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Jun 2017 · 261
Indivisible
Jack Savage Jun 2017
I wish so much to be
Indivisible
A tie without ties
A dog without a dive

I feel like a rusted fork
In the beauty that binds
So much red and orange
To something so lacking
I still feel as sharp as ever
But am I?
Jun 2017 · 273
Wretch
Jack Savage Jun 2017
Collapsed in thrash
A post dusk dance
Where fickle whispers
Dare not doth ask
Digress, thumbing some
Of their finest cask
I'll ask myself
Dare not whispers doth ask

"What the **** are you doing?"

Laid with three
Just this week
Father's Cancer
Shan't I speak
Best friend's a child
So dull, so Bleek

Why do I seek to swerve
Where others swerve to seek

"Your life's a proper mess."

A diligent instrument
Succumbed to drink and spit
His nightly dance,
Thumb in cask
No longer feels so intimate
An idiot reflecting idiots

"I thought attractive people,..."

You finally made it
You Wretch
Jun 2017 · 430
Idk
Jack Savage Jun 2017
Idk
I acquit the rest
At my request
Only I, attest,
That my betrothed,
no longer within
My influence; behest
As I scout for a safe, I arrest
The ideas that keep floating
That I detest
Once the best
And never the best
Once best goes
You're part of the rest
There is nothing left

I thought I'd know
That once fire blows
You're as good as snow
Go, go.
You'd rather poke
Me with needles
Than garnish a sew
May 2017 · 233
A Slave's Paradox
Jack Savage May 2017
Engraved in the saved slave's heart
Is a mark before marks,
With chains laiden dark
Does weight really matter
When you('ve) never a start

I should feel freedom
Where I see wandered eyes
It's a shame I can see them,
Glares besting ice

The only tools I had I used to build You up
And now that tools I haven't
What tools can I use to build myself
My future, my family, my strength.

It's a blessing to be a free
But I do not get free blessing
Because those that horde it
Savor the chessing

Free?
I am not free.
And you,
You gave me nothing.
Apr 2017 · 1.4k
Silt & Sand
Jack Savage Apr 2017
Love.

Love, is an ocean.
Echoes in, forever, motion

Love, is a breath
Too deep, to chest

You asked me what Love was, once,...
& I, knew naught thereof


Well,
Are you a puddle,
or an ocean?

When those that you love
throw rocks,
do they fall
to silt or sand?

Can you,
under storm,
feel the calm,
as it falls deep

Because if you embodied Love
arms out, stretched
shore to shore

& you took the sun,
as you took the storms

Knowing everything
thrown at you,
it'd all fall
to the floor

where darkness
takes hand
to make it all
just, no more

For when you find,
your silt & sand
you'll rest easy,
with the done
& what can

& the second,
you see him,
It'll feel like
you've never felt love before,..

Because you're okay,
knowing pain,
is soon sand
Apr 2017 · 542
DMT
Jack Savage Apr 2017
DMT
"See you soon."
He says
Two set of knuckles
Leading me blind

I bellow it out
alike  
a forge,
out temple..

Pftffffffffffffffffffff

Coy,
Sunlight fades
as I begin
to steep
in the shade

Blackness,
like mist,
nearly pixelating
my daze

I'm blind,
I'm falling,
I've died,
Still,
same place

A tickle
of color
splashed trickle
in space

Playing
in front of
my eyes with
no face

This sprite
is electric
This Nymph holds
my gaze

To and fro
this vividity
does go
spinning and
swirling
Oh, what
a show

And then it
creates such
colossals
of glow

The colors
so vibrant,
with some I
don't know
This bright
neon orchestra
might be,..

Symphony.

Diamonds.

With eyes,
so alien,
akin flys,
I see

A figure,
no face,
pirouettes,
my treat

A sapphire balet,

next, a green man
whose stare
seldom left me
but (he) did sit, and
not stand

Entrapment
ensues, as I
couldn't choose
in-between, said,
sat man,
or falling
for blues
This one was harder for me to write, as I literally fail to fully encumber this experience in words.
Apr 2017 · 305
Ocean
Jack Savage Apr 2017
Give me a chance,
in this dance we dance
Tiptoes round future,
present, the past

Let your hero,
be my name
All secrets,
kept safe..

Because,..

Darling,
you're the only one I've ever loved,..

I can be your knight,
or night,
or day when day's bright,
Be there to know
when you feel alive
need light
or when tails of dresses wander,..

round corners
and you can barely breath,
[no room, all eyes]

I'm yours.
my love,
built
as shores,

And when I
Look at you,..
Oh, when I
Look at you

I see
an Ocean,
Both crashing
and calm

And I'll love it,

Like I love you
Apr 2017 · 1.3k
Passion
Jack Savage Apr 2017
Passion?
You want to see Passion?

Passion is the lust I feel
watching a dew's refraction
on a petal so vibrant,
and so placed,
that it could not be placidity I feel,
But Excitement.

Passion is when you tell me
to *******,
and pull your hair
I slow down
because
I Mean It

Passion is that flooding spark,
the moment a match
becomes gas,
when I feel
invincibly
collapsed into
An Epiphany

You don't know passion.
Because if you did
You'd know it's not just a glory
I entice,
but equally
A Gore

Passion is having your heart broken,
and looking to the floor
a devastation
Wailing as you feed
your intestines back
inside of yourself
Craving forgiveness
and receiving
Futility

Passion is hearing a song
that rips you to a moment
so far away
and so irrelevant
you feel breathless,
a coward,
and that one moment
that once kept you lit
becomes something
You Can't Control

Passion,...

Passion is a curse,
a bias,
a crutch

As equal,
a gift
Apr 2017 · 457
Drift
Jack Savage Apr 2017
Ought once,..
Nine times,
wasting nine lives
in the process of falling
through satin space
to feel a wimb
of womb in you,
you said.
I erred, quite more than thrice,
to vice,
one being my vice round you.
Now, pulled apart,
I lay, plastic gripping sea foam,
rocking in waiting for this vice I have on you
to end so galely.
Alcohol depraved,
sweating nights,
are the only lethal comparison I feel I have
having to,
just,
let,
go,
of you.
I know I can be
a tide,
a quake,
a storm,
a snake,
but that doesn't mean that I don't cherish you. Love you...
(I) Dream of a future,
one where we could nurture
more dreams that would ensue.
I know you're not perfect,
and everytime I ****** up,
you gave me arms I craved,
and gave me the clarity you knew I deserved because you showed me
that we were worth it...
You don't deserve someone's best,
by getting their worst.
Their worst
should be monuments above the worst
of the worse,
and what's worse
is I get that know now..
not then,
and only now
do I wish
now, then,
and then, now.
Apr 2017 · 931
Mantle
Jack Savage Apr 2017
Echoes in ash
Sit here silent as masks
Staring right back
Through my hyperbole past

The fire, did warm me
The whiskey, did sew me
Thread, falls from my collapse
As whispers of mourning

Portraits of you, next
What you've become
One's strokes, so vivid
The other, rotund

Ashes to echos
I wonder if he knows
What, all,
He left behind

A fog of limbs
Eyes in mist
Is there,
After, life

Rocks; crack, stumble
In glass: of tumble
As red leather,
Made company

Ashes, the echoes
Of what was
Once, but
No more
For Nanu.

My grandfather was cremated last year. I imagine myself in the one red leather chair I always saw him seated in, reflecting on him now, up there, on the mantle.
Apr 2017 · 723
Be Strong
Jack Savage Apr 2017
It's so hard
In context
to be there for you.
I paint a canvas
for you
black but full.
Why can't you come here
come near
1,2,3,4
I've forgotten
who you are.
Sing the songs,
follow the lyrics,
become a pleb,
and drink as if it were pretend.
Mar 2017 · 475
Runaway.
Jack Savage Mar 2017
From the first time
I watched you
Walk away from me.

To the last time
I could feel you
Next to me.

You had love
For leaving things
Undone.

Like a fire,
In the summer sun,
You took the best of me.

I wish I knew
What I know today
You can't give hope
To a runaway.
It's further, honey,
Not closer,
Comin'.
And,
You're getting further
Every day.

On the side
Of the road
You made a getaway.

The devil slows down,
To let you in,
Met with a devil's grin.

Chin held high,
Sweet lies, disguised
To make it
Easier for you,
To do what
You feel you
Have to do
Mar 2017 · 823
When I Grow Old
Jack Savage Mar 2017
Please, don't speak
I've heard too much
I can't go back
To the way I thought

You lied to me
Told me boy  
You have infinity
Hold onto dreams
You'll always be

You now tell me,
That I grow Old?
And I die Weak?
In a Bed?
Where I can't Speak?

I will never see
The man I'll be
Before I'm free

Naught die alone
I 'll be alive
Beneath the stone

And you'll have me,
Wherever you go.
Mar 2017 · 649
Cast
Jack Savage Mar 2017
I want to breathe in
I want to speak
To your body
Like nobody else

I want to feel
I want to feed
Your Fire
Like nobody else

I saw the silhouette you left
Cast through my cigarette
As I said nothing
I felt all of it
Mar 2017 · 745
admin
Jack Savage Mar 2017
Sits there weeping swept eyes
Rose red ire and sin
Stark nightcrawler within

Button push, does, don't
White lights flood both
Swept eyes, love notes

You've got a problem...

No news, no use
Arm's already at it
Echoes in the attic

Stirs smoke, can't choke
Won't know till she's home
But she's not coming back
Aug 2016 · 345
Glass
Jack Savage Aug 2016
A bit of glass in his hand...,
Helped those brittle bones keep walkin' out.

A lake at the bottom of all that he was,
They said "You'll soon forget it all."
"..You'll just grow out of it."

Living in darkness,
The deep end could never be
Close enough                  
                   Close enough.

He could stomach the running,
But the rye took his money
Away from him

He doesn't care if he's hungry.
The past fills him up like
Champagne.

So he asked,

"What good is water, if it's not on fire?"

"It helps so much."
                           "...so much..."
                                     "...so much."

Dancing in puddles,
Every shallow wave breaking him.
Here come the whispers;
Run River, Run.


"Just,..."
"...Just one more glass and then..."
One of my songs' lyrics.
Much about the ethereal abandonment felt through alcoholism
Aug 2016 · 377
Anvil
Jack Savage Aug 2016
Your lies; anvils.
Been beaten into me by both sides.

Both shoulders;  Scully/Moulder.
Knew, here/then, something always lay in both eyes.

Lions on lions; pride over pride.
You sipped the straw. Stared at him.
My forced convoluted self-sacrifice.
Am I Seattle? O' sleepless? Save it.
Night after night.

This is not worth it; dirt.
So when you wake up [with]
[Morrow's coffee; my t-shirt],
I'll already be,

Dusk; gone and over it.
Jan 2015 · 267
2012
Jack Savage Jan 2015
Dear sweet leaves

I miss your screams

Pouring out Seattle's green.
Aug 2014 · 969
Sultry Sundry
Jack Savage Aug 2014
I want to sip your sultry sundry,
seething at the very sight of you,
knowing our skin could never be close enough.

I want to embrace the wave that is you,
holding you over me as if a sheet,
knowing I could never be warmer.
Jul 2014 · 561
Fucking, Kendall.
Jack Savage Jul 2014
I want to whisper words that echo timelessly throughout your whimsical world and tell you everything's going to be okay.
Lay you down and hear the sound of soft and effervescent love.
Will you stand juxtaposed at my supposed opposing opinion?
I need your love.
I need your life.
Without it time is pointless.
Careless.
Endless.
Jun 2014 · 413
86
Jack Savage Jun 2014
86
Insanity soothes me,
Smooths me over,
Keels and kills
The pain of normality.
This breath I breathe,
Comes with it a seething grain of salt,
A grain I'd rather see crumble,
in the stumbling bumbling idiosyncrasy,
you call a ******* culture,
Choke.
Jun 2014 · 434
12W
Jack Savage Jun 2014
12W
Subtly speak, rhythmically.
Don't denote and choke an opportunity.
Live, Chase, Breathe.
Jun 2014 · 289
5W
Jack Savage Jun 2014
5W
Let me be your
p  o  i  s  o  n
Jun 2014 · 469
.
Jack Savage Jun 2014
.
Bend and fold your old words around me.
A scold told ages ago won't slight me, Stupid.
And to think,..
What a fickle and scattered little whimpering ******* you're becoming.
Do you think time becomes you?
You're just a toy.
A boy whose poise forever resembles a man with a head full of noise.
Don't put that **** on me, kid.
Nov 2013 · 907
Red Dress.
Jack Savage Nov 2013
I'm not fibbing,
when I say I need a defibrillator
to restart my heart
and close my jaw
that jaw-dropped to the ground
and left my head heavy
and my lungs breathless
all because,
I saw you in red.
Oct 2013 · 501
Let.
Jack Savage Oct 2013
I read somewhere that the brain can't handle randominity.
I guess that's why i drew you in the pages next to me.
To utter the whimsical words that one would stutter motherly.

You are the heir to air to the fog that blinds me.
And I can't let you go.
Sep 2013 · 817
Mine(D)
Jack Savage Sep 2013
frail. awestruck. being. lacking. momentum. further. closer. ripping. numb. cold. blank. pages. white.

think. light. calm. weird? angry. alone. down. and out. over. done with. dyer. hostile. violent. dying.

                                                         ­                 OBSESSION


                                ­                                          Overwhelming

fool. hopeless. romantic. dust. gullible. dependent on love. a superfluous feeling.
                                                                ­                                                                 ­                 ****  it.
Sep 2013 · 583
Futurama
Jack Savage Sep 2013
I guess it's just us,
For all eternity


-Leila
Futurama's Final Episode!! WHAT?!!!
This show was seriously more funny, in my opinion, than all the simpsons, or Seth Mcfarlane shows.
It's a ******, this boasts my childhood, and with it ending, i seriously feel a part of me dying, saying, "The world you knew, is now over."

Truly Sentimental thoughts for a tv show, but what gives?
****'s cool.

..then South Park comes on,..... **** me...
Sep 2013 · 580
IRed
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Why am I alone,
Up late
With a bottle of my wine?
Sitting here,
Thinking I'm the ******* problem.

Who the **** are you?
No texts?
No calls?

You led my hand,
To hope, like a dying dog
To a forest.
And tried to leave me there.

You're a coward.
You're a blight.
And Tonight,
I'll dine alone.

Red in my mouth,
and red in my mind.
Red on my lips,
like I've read your mind.
I feel sick.
I love Smoked Wines. and I hate ****** people.
Sep 2013 · 385
Fourteen
Jack Savage Sep 2013
If you really
******* believed in love
the words
wouldn't always
be
an action.
Sep 2013 · 492
Ten
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Ten
i have no future
filled with laughter
only contradicting
satisfaction
Sep 2013 · 364
Eleven
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Hello
crazy happy
a toast to you
and all
your giving
Sep 2013 · 296
Nine
Jack Savage Sep 2013
My storms turn White
When Your hand
Touches Mine.
Sep 2013 · 305
Untitled
Jack Savage Sep 2013
My whole world
can be described
by my addiction
to you
Sep 2013 · 487
Red Waltz
Jack Savage Sep 2013
If the Devil asks you to dance,
You best remember to say Never,
Because a dance with the Devil,
Might last you Forever.
Sep 2013 · 529
7w
Jack Savage Sep 2013
7w
Your Contagious Laughter
Is Catching my Breath.
Sep 2013 · 590
Drug
Jack Savage Sep 2013
I Just wish,
          I could have Been,


                                                         ­              THE DRUG,


                                                       ­                                                                 ­                   That Caught,
                                                                ­                                                                 ­                        Your Attention.
Sep 2013 · 370
17W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
17W
Memories,
        Haunt me like playful Ghosts.
I can Never,
        Get used to Things that Scare me.
Sep 2013 · 564
BackSeat
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Stenches Swarm as I Flee.
Further is Closer, but Closer can't be.
I'm trying to hide from my own Misery.
This is not just an Excerpt; A Moment; A Thing.
Home is so ******* Far away.
Amidst these Beings, I am Forever alone.

As I Run through my City,
With arms so depraving,
I turn to the sky,
Now Scorched by their screams.
Their caustic teeth,
Slowly Sink into me.
A Carving so starving,
A Man, it could not be.

Dance, lover, dance,
Back, thrown from the chance,
That I might just Taste you,
And Submerge you in Hands.
Hands from the victims,
Now quick with demands.

Your Sweat wets the floor,
Your Blood Bank, A dried Store.

Drip,
        Drip,
                Drip,

You should have checked the Backseat.
This a short narrative poem about a Man in the process of becoming undead.
Sep 2013 · 380
7W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
7W
Throw your
Arms to
The broken
Hearted.
Sep 2013 · 383
8W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
8W
Forever
To
Perish
Lies
The
Audience
Of
Love.
Sep 2013 · 341
5W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
5W
Live your dream,
                             And Die.
Sep 2013 · 346
15W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
15W
I                                Up
  still
        have                  
                some
                        tricks        
                                        my
                                              sleeve
                                                         that
                                                                could
                                                                                     you
                                                                                            off
                                                                                                 your
                                                                                                         feet.
                                                                        **Sweep
Sep 2013 · 335
13W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
13W
Let's Set our hearts on Fire,
The burn will keep them from bleeding.
Sep 2013 · 840
Springs
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Soft mountain springs.
Rushed river flow.
Fish flounder down stream.
Birds chase fish.

Grace, dives on a string.
Through water's skin.
Rubberband back.
Heartbeats in flight.

Thriving for landing.
Scrape the tree.
One meal today.
For another's escape.
Sep 2013 · 366
9W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
9W
The Trouble with HOPE,
Is Some HOPE for Trouble.
Sep 2013 · 389
14W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
14W
My Ladders, They take me.
Your Stones, They brake me.
I despise the latter.
Sep 2013 · 492
16W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
16W
With every whimsical word our ways change our world.
Speak Just.
And be the needed Hero.
Sep 2013 · 290
13W
Jack Savage Sep 2013
13W
Like A FIRE in the Summer SUN,
                             ..... You Took the BEST of *ME
Sep 2013 · 611
To Every Starving Artist
Jack Savage Sep 2013
I Step on Stones.
In Circles, Cloaked.
Around a Choking Shell.
Who's fed the words he wrote.

Perched atop a mass of Ego.
He Brags; he Swags; he gloats, as he knows,
He's like every other Starving Artist.
His Stomach Screams for the taste of his own.

A phony pony stuck at home. He,
Licks the ink of his own stories.
Hand in mouth, with a hand no doubt,
He'd rather kiss then any Glory.

Eat the Paint, and Verse the Strokes.
Reverse your mind, negate the flow.
Get over yourself.
I chose a title as ambiguous in the beginning as it was clear in the end.
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