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kaylene- mary Mar 2015
She is a prayer made
by Gods when they have
lost their way. With words
leaking from her teeth,
and passion burning through
her throat, she spins my pain
between her fingers, like a
riot of thought. With blood
shot eyes, she watched the
world caress my darkest fears-
then with a slip of a limb-
embraced me and my shards
of bone. She is a mouth of silence
when you think you need speech.
Sheet music written on her
lower lip, she played the
tunes of my survival with a
quick flip of the tongue.
Words were spilt along a
bathroom floor, drowning us
in hope and tragedy.
Hands were sown together
by the fragments of
discarded scars. She swallowed
my fears and made me watch,
let them fester away on her lungs.
Told me that I will no longer
burn alone, that we are now one soul,
and we will die together. Now
my life rests comfortably
inside of her, warmed by
her veins and undying love.
She is a prayer made by Gods
when they have lost their way,
and she is my religion,
my savior, my friend.
kaylene- mary Mar 2015
10w
Another woman's beauty is not the absence of your own.
  Feb 2015 kaylene- mary
Theodore Bird
stupid living boys
     and their hummingbird hearts.
stupid dead boys
     and their lingering stares.
supermarket polaroids,
     cold apartment poetry,
faded glassy eyes,
     ***** fingernails.
kaylene- mary Feb 2015
You sat beside me and spoke so sweetly
Let your hands run up my back ever so discreetly
I felt you dancing along my vertebrae
To the tunes of your own words that mould like clay
It took all of me to lift my sleeves
And show you my scars, the reason why everyone leaves
You titled your head to get a better view
Pointed out every dark depressant hue
Then you let your tongue slip
To tell me they're not the wreckage of skin, shadow and ship
That they're not remotely close to how bad they could be
Little did you know how much those scratches mean to me
You spoke of a girl you once knew
Like a Broadway play acting on cue
Mine were nothing compared to hers
In your words, mine are like nicks from spurs
You left me blowing in an empty breeze
While I whirl around like branches falling from trees
Nicks and cuts becoming apparent
My chest transforming transparent
Now I sit curled in a blood soaked bed sheet
Unwillingly trying to compete
Keeping my bones warm
While emulating thoughts swarm
To think you were going to be the one to make my bed
To think you were going to be the place to rest my head
As if I don't hate my inflections enough
You turned into a wolf and puffed and huffed
Blowing me down like a house made of straw
Then you sat back and laughed as I crawled
Letting the stones cut my upper thigh
You asked me what it feels like to die
I told you that it feels a lot like this
And those tiny little nicks shouldn't be dismissed
Because every wound bleeds
It's a part of sufferings deed
And soon enough they'll bleed you dry
By then it sure won't help to cry
You will be the death of me
And only then will you see
That those nicks and cuts mean so much to me
And that they are as bad as they could be
kaylene- mary Feb 2015
It's been raining for over an hour now. The lightening is so potent and bright that I cringe in fear of it cracking my skull when it strikes.
Drops are hitting the top of this tin roof, and the sound breaks through my room with such a gust that it drowns out the music of it's thunder.
I'm caught up thinking about you again, like that's any surprise to me or my wretched head.
I paint sweet moments in my mind of how we could have been.
I imagine the day you'd meet my father, shake hands with my uncle, compliment my grandmother on the Sunday roast.
It frightens me that I can see you in my future; buying our groceries, washing our clothes, changing our lightbulb.
The heart grows fonder when in a state of longing, that much I know is true, and there isn't a doubt in my mind that my every bone longs for you.
kaylene- mary Feb 2015
I knew what love looked like in my first year of high school.
Love had dark hair.
And darker eyes.
Love knew all the words to my favourite Metalica songs.
Love always knows where he belongs.
Love read me Peter Pan.
Over,
And over,
And over again.
Love was a fool.
Love spat when he spoke.
He hated the smell of pinecone smoke.
And he never washed his hands.
Love hated strawberries.
And he hated my favourite poet.
But sometimes love moves far away.
Sometimes love can stay.
Maybe love can't.
Maybe love shouldn't.
Then I found it again,
Sitting on a bar stool.
Love just didn't care.
Love had dark hair.
But bright eyes.
Love hated Metalica.
Love had hands as soft as a babies.
Love never told me I was beautiful.
No words were ever suitable.
Love hated the taste of my mouth.
Brandy and coke.
Love drove a ****** car.
And love bought me roses.
Love could never keep his hands still.
Love was always in it for the thrill.
He hated my cigarettes.
And he never spoke his mind.
Love left.
Convicted of theft.
And love disappeared.
Slowly.
Like baby teeth.
Losing parts of me I thought I needed.
Sometimes love isn't ready for you.
Sometimes you aren't ready for love.
Sometimes it's all of the above.
Sometime you find love again.
Thirteen years after graduation.
Still as beautiful as you remember.
Like on that day in mid December.
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