drawn is extends infinitely in every direction
and I hope this means there is at least one that connects me to you
no matter how far apart we are
and if you follow it maybe we'll meet again
where our lines overlap

I'll guide you home
Elise Aug 2013
Do not feel bad,
my tears are just watering the gardens in my skin
these scars are only reminders that
I was once alive
And I know the fire inside me threatens to explode

But it will make for a beautiful picture
Elise Jul 2013
I wish I could have been what you needed
But sadly I am only a collection of chemical reactions between synapses that are just a little too far apart
Left to wonder why something that makes us so alive can **** us with one misstep

I think you must have smiled when you pushed me into the waves below

Drown me in the one thing that keeps me breathing
one last time
Elise Jul 2013
I'm not doing this to hurt you

I used to have a philosophy
Much like mass I thought pain was neither created nor destroyed
Merely transferred from one to another
Constantly circling
And I thought if I hurt it would take away the pain of others

Before I went to sleep I would curl up in a ball imagining that I was taking the pain out of a child's scraped knee,  or giving peace to a man's last breath,  or saving you from a couple more tears
I slept with a smile on my face

I'm not doing this to hurt you

All I ever wanted to do was good
and now I can't seem to stop
Elise Jul 2013
You traced the marks on my back and told me they looked like the big dipper
I wanted to tell you that your eyes shone brighter than any orbs of light we have desperately tried to make into
constellations
We have created stories for every star
Put so much thought into every light in the sky
Just to wish on them as they fall
When in reality

The north star is going to fall someday
And you'll still find your way just fine
I do not love you anymore
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