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6.5k · Jan 2011
Those Green Eyes
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
Those green eyes
that penetrate and burn
I’m instantly smitten
you think that I’d learn

nothing good ever comes
from a girl with beautiful eyes
they know how to deceive
and make me believe their lies

but the endorphins flow
my heart is racing away
maybe I’ll learn my lesson
but I won’t learn it today
5.8k · Sep 2010
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
3.2k · Sep 2010
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
2.8k · Sep 2010
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
1.9k · Apr 2011
Her Medicated Majesty
Joseph Perales Apr 2011
She snorts her Ritalin
she snorts her xanex
she snorts her *******
before she has ***

She loves her codeine
and her amphetamines
her world spins so fast
she needs some Dramamine

she buys and sells pills,
writes prescriptions
she skips most meals
to feed her addictions

light up a cigarette
gulp down a percocet
mix uppers and downers
hoping that they offset

she takes bottle after bottle
of pills and alcohol
she just tips it back
and swallows it all

a walking pharmacy
a waiting tragedy
a princess of pills
her Medicated Majesty
1.7k · Dec 2010
I Want To Taste Your Skin
Joseph Perales Dec 2010
I want to taste your skin
and see how it makes you shake
you'd think that I’d like you more
with all the love that we make

I’m just here to ease my mind
of my own lonely lowly life
I’m not looking for a mate
I’m not looking for a wife

I’m in it for something primal
for each urge and utterance
I’m here for selfish reasons
for my ego’s own exultance

I’m here to make you quiver
just to show that I’m capable
turn you in to putty in my hands
just to prove that you’re shapeable

I want to taste your skin
and the spirit that lingers under
I want to be a flash of lightening
and leave you alone with the thunder
1.5k · Jan 2011
I'm Elated
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I feel the summer on my skin
as I laze about in lush grass
my closed eyes colored pink
I lay and feel the the clouds pass

I open my eyes to see a silhouette
the sun masking her face from view
yet I could tell she was familiar
someone that I already knew

moreover some one I loved
quite deeply and quite whole
I could feel her smiling eyes
I could hear her shining soul

she leaned herself toward me
using my arm for a bit of brace
her soft hand upon my skin
was enough to cause my heart to race

she leans herself  in closer
still in her angelic eclipse
electricity rushed inside me
I feel my pulse inside my lips

our lips meet in slow suspension
in that moment love is concentrated
this feeling rushes to flood my heart,
our lips softly separate, I'm elated.
This poem was based on this "the summer on my skin, as I sit on the soft grass, a figure approaches from the sun light. I can't see who she is, but I know I love her. She grabs my forearm to steady herself as she leans in for a kiss. I feel all the blood, and electricity, run into my lips, then flood back into my heart, I'm elated " A little rant of romanticism I made while talking to a friend. I almost posted it as a free form poem rather than this. I don't know which one I like more.
1.5k · Sep 2010
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
1.4k · Feb 2011
Adolescent Phase
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
I am in this adolescent phase
slumming through a depressant haze
plagued by these incessant days
smothered in their florescent glaze

I've had enough. I’ve had enough
screams the boy who has nothing to dream for
wake me up, wake me up
dreams the boy who has nothing to scream for

We all want what we never acquire
we all reject what should inspire
we have tarnished we should admire
in these day, these days our most dire

break down the wall, break down the wall
just to see to the other side
take on the fall, take on the fall
at least to say you've tired

I am in this adolescent phase
but I wish to be no longer
and with these incessant days
I can only plan to get stronger
1.3k · Feb 2011
I'm Flawed and I'm Fearless
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
I don't sleep at night
I wouldn't dream of it
I used to love those dreams
but I just can't recommit

we've become estranged
and I only grow stranger
I'm my own worst critic
and my own biggest danger

I'm wrecked and I 'm reckless
I'm flawed and I'm fearless
I scream into the night
I hope someone hears this

this is my will
my everlasting testament
so paint it on the walls
etch it in the cement
1.3k · Feb 2011
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
I wish you were in the night
as you are in the day
all I'm asking for is consistency
in the things you say

you message me late at night
to ask if you can call
so you might feel less alone
I agree with out stall

but in the day you're furious
at everything I do
at which point during the night
did you stop being you

then you reach for me again
in the dead of the night
to say that you miss me still
and we're not alright

but the next morning you say
you've had a new boy
he's been around for weeks
is it your intent to toy?

Are you still love stricken
or fraught with pride
stuck in this never ending tale
of Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1.2k · Oct 2010
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
1.2k · Nov 2010
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
1.1k · Sep 2010
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
1.1k · Nov 2010
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
958 · Feb 2011
Fate Just Won't Collide
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
I wish you knew me
but you see through me
straight to the other side

I wish you were into me
that you might peruse me
date until the day I died

I wish you'd come to me
but you eschew me
hate me with all your pride

but you're a beauty
who lives so cruelly
so fate just won't collide

being so snooty
and so very choosy
create ugliness inside

thank God you did exclude me
continued to elude me
you'd equate to an awful bride

so I found a new she
one who has renewed me
my mate forever by my side
918 · Mar 2011
Systematically Sedated
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
You play love like a game
with an air of pretension
you have a real name
you'll never have mentioned

you made a new one your own
to show your quirky and creative
but you're not, you sit on your thrown
shallow and systematically sedated

you smoke each trendy cigarette
and drink your **** poor beer
you are nothing more than a marionette
with all those guidelines to which you adhere

so cut the strings, cut the strings
you little puppet on your pulpit
there is beauty in other things
beside your pretentious *******
Joseph Perales Apr 2011
Sometimes I want to call you
and tell you that you were right
about so many of the things
that we said when we would fight

not to get you back
not even to make amends
not so we can be lovers
not so we can be friends

just to admit I was wrong

Sometimes I want to call you
and tell you that were wrong
about so many of the things
we fought about for so long

not to make us enemies
not drive you away
not to say that I was right
not to ruin your day

just to hear that you were wrong

maybe there is no wrong
maybe there is not right
maybe we knew that all along
things aren't so black and white
911 · Jan 2011
A World in Revive
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
The snow on the ground
slides away into the earth
flowers make their ascent
the world is in rebirth

the moon descends
the larks raise voice
the world alive in light
all hearts rejoice

we have braved the cold
this is our reward to reap
the world is slowly waking
from its seasonal sleep

so taste the wonder
of a world in revive
with so much beauty in life
it’s beautiful to be alive
886 · Jun 2011
In the Absence of Fear
Joseph Perales Jun 2011
The sound of my name
is different from the lips of a lover
like each syllable said
is a new sound to discover
the word floats softly
and lingers with a lofty hover
they penetrate my chest
and over my heart they cover

The sight of my world
has been restored to all light
what was once monotone drab
now shines with a color so bright
she is the steady sunshine
inside the darkest of night
and if I were struck blind
I know she would be my sight

The taste of the air
is different now with her here
it is the roses and dandelions
meeting my palette so clear
like the fever of spring
even when the winter is near
it is the taste of adventure
in the absence of fear
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
We never wanted to write a love story
we never needed a romantic allegory
it wasn't any grandiose revelation
but rather a gradual flirtation
not a tale of love, but lust
not a matter of thought, but ******

and on that fact we were content
nothing more intended, nothing more meant
but then why do you stare with lingering eyes
and I find myself swooning over your thighs
and why does this loneliness keep
when night after night in my arms you sleep
how do I manage to stay so cold
when you are here inside my hold

but we suppressed all that kindling
and in turn found our passion dwindling
we began to find hate in it's place
for we had grown tired of this chase
“How could you not act on this feeling?”
we thought of each other, eyes at the ceiling
and we go to sleep, for another day
side by side, but worlds away
852 · Jan 2011
Thighs Colored Cream
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I keep thinking about a girl
I only see when I dream
with eyes like electricity
and thighs colored cream

her thin hands are soft
and tend to catch mine
butterflies flutter so hard
they send shivers to my spine

her lips pressed against mine
and entire world is gone
speaking from the dead of night
until we see the break of dawn

In the dreams I see our future
a lovely life and a loving home
I wake with a start, I’m alone
I wake with a start, I’m alone
822 · Jun 2011
A Perchance Glance
Joseph Perales Jun 2011
with just one glance
one perchance glance
she met me in my stance
I was enrobed inside a trance
in this trance my heart did dance
at once I understood romance
staring across the expanse
with that lone glance
a perchance glance
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
799 · Sep 2010
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 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
768 · Jan 2011
Darling, my Darling
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
If you were to love me
and I were to love you
think of all the things
we two could do

we’d eat sushi in our underwear
watch horror films in black and white
we’ll rest in the windowsill
and sing in the pale moonlight

If you were to love me
and I were to love you
think of all the schemes
bound to ensue

we’d draw on one another
making false tattoos and notes
writing our obscure thoughts
and scribing our favorite quotes

If you were to love me
and I were to love you
think of all the dreams
that we’d make true

we’d lie around our apartment
staring at the high ceiling
listening to our favorite record
there’s nothing more appealing

so say that you love me
and I will say to you
darling, my darling
of course I love you too
759 · Jan 2011
I Don’t, So I Won’t
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
If I played piano
I would write you a song
but I don’t, so I won’t
it’d just come out all wrong

If I knew how to dance
I’d swing with you all the night
but I don’t, so I won’t
my feet wouldn’t move right

If I sang beautifully
I would serenade you to sleep
but I don’t, so I won’t
I won’t utter a peep

If I could paint or draw
I’d picture you and I
but I don’t, so I won’t
I won’t even try

If I could make you fall in love
then I’d make you fall for me
but I can’t, so I rant
about what’ll never be
745 · Sep 2010
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
738 · Feb 2011
No Matter
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
no matter how often you fornicate
or all the positions that you create
he'll never be able to assimilate
the way that I used to stimulate

no matter the manuals he reads
he never plows when he sows his seeds
he'll never complete those ***** deeds
that your body so desperately needs

no matter all the skills you process
he'll always fail to impress
every time you two try to undress
it will be my name that you profess
732 · Jan 2011
The Way I Adore
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I wish I could make you see yourself
they way I see you every single day
a glowing figure of absolute radiance
holding more luster than the milky way

I wish I could make you hear yourself
the way in which you meet my ears
with one word you hold all emotions
you speak to my joys, and my fears

I wish I could make you love yourself
in the way I adore, ever devout
don’t let them tell you you aren’t glorious
you are perfect, never have a single doubt
729 · Sep 2010
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
727 · Jan 2011
My Own Biggest Critic
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I am my own biggest critic
second thoughts; parasitic
with eyes harshly analytic
leave my hand paralytic

my pen has become sedentary
words won’t come as necessary
what used to be so elementary
no longer comes as secondary

I read and re-read obsessively
I write and re-write aggressively
until a poem forms progressively
until a poem forms successfully
727 · Jan 2011
A Pair Like You and I
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
Your eyes anchor me to the earth
when they’re staring mine
the waters might be getting rough
but with you here I feel fine

I’ll be your sail, if you are my wind
you make a sailor, forget he has sinned
if you’re my north star, I am your sky
we can go far, a pair like you and I

your love is the lone reason
I still believe in such a thing
you are my reason for being
my reason to sing

I’ll be your sail, if you are my wind
you make a sailor, forget he has sinned
if you’re my north star, I am your sky
we can go far, a pair like you and I

your heart is precious treasure
your mind a world of riches
I swear to you that one day
I will make you my missus

I’ll be your sail, if you are my wind
you make a sailor, forget he has sinned
if you’re my north star, I am your sky
we can go far, a pair like you and I
726 · Jan 2011
Lust Like Love
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
Hair like mint
lips like lust
cries like thunder
with every ******

Eyes like diamonds
heart like coal
but I fell in love
with her phoenix soul

her body like grace
transcends from above
the light to my life
with a lust like love
723 · Mar 2011
Skin Painted Peach
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
I want to taste your skin painted peach
I want to kiss where the sun doesn't reach
not for the express intention of breech
but to reach, teach, and make you screech

you're eyes are as big as the sea
they have a habit of engulfing me
as do your legs, bent at the knee
entanglement has never felt so free

your lips too, grab me in their caress
fondly fit inside their finesse
your sweet words in my ears, fluoresce
your love causing my heart to iridesce

I want to taste your skin painted peach
I want to kiss where the sun doesn't reach
not for the express intention of breech
but to reach, teach, and make you screech

oh how love feels when it's right
oh how her eyes shine in the light
under those stars shining bright
as we proceed through the night

with every kiss I am speechless
unable to say how wonderful each is
like warm summers on cool beaches
or a bite from the freshest of peaches
710 · Apr 2011
Empty Entirely
Joseph Perales Apr 2011
“I don't ever want to feel like this again”,
she whispered under bated breath
in the stage show that is her life
pain entered right, joy faded left

her eyes slowly permeated
by a gloss, which turned to tears
the pain slowly escaping
held contained for so many years

but she wasn't feeling sorrow
she was feeling something more
something I've never seen from her
or seen from a soul since or before

she wasn't upset at circumstance
but at her lack of a certain emotion
at least before she could yell
but now she didn't carry the notion

she was now numbed to it all
which scared her more the anything
she didn't feel the push to drive her
she could no longer feel the sting

she was now empty entirely
no sign of rage or elation
not leaning to one side of the spectrum
but in the middle, in a sad sedation
709 · Jan 2011
These Weary Eyes
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
The dreams are never what I need them to be
these eyes aren’t seeing what I need them to see
something reminiscent of the summer sunlight
when my heart was alive, in love, and beaming bright

but now the winter decay has set in my soul
a once blazing fire has been reduced to coal
so here I lay, wondering aloud to the ceiling,
“Will I always be entrapped inside this feeling?”

I stay awake watching the clock count away
slowly winding down until the hour, the day
when the sun settles into warmer skies
I’ll breathe it in with these weary eyes
708 · Jan 2011
Rhyme After Rhyme
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I want to bite
the buttons off your blouse
like an earthquake
I'm shaking up your house

I'm here to make you move
I'm here to make you tremble
to watch your moral fiber
strand by strand disassemble

I'll be your regret
I’ll be your desire
I'll make you forget
I'll make you perspire

I'll make you weak in the knees
for weeks at time
I'll ****** you ever so slowly
rhyme after rhyme
706 · Jan 2011
Two Lovers in the Spring
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
Winter is full swing
but when I close my eyes
I see her and I in the grass
staring up at blue skies

“You look so peaceful.”
She gently giggles at me
“I just feel right, you know?
Like this is where I was meant to be.”

She turns and she pins me
quick as a whip
I wrap around her
and we flip and we flip

we come to rest
covered in loose grass
I smile at her
she smiles and then laughs

we stare for a moment
and she gives me a kiss
she pulls away slowly
while biting her lips

let the winter wash away
that horrible cold thing
so I can be reunited with you
two lovers in the spring
706 · Jul 2011
Come Back
Joseph Perales Jul 2011
I have spent all of the night searching
for the same thing I lost so long ago
it has never returned on home
so I shout through the falling snow

come back, come back home
just come back, come back here
come back, even if it's not forever
just come back until the sky is clear

I have spent all of the day searching
for the way the summer sun did shine
when you caught it inside your eyes
when I caught you and called you mine

come back, come back home
just come back, come back here
come back, even if it's not forever
just come back until the sky is clear

I have spent all of my life searching
walking through this snow now falling
finding nothing but another cold night
still, I know tomorrow I will be out calling

come back, come back home
just come back, come back here
come back, even if it's not forever
just come back until the sky is clear
701 · Feb 2011
Here's To This Life
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
Everything seemed so much easier
a little less then a year ago
and since then I’ve been hoping
this feeling is something I'll outgrow

but so far it's staying strong
unlike all of my relationships
because I'm afraid of love
but addicted to flirtatious lips

I'm not even happy anymore
no matter the smiles fake
every night I lie alone
and every night I lie awake

I promise that I'll be better
or at least I swear to try
you can trust me this time
I couldn't bear to lie

so here's to this year
and who I'll be at the end
here's to this life
every lover and every friend
695 · Feb 2011
Set In Different Skins
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
I know that you are cross with me
but you've no right to crucify
to stab me with the sharpest of wit
and hang me here to dry

who made you the patron saint
to accuse me of such sins
we are the same person
set in different skins

so if you plan to destroy me
and all that I've became
then go ahead and turn the knife
unto yourself and do the same
684 · Nov 2010
Ten-Page Apology
Joseph Perales Nov 2010
Where on earth do I begin
in this, my ten-page apology
I have messed up everything
because what’s most messed up, is me

I apologize to the hearts I stole
in an attempt to fix my own
but it was always to no avail
for I still feel so alone

Page by page is now filled
describing this **** disposition
because this bud of heart
won’t seem to reach fruition

here it is, a ten-page apology
written, read, and signed
then burnt to little ashes
to get the thought off my mind

the ashes and embers float off
as I drift away to stolen sleep
no one will read the things I’ve done
or those apologies I choose to keep
660 · Oct 2010
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 Apr 2011
I suppose this is how the story goes
from mussed hair to your curled toes
from present skin and your absent clothes
this isn't poetry, this is strictly prose

it serves only practice and purpose
it is both malice and your bliss
with each well placed callous kiss
we both slide further toward abyss

bite and scratch like the animals we are
passion burns like the brightest star
but all fire will be reduced to char
I'm not a savior, but another scar
630 · Mar 2011
Cross My Heart
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
Cross my heart
and hope to die
when you cross my mind
I manage a lie

and pretend like you aren't there

You crossed my heart
I hope you die
when I cross your mind
I pray you cry

don't pretend like this was fair

I cross my heart
and hope it dies
so I may cease
this gilded guise

I no longer care to care
628 · Feb 2011
If Only You Knew
Joseph Perales Feb 2011
if only you knew
the way I listen when you scream
as you attempt to tear me
from my every singular seem

if only you knew
the way I wish I could still hold you
or fulfill all those dreams
and fairy tales that I told you

if only you knew
how I think about you every night
hoping you'll call
or visit, or at the least write

if only you knew
how much I mean it when I apologize
or how much it hurts
when you think it's all lies

if only you knew
how much I hate my many mistakes
or how with one word
my heart crumbles and breaks

but I hope you know
what ever happens, I won't go away
goodbye is the one thing
I simply can't manage to say
626 · Mar 2011
Your Bad Habit
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
I want to be your temptation
the one to make your knees weak
I want to be your dangerous disaster
the sin that you still seek

I want to test your constitution
to see if you do what's right
or you give into your darkest desires
and come and spend the night


I want to be your bad habit
the one that you simply can't quit
I'll be your dammed desecration
the one you'll never omit
622 · Oct 2010
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
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