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Aug 2020 · 60
addict dream
charles Aug 2020
in time sobriety falls from the sky,

ill be more alive than a feeling in skin.

I'd probably cry when I knew when,

the rest of my life would begin.

but tonights not the same,

all the thoughts that I fight,

slowly fall in their flight

i'll be drunk until i feel alright.
Aug 2020 · 48
laments of a loon
charles Aug 2020
i've taken the breath,

quite out of this quiet room,

to think of someone who isnt you.

our sin buries love,

unswept by the broom.

waiting diagnosis,

to prove I'm a loon.
Aug 2020 · 40
i saw you in traffic once
charles Aug 2020
loved drink,

more than a loved one.

nothing as heartbreaking,

as one who could never love you.

i learned and lost,

and left a soul,

to have everything and lose.
Aug 2020 · 52
god carry me out of here
charles Aug 2020
i was a fool to keep you here,

longer than you ever could have been.

i was a fool in sin.

something sparked something.

one day it wasn't you.

passing out to stay true,

i learned to love a different tune.
Aug 2020 · 62
to a talented artist
charles Aug 2020
made great,

a great emotion,

that words could never show.

that helped me live a little longer.

blessed my foot with the snow,

that will always melt,

without a print to show.

for the moment I'll stare,

and learn to let go.
charles Aug 2020
colors car-crash against my eyes,

roll them back,

into another pair of arms to call mine.

some call it love,

or something divine.

tonight, i'll call it luck,

a little part of my life.
Aug 2020 · 45
some night
charles Aug 2020
some night,

the stars aligned,

then tore you from my life.

i blamed the moon,

that lit your face each night.

shook fists that had no fight,

just an empty grip,

and a white light.
Aug 2020 · 39
good morning, i love you
charles Aug 2020
a morning moon clings to night,

holding on to one more time.

disregard the blinding light,

love me on this other side.

hold me while my fingers try,

to find just where your soul had died.
Aug 2020 · 43
change your mind
charles Aug 2020
i never would have changed,

left your trust in chains,

your pain will never leave me sane.

if the world was mine to change,

you would never hear my name.

I'd trade your love for all my pain.

I'd spare your tears to feel okay.
charles Aug 2020
i don't remember,

half the things i should.

can't find your voice,

every first time.

the painful thought of just trying.

to hold us together,

to see you fly away.

maybe it was meant to be,

maybe it was time.

a feeling unforgotten for all my life.

the loss will always be a sign.
Aug 2020 · 40
yours truly, (5)
charles Aug 2020
distract me from the stars,

sharpie the moon,

bury my soul inside this room.

the sheets are gone,

you would cringe at the floor,

i could count on both hands,

each time i have opened my door.

infinite are the slowest moments,

that i wish i was still yours.
Sometimes love is never forgotten in several months. Even when it feels like several years.
Jul 2020 · 42
for miles
charles Jul 2020
for miles,

my heart will watch you afar.

not intact,

just a mind's eye away.

for miles,

i will die in each desert's day,

i will lie in every frozen night,

without comfort,

besides the midnight sky.
Jul 2020 · 83
things (and nothing more)
charles Jul 2020
the things that shake my bones,

sowed in lights,

that aren't my own.

I marry promises,

i wish I showed.

but sin is nothing but a boat,

a menaced bite,

a midnight moan.

i built you,

out of loss.

a pain,

our love forgot.

a loving prayer that sings to me.

the thing I'd trade eternally,

a smile, i lived so miserably.
charles Jul 2020
if only our worlds made more sense,

would you lay here,

instead of the other side of a fence.

i found happiness in emptiness,

every color illuminates the bottom.

shameless, shallow.

i know each word is madness,

giving up on the mouth that speaks it.

i see you in between the plains,

the sea softly saying stop.

nostalgic is your being,

i miss a dying love long decayed,

drinking just to picture your face.

the way you said my name,

hammered hearts remain the same.

I'll love it till my dying day.
charles Jul 2020
does it slowly bubble up,

like water over drains?

is it dawn upon a white-room wall?

will it sway like our legs,

in a dying day?

a loving word,

lifting curses from a loved one's lips?

is it backroad watered dirt,

under a moonless night,

revived by the morning light.

a chipped tooth,

in another drunken fight.

or the thought to lose that loving sigh.

that treat such broken men kindly.
charles Jul 2020
such millennial grief,

yet i cant forget what it means:

a good morning or good night,

another song you want me to sing,

the words 'here' at my doorstep,

simple moments that i cant forget.

'have a good day's' at work.

or you asking for a shirt.

but i sure miss you when i hurt.
Jul 2020 · 84
before you leave
charles Jul 2020
the first night i kissed you,

an eternity, i have missed you.

i wish i stopped when i could,

early jokes, how i would marry you,

in a crowded wood.

call it a life,

that life would have been good.

but the stars still miss you,

and the moon adores you.

not as much as me,

with my drunken words,

and my shaky knees,

a dying fiend.

that hopes to see,

the one he loves,

before she leaves.
Jul 2020 · 65
alcoholic losses
charles Jul 2020
a small insanity still holds me,

but i wrangle less for you.

i breathe a little more,

a slowly closed door.

soon the ice will coat the frame.

safe and sound, sometimes tame.

i pray the day i lose your name.

some nights i still burn alive,

that silent illness i survive.

alcohol already there,

before you arrived.
Jul 2020 · 55
auld lang syne
charles Jul 2020
i carry you where i go,

our first love throes.

a future i will never know.

i still cry beneath each fired glow,

bright eyes you used to show.

i'll still love you,

when your love goes.
Jun 2020 · 37
liquid
charles Jun 2020
every night I drink,

i want to die,

but i never do.

i always just wake up.
Jun 2020 · 59
i still love you
charles Jun 2020
once,

i would have held the heaviest stone.

to have your love, so strongly sown.

instead i had to let you go.
Jun 2020 · 38
in spaces, infinite.
charles Jun 2020
your book,

i'll never finish.

i'll space the words,

as wide as the heavens.

spend years for a moment,

that was meant for mere minutes.
Jun 2020 · 43
selfish
charles Jun 2020
i drank until i saw the sky,

saw through all my **** lies.

saw the love of my life.

god, i get so sad all the time.

timid, like my heart,

it always lies.

sad and just a little shy.

i just want to write,

pretend the sun can shine.

her thoughts are always on my mind.

your soul, i hope, I'm soon to find.

your thoughts are always on my mind.
charles Jun 2020
the sky you left behind,

the clouds and shapes,

i see your eyes.

each moon,

each night,

they hold my lies.
Jun 2020 · 83
losing friends
charles Jun 2020
and their shadows dim,

time,

the kind to turn boys to men,

lonely only looking for a friend.

reach for fire

gainingredhands

they never heard my crow call,

cawing always drunkenawe.

all i need is them,
a grain of salt

selfinflictions, all my lovers ever saw.

once i loved a thing so pure

self-harmed, so sure.

always knew it was wrong.
Jun 2020 · 41
pulled hair
charles Jun 2020
i never meant my horrid thoughts,

to stain your outer thighs.

you took the stars,

you took your eyes.

no less, alike the heaven's sky.

so heavy, is that cloudy lie.

simple, still await an angel sigh.
Jun 2020 · 73
as the stars stop singing
charles Jun 2020
i'll never find a better sleep,

than one in which the sun,

denies to bring your eyes up.

i'll squander in wonder,

where they ever went.

i wait for light to die down,

the kind that made me squint.

promise i could never keep.

i still hear your soul scream.

burned too bright to see,

tiny stars that would sing.
charles Jun 2020
i spend sober days hating you,

just to love you at night.

what have i done,

but a million things that weren't me?

a million things replacing sleep.

a family felt far away,

their breathing down the street.

if i had my way,

i wouldn't be writing this.

no addiction will keep me here.

just pain,

a crass curiosity,

of what I could leave behind.
charles May 2020
she spoke on the shore,

and i heard nothing,

but an ocean roar,

forever asking more.
May 2020 · 34
your breath in the winter
charles May 2020
a breath in the winter,

that summer would never let you say.

but tell me you love me,

and I'll be okay.

warm tears on a winter day,

certain seasons i can never forget,

but i won't forget May.

carry me, june,

far too scared to see you,

so let me be, i look to the moon.

let me love me,

and I'll let you love you.
May 2020 · 42
trial and error
charles May 2020
the sun scratches your back,

the moon cools your face.

here i am,

in a sea of doubt,

you are all i have learned,

to live with out.

a lover's pledge,

that we pretend not to doubt.

quiet words we can't quite shout,

but it makes our hearts loud.

what is love,

but another broken crown?
May 2020 · 46
words don't mend
charles May 2020
words will never mend,

the things i lost,

the love i give.

addictions, how i give in.

shaking makes me less of a man.

can you see the white flag?

do you hang it on your wall?

does that make me someone after all?
May 2020 · 38
dead lover
charles May 2020
my baby loves the moon,

eyes drowned in white,

while she slowly swoons.

i still hold it in my room.

my lover used to sing in tune.

chipping at her soft cocoon.

held her in the highest noon,

carried to the ground too soon.

widowed, once i played a fool.

ran her right down the spool.

loss is learning something new,

but nothing beats an 'i love you'
May 2020 · 32
your hands
charles May 2020
your hands were spades,

to dig my soul.

and what i saw,

i'll never know.

some company, while i grow old?

heavy love to make me fold?

neither,

just an empty hole.
May 2020 · 101
...and they watched
charles May 2020
i could never be in your arms for long.

forever on the sunset-lit backroad.

always in a halo-colored room.

staring blankly at a live screen.

wondering what my life means to me.
May 2020 · 52
defense mechanism
charles May 2020
this blind eye,

that holds you abide.

choose a better love than i.

I'm a shelter fool.

that means nothing to nothing new.

carried and held,

a gentle hell.

love me till I know myself.

walk away and watch me breathe.

a simple stay away from me.
May 2020 · 46
porcelain
charles May 2020
a white haven,

your covered chest.

wet arms,

wrestle what we can't relieve.

sacrifice ourselves,

for warm water.

wanting more.

our covered chests.
Apr 2020 · 55
i'm sorry, i was scared.
charles Apr 2020
i was a drunk,

which is no excuse.

i wanted peace for loving you.

we fell to stars,

in a life without sun.

too bright for both of us,

i bungie jump into the dark.

and still among the stars,

there you are.

maybe i missed my mark,

maybe i fell too far.
Apr 2020 · 37
like a child
charles Apr 2020
unnaturally comfortable,

belly full of alcohol,

makes a sharp sword dull.

i prayed to make it through the night.

like the child i once was,

who used to.

i'm not looking for evasive lies,

or things i lived without.

i just want to see myself get out.
Apr 2020 · 44
send me home
charles Apr 2020
critics roll their eyes,

scared, they dont reply.

i don't live for likes,

all i do is write off my life.

like you could ever see,

the terrible ways i feel free.

one turns into three,

then my life turns into infinity.

strangers scream blessings,

my meaning, screaming streams,

helpless nightmares i see.

rhyme means nothing to me.
Apr 2020 · 49
the hands i used to hold
charles Apr 2020
a warmth of blood,

creeps along my neck.

my chest is still,

but my head starts to spin.

your guiding hands,

direct my madness to your face.

for a second there isn't a trace.

don't close your eyes for too long.

you will disappear.

and you did.

and all the air has left my lungs.

now my neck is like a stone in snow,

my shaking hands,

searching for what they used to know.
Apr 2020 · 53
********
charles Apr 2020
i promise to be sick,

i'll hurt every day,

many words ill never say,

my soul, a god will never save.

shivering i say I'm brave,

im naught,

a fool,

my only tool is a glass bottle.

managing my heart,

accelerate, i lacerate,

slower, arrested.

i just miss the way my life was.

before i wrote this.
Apr 2020 · 47
ptsd
charles Apr 2020
my phone explodes in my face.

safety escapes my petty ways.

scream the pretty things i wanna say.

pray some day,

i hear you say my name again.

traumatic thoughts, i feel insane.

but its just another day.
Apr 2020 · 41
twist my soul
charles Apr 2020
moody, chilly april nights.

months away from our favorite lights.

i put them out one at a time,

patiently i write these lines,

painful, I refuse to cry.

soul-searching for a better lie.
Apr 2020 · 39
ode to alcohol
charles Apr 2020
i missed you,

the hours you were away.

the beautiful way you make me sway.

you say the things i can't say.

you make worlds out of broken things.

but i know you'll **** me some day.
Apr 2020 · 53
one time
charles Apr 2020
once, i met a girl,

who wasn't you.

love is a strong word,

i'll never use.

but i used her.

i don't remember the rest.
Apr 2020 · 32
you were right
charles Apr 2020
you were right about the stars.

they look nothing like your eyes.

and that moon,

it has nothing to do with you.
Apr 2020 · 36
weary
charles Apr 2020
weary,


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Apr 2020 · 83
i promise
charles Apr 2020
i don't know if I'll call,

dont know you at all,

distant and tall,

tender, i fall,

seasons, they draw.

my birthday is yours,

i'll never sing,

words and thoughts,

they never mean,

probably the best,

in my head,

your head on my chest.

soak the love they left.
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