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 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
torrey
I've always liked the idea
of waking up on your skin
early in the morning
Sheets wrinkled from our deep sleep
The sun barely beaming
through the cracks in my blinds
Your fingertips tickling my spine
Such a beautiful sight
Two kids, so innocent, so young
Their hearts start to fall in sync
Only thing to be heard was their breathing
and his sleep
I miss you
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
torrey
I can write you pretty words
But can I fill the void she could leave
Can I stitch it up with satin lace and fill you full of rain
Can I kiss the scars
The marks
Left on your heart from a love so forbidden
And if a love lost is a lesson learned then she could be your teacher
Your mind is scattered and your heart is lost at sea
But do you still think of me
When you're ready to be home
When you're ready to be set free
Each wave pushing you further and further
Will it be me
please
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
III
11:11
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
III
11:11
He wished for her to be okay,
Her head buried in his shoulder,
Shaking them both with sobs that
Bounced off the walls and screamed
That he was doing it all wrong.

11:11
He wished for everyone to be okay,
His inbox filled with letters that
Formed words that told the stories
Of how no one was really ever okay, and
How he was doing it all wrong.

11:11
He wished for her to come back,
His eyes burning with the regret of
Not telling her how much he'd miss her, the sharp
Wind on this cheek as he stared at her grave
Reminded him on how he had done it all wrong.

11:11
He wished that he'd be okay,
Sudden realization that wishes are
Only that, the hollow hope like
The gorges in his skin to remind him
How he did everything wrong.

11:11
He hoped there wasn't nothing
After leaving this world of fake
Wishes, and lay his head in his pool of blood
On the bathroom floor, one last slit across his throat,
And he wished he didn't get this wrong.
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
WickedHope
She rises at night,
As new or full,
And she pulls him to his feet.

He rises at the sight of her,
A reflection of her old self,
Yet still illuminated
In her inconsistent darkness.

When she is unbalanced
He aches to compensate,
Attempts to return her kindness,
But he is left merely trying,
With her unsure of dying.

For the moon can raise the tide,
But the tide can't light the moon.
Might do more about this or something similar.

For the one who calls me his moon.
---
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
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Dancing on silver shoes
Bathed in scarlet stars
And we smile through clenched teeth
For we could never speak

The ones who dare come to shore
Ones struggling to see
Those of a blessed soul and a cursed past
Ones who almost saw the stars

But the brain has yet bleed
And the skull has not cracked
Hearts continued for playful rhythm
Souls not solid black  

Crackling for dear
Bloodshot fear
Damaging an ever beauty
Of this **graceful dance
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
EmptySadness
Darling please* don't leave because you think im to clingy
The thing is, People have left me
People have broke me

Darling please* don't leave because you think I get too attached
I never mean to get like that
People have left me *despondent

Your all that I ever needed and wanted

So darling, im down on my knees begging
Hoping and praying
That you don't leave for someone less
That's not such a mess
As I address
Please don't leave.
It's right there

In a perfect little bow tie but my own desperate, clambering need to be the first to get there leaves me with nothing

All that's left now is the shredded remains..

Scraps -- from which no nourishment can be salvaged.

No morsel contained.

(It is in this moment I realise the terror that resides within myself)

Haunting my endeavours, creeping up and into my personal life...

Weaving it's sickness as a woven quilt to my very skin!

Exposed for all to see

Somehow mortally wounding.

My need for absolution is blinding in a frantic and overwhelming kind of way...   I try to fight it but this weakness is unyielding in it's quiet persistent insistence

Like subliminal messages at times it stems seemingly from nowhere-- Polluting the hopes and dreams of those who love me

I feel that I am always improving. (Or at least trying to...)

Striving for a better life

But I feel faulted inside...

A mistake or flaw now too deeply buried to bring to cessation...

It's unresolved conflicts still taking toll on my personal affairs

Still feeding it's sickness back into me...

I feel weak but somehow complete

Lost but not yet alone...

And I think for just a moment before it passes that maybe things are not so fleeting?

But come the end of the day

I know

It must just be me...

Why wouldn't it be?

I ruin it for myself...
 Jan 2015 Kate Irons
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Shadow, shadow
Shadow of these monsters
Is this the true feeling of them?
Or can it just be an overflow of lies

Shadow, shadow
Shadow of these demons
I don't think I can see these anymore
I don't think I can believe

Shadow, shadow
Shadow of me
Is it true?
Am I the one who destroyed them?
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