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my life consists of needing mirrors
to remind myself
that I am not invisible

you have taken parts of me
and thrown them away without question
without regret.

the ease with which you let me go
echoes within me
like a "*******" spoken in church

a crack on the pane
of the room's only window.

you were not a liar
but you made yourself one

and I say that I do not hate you
because I've forgiven you

but you made that a lie also
you shaped it so that the reason for my lack of hate
is that I can no longer bring myself to care.

I will smile when I see you
because you can no longer hurt me.

your apathy shook me
like an antique chandelier
just before it crashes to the ground

and the fact that you read my poetry
and feel nothing
makes me shiver

you are cold.

you are the corpse frozen in indifference
a dead heart pumping the liquid
of fake tears.

you look and move like you used to
but I can see the stitches in your skin
the glassy, empty, gaze in your eyes

you are a monster
but I am no longer afraid.

I drop my torch and pitchfork
and watch you
destroy all the things that we built.

I raise my palms

and warm myself by the fire.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
and I'm not
religious
but you're
the closest
I've ever
come to what
people call
Heaven
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
please just give me
a chance to rub
my name into
your heart like
you did to mine.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
Mostly I ache for the times
late in the evening when
we've resolved to mush on
top of each other- stroking
fingers and lingering
forehead kisses- and your
words come in soft tides
on my neck. I can't fathom
being with anyone else.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
all my poems have stopped
sounding like poems and
just read like I'm trying to
write you the same letter
in eighty different ways.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
I talked about your hands
today, how such a simple
part of a person has never
made me feel so secure. I've
been thinking too much
lately about what I would
do without them.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
I went
into the
darkness
and shined
my flashlight
through my
worries,
hoping to
spot even
a glimmer
of yours in
the distance.
I could have
sworn I saw
you out
there
once.
 Oct 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
I read somewhere that
we are all made of stars
and if that's true then I want
to study your universe
until I can teach a class on it,
a history of you.
 May 2013 James Fate
Megan Grace
My heart feels way
too heavy for my
ribs to hold and I'm
just waiting for it to d








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