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a small bird,
atop the masses of
skeletal branches,
carved its kiss
on the tree's
calloused skin
and left
to shiver
within the broken
shades
of night.
if not today, then tomorrow.
we all lose someone .
 Mar 2017 Kimberly Semiday
jlf
me
there are things
i should burn for
but i won't
there are things
i should burn
but i don't
burn for you
i still burn for you
when i drink i still drink
but only in fiction
i try my best
to avoid looking at
pianists guitarists and singers they don't upset me
but i guess their art is too honest
for who i am
as it should be
i will never
understood anything done
for me out of love
me i
shouldn't be alive
last november i kicked
my friend in the face while
he tried to save my life
i'd forgotten about it and so
when he visited me
in hospital the next day
i asked about the bruise
above his eye
he looked at me real
funny and told
me he ran into a tree
Instead of dragging knives across my skin
expressing self hatred or anguish,
I take small breaths of cigarettes.
It's liberating.
The minutes I can choose to take from my life.

I want to die young.
The more you resist
the longer they persist.
Death
She must be beautiful
Whoever meets her gives up their life
Stops living
I don't have the strength
to be your candle tonight,
Learn to navigate in the dark,
Please ignite your own spark,
I need to live for me now,
I'm only human
and I don't want to let you drown
But being your anchor
Only tore me down.
 Sep 2016 Kimberly Semiday
dusk
take me to a place
where i can see You
face to face;

because all i want to do
is slip away
into the darkness i've been
trying so hard to fight.
My eyelids are the heaviest things I've held.
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