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 Sep 2012 Lorelei Adams
Carl Rose
Thoughts chase through my head,
They bubble up my throat,
Scratching to get free.

I speak in mute voice:
Words slipping away,
Like water in my hands.
 Jan 2012 Lorelei Adams
Tylie
I
 Jan 2012 Lorelei Adams
Tylie
I
i am nothing without you
i am nothing without
i am nothing
i am
i
 Dec 2011 Lorelei Adams
Camara C
she wore red for looks.
he wore nothing for pleasure.
Loose ends.  You are all I ever am.

Jealousy squirts through my narrow veins.  
Effortless sickness plagues my every guess.  
And I wake up, look at my only Self
And dazedness fades hatred as each blanketed flaw thaws to visibility.  

All tasks ask for failure and preparation is an unprecedented burden.  
The hands that cradle the Earth are the same ones that feed me...
only later to shield my eyes from the resultant memories.  

It seems as if every relation from past, present, and futures bleed into each other.
So I stand behind a screen, wanting to look at everything
being kept out.  Too bad it's woven with holes.  Every circumstance bleeds and seeps
through to each other from these openings, seeing me as the middle-ground.  

Now I'm overwhelmed and under-appreciated.  I shall stand still- unsure- until I wash up on shore with everyone's repaid debts buried next to me in the wet sand.  It would be unintelligent to swim out into new territory until the waters calm.
'I don't know what love is.'
You say now.
But I heard you,
You said, 'I Love You.'
I knew it wasn't true.

I am left here. Alone
With my imaginary, serious love.
And sitting in the back of the car,
sitting in the back of the car makes me nervous.
I want to write something,
Something worth reading,
Something with layers of meaning.
     I don't know how.
     I am not clever.

The sun through the window,
It's like someone better,
Someone with power
Is shining their love,
Their peace and their warmth

On me. But
I am not clever.
They are.
I am reckless.
I am not clever.
     I am filled with airport rage.
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