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 Jul 2013 Jade Ivy
Morgan
Face Down
 Jul 2013 Jade Ivy
Morgan
Everyone's bumming cigs tonight
I've been bumming love all year
If bumming is using something that
doesn't belong to you, maybe bumming
is all I ever really knew how to do
You said I had to be good at something
Well there you ******* go
I'm pretty good at borrowing every limb on you
I drank so much *** tonight
That I curled up in the dirt
And waited for you to come cradle me
You can stand collected in the corner for the rest of the summer
But the look in your eyes
makes it pretty hard to hide
how sprawled out on the ground your mind is too
I'm in love with everything tonight
And your drunken slurs are just enough to get me by
I don't wanna think about 9-5 tomorrow
Because I don't want to resent every ******* here who doesn't know what a hang over feels like in a 90 degree restaurant
I can't figure out why misery is so lonely
So irritable when it can't find company
But if you don't ******* lie down next to me in this ***** yard
I'm going to climb right out of my skin and melt into this tall grass
I said I'd be counting the stars tonight
The second that shift was over
But I didn't calculate that face down is in the wrong direction
And I've been living face down for a while now
My friends are always making instruments out of their finger tips
I'm listening to them strumming solo cups and singing 'god is dead' around the beer pong table
I'm always making weapons out of my teeth
Here I am again spilling the contents of my skull all over your lap like I promised I wouldn't
I said,
We're a family
I really think that's true
And it's okay that I hate you
Because all families are misconstrued
Well,
I don't usually know what it is that I'm saying but I do know that I'm usually too drunk to be saying it
And I do know that I'm sick of the faded cigarette smell that lingers over the skin of my hands
And I'd drink bleach to kick the taste of liquor that lingers on my tongue
Because no one else can sense it but I am a grimy bar from the inside out and that's not what I said I wanted to be when I planned my life at age three
You tilted my chin back,
Tucked a strand of hair behind my ear,
Kissed my lips,
And whispered,
“Love you more.”
And in that moment,
All of the anchors that’d been holding me down
Weren’t a match for the rushing waves,
The salty sea,
Or the deep ocean floor.
She drained me
sad to say,
I'm not the man I used to be
she
used me up and threw me away
a waste
washed out with yesterday.

I'll recover
get over it
it hurts a bit
but that's nothing new.

Would you do that
take it all then knock me flat
Is this where
'this is where it's at?

She called me early,
5am
said something about
the usefulness of men.
I'll go back and once again
she'll use me
I get used to pain.
 Jun 2013 Jade Ivy
Edward Coles
The sun is soft this year.

It sits so still above the carpet of the clouds,
Bashful and modest
For its own resplendence.

How I understand Icarus,
And his moth-like lust for
Its motherly warmth.

How I wish to slip beneath its surface
And to find myself bathed in
Life and light.

How I would forgo the steel of the sea
And the cold blue of the sky
To return to the star that birthed me

And all of my love for words.
the sun romances the night sky
seeping its slow blue
into the wheeling starfeild
its own grandeur carousel fades
as the stars dulled by the dawn stray away
one by one they bid farewell to the day

dawn
her blushing bride endeavor
expanded to her full embrace horizon to horizon
leaves fine line lace of mist
on the water
and begins to warm to announce
the forthcoming of her proud man

noon approaches
thundering hoofs of furnace heat his stallion
his brow breaks with the sweat of his labor
pushing the sun up to her pedestal heights
so a breif rain sqaull rocks our ragtag little ship
noon throws lightening and makes such rousing appeal
but the younger sister approaches
and noon must forsake his place

the quiet seductress afternoon
with her hazy summer heat lulling
and her many sweet scents and sounds
lay with you in the grassy field and
makes love to you with dreams of everlasting summer
and remembrances of childhood carefree abandon

she calls out to her mother evening
who comes and with a mothers love cools your brow
suppertime and laughter with loved ones
gathered at the kitchen table
dream time in safe places of the soul

finally night comes
slipping in silent and swift
deep and quiet he is mystery
gathering of soldiers who fail to conquer
gathering of lovers who two by two not
only are the world but make it anew
with love and with children
now full circle we have come
on the spiral track of our days
as the sun romances the night sky
for alyssa
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