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Nov 2010 · 442
Ending Like This
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
I never imagined it ending
much less ending like this
No warning or big fight
No final loving kiss

but it is in fact ending
even as you and I speak
what was a day without you
Is now suddenly a week

I still hear your voice
poking gentle fun at me
My heart is still buzzing
like a hyper active bee

You’re still in my dreams
whispering secrets to recall
When I awaken to the day
But it seems I’ve forgotten them all
Nov 2010 · 1.0k
Since The Day We Met
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
I miss the ear lobes between my teeth
nibbling ever so gently
I miss the music in my eager ears
From the tapes you had lent me

I miss you nose pressed close to mine
tickling ever so slightly
I miss the bed we made and destroyed
with our rustling, nightly

I miss your eyes staring into mine
they were glowing gold
I miss those Sundays we’d talk
about us growing old

I’ll miss it until the day that I pass
I won’t ever forget
a single second that we have spent
Since the day we met
Nov 2010 · 434
Important To You
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
You still wear your favorite sweater
Even thought it’s littered with holes
you wear your doodled on high tops
Even though you’ve worn out the soles

Sometimes you forget to use a brush
And your hair becomes a matted mess
and you spilled your cup of red kool-aid
all over your favorite white dress

But in spite or because of these things
you just became all that more stunning
not a single clumsy goofy thing you do
Would ever send me off running

Because I know you keep them around
for the sentimental value they’ve gained
so even when they got worn or broken
inside your heart they still remained

I’d love to be that newly stained dress
or to be that sweater or that shoe
because no matter how old I get
I always want to be important to you
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
Don’t say it
if you don’t mean it
don’t do it
If you didn’t dream it

Live for love
and love the life you live
give your all
because it’s all you ought to give

Don’t be it
if it isn’t who you are
don’t go
unless you plan on going far

Laugh loudly
for every laugh you’re allowed
if you vow love
make those words lovingly avowed

Don’t sing
if you don’t do it loudly
don’t be you
unless you do it proudly
Nov 2010 · 434
If I Could
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
If I could steal you the moon
I'd capture it in a million yards of twine
and I would make it yours
if only you would say you are mine

If I could borrow the stars
so I could see you through the nights
I would pluck every last one
if only I was remotely in your sights

If I could take the sky itself
and paint it forever your favorite blue
I would do nothing less
I would do everything I could for you

If I could have your heart
the most wonderful I’ve ever known
I would return my heart in tow
for it was made for you, and you alone
Nov 2010 · 413
Any Less Mine
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
It was the last day November
The ground was shroud in snow
When you took me for a walk
telling me that you had to go

I let tears slip out, weird and warm
I was young and didn’t understand
all I wanted was you to stay with me
to be here to forever hold my hand

I thought my love would keep you here
Or be enough to bring you back
but the weeks turned into years
Was there something my love did lack

my mother sat me down to explain
sometimes people, they have to go away
that grandma had gotten sick
and in this world she couldn’t stay

that it wasn’t a matter of love
she loved more she I could define
that just because she went away
it doesn't make her any less mine
Nov 2010 · 534
Anything Practical
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
Everything’s moving far to fast
for me to grab hold of anything tangible
my dreams are far from dead
so I won’t settle for anything practical

They call me foolish
for the hours I continue to keep
but nothing beats morning air
After a long night of no sleep

It may be crazy, I know
to still think that dreams come true
but maybe it’s only the crazy ones
that are ever destined to make it through

I’ll find my way on day
and it’ll be the one for which I was born
well the rest will be still lost
living day to day lethargic and forlorn
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
If you’re beautiful, they’ll deliver their hearts
in prompt, primped, boxes with bright bows
if you are plain, with a heart of gold
you’ll only be given a life of juxtapose

everyone squanders their love on the few
who will never reciprocate the same sentiment
they will only fall for those other beautiful people
who’s hearts only intent is that of malcontent

with some in love with the feeling of lust
and some lusting for the feeling of love
millions of lonely people sitting alone
waiting for just one person to rise above

love may be blind but lovers are not
if only they could see what shines inside
we could end the heartbreak and heartache
two soul mates, hand in hand, and side by side
Nov 2010 · 366
If You Were To Cry
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
If you were to cry
I would dry each dropping tear
chase away every encroaching fear
nothing can hurt you, while I am here

If you were to lie
we’d fight the whole night long
finally admit to both being wrong
and with the dawn we'll be made strong

If you were to die
I would swallow the urge to parish too
so I might tell the world all about you
About how love can still, in this day, be true
Nov 2010 · 1.1k
Eyes Engrossed In Awe
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
My heart gushing gallantly
Leaking long lists of lyrics
trying to have your heart
without games or gimmicks

You’re like an ambient alien
a new, but beautiful being
my eyes engrossed in awe
because of sight I am seeing

I have lived a loveless life
and continued completely content
because before I met you
I never knew what love meant
Oct 2010 · 634
Luck Be My Lover
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
Fate be my guide.
Night be my cover.
Awe be my eyes .
And luck be my lover.
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
The space between the stars and the earth
with creatures that never adapted to flight
left looking out into the ever expansive skies
all mystified, but still quite contrite

We made machines to take us to the air
and then commercialized the thought
all the dreams of wings and wonder
is still dreamer talk all said for naught

still I stare at the star stained stratosphere
hoping one day that we might meet
With the stars surrounding my eyes
And the clouds planted at our feet
Oct 2010 · 482
Where Only Stars Can Reach
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
I build my world in the night
to have it washed away in the day
all that I have said so far
is not a fraction of what I have to say

I sing away in twilight
just to see it break away by dawn
I slave away in the dark
and by the light it is all gone

But one day I’ll escape
from the out skirts to the town
where the people stay out
even when the sun goes down

and we build a life
that the sun could never bleach
we’ll build our towers
to places where only stars can reach
Oct 2010 · 590
A Shot At Something
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
If she wanted a song
I would write till my fingers bled
until not a word was left unsaid
words so sweet a smile spread
and she swore we’re destined to wed

I’d hit the ground the running
I’d use all my heart and cunning
to have a shot at one thing
to have a shot at something

if she wanted a poem
I’d write book upon stacked book
about how with one single look
the entire earth beneath me shook
and my hapless heart she took

I’d hit the ground the running
I’d use all my heart and cunning
to have a shot at one thing
to have a shot at something

One thing
the one thing to which I still aspire
Something
worthy of all my love and desire
one thing
that I’m still stuck dreaming of
something
that thing called being in love

I’d hit the ground the running
I’d use all my heart and cunning
to have a shot at one thing
to have a shot at something
Oct 2010 · 390
They Were Made For You.
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
The words never connect in the way they were sent
the phrases never heard the way they were meant
the words always jumble and congeal
till the have lost all utterance of appeal

but still I will send each one.
hoping my trespasses might be undone
praying that they might be fully heard
For every emotion I present you a word

with each letter and every poem
I take a step closer to home
trust every promise to be true.
Like me, they were made for you.
Oct 2010 · 1.2k
A Lively Girl
Joseph Perales Oct 2010
A gorgeous girl asks every day
if she truly is beautiful and pretty
and I answer her every time
Of course, the best in the city

A brilliant girl asks every day
If she is smart and intelligent
and I answer her every time
Of course, to the absolute, utmost extent

A perfect girl asks every day
if I love her, if I truly do care
and I answer her every time
Of course and I’ll always be there

A lively girl said one day
she might like to die, to forever sleep
my words choked in my throat
And I could do nothing but weep

My lovely girl said one day
she would once contemplated suicide
those words made everything hurt
my heart broke, and I cried and I cried

My girl, please don’t go away
I need you more the you’ll ever know
so please answer me this time
and promise me that you’ll never go
Sep 2010 · 442
As Fast As They'll Go
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
You’re but a wounded sparrow
falling swiftly toward the earth
but the world averts their gaze
for they know not of your worth

but I know better then absent eyes
for this sparrow was once my love
the one that I had set to make mine
this one now falling from above

I wish I could clutch you close
but I haven’t the hold nor hands
just these talons short and sharp
they can never carry out my commands

I will do the only thing I can fare
I will do my best to ease this blow
I’ll swoop underneath your carriage,
flap my wings as fast as they’ll go
Sep 2010 · 713
I Need You Now
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
Holding hands never felt so grand
with all the others that plague this earth
you’re the only who can understand
like we were predestined for this at birth

your eyes sparkle like fire flies
floating straight into my ready chest
I need not meet any other girls
for I know that you are already best

I’d take your hand, your heart
any piece of you that you might allow
I need you forever and always
I need you this minute, I need you now
Sep 2010 · 528
A Message In a Bottle
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I am but a message in a bottle
floating listlessly in the ocean
I feel like a voice on the wind
no substance, purely emotion

waiting to wash upon shore
hoping some one will find me
and care to uncork my mind
pull out my innards and unwind me

read my message word for word
like these feelings were their own
for them to pick me up gently
hold me close and take me home
Sep 2010 · 412
I Don’t Do a Damn Thing
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I don’t sleep in my bed
Because it’s no longer mine
it ours now
and that’s just fine

I don’t wear the clothes
that she stole periodically
because she wears them better
she dons everything so beautifully

I don’t make the dish
She begs for when she stays
because it’s far too much effort
if she isn’t around to amaze

I don’t do a **** thing
but think of her day and night
because thinking of her
is the only thing that feels right
Sep 2010 · 443
For the Slightest Second
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I wish, for the slightest second,
that I might stop swinging
between running away from her
and, with finger tips, clinging

I feel my grasp slip slowly
I wish I had a better hold of her
I’ve been calling for hours now
but I can’t seem to get ahold of her

I want to tell her that I love her
despite my every transgression
that she should take precedence
and be my only obsession

all I want is to stop this rain,
I want our storm to see a calm,
to feel her voice in my ears
and hear her hand in my palm

I wish, for the slightest second,
I could show her the forever
that I had always planned
with us hand and hand together
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I fell in love with a girl
and she in love with I
we pledged our existence
For here until we die

we reveled in love
it was all we needed
in one another’s eyes
all of our hopes were seeded

but what happens now
that everything’s been broken
that our final good byes
have now been spoken

forever, until we die.
that’s what we said
because without her
I’m nothing but dead
Sep 2010 · 3.1k
Retarded By My Repose
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
******* by my repose
confined in these here clothes
why I’m here who honestly knows
perhaps to keep you on your toes

most likely to keep me on mine
involuntary impulses through my spine
to jolt my idle body back into line
a puppet posed to play fine

I will sever these said stings
so I may move on to grander things
move where love rarely stings
and the sky and moon often sings
Sep 2010 · 2.8k
and Worse Yet Ambitious
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
my tongue tastes like cheap girls
and my mother’s disapproval
if I had any indication of a mind
it would be primed for removal

what a mess I’ve made of myself
and an even grander one of she
she really should have known better
I can’t even bring myself to love me

I’m vicious, and malicious
with venom in my kisses
I’m lonely and I’m listless
always your favorite sickness
seduction like it was seditious
amiable, and worse yet ambitious

sights and sickness set on you
I’m the monster inside your bed
like something similar to a siren
my songs stained inside your head

if love is truly a great battle field
no holds barred war will be waged
I will destroy and devour all in sight
no one will be saved, I am a lion caged

I’m vicious, and malicious
with venom in my kisses
I’m lonely and I’m listless
always your favorite sickness
seduction like it was seditious
amiable, and worse yet ambitious
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return

I think this town is tired of me
Keen to all my same old tricks
I’m aging a little too rapidly
The clock mutters too many ticks

I’ll move where people still smile
even if it’s only a mask they place
Because seeing at least one smile
is better then every frowning face

I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return

I’ll miss it, I’m sure I will
My new home will start to wane
a brand new town to live
every one dying of the same old pain

Maybe it’s me that has changed
Maybe I responsible for the old grins
this will be where the new I dies
And the old me once again begins

I’d let the piano drive me
as far south as we can go
If only I could find the key
I’d leave all that I know

I’d let the music move me
To letting all my bridges burn
And I’d write one last note
Leave this town and never return
Sep 2010 · 414
Love Was and Love Is
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
love was frail, but it was all that made me strong
love was short, but I’ve dreamt of it all life long
love was right, but along the road became wrong
love is word, that when said by two becomes song
Sep 2010 · 381
We Wrote A Story, You and I
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
We wrote a story, you and I
In our skin and in the sky
With our lips and with our eyes
With our truths and with our lies

Skip the prelude and introduction
Start to strip **** with stark seduction
I love you written inside timid ears
I love you erased all teaming fears

You were all I wanted, all I needed
Hearts exalted, expectations exceeded
Now you’re all I crave, night and day
But along this road we lost our way

Have we more chapters to author
Or did we deliver all we’ve to offer
should we put our pens out of commission
As we reach the end of our fruition

a love we couldn’t put above our selves
Now writhes on rotting bookstore shelves
Deep in those hearts, hard and leather bound
There will be but this inscription found

we wrote a story, you and I
In our skin and in the sky
With our lips and with our eyes
With our truths and with our lies
Sep 2010 · 526
A Life Time Or Two To Tell
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I miss the nights we called out to each other
I miss the ones spent sprawled out on one another
like long lost lovers the first time our lips met
Barely ready, but on you my heart was set
the wind came in and washed away my worries
You send the butterflies I’ve got into flurries

I’m thinking of all the things I should have said
But now I will never have the chance
Of all the cute little things I kept in my head
As I reminisce in our recalled romance

your skin was a map guiding me to safety
With your soft arms you did belay me
I’ll trace your tattoos with my tongue
Because we are happy and we are young
Hoping the later doesn’t make the first due
Because I’d love to grow old with you

I’m thinking of all the things I should have said
But now I will never have the chance
Of all the cute little things I kept in my head
As I reminisce in our recalled romance

I hope that these hopes don’t remain so
Because you mean more then you’ll ever know,
That tale would take a life time or two to tell
and the full attention of you, my beautiful belle
So I guess that’s all ask of you, a life time to say
How perfect you are in every single imaginable way
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
Every time you’re feeling down
You always count on me to be there
when you’re boyfriend is gone
You always count on me to care
But I don’t want to be the one
that you’ll never let be your only
the one still waiting by the phone
waiting for you to get lonely

Say something, say anything
give me some sort of closure
every time I try to get away
You end up just pulling me closer
every question that I supply
is answered the same exact way
Why are you doing this to me?
“I don’t have anything to say"

why do you string me along
If you’re better with a new boy
When did I become so fleeting
when did I become your old toy
I want so bad to walk away
but I feel you’re holding back
there are some things left undone
there’s still an answer I lack

Say something, say anything
give me some sort of closure
every time I try to get away
You end up just pulling me closer
every question that I supply
is answered the same exact way
Why are you doing this to me?
“I don’t have anything to say"
Sep 2010 · 692
I'll Never Find The One
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I’ll never find the one
to make vegan pancakes in the morning
I’ll never find the one
to splurge on candies without any warning

I’ll never find the one
who knows the way green tastes like spring
I’ll never find the one
who knows ska and who knows swing

I’ll never find the one
a mouth like sailor, a voice like a siren
I’ll never find the one
with those eyes made to inspire men

I’ll never find the one
Of this one fact I can be certain
I’ll never find the one
That is that, end of story, drop the curtain
Sep 2010 · 1.5k
I Will Not Deceive
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
a pretty face and she’s little waisted
a pretty place and a little wasted
tumble and tip into submission
stumble and slip into position
set all sweating systems to go
as emotions among other things grow

I’ll love you like you won’t believe
you’re the merchant and I’m the thieve
I’ve got a trick slid up inside this sleeve
trust me darling, I will not deceive

that’s just the way the story goes
when we remove our whorey clothes
and get right down unto the bone
the nitty gritty, the solid as stone
I want to get down to the heart of you
I want to feel every last part of you

I’ll love you like you won’t believe
you’re the merchant and I’m the thieve
I’ve got a trick slid up inside this sleeve
trust me darling, I will not deceive    

I will not deceive, please believe
I will not deceive, you best believe
as long as we can receive and relieve
as long as we interweave every eve
darling I would never, could never leave
I will not deceive, I will not deceive

I’ll love you like you won’t believe
you’re the merchant and I’m the thieve
I’ve got a trick slid up inside this sleeve
trust me darling, I will not deceive
Sep 2010 · 5.7k
Subdued and Seduced
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
Subdued and seduced by sounds so sultry
floating with fantastic phonetic finesse
vibrant voices vehicled via visages
the magical message making me a mess

each seconds surrenders me speechless
praying for the process of progress
kissing, caressing, conspire in concision
affection and adoration an admirable ambition

Subdued and seduced by sounds so sultry
floating with fantastic phonetic finesse
vibrant voices vehicled via visages
the magical message making me a mess

beautiful belles becoming begrime
rendered ready by my written rhyme
won with wonderfully whispered wit
foment flattery in a fanatic fit

Subdued and seduced by sounds so sultry
floating with fantastic phonetic finesse
vibrant voices vehicled via visages
the magical message making me a mess
Sep 2010 · 457
The One, The Only
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
The blood pumps in catharsis
saying this is what heart is
this is spirit, this is soul
this is that all impending goal
What some strive but never achieve
what some have but never believe
the wish away upon the star
ways a way away so far
what the dreamers dream of
the one, the only, true love
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
I had a dream
that coerced and caressed me
a dream
That pursued and possessed me

you sat in a field of daisies
in a soft silken sundress
it floated with your turns
with your same finesse

The wind danced you about
sending your hair into a cavalcade
it whipped at the supple sky
then fell again in a cascade

I greeted you with a kiss
on the nape of your neck
And hug around your waist
you faced me for another peck

I awoke still smiling
hating myself for waking
when such a beautiful dream
was still in its making

I had a dream
that coerced and caressed me
a dream
That pursued and possessed me
Sep 2010 · 463
I've Been Eaten By My Art
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
And the ink from one page
begins to seep into the glue
and the red paint I used
starts to slide into the blue

and the colored pencil
begins to erase slightly
all the marks that I made
have become all mighty

All collages converge
My creation takes start
it opens it’s jaw wide
I’ve been eaten by my art
Sep 2010 · 1.1k
I'll Take You Away
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
Trembling fingers tracing lips
tantric tongues tickle hips
hands gliding where they may
say the word and I’ll take you away

teeth nipping at your shoulders
transition to lips down your chest
it takes but not one whole second
For us to both become half dressed

you’re breath on my body
muscles tense and release
the further that we decline
the more heart races increase

my hand on your shoulder
your shoulder to the floor
body against body
with the shut of the door

Trembling fingers tracing lips
tantric tongues tickle hips
hands gliding where they may
say the word and I’ll take you away
Sep 2010 · 422
A Room Painted White
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
in this room where all the walls are white
my blood runs crimson, ruby red
my voice extends electric blues
while black thoughts rule my head

My heart burns with a fire
orange flames licking at my lungs
like the way lustrous lovers
Flick with their flesh flavored tongues

the colors cross closed eyes
even in the dead of the dark night
everything disappears for a second
and I wake in a room painted white
Sep 2010 · 761
Sifting Through the Sea
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
The world seems so daunting
In the eyes of a wounded boy
sifting through the sea of girls
some will love and some will toy

more then many will be latter
this fact being known far too well
yet it does not derive the sting
it will never sooth the hell

But boys are born adventurers
and raised to be heroes and knights
we would die to be your superman
and not just another zero in tights

smiles from those angelic eyes
are the only reward we’d ever need
we’d defeat any villain or nightmare
we’ll be your knight on his trusty steed

The world seems so daunting
But we would take it on for you
sifting through a sea of girls,
Your name alone shines through
Joseph Perales Sep 2010
Those days when I want to scream
all the things I’ve ever thought of you
how I love the things that you think
and how I hate those things you do

I include myself in the second
because I can’t comprehend
why I make a half decent lover  
Much less,an excellent friend

your kisses, your breath, your bed.
Like the movies Mom didn’t allow
not expressively pornographic
just far too romantically avow

I lay awake in this bed of mine
I only sleep with you by my side
we’ll pull the covers over our heads
and from the world we’ll both hide

— The End —