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Joseph Perales Jan 2011
The memory of your skin
almost close enough to touch
making my hair stand on end
when the tension was too much

I moved a micron closer
hoping you might do the same
I just want to get closer
not quite sure of my aim

I just I hate the distance now
if it’s millimeters or miles
how I hate living on day to day
in the absence of your smiles

that perk up at the moments
when I need them the most
and make my smile peak its head
and then stretch coast to coast

but now you’re too far gone
for me to have anything more
than a box full of memories
and a forever open door
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I stay up the whole night long
hoping she might call to say
that she’s been dreaming of us
and wouldn’t have it any other way

she’d tell me that she’d loved me
for more months then she can count
and all that loving for so many months
has built to quite an obscene amount

I’ll tell that I feel the exact same
and I have as long as I can recall
if only she would have seen
the love note I used to scrawl

I stay up the whole night long
hoping to hear her rap at my door
I’d open it to her saying, frantically
that she can’t take the tension  any more

she’d shoot her arms around me
holding onto me ever so tight
and give me the biggest of kisses
that would continue all of the night

we’d maneuver to the bed room
through the blinds the sun beams
I’d take her hand as we rest our heads
and I’d fall asleep with the girl of my dreams
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I close my eyes and I’m there
sitting in a rustic country home
the wall paper, yellowed and peeling
I look around, I’m all alone

there are photo albums strewn about
full of faces I can’t quite recall
but still I know each person in them
I spew tears  staring at them all

the sun slips through the windows
it shines gold as it’s slowly setting
I sit in it’s  amber glowing haze
there is some one that I’m forgetting

I can feel the hole inside my heart
which they used to fill so tightly
as the sun sets in the west
I think about you nightly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joseph Perales Dec 2010
Is this is what I was destined to be
fighting with you in the dead of night
saying all of the exactly wrong things
in a feeble attempt to make things right

You’re tired of the “I’m sorry”s
they have gone stale in your ears
they’ve been said too many times
in choked voices through thick tears

I just want to stop the fighting
I just want see that smile of yours
the one that pacifies my screams
the bright one, the one that always cures

but instead I just dig in deeper
until the tears start their stream
I wish I could just wake from it
like every fight was just a bad dream

crying ourselves to sleep nightly
push it out and lay my head to rest
Hoping that I’ll wake to a new dream
Take a breath and hope for the best
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 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
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
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
Joseph Perales Mar 2011
People don't understand
how lonely it is to be a kid
so two of the loneliest
into a soft bed slid

soft kisses
mixed with hard hearts
she took the lead
and we played our parts

we learned in lust
we moved in motion
how could either foresee
the lurking inset emotion

a heart won't ache
unless it was made to feel
and a heart won't long
unless that feeling was real

so we go to sleep
longing a body to hold
our beds far too empty
our sheets have grown cold

but I won't regret
those things that we did
because for just a second
I wasn't such a lonely kid
The first two lines are a partial quote from my favorite scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Joseph Perales Jan 2011
I can’t see a cat
without thinking of you
the way they curl into my lap
just like you used to do

I would scratch your docile head
until my arms were sore
I’d lift them up and away
just to hear you meow for more

you’d nudge at my torso
with wide asking eyes
I’d return to scratching
your head resting on my thighs

You’d roll over on you back
your head leading the motion
presenting your soft stomach
hoping that I got the notion

I’d scratch your stomach
as you'd smile and purr
faster and faster still
till my hand began to blur

but now these are memories
long gone and past
though the moment is gone
with each cat the idea is recast

but my kitten is gone now
she has gone and run away
never could she be replaced
by some traveling stray
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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