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 Oct 2014 Emmanuel Coker
Shalene
Alone in a room
The absence of light
It seems so silly
but that is my fright

Locked down by memories
Scarred by my past
So many years later
The nightmares still last

I tell others of my terror
They stare with pure judgment
I brush it off slightly
But their looks remain pungent

No one understands
But what I do know is true
With a life like mine
You'd be afraid of the dark too
This is my first one to post. It's not the best but I hope it's enjoyable.
When I opened my mouth to speak
I was faced with silence
And it was the loudest cry
I have ever heard.
I have never been myself as much as I was during those six little days in your company. I let myself become a tornado and hoped to God you wouldn't be swept away by the wind I created in my quake.
2. Building a castle and realizing I am not two hands creating a masterpiece but four, and this beast we built makes me smile so much I fear I will never be able to frown again.
3. Running into the sea because you were already there and having this insane craving to pull you under, as if hiding you away from the earth and inside the sea's body would make me forget I am not the only one allowed to have you.
4. Putting a little wood onto the fireplace and realizing you are already here with logs and determination to make this burn. I still wish, sometimes, that the will you had to build a fire were as strong as your will to keep me around, but I was only a wind of change you blew in the fire for the flame to feed onto. I was just a tool to keep your warm.
5. The gentle hand tugging the blanket further down to cover the little hole by which all the cold air sneaked in to freeze my feet was the moment. I read the same sentence fourteen times because I would not look at you but then I caved and realized you had just opened a door that was supposed to be locked and walked straight into my heart.
6. We played 21 questions while hovering in a tiny boat on the sea's edges and I had the urge to make you drop your paddle and throw mine on the other end of the universe so we would be stuck on this piece of paradise forever.
7. If heaven is a place on earth it would be with you, on that canoe, at that precise moment in time.
8. I can never go back to heaven without letting hell burn me to ashes everytime the thought of you crosses my mind.
9. I burn everyday at least a hundred times.
10. Mastering the art of pretense has never been as difficult as it is now that I have to smile when you hold her and talk as if the universe has not stopped turning on its axis. How can you not see we are cosmic collision seconds apart from creating a whole new galaxy but time has stopped and I wish I could reach for your pinkie like I did 53 days ago but time is not having it.
11. Time has become my worst enemy.
12. I count the seconds I spent without you and the minutes I held you, I count the hours I could have looked at you instead of sleeping and days are longer than years in this world where you do not exist. I wait and wait and wait for the day I will wake up and finally be able to close the door you forgot to shut on your way out.
13. If love is an open door I will build a tower without any doors to lock my heart in and let it rot in loneliness because the pain of being abandoned is worse than the pain of not being alive.
14. My door is still open and if I have learned anything at all it is that no matter the hurt there comes a time when all is forgiven and the only words that will pass my aching lips will be the sound of my voice saying "Thank you, for stopping by".
Sometimes I imagine
What it would be like
If I lifted a quadrant of my skull
And let you eat the parts of my brain
that contain the memories of you.

I think you'd dive right in
Just to chew them up and spit it out.
you are the closest anyone will ever get to me
heavily destructive on my insides
yet never failing to cause millions of my particles to admire your presence

I will never succeed in being as close to you
as you are always keeping half of yourself hidden from the world

you are my super moon, and I am the earth
A supermoon is the largest full moon we see from earth as it is the closest the moon gets to us. It causes volcanic eruptions and heavy quakes but still causes millions to admire.
im that girl the he comes to in a moment of weakness
when you're at a stand still
when you won't give him what he wants
i slither betwixt the two of you and take care of what you wont
then once the water's calm and all is good
he's yours again, and i fade away
and as much as i'd like to think he once was...
he's never been
and never will be
mine.
i was feeling inspired when my ex was cheating on me about 6 months ago
Let me show you what a poet can do.
I'll write us a door so we can walk through.

See the words of pain,

Words so vain,
But never plain.
Words reverberate into your brain.
Words of a man so insane
Ink flows through his veins.

After we die,

Our voices will forever speak.

The willows so high,

Watch us sleep.

Forever stargazing,

We see through the soil.

Heart ever blazing,


Death, victory over turmoil.


Carpe Diem
Life, Is the first chapter in the empty tome.
Poetry, the true breakfast of champions.
I like a good laugh... I write dark but laugh lite.
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