Kevin T Norman

Kevin T Norman Dec 2013

Sour

Don't kiss me.

For you will taste love on my lips.

And that

is a bitter taste for you.

Kevin T Norman Dec 2013

Falling

Have you ever seen the stars?
Have you ever counted the night sky?
In the constellations I see shapes,
and the shapes I see create him.

Have you ever counted the night sky?
Followed the moon to the stars.
And the shapes I see create him,
but up there he is unreachable to me.

I followed the moon to the stars,
but only with my eyes could I feel.
Up there he is unreachable to me,
and down here my world stands still.

But only with my eyes could I feel.
They caress over the night sky reflecting love.
And down here my world stands still,
my world separated by the veil of the sky.

They caress over the night sky reflecting love,
but I'm blinded by what I see above,
My world separated by the veil of the sky,
he is no where near to me.

But I'm blinded by what I see above.
I'm unaware of what is truly hidden in the stars.
He is no where near to me,
and I don't think he'll ever fall.

Kevin T Norman Dec 2013

Slipping

Talk to the hand!*
drunk, slurry lines.

Tired, cracked, awkward straight.
About once or twice a week the jokes get old.

But I am not alone.
I learned one thing.

In the middle of the night they too are all over the place.

Which is like a religion to me.

#love #sad #drunk #hate #religion #loss #lost

Kevin T Norman Nov 2013

Breathless

I don't know what it's like to burn.
To feel blazing fire in the chest,
or the skipped beat in my hearts rhythm.
I've never felt the flutter of a butterflies wings in my stomach,
the churning sensation that lovers so often describe.
I don't know the sadness of a goodbye.
I never understood the falling tear of departure,
never felt pain for being alone.

The fire of love is not dead in me,
my flame is just small and dim.
But you came in like a shooting star.
You exposed the dimness of my heart with a burst of light,
but my fire did not grow in yours.
My drop of fire drowned in your ocean of flames.
It suffocated yet again by the ever rising current of love.

I don't know what it's like to burn.
I've only ever known the sensation of drowning.

Kevin T Norman Nov 2013

Darkness

One day, I'm going to die.

It hits me as if I was just crushed by a succession of cars. My heart beats impulsively and my body goes into a state of shock.

I then throw myself into a fit of panic.

I scream and holler helplessly hoping my cries will **** the thought of death. That it will destroy it's reality.

I can't bear the thought of no longer existing
but death will come and I cannot stop it.

I'm a believer in God and I should believe in heaven,
but even that terrifies me.

Eternal happiness could be a myth for the foolish, a cure for the weak.
Eternal damnation may be what we all endure.

Or worse

We may have nothing at all but darkness.

And that terrifies me the most.

Kevin T Norman Nov 2013

Flaw

When
you suddenly realize
you're not

perfect

You can finally
start living and be

**human.

Kevin T Norman Nov 2013

Boom

I love you in secret.
In the darkness of shadows.
In the budding seed buried in the depths of the Earth,
waiting to grow.

I love you in stillness.
In the silence of the world.
I love you in the places not many will dare to go.

If ever the light goes out and darkness ensues,
know that in that darkness my love will be a guide for you.

In words unspoken and sentences left unfinished
I will nuzzle my love.
I will hide it in riddles and rhymes.

In the rain and through the storm,
My heart beats for you like thunder.

Loud

Strong

And Booming.

You are my lightening.

I do not know why I love you.
And you do not know that I love you.
All I know is that I do love you.

And that's enough for me.