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482 · Jan 2015
Lone.
EP Mason Jan 2015
Midnight makes for musings
far more richer than the day
and when the day moves in
I beg for solemn sleep again
The kind of sweeter slumber
which rises, falls and greets
the comfort in the silence
and the tenderness of sleep
© Erin Mason 2015
479 · Jul 2013
My River
EP Mason Jul 2013
He was a river
he was my river
he was the depth of the sea and the beauty of the coral ocean
he was one who ran free
free, free and polluted was he
a shivering wreck drowning in the water
but he was my river
my raindrop
my globe
and he was clear enough for me
© Erin Mason 2013
474 · Dec 2013
You
EP Mason Dec 2013
You
I love the sound of a storming rain when I think about you
I love your lazy hazel eyes
and your hair, gone un-washed, un-brushed for four days

I love your misaligned teeth
grinding away inside a crooked, abstract mouth
I love your protruding nose
your ***** laugh
and your swollen chin

This is a poem not to romanticize you
you're far from perfect
everybody is
© Erin Mason 2013
(This poem was written quickly and roughly, hopefully emulating the overall message in the end)
EP Mason Jun 2014
So now tell me how your story goes.
Have you ever suffered?
If so, did you get better or have you never quite recovered from it?
Tell me what your worst fears are
I bet they look a lot like mine.
Tell me what you think about when you can’t fall asleep at night.
Tell me that you’re struggling.
Tell me that you’re scared.
No,
Tell me that you’re terrified of life.
Tell me that it’s difficult to not think of death sometimes.
Tell me how you lost.
Tell me how he left.
Tell me how she left.
Tell me how you lost everything that you had.
Tell me that it ain’t ever coming back.
469 · Jan 2014
Untitled
EP Mason Jan 2014
You are not a person,
******* it,
you are a nebula.
You don't have skin
you have island universes of stars
and your hands aren't hands
they're the whole ******* solar system branched out through your fingertips.

I can't look at you
without feeling like I'm spiralling through your galaxy
without losing breath
because after all
there's no oxygen in space

But the worst part is your eyes
those great opal voids
your infinite ******* chasms
that engulf me every time

And I always thought I'd be scared in space
like it's too big, too empty, too unexplored
but here I am
floating
not scared at all
© Erin Mason 2014
467 · Jun 2013
Night
EP Mason Jun 2013
I stood in the dark
I heard the wind roar
I noticed it scraping my cheek
I felt the rain on my skin
I shivered in the cold
I strained to see the stars
I strained to see light
I wondered for the purpose of night
I longed for the day again

I squinted my eyes against the turbulence of the air
I felt alone in the shiver
But after long in the darkness
I began to feel peace
solitude
atonement

I saw the first glimpse of day
the sun on the horizon
the first bird that breaks the tranquillity
the first rush of mornings
the fear of being late
the cry of the first newborn, awake at last
the roar of a car

And I realised
the silence of night, isn't so bad after all
© Erin Mason 2013
467 · Aug 2015
-
EP Mason Aug 2015
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You don't know your own strength
I don't think
you don't know how my head went calm
when I heard your heartbeat plummeting through your chest
you don't know how safe I felt
to be wrapped up in your arms
or how happy
to be listening to your nonsensical, drug addled talk
you didn't feel the current, the electric
when the tips of your fingers met me
or the caution I took when moving closer into you
or the breath that hitched when your eyes met mine
you don't know your own strength
when it comes to me
I hate having hopeless crushes l o l
EP Mason Jan 2014
If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand
Hope you find out what you are; already know what I am
And if it makes you less sad, we'll start talking again
You can tell me how vile I already know that I am
I'll grow old, start acting my age
It'll be a brand new day in a life that you hate
A crown of gold, a heart that's harder than stone
And it hurts to hold on, but it's missed when it's gone

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget

If it makes you less sad, I'll move out of this state
You can keep to yourself, I'll keep out of your way
And if it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down
Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out
It's cold as a tomb, and it's dark in your room
When I sneak to your bed to pour salt in your wounds
So call it quits, or get a grip
You say you wanted a solution; you just wanted to be missed

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget
So you can forget, you can forget

You are calm and reposed
Let your beauty unfold
Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones
Spring keeps you ever close
You are second-hand smoke
You are so fragile and thin, standing trial for your sins
Holding on to yourself the best you can
You are the smell before rain
You are the blood in my veins

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget
occasionally I will post the lyrics to songs which convey my thoughts better than I can.
EP Mason Oct 2014
they are not offensive, nor are they breaching any rules or guidelines...:(
460 · Jul 2013
One night in July
EP Mason Jul 2013
Under Indigo moon
and ****** White sky
I lost myself, one night in July

The wind it did gush
and the stars they did soar
your eye was my eye
your hand was my floor

I thought about you
and I thought about me
how I felt
like a tide
in a whirlpool at sea

The colours did deepen
in that garden of mine
like my deep lucid dreams
that night in July

The months linger on
and the more they do move
I feel myself pulling out
further from you

And the whishing tongue wishes
on Indigo moon
not to drown in July
but to float back to June
© Erin Mason 2013
459 · Mar 2014
Untitled
EP Mason Mar 2014
Why do I keep on
                          making mixtapes, and writing verses
                                                          ­          and detailing 10 page letters
                                                         ­                                      you will never receive?
© Erin Mason 2014
452 · Feb 2014
More like Miles Halter
EP Mason Feb 2014
I will simply
fade
out of your arms
float
out of your eyes
seep
out of your blood
drift
out of your mouth
leak
out of your mind
drip
out of your memory

*forever the drizzle, never the hurricane
© Erin Mason 2014
449 · May 2014
her
EP Mason May 2014
her
By crimson candlelight
she's awoken
lissom and lithe
and softly spoken
the smallest shadow of a girl
cracked inside the cavities of the world

I left her sleeping in willows and reeds
but she's still dancing in my dreams
all tangled hair and braided spine
I'd tether the stars to call her mine

My flowers wilted and my summers cold
she'll stay like spring when the months grow old
I wish for her hands to be close to mine
and I wouldn't let her leave this time

I could never see her go
she stays in spring, before the snow
I watch her dance while I'm alone
in a light
far brighter than I'd ever known
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Jan 2014
Robert Frost was right
nothing gold can stay
I wish I still had the sunshine
I stared at yesterday
I wish you were perplexing
I wish it were untrue
but now I cannot deny
that I curse the day I fell in love with you
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Jul 2014
Not quite auburn hair
amongst the tiny daisy plants
beautiful smile
my God you're beautiful
now you're laughing and smoking
****, you're beautiful.
© Erin Mason 2014
446 · Apr 2014
Name
EP Mason Apr 2014
Your name
like my teeth grew feet and danced across my lips
swirled and spun like your cigarette smoke
grasps my throat and cuts me up
and sews me back so gently
never has it caressed my mind
only stormed through it
but it floats through my breath
and chatters on my teeth
and growls and moans and
melts away into the air
and my sleepy eyes will search for yours
behind smoke and stupid words
my favourite of these being
your name
© Erin Mason 2014
445 · Jan 2014
need *trigger warning*
EP Mason Jan 2014
I have no tools
where are my tools
I need them now

But now I remember
I threw them away last month
when I told myself I didn't need them anymore
when I said to myself that it didn't matter anymore
that the white lines that lie on my hips and drew blood when I opened them
didn't matter
anymore

But they do
they matter now
and I need my tools back
I need my hand shaking when I flip open the sharp end
I need the colour red to neutralize the blue in my eyes
I need them back again
more than I did last month
© Erin Mason 2014
444 · Sep 2013
A crescent of your love
EP Mason Sep 2013
A crescent of your love
is all I do request
not the full moon you have offered her
and all the beating heart inside your chest

You give your swain a starlit sky
And paint blue to a Sunday morning as time goes by
I'll scrape the dust of a star from a single one
and admire from afar, the glisten in your eye
like given unto her, that Sunday sun.
© Erin Mason 2013
EP Mason May 2014
I'm looking for a way to tell you that
you're the nicest abundance of chaos
I have ever known
and to write it is nice because
even if we still get some years left
you'll still read this
and know
© Erin Mason 2014
442 · Dec 2013
smile
EP Mason Dec 2013
Stop smiling
you smug *******
I think you know how much I love that smile

Next time you do that
I'll dismantle your ivory jaw
I'll kiss it
and break it apart
so it fits
inside my heart
© Erin Mason 2013
439 · Mar 2014
Place to be (Nick Drake)
EP Mason Mar 2014
When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older--see it face to face
And now I'm older--gotta get up clean the place

And I was greener, greener than the hill
Where flowers grew and sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day is done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh so weak in this need for you
There is no tortured soul I connect with more than Nick Drake. He is the soundtrack to the abysmal life.
438 · Aug 2013
Maps (Jack's poem)
EP Mason Aug 2013
Sunburnt smoke, inhaling you
makes me choke on the words I drew
arms are warm in Friday sun
take me with you when we're done

Borrowed clothes and broken bones
sweaty palms on bus rides home
I'll find comfort in your hands
your heart's a map and I'm making plans

Crumbled ashes haze in grey
alone again for another day
I'll wait for sunshine to melt the snow
but your map's still too far for me to go

Headphones hum a lullaby
an old hello, now a new goodbye
and any darkness I once knew
will covet skies a shade of Blue
© Erin Mason 2013

A poem I wrote to accompany my friend's college artwork. About her boyfriend, Jack.
436 · Jun 2015
haiku
EP Mason Jun 2015
Letting go of you
was the hardest thing I've done
staying there was worse
435 · Mar 2014
damn
EP Mason Mar 2014
You're like that song I love
but it's in the wrong pitch for me to sing

The way of painting I could
never quite grasp

The prettiest word that won't
roll off my tongue coherently

The ring I always lose

All the things I want to bask in
but just can't understand

The sun I can't stare into.
© Erin Mason 2014
435 · Jun 2013
Home
EP Mason Jun 2013
My home is not where my heart is
I have no home at all
I have a box made out of bricks
I have some ceilings and some walls
I have curtains, I have windows
I have carpets on some floors
I have tables, I have chairs
I have handles on some doors

But I don't have any comfort
there is a lack of ease
A ''home'' is one that's caring
with warmth against a breeze

I am alone in my box of bricks
with the distant sound of pain
with the ghostly sound of memories
and the drumming beat of rain

I am grateful for these things
but it's a house, and nothing more
For if there is no love to fill it
then it's not a home at all
© Erin Mason 2013
422 · May 2014
Del Rey
EP Mason May 2014
blue jeans
white shirt
walked into the room you know
you made my eyes burn

so kiss me hard before you go
421 · May 2014
Brand new revisited
EP Mason May 2014
If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand
Hope you find out what you are; already know what I am
And if it makes you less sad, we'll start talking again
You can tell me how vile I already know that I am
I'll grow old, start acting my age
It'll be a brand new day in a life that you hate
A crown of gold, a heart that's harder than stone
And it hurts to hold on, but it's missed when it's gone

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget

If it makes you less sad, I'll move out of this state
You can keep to yourself, I'll keep out of your way
And if it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down
Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out
It's cold as a tomb, and it's dark in your room
When I sneak to your bed to pour salt in your wounds
So call it quits, or get a grip
You say you wanted a solution; you just wanted to be missed

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget
So you can forget, you can forget

You are calm and reposed
Let your beauty unfold
Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones
Spring keeps you ever close
You are second-hand smoke
You are so fragile and thin, standing trial for your sins
Holding on to yourself the best you can
You are the smell before rain
You are the blood in my veins

Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not
I'm glad that you can forgive, only hoping as time goes, you can forget
The most important song to me in the world.
EP Mason Dec 2013
Stretch the blue veins that frame the lithe skin under my eyes
I can't stand them anymore

'' I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years ''

Oh how true that is
but I mustn't
all these thoughts circle and spin around the curves and the fleshy bulbs of my brain

Honestly
it's a ****** miracle
I'm not already insane.
© Erin Mason 2013
416 · Mar 2014
Journal extract (16-03-14)
EP Mason Mar 2014
Love makes you do really stupid things. Love makes you go to the florist to buy a dozen red roses when you have hay fever. Love makes you stay in the cinema watching the film when you feel like your bladder is going to explode, only because her head is on your shoulder and she looks so **** beautiful. Love makes you half an hour late for work in the morning and in trouble with your company because you had to kiss him goodbye five more times. Love makes you buy houses you can't afford and do jobs you don't really like, just so they can have a good life. Love is stupid and I don't know why people do it. I don't know why I do it.
© Erin Mason 2014
414 · Jan 2014
what I learnt in 3 weeks
EP Mason Jan 2014
I appreciate travelling
the blur of a road
the burning of a sun
and the smell of the rain

I appreciate the wind breathing new life into my soul
and the prospect of growing tired and old

But if travel means moving
moving away
and there I go pushing out further from you
then a statued stance is what I will withhold
from now until the end of time
and the road will never blur
nor the sun burn away
nor the rain fall
nor the wind sway me back
nor will my heart wither and die
© Erin Mason 2014
406 · Jul 2013
A natural echo
EP Mason Jul 2013
You're a tree
you're a beautiful mahogany tree
you can wave your branches when the wind allows you
you can shed your leaves and grow some more
you can breathe your love to those who surround you
but rest assured
they'll cut you down

Now you're a human
you're a beautiful human being
you can wave your hands when society allows you
you can change yourself into something more
you can share your love to those who surround you
but those people
*they'll still tear you down.
© Erin Mason 2013
401 · Apr 2014
Ode to W
EP Mason Apr 2014
And now we're back here again
after 5 months
light hair and
green eyes
never really left my mind
a whole weekend spent
repairing what was lost before
what we can't get back but
we can try

And you're not James Dean
no matter how many times
you try to get me to admit it.
But at midnight
you held me like Jim Stark anyway.

I'm glad I went to see you
so I know
you can still kiss me in the same way
© Erin Mason 2014
399 · Nov 2013
Perfect
EP Mason Nov 2013
I never liked crazy hair
before you
and I never liked those gothic trouser chains
that you wear so well
And now I love every pimple on your face
every crack in your voice
every string you break on your old guitar
and everything in between

I hope one day you'll love the gap in my teeth
my crooked nose
my manic laugh
and the lumps in my flesh
every inch of me
the way I love you
© Erin Mason 2013
396 · Jan 2014
Quite the honest quatrain
EP Mason Jan 2014
It's okay if you hate me
I'd hate me too
but even if you killed me
I'd still like you
© Erin Mason 2014
394 · Jan 2014
untitled
EP Mason Jan 2014
This world is big
and I am small
yet my troubles still stand ten feet tall
here I lie in a broken jungle
lay down those leaves like you laid down me
and all I want is these trees to be broken down
it's the only natural destruction I'd be happy to advocate
© Erin Mason 2014
390 · Apr 2014
o
EP Mason Apr 2014
o
The flame to my heart is held by a girl
but she doth burn too lowly
her fire flickers slowly
and she trembles like aspen
if only-

she knew that her smile
could birth worlds anew
and her colours in her eyes
could shatter an opal's abounding hue
the way she shatters her wrists
against a china sink
and watches the blood run away with the water

She is so beautiful
all fallow and fawn
and coffee breath and unfriendly scorn
and chapped lips that I would kiss
I would

I tell her the stars will implode in their final hour
and they will all cry out her name
but she cannot notice the star riddled skies
under dark clouds and thunderous rain
© Erin Mason 2014
385 · May 2014
h.c
EP Mason May 2014
h.c
I think about you often
skin as soft as knives
but I'd cut my hands right off
just to touch your cheek again
And my lips would spill crimson
to kiss yours

I would drain my blood for you
© Erin Mason 2014
385 · Aug 2015
untitled
EP Mason Aug 2015
Like the dregs of January snow
under February rain
or fruitless trees
I have come to die

I was not meant to go beyond
the end of Spring
for that was when love all withered
and life became long

I'd like to say I could survive
a summer's day alone
but it is more like being lost
somewhere cold

And the sun does not warm me
the sea does not calm me
I only dream of spring
and until all is ended
to that blossom stem I cling
380 · Feb 2014
Two years
EP Mason Feb 2014
At the lecture
of Philosophical means
I saw you again
it's been two years, hasn't it?
Yes, it has.

You look very different now
you wear glasses
and you're skinny
and your cheekbones are refined
but it's been two years, hasn't it?
Of course, of course you have changed

I glanced
I didn't smile
I glanced the whole day through
the same smile
the same eyes
the same arched eyebrow
I couldn't help but miss you

I think from time to time
how things would be
if I hadn't ruined things
it wasn't you, I know it was me
two years ago I hurt people
two years ago I loved you
two years
and I still miss you

Now we live different lives
and there we met again
I with my peers and you and your friends
subtle glances
silent thoughts
of how things would have been
after two years
of singular
once one year of one entity

At the end of the day
the rain began to fall
and I walked past you
trying not to notice at all
and you walked away in a distant haze
and I watched you
in the February rain
two years of unanswered questions
now still do remain
two years
and counting
two years
stays the same
© Erin Mason 2014
376 · Jul 2013
Old friend
EP Mason Jul 2013
I'm just sad, that's all
too sad to fall
asleep at night
to take a flight
to see a dream
my sadness seems
the pinnacle of my
unmade bed
my restless head
when all is said
and all is done
perhaps I'll run
away again
back to my sleepless sorrow
until tomorrow
my old friend
© Erin Mason 2013
EP Mason Apr 2014
I don't give enough to take back what I own
my stories are told out of broken homes
I could be a bit better if I **** off this ghost
I'm alone.

I bleed from the inside,
and I won't tell anyone
I'm nowhere to find,
but I couldn't care it all.
Live like a ghost to keep me from talking, til' you notice where I'm at,
'cause I couldn't care at all.

Nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run to when nobody listens.
I'm just a liar that's tired of trying
I'll pick myself apart cause I couldn't care at all.

I'm sick, I'm sick of waiting.
355 · Dec 2013
luna lens
EP Mason Dec 2013
I still look at you
and think
you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen
even though you've never really seen me
not really
© Erin Mason 2013
354 · Mar 2014
Journal extract (04-03-14)
EP Mason Mar 2014
My cold feet cannot be warmed
in the fire that is my heart
© Erin Mason 2014
352 · Feb 2014
Journal entry (15-02-14)
EP Mason Feb 2014
00:01
I feel sick now and awfully lethargic. I think I may die. I am going to sleep.

00:23
I was being dramatic. I shan't die... not yet, anyway.
But someday I will, and so will you. Your pages will rot and melt into the ground, and no one will read you. And your paper will grow into trees and my words the leaves, and won't they be blown by the wind, and those leaves die? But that is words, and thoughts, and feelings. They are not everlasting, but they are certainly thought again, and felt again, and said again, and again, and again...
© Erin Mason 2014
350 · Jul 2014
25th
EP Mason Jul 2014
Now I see the light
I want the darkness back
© Erin Mason 2014
349 · Feb 2014
Journal entry (26-02-14)
EP Mason Feb 2014
The easiest person to hate is yourself. To loathe yourself in your head. Who is going to disagree with you? Certainly not you. You hate yourself too.
© Erin Mason 2014
341 · Jun 2013
Space and Time
EP Mason Jun 2013
A scientist scopes the cosmos
dreaming of the voyage to Mars
But he who waits for the sun to rise
will never know the beauty of the stars
© Erin Mason 2013
331 · Jul 2014
Untitled
EP Mason Jul 2014
I once knew someone
who'd sew thorns into their sleeve
and shake everybody's hand
leaving them with blood
seeping through their skin
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Nov 2013
I wish you loved me
the way you love her.
© Erin Mason 2013
321 · Jan 2014
the ghost of a happy past
EP Mason Jan 2014
I feel like a ghost
I'm sure I am
I float through wall to wall
and no one ever sees me
I paint myself bright
and no one ever sees me
I look into their eyes
and they look right through me
maybe I should stay black and white
so they don't feel haunted by me
© Erin Mason 2014
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