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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.
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Try to the tie
The lies
Around the words
You swerve and curve
Bending the bind I deserve

Quickly
Snap futility
Into me
So my humility
Can pretend to pity me

Dig deep, the despair
You're up keeping, not aware
The scared stiff disastered reality
Is really,"...like", happening.
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.
Jack Savage Sep 2013
My storms turn White
When Your hand
Touches Mine.
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
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
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Anger,
An over exxagarating under achiever,
Speaks to me.
Pulling me deep in myself.
Taking seat next to me.

Closing the blanket of skin around me.
The silence gets louder.
Hiding from my own worst intentions.

Wait it out,
He'll calm down.

His face flush with a smile;
A grin so malice.

Don't let him get stronger,
Doing his best to make it worse.

The rage is fading.
What happened?
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.
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.
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
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Whispers **** hunger,
Poisoning the hour,
Resting forever, as the second hands swing.

Stop watching me.

If silence were violent,
It'd be killing me.
A trembled sigh,
Knots the tie.

Swallowing my pride,
I shape up to the shame.

Face the day.
Erase the hate,
Tomorrow...
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
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Through my design
These sky blue eyes
Will show a world
That he just might
Change their ways
Or change their lives
Letting them see the light,
Until this boy lay pale and white,
The light behind the sky blue eyes.
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Night's young. Sip on the pabst.
Smear the make up on your eyes.
Sickles mimic the cynical guest who won't roll the dice.
Sections of their throats, swollen from choking on opinion.

Go unwind,....
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.
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.
Jack Savage Apr 2013
The floods that dried keep rushing out
The fire that saved me won't burn out
The hands I wish could hold me now
Hold the noose that keeps me falling down

The rope you use, it burns me deep
Your fog, it blinds me when I sleep
Your tide, surrounding when I think
But I will never seek their love
Because yours is all I find in me.

Though you've set sail
And our love has left
I hear the words beat through my chest
When our love was a sea
Did you ever think
There'd come a storm through symphony
Ten
Jack Savage Sep 2013
Ten
i have no future
filled with laughter
only contradicting
satisfaction
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.
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Symphony's storm rushes
Your nails dug deep
So cold in the room
My lips taste the very warmth that holds me
Could never let go of it

You are so radiant
A silhouette to die for
A shadow so present and a fire so close
Take infinity and give it to me
Keep tranquil my mind
And heavy my heart

And then, again, as always
You decay from me
Tearing my being
Hiding in the light until the moment dies

As I myself refuse to believe the very, heretic emotion
Our eyes meet one last time
And you tell me something you could never say
And then you leave

You stole my heart,
The worst way
Jack Savage Sep 2013
My whole world
can be described
by my addiction
to you
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.
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
X
Jack Savage Sep 2013
X
I've come to learn that I Yearn to burn inside.
More so than your Blush burns in Light.

Love, Lift me Off my feet.
Lust, Lean me Forward softly.

I hold your face,
A glass I could never break.

And I Pull you in.
As I'd do; Then, and Again.

Because I am a Kite.
With you,

My Ecstasy.
This is one of my favorite older poems.
I recently transcribed it to fit my modern mood.
Jack Savage Apr 2013
Oh, zombie of mine
Please take the time
To sit and realize
Your mortal crime

The way that your eyes
Still follow mine
Tell me inside
You're no friend of mine

And I wish that this knife
With which,  you'll be surprised
To learn and surmise
That you can be dead,
Long before you may die.

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