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 Mar 2016 Haydn Swan
Mauve Maude
I hadn't been alone in so long,
I couldn't comprehend
How to be apart from you..
Still in love with you
And the idea of us.

Now that I'm here
I remember it well.
I'm settling in,
Pretending it feels like home.

I guess I can understand
The way you say you need to be
Alone / Detached / Without
But ..
Won't you miss me?
Haven't you a single doubt?

I admit,
I've been here before.
Before I met you..
Before I realized there was more.
She loved me with her hands like most.  Where my love is felt through the brush.
 Mar 2016 Haydn Swan
Alita
Ferment
 Mar 2016 Haydn Swan
Alita
I am starting to realize
That life is not as beautiful
or romantic
as I had always imagined.
I am growing in sadness.
I am growing up.
I think this is what my mother
tried to warn me about.
I hear your words through the confusion of the bubblegum jungle
Exploding and annoying syllables layered helplessly on the walls of graffiti infused concrete trees

The Rush St. preachers wailing sounds
of the end of world
"The apocalypse is coming, GOD be with y..."
Abruptly interrupted by another city ant walking by..
"Go to hell, you *******!!"
The preacher whispers to himself
"May God have mercy on his soul, Amen"

White City elites with turned up noses
on their Michigan Ave stroll
"Snobs" central passing by the homeless
as they whisper for change
sitting next to their leaky cardboard mansions

******* clad ladies of night
selling their *** to married men,
to whom are seeking to expel their worries
between the legs of the fallen
"Take that harder, harder"
Echoes of moans from the alley way
Cash for a minute of pleasure and gone

This bubblegum jungle will chew you up and spit you out
It doesn't seek retribution
It's only seeks hunger
Feeding off the weak and nimble
Leaving your bones on the bent and deserted sidewalks of the White City
cruel world
Not ordinary
Confused and hollowed
Trick the bottle
Poison swallowed
End of the day
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