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 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
LJ Chaplin
Do you see me in the headlights?
A frightened deer in the night time sorrow,
Push down on the accelerator honey,
I'll be gone by this time tomorrow,
My heart beats in the trees
And my voice is in the soil,
My fear is in the air
As my blood begins to boil,
I'm a natural born disaster,
So don't wait until the morning after,
Strike me down.
Down.
  Down.
    Down.
Leave my body on the road
And soak my skin with red lights,
Disappear into the dark,
A hit and run at midnight,
My baby left me high and dry,
I'm lost without a compass,
Death is far beneath my closest friend,
His soul is too close for comfort.
there was beauty, love, fire, stillness, and i gave it all to you
you put both of your hands around my neck
had a grip on me like your favorite coffee mug
mouths never moved, just trembled

when you went home, your "i love you" started sounding like an apology
now every car crash sounds like the last time i heard you say my name
a poem about distance
 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
R Saba
hold myself tight
find a new metaphor for loneliness
to symbolically scratch and burn away
find a different voice to speak my name
so i can hide under the covers
and pretend i hear nothing
let me be lost to myself for a little while
make it a treasure hunt
aren’t i worth the effort?
it's just a feeling, that's all
 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
Becca
Shuffle
 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
Becca
She wonders
(more often then she'd ever admit)
Whether it might be worth it
(and she quietly believe it might)
To shuffle of this mortal coil
(perhaps earlier than she'd planned)
If only to escape responsibilities
(as she's dreadfully selfish)
And wonders how it is
That's she's kept herself so far
Tied to the ground
(Though honestly she knows)
Vanity, vanity
 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
A Girl
Do you see that light?
It's straight ahead,
Do you see it?

Can you feel that breeze?
It all around.
Do you feel it?

Do you smell the salty air?
It’s from the escaping sea.
Do you smell it?

If not, you aren't alone.
I only know what I've been told.
But it sounds beautiful doesn't it?
It sounds like a world of hopes.
A world I couldn't even dream.
 Feb 2014 Emily Crews
LJ Chaplin
Last November,
Sparks were flying between us,
we lay in bed,
my head on yours,
Your fingers tracing my neck,
Two pulses, one moment.
January,
It went up in flames,
February,
I nestled myself in the ashes of what we once were
And I still had hope.
Now,
Here we are,
The phoenix has awoken between us,
Shaking the ash of it's feathers
And letting the scorching heat
Lift it into the air.
I miss you,
I love you.
I wish I could burn away the miles
Between us as if it were
A match,
I don't want the embers to smoulder
For seven more months
When I finally return,
I want the inferno
Now,
With you,
Because you love me.

— The End —