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Kelly Oct 2021
i'm sad
but i should walk my dog



so only one of us is sad.
Kelly Oct 2021
i'm fighting losing battles,
i wonder what i've done
still searching for a beating heart
inside this empty one
hold me in the morning.
Kelly Oct 2021
sturdy insecurity
an oxymoron
juxtaposition not akin
to the feelings I feel in my          
chest
solidified, black lead
when driven deep into the sunken fronts
of lust vs a crush
which is neither nor nothing
                                                         ­  i suppose

and how i hate feeling victim to
my own insidious head
holding firmly the affirmations
turning over and over
since i've known her
stating plainly that i am entirely
                                                        ­         wholly
                                                          ­                           completely
                                                      ­    and utterly
                                  nothing

to the people around me.
chronic perceived inadequacy
Kelly Oct 2021
the throbbing pain of a headache the drugs won't let me feel
the highway always looks the same
Kelly Oct 2021
i tried to abandon thoughts of you
the sudden break from the lines we had fused
spurred my slip into darkness
cold
hot
Abyss.
I never envisioned my knees to my eyes
tepid in your contemporary implies
I never wanted to be here
Holding myself together
The Hundreds could not save me from your tempest weather.
Pounding and pounding
relentless rain
Turned hardened to hail
as you sullied my brain

Stop.

Indulged in the concept i'd been offered thus late
Attempting to turn panic into hate
I hate you
I hate you
When you said "i'll break you"
i didn't believe that I'd drop my walls for you

Stop.

You care more for yourself and this need to be wanted
I didn't like feeling like something you'd hunted
I wanted to love you
pure, absent of lust
I gave you small pieces of forgotten trust
You didn't fit in that faction
set in safety of heart
your colors bled swiftly into abstract art
Painted within me
you saw my unjustly
please tell me this was something more than my body

Stop.

I want to
to hate you
I want to ******* hate you
For playing these games in my ready-****** head
before you i'd witnessed more lenient dread
But now that you're in me
you're left of my skin
I've washed you away
tried to forget my sin

I should've been your friend first.

I should've been your friend first.

But honey, you too, you should've been my friend first
and now i am strewn out in pieces, debris
from your choking grip you will not set me free
Your need to be wanted
your lust for my soul
Let go, I'm not breathing
i've lost all control.
this was weird to rewrite
Kelly Oct 2021
I'd spend days walking the line of your jaw
dipping between the ridges of your mouth
and skipping rocks along your shoulder blades

I'd spend hours on the bones in your hips
sliding below your skin,
form-fitting handles, molding like clay
to the shape of my hands

I'd paint the walls of my skull with your voice
filling the lonely rafters of my ribs,
rhythmic swells through the tides of my mind
following the contraction of your laugh

I'd lose my hopelessness in this  noise,
and from the labyrinth of you
never seek escape

                      
                                  ­                as if i ever had a choice
i like you more than I planned.
Kelly Oct 2021
I'm waiting on a person I do not even know
to tell me things about myself I'm too afraid to show

                       cause if through her, or him, or me there's in this
something more

why are all these washed up bodies

                                        washed up on my shore?
i probably should stop (Orlando, 2017)
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