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Emma Apr 2013
Spring is meant for growth:
Blooming, budding, flourishing.
...Why am I breaking?
Emma Apr 2013
Life digs her fingers
in me; she's been using my
heart as a stressball
Emma Apr 2013
"How are you?"
Such an empty question, with an even emptier answer:
"Good."

I'd like to tell (you) how
Everything I (see) looks disgusting to me.
Watermelon seeds are like bugs
eating away at the raw, juicy flesh.
The ground is infected with muddy snow.
The melting of it unearths carcasses of lost junk.
Leaves are discs of decay.
The wind breathes smoky, tarry clouds by
– fogging up my mind.
Tongues are like slugs; kissing is repulsive.
Bodies are malformed clumps of clay, painted with egos.
Slimy egos.
The emptiness corrodes me.
It's about to get paradoxical,
how full of caves (my) heart is,
each echoing:
"You. You. You."

I'd like to tell you
how when I think of you, my mind immediately jumps to:
Our budding tu(lips) touching.
Embracing you,
the comforting muscles of your arms like sculptured masterpieces,
sheltering me in a warm bubble.
Your breath whispering on my neck, my skin replying with static fuzz.
When I think of you even the puddles of mud look like silk.
The clouds (move) by like pillows of the sky.
Leaves, sheets of oneliness, become one
in an orchestra conducted by the wind.

I want to tell you everything
*(but you can't hear me.)
Emma Apr 2013
Sleep diffuses me.
I am unwrapped, unbodied, uncoiled.
Behind shut lids there are endless sights to see.
Time extends her fingers.  
Infinity becomes one.
The taste of water lingers.
Kilometer poles unravel.
My pulse stretches with harmony into silence.
I forget the distance of my travel.
I let the shadows drown me without defiance.
Night's blanket shelters me tenderly.
I sink deeper.
There is scarcely a bliss comparable
to the bliss of (a sleep)er.
Thoughts of a tired mind
Emma Apr 2013
RED
Lion-eyes,
your gaze smears me in crimson.
I am your prey.
You boast your mane,
I shut my eyes.
But your growl vibrates through me.
The courage spills past bravery into insolence.


When I shield myself behind a mirror
you don't recognize yourself.
I am to blame.
You say,
"This is a compliment."
but all I see are
grinning canine teeth.


To you, I am always
*RED.
Emma Apr 2013
Gentle strides of water balloon my body
in patterned cycles.
You're leading my lungs
while the air dances between us.

Love expands, swelling tides
pull on anchors embedded in my heart.
"I'm still here!" you sweepingly percuss to me.
I feel the water become denser –
your presence is amplified.

My heart sways.
Wind bites like ice where you don't blanket me.
Fragmented rays of light
hit my skin in an array of melodies.
Breathing is easy now.
Quiet now.

The horizon unwrinkles.

Your absence, the stillness of it,
carries a calm disparate from before the storm
Your tides have changed
the water and

*me
Inspired by Liszt.
Emma Apr 2013
Oh, what I'd give to
be raindrops falling into
a puddle of you
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