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Eriko Jul 2018
Fold into those
Who cherish
Close to their hearts
Eriko Jul 2018
Tall sky scrapers with pale blue
And white exteriors
Catching the sun’s rays
With an array of glittering reflections
Like the scales of a fish
Shimmering with iridescent vigor
Low-ceiling bridges
Hubbub of human activity
Busy, commuting, engaged
In conversations as they
Zig zagged
Through the broken pavement
Dappled with sunlight
Eriko Jul 2018
to fall into gentleness
to speak with a look
to sink with
a cosmic stillness
Eriko Jul 2018
To carry a big heart
To open more
To feel more
To give more

To believe
To sacrifice
To dream

To be exposed
To teeter
To be shaken
Eriko Jul 2018
I refuse to be eaten up by nothing
By the coercion ******* the flowers
Rooted in my lungs
The heat from my cheeks
The dazzling fierceness which
Propels me to bounce to
The ***** of my feet every morn,
Burning like a furnace that in my rib cage.
I tire of hiding my teeth
Of living in lukewarm tragedy
Of living a crescent life
Granted, the rain pelts ******* hard
With a terror that threatens
To buckle my knees
My thoughts at most times stings
Like a hive of angry, angry bees
And my sight becomes hollow
Or I shatter inside
An extremity,
Channeling the world
Into saturated hues,
Sickly and taught with
A crackling tension
My heart thunders in that dangerous way
My palms sweat with
Static energy
My tears beg for them, to me,
To stop
Yet, I continue to climb
To touch the sky when day
Folds into night,
When there are those perfect
Pockets of light
When the golden rays kiss
Where it hurts
When the world tilts into magic
When I know where there is so much beauty,
A naked, honest beauty,
She rules from her throne
At a moment of in between,
I know, too
I will be okay
With myself constantly shifting
From full, to crescent, to nothing
But always, eventually,
To something
Eriko Jul 2018
The weight, the tug
The pains which lace
The thoughts which peck
The eyes which thwart
The inner caches
Shift under light
Collecting change,
Giving more away
~A window,
A candle aflame
A breath of summer sweets
Rushing in the chest
Still under renovation
Paint the walls anew
Settle in down with wild flowers
A buzz of bees,
A trickling creek
Build a skylight
Allow the night to heal
A heart to be
A heart to grow
A heart to cup
With warmth
Eriko Jul 2018
I’m small
I’m nothing
I’m not but a speck

I click and rattle
Each waking moment
Clink, clink

Yet with each breath
I bubble with mirth
I paint a dream

I reach
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