Gabriella Jane

Gabriella Jane Oct 2013

Kiss me quick like the seconds of static
Before the needle hits the groove.

I sigh defeatedly when I am reminded of the last time
Your lips, brushed up against mine.

I am tired of watching this blue record spin
Now it only reminds me of your eyes

When will you ever learn?
When will you stop romanticizing things that hurt?

Gabriella Jane Oct 2013

p a r a l y z e d

picture you and I intertwined
picture you and I fusing at the seams
picture you and I consuming one another
picture something better
move on
nothing but faint memories
gasps
sighs
out loud
your fingertips were the worse thing to ever happen to me
they were
oh, they were
love me
paralyze me
you’ve snapped my spine
in more places than you ever known
left me immobile
stricken
stuck

Gabriella Jane Oct 2013

100

I kissed the air and knew you had never been here
maybe one day we would share the same air

If I yell from the highest building in my city
and you yell from the highest building in your city
Will the screams ever meet?
It's one hundred degrees and I can barely hear the record player over every fan thats blowing
I haven't moved all day
I'm starting to think this mattress has taken a real liking to me
Bringing me reoccurring dreams of you gently kissing my knees.

Sometimes these stitches get so tight
I can hardly open my mouth
all my wisdom teeth are falling out
So many unimportant things our bodies create
only to be removed
only to stop the pain.

Gabriella Jane Oct 2013

p u r g e

I seem to have sipped on too many glasses of your name
now it's all over the bathroom floor

Reduced to a puddle of "I'm sorry's" and "Oh no's"
My sadness is not a wound for you to heal
or scrapped knees for you to kiss

Bones brittle like your words
promises like radio static

I wish I knew the shades of your intentions
Your words in the dark.

— The End —