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Jordon Jones Mar 2012
I put up my glass walls,
Two-way mirrors on which
I hang a painted smile.

I can reach out through
My sharp-edged barricades--
I know all the holes--

But I call myself safe here,
Untouchable and smothering
The pain behind glass walls.
Jordon Jones Mar 2012
It's like that moment
when you're about to sneeze…

Awkward,
and nothing happens.
Oddly enough, this was not inspired by a 13-year-old couple, but by a sneeze that wasn't.
Jordon Jones Mar 2012
How long must I wait?
How long until I discover
The truest meaning
Of truest love?

O my heart, it longs for thee.
I see thy face in clouds and in
The eye inside my mind.
I feel thy apparition arms
Wrap around me in ghostly embrace.

How long must I wait?
How long until I discover
The purest meaning
Of purest love?

Patiently I wait, impatiently--
Knowing full well the logic of my case
"Eight and ten and almost one
Is far too short a time to expect
Forever-love to come to be."
But yet this space beside me
Which thou and only thou shalt fill
Is perilously vacant.
Where is my other half? My self, my heart?

How long must I wait?
How long until I discover*

Love?
It's not easy to be patient.


Also, I'm reading Doctor Faustus, hence the Elizabethan.
Jordon Jones Mar 2012
Constant reassurances
That make up most of my confidences
Veils and layers
Of half-feigned fearlessness
Masking the worry
That I am not as carefree
As I make out to be
I do not know
What I hide
Inside
Jordon Jones Mar 2012
I am a mirror
Reflecting back to you

Yourself

Yet hiding my own image
In an unexpected fragility
Jordon Jones Feb 2012
I thought we could do it.
I thought we'd have a chance.
But then you left
And it shattered my heart.
You dropped out of my life
And I had to rethink myself.
And you.

I thought I was finished with you.
I thought I'd let you go
Once and for all.
But then…
You show up again,
As if you'd never disappeared
And all the things I thought
Get turned on their heads again.
Love is too complicated.
Jordon Jones Feb 2012
Fly
I think
    that
      it's
   time
to                     you  
                let               go
                                            now.
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