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h b r Apr 2017
there was nothing to say & you wouldn't shut up & you took me by my little hands & you dipped me in chocolate (talking all the way) & then i rose & i was bleeding & everything was sweet & there was nothing to say except let me take this too far let me choke on what we have done let me suffer like everyone wants to suffer let me live let me lie & let me walk along the line with my little hands swinging free & loud
h b r Apr 2017
little ruth

purple lipped
dot eyed
tire slicing
lithe and never lucid

tells you what to do in that buttoned up feather whisper voice of hers
                    laugh until you cough up blood
                               cry but do not yield
                                         pass through the enemy’s hands like a ship from a storm
                                                          roiling and twisting turning writhing frothing pitter patter
rain slicked heartbeat
drip fast
and far
fast and far and free

it drips to the stomps of their heavy feet
“why don’t you run like us?”
h b r Apr 2017
don't tell me i've changed

because i'm the same

you're the one who changed

and that's why this feels different



that's why i can feel

a little ribbon of hope

weaving in and out of my ribs

tickling like wild fire
h b r Apr 2017
bend around your words
give me wander room

show a little pride
look me straight between my laughter

at night
i breathe in water
it swishes through my capillaries
traces the edges of my elbows
cools and rests in my feet

               step
slosh

my mother looks concerned
she mops up the puddles i leave in my wake

down that river and back again
i sink and sink and sink
old works
h b r Apr 2017
you were the only thing
i wanted
no
to be wanted by you was
the only thing
i wanted

do you remember
when we hung like bats from the ceiling of
the lowest room in my house
you cast shadows across my
arms
pulled the nails from
my hands
stripped the skin from my arms
plucked my bones out and
watched my veins fray like wires

it hurt
it hurt and it felt like love

and then we were separated by
seven seas by
shallow forests by
melting ice caps by
dark blueish time

i was one thousand years from
you as you snapped up anything sweet
and in reach
i was suspended in the air
with three hundred other passengers
and not a single one knew
what was running racing pulsing
through my head
i was burning but there was something cold
and wet on my face
i was cracked wide open
crumpled right outside your door

then came the truth
and other things that hurt
that's all i want to say about that

but i'll always feel like
i didn't try hard enough
that it was me not you
that itcouldhaveworkedicouldhavemadeitwork

i think maybe i didn't want to
be enough
i wanted to be yours
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