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 May 2018 Erin
Lexie
You Want Me
 May 2018 Erin
Lexie
now i lay me down to sleep
i pray you take these tears i weep
oh these shadows that grow and stalk
tracing lines out of souls and talk

oh rest you have long been gone
everything is right and wrong
such is this that i would lay
upon these words where i have no say

that you would want me as i am
nothing else, what a foolish man
step away, i beg of you to run
leave me before the rising of the sun

she is a fool, and you want her still
but she is not able to bend her will
tell her such and she will deny all
but say her name and will answer the call

let her be, though never alone
the one star in the sky that still shone
when all among the dark of the abyss
calls to her like a final wish

catch her hand as she is on the edge
a wanderer just to find such a ledge
the wind pushing just to pull her down
put your heart into the earth and ground

let its roots grow to a tree
so that such a fool could see
you are love, and this is life
filled with bits of grace and strife

she says but a few things, just a word
though whispered they are still heard
you want me, i need you to need me
the way a heart needs to be free
 May 2017 Erin
Lexie
Blink
 May 2017 Erin
Lexie
I thought I had closed my eyes
For but I moment
In just that short a time
The night had fallen
Like a bird shot from the sky
The moon had crawled
Into place with the stars
And the sun ducked
Beneath the shy horizon
I waited.
With baited breath
The rooster would not crow
For many hours yet
And what does one
Twixt sunset
And sun birth
I called to the stars
And they winked back at me
Sang to the moon
Yet she howled back
Calling into the night
Every secret the night knows
And that was when i shut my eyes
Tight enough to block out the world
And long enough for the sun
To peek from the skyline
And they moon to carry
The next night over the edge
 Nov 2016 Erin
Lexie
Pissed
 Nov 2016 Erin
Lexie
If you leave me on read messages one more time I swear to the communication gods I will end you
 Nov 2016 Erin
Lexie
I Mourn My Soul
 Nov 2016 Erin
Lexie
Most days I survive
But it would be unkind
And sort of rude
If I did not take a day
Or a night here and there
Just to grieve
For the heart
Ripped from my chest
And the soul
****** from betweeen my toes
They were mine
And they were stolen
A blessing in a way
But still my nerves
Are frayed and split
And send messages to a brain
Overloaded with drugs
And fill with pain
So tonight a grieve
One candle lit
And one sleeve barred
Goodnight I say
Goodnight you sleep
But you will rest
While my skin weeps
 Nov 2016 Erin
Kaylee Lemire
I'm not an idiot.
I have faced your subtle rejection
as often as one's own breath;
the sting and recoil dull with each
understated devastation.

Believe me when I say
that I kick myself
dutifully.
A jaundiced bruise for
each time the familiar
feeling creeps and wells beneath
my goose-pimpled skin.

Today, you brushed my hand
a second too long.
The day before, you leaned
against the wall-- I undressed
you with my eyes.

God knows
why I read into these moments.
The butterflies
are just as soon ripped
wing from flimsy wing.

I'm not fatuous. But I'll
take tomorrow's lashings with
a smile. Call me your
masochistic romantic. Cringe in
my blushing face.
Leave it to me to find the
cliched glint in your dull eyes--
for I will always get off on
falsities before
settling for indifference.
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