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the pit
Jacob Aug 2018
Many times, sometimes only once every so often,
I’m burned alive.
The crackles of the fire soothe me.
So that I can carry this glob of pink matter around,
I leap from the tallest tower,
grab onto the slippery side, and descend
like a ball of paper across the room.
When I feel this way,
I want to punish the way my mind hurts me.
While everyone carries themselves with pride,
I walk alone. The pain of being an outsider,
the pain of losing the one focus
you once had, is silently deadly.
In those moments,
the room feels empty. The pain glides along
and I’m carried off by my toes
and thrown in the pit of despair.
Aug 2018 · 335
virulence
Jacob Aug 2018
As if I could ever understand pain
I carry symptoms truncated at the head
Their blue feverish reminders never dead

Emotions of your bright autumn nights
Replay in my head like no other
I lost you, my best friend, my lover

Truth blossoms like a ****** rose
My stomach curdles when I find
A love that was not dead but blind

Bludgeon me across the face
So that I may awaken in delight
Finding you in the twilight

If I can't face the mirror anymore
And my gold paper skin turns fair
I will know that our love was rare
Jul 2018 · 278
love in all its pain
Jacob Jul 2018
Hushed, a little baby in the reigns of love
I lengthen my spine to match your pride
My hair carries the weight of your lies
And as I swing it back and forth
I find that I was once yours
But the inane price of sacrifice is scarce
So my bones become stale and weak

Loving the ways I find you in spaces
Drinking my water
Resting my eyes on beautiful guys
I feel like a squatter
I loved while it was sane
So much for love in all its pain
May 2018 · 297
Walking the Dog
Jacob May 2018
Just as soon as the emotion comes in
The emotion has vanished from my ten fingers
Those god awful tweakers have failed me again
Like a mouse on speed, I’m running into the streets

As I revel across the kitchen floor
Socks drenched in dirt and adolescence
I find that the only true time I’m happy
Is staring at the screen in my mind
Watching life whisper in my ears

Veins pop out like a loud mouth
I dream of two dozen men
Walking a tightrope toward me
And I only find that none of them
Have made it, they only fell
Down to another who loves them so
And just like that, I’m walking it too
Jacob May 2018
Who are you in the morning
The one who lifts the feet off your child
And vise grips the broken, bludgeons the weak
You no longer make me shiver in fright
I see through your cowardice with shame
That a young boy would fall to his knees
At the noise of a dog with no bone to chew
Cradled by the nape and dug into the heels of
A story not ever cared of being mentioned
I’m the one to lose and sulk my days away
But you, whose words are lackluster and feeble
Carry the weight of two
That know so little to their own good
Dry as the scab from which you inflicted
I am born to be the delight of all good
The Atlas that carries the weight of your mistakes
And when all is said and done
The night will weave into my body
Making the brain addled boy
Dream a good little dream
May 2018 · 319
The Face of Truth
Jacob May 2018
Before I came home that night
I knew that I’d be back to you
Like the perfect hue of blue
And like a madman
I wished you were
As sad as me
The truth flew into the winds
And whispered to me softly
I’ll see you in a few

The drinks told me you were gone
The **** told me you didn’t exist
The sadness told me I missed you
And my legs never felt more weak
Than when I carried myself
Toward the ledge of my sanity
Loving myself in the shackles
Of constant pressure

Remember that day in October
Like the moon walked us home
But our feet were on fire
Yet our hands were the water
And the glands that said
Hello to our profuse sweating
The smile faded
And the king was a king no more
What happened to peace
Was now a curse
Jacob Apr 2018
one two three times i said i'd stop
one more time i give in to the talk
you say my eyes are a saccharine delight
when all i see is eyes not deserving
of a man with this many issues
i know that all this talk about your past
must be exhausting but you call me
and tell me how everyone wastes your time
i **** myself with my own thoughts
glide off the earth like i'm one less leap
from a perfect reason to be happy
why am i only ever able to sleep
when i realize that the real monsters
aren't under my bed anymore
but right in my cranium, making a home
and scaring the living **** out of me
when i crawl back into darkness
is when you leave me the most vulnerable
this habit is a venereal curse
i am clogged up with unwanted urges
and emptied of the strength i need
and when i want to be smothered with love
i come back to the one place i know best
and repeat the cycle of torture
we all call the great big search for happiness
but there's no happiness
in a temporary love
you see, i want what's best for me,
yet i scream when i think of someone
even putting up with this disastrous tempest
i loved once and almost drowned
so pardon me if the water feels cold
i'll just as soon drown myself again
if i don't slow the **** down
and find the time to breathe
it's been much too fast lately
that when i take the time to look
i am terrified and praying for safety
but as i glide off the earth and the moon
the stars blast me with a supernova
and suddenly my prayers are answered
that's the day i wait for every night
because if i lose myself
i lose the stars, the cosmic journey, the hands
of a person with the answers and the control
of a vulnerable miserable old soul
because i'd like to think that this hell i'm in
is to lead me to a place of bliss
but these days scare me
and i'm too cold to be warm
too broken to be fixed
too troubled to be calm
sadness, they say, is a *****
but i embrace it with stride
fall asleep to the sounds of no one
i'm too afraid to be filled with pride

my prescription was ready, they said
came earlier than i had thought
so i left home with my coat
started the car in the cold
entered the uncomfortable atmosphere
placed my hands on the table
and asked for what i hadn't requested
you'll thank me for this they said
i'm still waiting to see if they were right.
Jacob Apr 2018
The day I have it all figured out
You'll crumble to ash and dust
I'll see you sit and cry and pout
What good was I, machine with rust

And what good is progression in myself
If you're unavailable to see it brew
I throw the dust right off the shelf
You'll never be the one who grew

And when you wanted it all
I just wanted it to last
Come as you are
And I will be disappointed
Just like I was when I saw
The person I became
Was lovesick in memory
Memoria
Mar 2018 · 207
waking up
Jacob Mar 2018
If I wake up to the sun
I'm next to my lover
If I wake up forgetful and cold
A man I've never met has his arm
Wrapped around me, slow dancing in a bed
Of mistakes and unhappy schemes
Once upon a time I could wake up
And know that he was the first thing
I'd think of in my feeble mind

But like most I'm left running
From the mistakes you left
Discarded the mess of me
Left the mess of you
Once you found another
How quick that heart was on sale
Ready to be used and confused again
Could have sworn it expired

But my armor shines bright
All my friends are irresolute
Get lonely, fall in love, hate life
Sometimes you forget that
And as much as I want to call you
A malevolent heartbreaker
I know your heart means well

Share it, share it all again
The times we had were worth it
I'd be lying if I said
I didn't enjoy having someone
To share it all with too
But I'll never be like you
And you'll never be like me
That's why we broke up
In the first place

I wake up
To a new day
Without him
Every day
But a new day
Nonetheless
Mar 2018 · 200
Bright Burning Star
Jacob Mar 2018
Tomorrow never feels right
Today becomes wasted
While I sit miserably
With a mind idle and weak
And yesterday? It burns
Straight into my skin
It's a cigarette, with its ash
Kissing my skin and landing
In a new direction
That I can't seem to find
I'm on my knees, crying
Over a situation I can't solve
But the steps don't seem impossible
So I accept that I'm wrong
And I'll see my mistakes one day
Next to my beautiful reminders
Knowing that though I have come far
I'm the same bright burning star
Jan 2018 · 217
Cling
Jacob Jan 2018
And I still cling
As I bridge the gap of confusion
Painted across your brim grin
You’ll never know what it means
To stay awake for the hazy mist
To pass on by as you gasp for breath
On the descent towards a dark abyss
**** what the others told you
**** what the others told me
I crave the moon, the stars, the planets
And what they tell me I am to be
In the mystery of your name
As witty as a boy could be
I couldn’t forget the first time you kissed me
As Leviathan carries me towards death
I drown slowly into the scaly dimensions,
Much like I held you in my arms
I’m flung from the soft skin you embody
And into a pit of wondering
I’ll cling, but for how long?
Dec 2017 · 436
I Hold On
Jacob Dec 2017
I hold on
Even if it ******* kills me
I hold on
Like there’s no person that can do it better
I hold on
When you leave me this lonely and cold
I hold on
Thinking about our best days together
I hold on
Every day I feel like giving up on you
I hold on
Because you are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen
I hold on
Feeling like I could lose you any day
I hold on
Wondering what you’re doing without me
I hold on
Trusting you with my battered and bruised heart
I hold on
Loving you in the sun, rain, sleet, or snow
I hold on
Holding you when I need it the most
I hold on
Will you hold on too?
Nov 2017 · 241
For 20 Years
Jacob Nov 2017
For 20 years
I suffer 20 tears
But more than you think
I slash out the tires
While I carry an albatross on my back
I can burn neither of them
And God laughs at me
For He knows that my heart
Is feeble and vulnerable

For 20 years
I’ve sat and drank the poison
Lived the good lies
Of an inauthentic life
For every sleepless night
I carry this body of mine
To the wonders of certainty
And miraculously make due
With this punctured hole in my soul

For 20 years
I melt into an iceberg
Warm on the edges
But ice cold in the center
I ask you
The one who loves me
In the times I lose myself
Break the pain
And the bones that suffer as well

I'm only but 19
Yet I've held it all in
Like a brazen bull
For 20
Nov 2017 · 341
lips
Jacob Nov 2017
Set the scene
I'm drunk again
Off our satisfaction
Lifted off from a land
Where I tell all
You love me like you know
I heal your love of lonely
And you accept my embrace
Like you know you need it
But babe, so do I
And your lips, soft and tender
Make my heart stretch
Wanting to kiss you stupid
Make your face feel
Like it will never be lonely
As I pierce your glaucous bubble
You come to life
Crystal and reflective
But visible all the same
Oct 2017 · 291
nonetheless
Jacob Oct 2017
I’m a killer of the unspoken
We never speak at dinner
Yet I speak thousands upon of thousands
Of words
In a head of silk
It plummets like bodies placed for burial
No one knows the me I want them to
As I hop out of bed
I cradle the joys of a wonderful love
Your beautiful strands of hair
Wrapped around my fingers
I’ve never been one for cliches
But a song is a song
And love is but of the purest emotion
So I find you in the sweetest parts of me
And I want to wrap you in the arms
Of an emotional boy
Before I lose my strength
I’m trying to write you
A man as clueless as me
But a man in love nonetheless
Oct 2017 · 221
Frisson (Young Lover)
Jacob Oct 2017
I'm a ghost
Overflowed
Chambers of saccharine delight
Sounds I've never heard before
You send me to the places
I never knew were inhabitable
Like the prophet of Shawnee
I died twice
Once when I flung myself
Into the traffic of desire
And then when I realized
I was yours and you were mine
It's so late in the night
To say
My heart is running in circles
And a young lover
Is a young lover
Oct 2017 · 201
And I Climb Aboard
Jacob Oct 2017
And I climb aboard the fears
Of being a man in love
I jump into unfamiliar waves
But it feels easy to be forgotten
And start off in the crystal ocean
I want to grow - with you - in life
If I put you in love's way
I take another part
In being a man who loves and aches
All the same
When my fever is 103, am I thriving
In the clean sheets of passion
Or am I lost in the eyes
That take me to the promised land
Of eternal happiness
Oct 2017 · 289
love song
Jacob Oct 2017
I have the tendency to talk
About the loves of a young boy
When one boy never loved himself
The way he loves you now
I bite down like a sadist
Feel the sensation of overzealousness
Placed my lover into a bed of comfort
Wrote you a love song
Even though I had no experience
And no melody was there
It ignited in our hearts
And the words were suspended
Boy, there is no one way to say
That as I find you
I find myself as well
Oct 2017 · 300
poised and ready
Jacob Oct 2017
Poised and ready
My body wants to leap
From its vessel
It deploys itself of its duties
And leaves me shipwrecked
I lick my wounds
Spend time doing the things
You don’t want to see
And as if you could ever
Hold me down
Instead you turn off the lights
Living in another galaxy
Despite my gravity being yours
The aqueducts are released
Like a flowing current
If I crash one more **** time
All I’ll see is a hologram of a boy
Confused of what it doesn’t know
Oct 2017 · 184
one afternoon
Jacob Oct 2017
My drunken affair
Lying in bed, two days out of every week
Thinking, wondering
Living for the now
But worrying about the future
And being scared of the past
Feeling consumed, engulfed by the flame
That was once
A confusion
I find myself crying at the thought
Of life not being as authentic as it can be
The bridge that I once crossed has torn
Yet I find myself more accustomed to it
Than ever before
Like a hawk
I plunge down toward the earth
And gather up what I can
To survive
Oct 2017 · 197
Flushed
Jacob Oct 2017
Good sir,
I'm dreadfully tired
Like the moon in a cascade crescent
I'm flushed out of all my water
Bounded and chained by struggle
I dip in and out of a lifeless frame
Resorting to sleeplessness
And as red as the Red Sea
My blood flows deep
High on emotion
Drinking from the well of plasticity
And fabricated tellings
Nothing smells the same anymore
Much less the rain waiting at the front door
As you walk in from the news
Put the keys down and weep
As another is slain and forgotten
So I ask
If we are in control of the passageway
To a satisfying future
Or flushed away by the stories
Of a world gone mad
I was inspired by the recent events in Nevada. I thought about what it might have been like for many to open up another wound and discover that nothing has changed about our country.
Aug 2017 · 151
Untitled
Jacob Aug 2017
Why does love always hurt
When I confess my pain?
Aug 2017 · 305
Fall From Heaven
Jacob Aug 2017
In the bedroom,
The shadow shows a champion
We come to life as the sheets come undone
I'm loving myself while making love
To you
The rhythm is voluptuous in my ears
If you were me, what would you do
Cascades of pink and red
Gliding down your back
As I climb onto your up-to-no-good desire
Eat me up, love
A safe space, loving you down
Can I tango with the beauty
That is your seduction
Will I be the same man
Giving you this fall from heaven
In the morning
Jacob Aug 2017
Undoubtedly
I survived a forest fire
Up from the ashes
Riding the decision
To live a life of freedom

Some days
Have me feeling as though
My words are vapid
And only matter
Through the voice of someone
You look up to

Every time I look for the truth
I sieve the dirt to find
The possibility of uncertainty
Playing by the rules
Doesn't feel so glee anymore

As I live in a society
Concerned with plagiarizing
The lives of those living like fire
I shift through the streets
Feeling so different from the rest

The dirt on my shoes
Will never truly go away
And neither will my place
So I just stop my crying
And place my best foot forward

I've grown to find
Life is too hard to be kind
I'd breathe for the wrong ones
Please, oh, please plenish me
As I wake up in the morning
I hope you notice the warning
Aug 2017 · 127
Untitled
Jacob Aug 2017
All of this time
And I never forgot
About you
You ******* *******
Aug 2017 · 195
Heartbeat
Jacob Aug 2017
I’m a wreck
If I don’t have anything
I’m a machine
Running on oil
Waiting for you to fill me up
It feels like the world is almost over
And I can’t live to not look low
As I’m pulled apart from this car crash
Of misery, I see it was all pointless
And that the bullets were temporary pain
I don’t know much about fighting
But with you around, I felt like I knew it all
I threw my blow to my entrapped heart
And broke my walls down
The ashes and smoke looked like stars
And a cosmic journey was now mine
I looked for the sign in the rubble
In each disaster I created
And found a heartbeat
Worthy of life
Aug 2017 · 234
Wound
Jacob Aug 2017
Sirens call from below the threshold
The children scatter wherever it is safe
I lay in bed, hating the issues
I fail to accept

Sweet November was always my favorite
It enveloped me
In a tower of safety
I'd been fighting a war
Couldn't live up to my dreams

Some days I find
That I'm too scared
To talk about what plagues my fears
What will happen when I open it up
And find a wound I didn't make?
Jul 2017 · 306
The Dance
Jacob Jul 2017
I couldn’t tell you how many times
I was afraid of messing it up
The number of times I reattempted it,
Hoping that it would be ready for the finale
I stumbled once or twice
Always managed to slip on my feet
Everyone I worked with said
“It happens sometimes”
And I learned from it

For every waltz I memorized
Came another tricky jazz routine
That tore me apart and pulled
At me until I was bruised
But by next week, I found it again
From time to time, I found myself solo
At times when I needed a partner
Learned to do it all on my own
An empty feeling, but a powerful one as well
I’ve had many instructors
Some good, but not all
I had to find the right one
To show me the way

I wept for a moment on the stage
To show off everything I’d learned
Went blind staring up at the lights past the crowd
Looking for a moment of satisfaction

Could this be your husband,
Could this be your mother,
Could this be your neighbor,
Could this be any given name,
Am I talking about a personal career, or
Am I talking about the same dance
We all go through every day?
Jul 2017 · 340
If You Left Me
Jacob Jul 2017
I grew tired of being a placemat
By the door to your vacant home
Will I ever be more than history
Lying in the back of your mind

I haven't seen the sun in days
You walk but you don't run
Tell me, is it better to flourish
To leave it all behind
Than to have lived through a passionate wish

Being with you was a wasted ******
I'd flow my stream into you
Wished for more than necks intertwined
I punctured your rejection with great strength
The pain was nothing compared to the way
You left me behind at arm's length

I cough, I ache, achoo
I sneeze not one, but two
Times as I forget you
You **** fool, why did you make
Me fall in love with you
Jul 2017 · 218
Voyage
Jacob Jul 2017
I need some time
To write a rhyme
Of someone in pain

They wrote a long
Steady old song
With their lonely heart

Their life was grand
Like ocean sand
But they could never see

Who needs a friend
When you can't mend
Cause they'll never understand

Who will be there in your darkest days
And the voyage feels so far away
Jul 2017 · 197
deep inside
Jacob Jul 2017
i think its safe to say now
that every time i’m with you
and every time i look at you
there’s one thing that
always stands true
that my heart tends
to beat a little faster
and all my worries
i seem to look past them
cause at this point
you're the only one
that i could imagine
having the perfect life with
this is just how i'm feeling
my love for you has no ceiling
and if you feel the same way
let's seal our love with a ring
you're the only one for me
Jacob Jul 2017
There's a hint of truth to every lie
If I'm the one you call yours at night
Where am I when you wake up
In the bed of the one you call angel

I cling to a reminder
That I'm not a crime
That no one else is sharing you
I scorn myself for wanting more
Truth be told, I don't want the truth
If it rips me apart like a piece of mail
Left on the table
Then disregarded, expected as more

And you say that I'm nothing more
So off I go, I'm a flicker in your memory
I pick up the phone expecting your face
Why do I let myself be lifted
Only to fall back into the pit of your indifference
Jul 2017 · 265
The Unvarying Commitment
Jacob Jul 2017
I've got this feeling
That we are shifting
Through our decisions
They're never ending

If all weight is lifted
Carry me out in an instant
I'm not who you expected
My love is sometimes banished
It hurts me, punishes me

Shredded in pieces, my mind
All this time, you sang well
My eyes green, not with envy
But with holy, a white spirit
Down the hallway, I see you
You're the one in danger
Jumpstart my heart as it revs up
And revamps itself from reverie
My feet have been through a lot
But as long as I'm breathing
They'll float above the flood
Suddenly it's not so deep anymore
Jul 2017 · 195
Untitled
Jacob Jul 2017
These thoughts
Fill my mind
Like the words
To my favorite book
They slide across
My line of vision
Then bounce to life
And consume me
Jul 2017 · 176
Untitled
Jacob Jul 2017
In the sounds between
Life and death
Lies a gentle creature
Named possibility
Jul 2017 · 265
MLMN 7.13
Jacob Jul 2017
You never made much sense
Fears of not being enough
Keeping me up late at night
When you're drunk you're the happiest
But then reality hits and
Your life feels like quicksand
I'm your holiday, only coming
Once or twice a year
Don't know when to call
Don't know when you'll return
I'll stay locked up in your terror
You disregard my pain
Leave behind a mess
I pick up the rest
Will you let me know if
I'm holding on too tight
Oh, how I wish your sun
Would burn brightly again
Jul 2017 · 222
Nothing Else
Jacob Jul 2017
To be honest
If I only had the truth
I'd be lost
In a globe of hate
I'm skipping meals
I'm living like a god
I'm emotional about it all
I'm a stick of dynamite
I'm giving back all my memories
I'm mortal
I'm ****** to death by the world
I'm evading life and what it truly is
I'm going to be the one you think about
I'm there when there is nothing else
Jul 2017 · 361
The Storm
Jacob Jul 2017
Where does time stop
When time is inevitable?
It's true, I spent the summer
On my back, waiting for a sign
Each one has felt like a trial
My life became more opaque
By the second
You don't want my storm
You never did
You fall in love with people
Who don't love you, not like I did
As turbulent as we were,
You never met a man like me
I don't belong to anyone
Don't need one like you
Really think you should
When I was a child
I thought love was fated
Seems like I was a coward
Unaccepting of the fact
Love is the rain, love is the snow
Love has come, love has gone
The thunder
In my heart
Was too much
For your raincloud
To take
Jul 2017 · 222
Flame
Jacob Jul 2017
In a deep, dark hole
I hear her whispering my name
She says do not fear, my dear
I am forever happy.
Like a wildfire
She was there...
Then was washed away.
Gone.

My heart was too filled
To carry that love along
Even when the knife pinched our minds
Tickled our nerves
And told us
This will work.

My mind played tricks on me
Said this love would be a lasting success!
But this mind is deceiving
Like the weather when it says it will stay cool
But in return, it sends out a strong gust of wind
And hot, scorching flames that engulf your words
And slur your speech that once had the answers
And this flame screams...
I AM YOUR PROBLEM

This wind made you rethink all possible hopes
Told you that the dreams are just enemies
Within the battlefield you call your brain
That try to enter and attack the lies
Hiding from you.

These lies are the same ones that said
She is going to be yours for eternity
The ones that said
Isn’t lust the same thing as love?

Even if I can’t repair our mistakes
And even if you won’t give me your word
The ocean will stay blue and cold
As my heart will.

Because closure is all I think of anymore
It’s all I daydream of
So if our lives grow old and distant
I will once be all that you ever dreamt of
But in the end, I was lost.
Gone.
Written on April 2, 2013
Jun 2017 · 459
It's Not That Serious
Jacob Jun 2017
Who am I
When I cease to function
And my soul rips apart
But I soon realize
As the fan brushes the walls
And my room comes to life
I recognize my weariness
The clamor in my head
If I only knew the way
To pure bliss and satisfaction

I'm scared
Where am I going
Who do I pray for
When the truth echoes
And I'm alone with my thoughts
That tell me
*It's not that serious
Jun 2017 · 459
wet dreams
Jacob Jun 2017
You were in my dreams
Felt your tongue slide in my mouth
Wrapped me in your nest of comfort
For some reason, when I awoke
Nothing made sense
Where did you come from?
I haven't seen you in 7 years
So why do I want you so bad?
Maybe I remember the little things
Going to your house back in the day
And you were a strong, comforting boy
I'd sit in your room with you
Wishing to have you ravage me
I would come running, for you
Maybe it is no coincidence
You made up my dreams
Jun 2017 · 244
running on empty
Jacob Jun 2017
I'd drop dead in two seconds
if my life meant less to you
than it meant to me
I've kept the lights on all night
Why did I never notice?

My lungs are protruding
just to hear you tell me I'm pretty
What the **** is that?
Am I that erroneous
to keep my heart exposed
for a man with no morals
and keep my hopes up?

I live with spineless creeps
crawling over my back like bugs
Mother would be so proud
A billionaire covered in sugar
and the words "your lover"
tattooed on my forehead
because my heart got confused
by a boy with commitment issues
I **** until I cannot feel
Play with the sky until I'm tired

Tell me I'm more than a simple human
because some days I feel so empty
that I don't know who I am
I'm sorry my decisions are clouded
and I'm imprisoned by dissatisfaction
God help the next person
who becomes watered down.
Jun 2017 · 253
Sing Loud
Jacob Jun 2017
Come on, the reason
Come on raise this noise
One million people, and not one voice
Come on, it's not over
For me, sing loud
Jun 2017 · 369
iron
Jacob Jun 2017
2 am, no sleep
Feels like every poem begins like that these days
Dense in my stomach
When did I last eat?
As long as I don't wither, I'll be fine
Why am I always tired?
Once I take those iron pills, I'm good
That song came on twice today
Heard your name as always
It hurts a little less each time
Punches my gut, knots it in two
I closed my eyes when I passed your school today
Because I never got to say goodbye
We stayed contained for too long
I never knew you the way I wanted to
I could play our love back
I'd only be sad once again
I gave you too much to handle
Life, it seems, was too fast
For my baby to keep up with
So now I sit at 2 am
Without your voice ringing in my ears
Alone, but not as broken
As you might think
Just full of thoughts
Stuck on *what if?
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starlight
Jacob Jun 2017
in the dark, december nights
i tend to get cold sometimes
but i happen to bare it
because there isn't always
the satisfaction of the winter wind
Jun 2017 · 299
saunter
Jacob Jun 2017
day after day
we bask in the heat
with little appreciation
on what the sun does
in the afterlife
we will realize
that the sun
was all anyone needed
Jun 2017 · 218
lilac sun
Jacob Jun 2017
I fell for you
I fell into you
You are a wonder
That will never happen
To leave my sight

I can imagine
If you had a face
It would look down to earth
As insecure as a shy child
On their first day of school
Jun 2017 · 251
The World
Jacob Jun 2017
A continental place
Separated by categories
Each one symbolic

The world is a child
And an aging sphere
All at the same time

It is the kangaroo
Who nurtures its young
Who in turn loves them

It is still dying
As it depends on
It's young one's help

Happy headed creature
Turns its back
On the caring mother

They are helpless from
The loss of their guardian
The world the children made

What shall we do?
Written in either 2012 or 2013
Jun 2017 · 223
Ferris Wheel
Jacob Jun 2017
You spin me around
more times than one.

You give me butterflies
at the craziest of moments.

You have your fan favorites
and the people who loathe you.

I will never
be afraid of you.

I wish to visit you more.

Because a chance with you
is a once in a lifetime.
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