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 Jan 2017 Lia Frenae
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i am a hotel
 Jan 2017 Lia Frenae
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I Google “how to get over a broken heart”
12,200,000 results in .76 seconds
I think about your hand between my thighs
get a bottle of whiskey
and tell myself I will never call you sober
One morning I woke up in your bed and you weren’t there
One morning I woke up in your bed and you were there
See, that’s the thing about being in love with a ghost
Ghosts make the worst tenants, I didn’t ask for this
I didn’t ask you to haunt me with the way you smack your lips after a drag of your cigarette, and the next one, and the next one. I didn’t want to remember the songs, the music playing in the background, us, the main performance, dancing in your sheets. I touch your forehead with my forehead. It’s sweaty. I find out that ghosts can sweat. Ghosts can tell you they like your new tattoos but all you hear is “There’s a reason I left after your first one”. If I got a tattoo for every time I thought about your lips they would run out of ink.
You’re like a foot of snow after the weatherman said showers
and I’m the mess they clean up in the morning.
The Golden Rule
is a fallacy
that cannot work
when I beg
things of love
and you crave
things of lust
and both of us
reciprocates the desires
of our own hearts
without looking
for even a moment
into the other's.
My Father
says,
ignore these

"people."

Ignore
them

THE WORLD
is
not
doing that.

"These people,"

are
people

Famous now
their
songs,
words,
incredible

HOW CAN I IGNORE THAT?

..Dad,
how do i ignore

Lil Wayne?

50Cent?

Jay-Z

How do you do that?

* ****
 Jan 2017 Lia Frenae
Rob K
I wish to define you,
As a passage of time.
A pageless memory,
With words on no line.

Yet too strong for,
A definition you are.
Like grasping sunshine,
From an exploding star.

So in my mind,
Vaguely you'll stay.
Understandings evader,
In which labels dismay...

— The End —