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J Marie Jan 2014
I am he,           who roams the Dark
Where fear and hate           will always lurk.
Woe to he--or to she
Who into my Dark, put thy feet.
Yet if I should like to feast,                                                           5
Where be better for this Beast
Than where the humans themselves feed?
For indeed, the key is mead.
From afar I hear the joy,
But beware, O Herot, I come to destroy.                                    10
And in my Dark, I sneak to the Hall,
Take a deep, low breath and begin to maul.
The men beneath me, too dead to challenge,
All run and scurry from their lounges.
I take no time in tiresome troubles;                                             15
I only want what my stomach rumbles.
I think not twice about whom I take;
For in the Dark, I am most awake.
If, furthermore, I find it filling,
For a forth, or a fifth round, I may be willing.                              20
When at last I am satisfied and
Look around! Warriors that hide!
No greater reward exists
Than to see my enemy in such a state
As This                                                             ­                           25
This is from 12th grade English; from the perspective of Grendel.
Nov 2013 · 340
My Living Death
J Marie Nov 2013
As the surrounding space becomes soft,
The hours both fly and crawl.
As the surrounding space becomes a collage,
Time is a thing I have drawn.

My eyes see only a haze,
And my heart sees only its desire.
I am digging my own grave
While you are at my side.

This is my grave.
A time warp we create
By the power of just a breath.
At the touch of your hand,

By this that I have made,
I am in my grave.
Nov 2013 · 658
I am Sick
J Marie Nov 2013
Paper and pen
Fill times between you.
With a pounding head,
For you, this I do.

Never have I felt
This kind of ill.
Heartache, headache,
Pill after pill.

After hours spent alone,
I need my dose.
My reason for tolerating:
Him, my only hope.

From sunrise to sundown,
I let only him tame.
May he ever be my love.
My Hero is his name.
Nov 2013 · 307
A Tragedy
J Marie Nov 2013
Sitting, I am shocked
Can not say for sure if
I am sad, or what.
Empathy, sympathy--
Tragedy.
Until now, I felt
Just empty.
Now, I feel everything.
If I do not believe
A religion,
How must I feel?
Sep 2013 · 509
Untitled
J Marie Sep 2013
An Icon of a Goddess
Stones of the deepest earth beset
                                          her eyes,
all the gold and fire of a hallowed earth
                                           now within,
Fiery, shy, a gaze like cold iron

A mind of Great Desire,
        timid inflection,
a clouded spirit, awaiting lightning to purge
                              a thunder
She is my alter, my temple, my heart.

With music she strikes my chest
the only reason I walk or care

I am lifeless, undying
She is my Mantra, my word, my reason
This is a poem my boyfriend gave me a few weeks ago, but he didn't give me a title. It melts my heart every time I read it.
Sep 2013 · 299
This Yours Alone
J Marie Sep 2013
I have a challenge for each of us:
Do not seek to seem in an way
Eager to let this present go
Bye without a trace of remembrance.

Only once will there be
This.
Mind not what another says,
Instead what you have to share.

For in ten years, you will not remember
Such an insignificant factor
Of what has made your beauty.
Yours alone.
Sep 2013 · 373
5 May 2013
J Marie Sep 2013
Let me inhale
These fumes of livelihood.
This that seems to bring indifference on
The cue of a simple exhale.

I let you
Pick me up, give me a whirl.
Put me down,
My head is light, stomach is satisfied.

My eyes are heavy
And my mind is racing.
Concentration is not an option,
But you are the center of it.
Sep 2013 · 480
17 May 2013
J Marie Sep 2013
By candle is my night lit,
By you is my heart lit.
My body, incomplete,
Craves your touch.
To be touched.

To be touched.

If not the pleasure of your grip,
Then the pleasure of my own,
By my own hands.
That is all that engulfs my thoughts,
All, for my own pleasure.

I wish to give everything,
But take nothing from me...

Cannot give my all if I feel only emptiness.
Cannot help but feel such a Darkness
Within, and embrace it
For what it is.
Right or wrong, it is inevitable.

Perhaps it is life's growing pains,
Perhaps a simple infatuation.

If the first, at least there is not
A chance I could change it,
If the latter, what has caused
This monster called my mind?
So corrupt, so unrecognizable,

By pain and time.

I do not feel human, I do not
Feel anything. Except pain.
What causes blood and pain to be
The only thing that makes
My mind rest, muscles relax, and
Thoughts flow?

Still, I remain in a coma of thought.
These thoughts.
Sep 2013 · 208
11 August 2013
J Marie Sep 2013
A lifetime of waiting
Always.
Everyone.
Waiting.
For the thing that will
Make the waiting cease.
Just stop!
Once it is found,
How does one learn
To stop waiting?
Sep 2013 · 196
8 August 2013
J Marie Sep 2013
For days my anxious heart has awaited
the moment it will meet its love again.
Sep 2013 · 680
My Betrothal
J Marie Sep 2013
Death
In itself, is my
One true love.
Always waiting for me,
Right on time.
Perfect.
And mine.
Sep 2013 · 434
My Darling, You
J Marie Sep 2013
Skin to skin,
We are here.
There is nothing, but
Here, now.
The shock of being
Without an internal war,
Both wonderful and startling.
I shudder.
Skin touching mine.
Your breath down my chest,
Neck.
Eyes,
The doorway into your soul,
And looking into mine.
My darling, you.
Sep 2013 · 406
Words
J Marie Sep 2013
Your delicate and endearing words
Minister to my desperate soul--my
Untouched body
Sep 2013 · 577
We Were Born to Die
J Marie Sep 2013
No significance
For anything, life is too short
Too, too short
All the previous lives
All the insignificance done by other mes.
Everyone, in narcissism:
The world is right here, right now. Me.
I am saying, "No!"
Whatever you do, say, love, feel...
It won't matter in 100 years.
Nothing will matter in 100 years.
Because
We were born to die.
Sep 2013 · 737
Sorry
J Marie Sep 2013
A Darkness, surprising, although not abnormal
Seeps into thought, about
The self that is imperfect.
While sadness looms, there is no other thought.
By the unspoken words
Is my Love injured.
One cannot see the bee before the sting.
For what good purpose is my behavior?
I grieve for a lost thought.
I grieve for a lost moment.
Common words may not suffice.

— The End —