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Kathleen Rose Mar 2018
Peter Jackson
your brand of cigarette
still sits in my ashtray
all the smoke
that passed our lips
and settled in our lungs

how do i forget you
when your kiss still dances
on my lips
I cannot forget
those gentle lines & the smile
that fixed itself
on your extraordinary face

how can I say that i miss you
when I don't have the right
to look left
it is the doubt
the feeling
of swelling and sinking in

tell me it is safe to drown
when the rest left me
at half mast
with the tide setting in

throw me the life line
that brings me back to you

bring me back to you
Random thoughts on a Thursday night. Just thoughts, I had to get them out.
Kathleen Rose Jul 2017
I sank.
Thinking it was safe to swim.
I drowned in every piece of you.
Kathleen Rose Aug 2015
Some of her hairs grew longer than the others
In the outline of her silhouette in the afternoon sun
they shined in rebellion
sparse and lovely and greyed with age
I'd never seen a lady move so elegantly
Defying the subtleties that marked her age
She could run and play
And speak and charm
At rest she looked her youngest
She smiled in content as her chest raised and fell
She mimicked a breeze in late spring
In the dawn of the afternoon sun
For my cat, 16 years old and still a kitten in my heart.
Kathleen Rose Feb 2015
I look in the mirror
It's such a waste
Why does this surface
Reflect my face
Kathleen Rose Sep 2014
You don't remember like I do
When my heart beat, it nearly flew
The rhythm quickened and never lost its pace
You had me racing still standing in my place

You don't remember like I do
Because to me you were the moon
I shot for you, passed the stars
Bottled their dust in tiny jars

You don't remember like I do
In every dream I dreamt of you
We made an empire in this bed
But you left mine for hers instead
  Sep 2014 Kathleen Rose
Candy Noire
I write you poems all the time
Every time you cross my mind
My mouth never utters a word of you
But my mind it never shuts up, its true.

I write you poems all the time
And tear them up and say I'm fine
That I don't need you in my life
But my mind says otherwise.

I wrote you poems when we met
They were so different back then
I spoke of love and innocence
My mind was stuck on you, my friend.

I wrote you poems in Autumn
When the leaves died I thought of them
I thought of what we were back then
But we know things have to change again.
Kathleen Rose Sep 2014
I awake in torment
Spine twisted
Teeth aching from clenching so tightly

I pass the realm of lucidity
Trying to grasp the voices I hear
From the stairway above

They still infest my deepest nightmares
**I know what they have done
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