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M Clement Nov 2013
I wish to be drunk
If only to taste the lips
of an empty bottle

[there is no form here]

Laughing distantly
from the other room
Quiet inner-sobbing

[there's no one left]

Not sure if you
believe it, not sure
if I do.

[just move on, it's so much easier]

Slogging through mud
I've clearly lost my shoes
Bare skin settles deep

[what's left in this for you, for me]

Silence is consent
And I am ne'er hell-bent
Fashion-forward
Shoehorned selections
Kindling nethers to get attention
I am the sincerest form of flattery

[breaking tradition now//self-created]

Giving myself too much credit
Failing for son of the year
Searching...
Searching...
Searching...
[File not found.]
647 · Jun 2014
contrast
M Clement Jun 2014
Oh if I were only to write like the the dripping wax
Falling forth from the candle aloft
Then maybe you'd give a ****.
I wanted to mess with lofty writing and then throw it all away with something brash. It was a little fun.
646 · Jun 2013
Appreciation Patient
M Clement Jun 2013
There's a weird pain in my chest
I say it's weird because of the circumstances surrounding

We're done
I don't miss us
And I'm happy to be your friend

I don't even miss having that person in my life
You know, the foil
The other
The one that completes you
And maybe that's because
I've never truly experienced that

What I miss is love
What I miss is gratitude
What I miss is recognition
I want to be there for someone
Not really for my sake, but for theirs
I want to be of assistance

But at the same time, greedily,
I want to be noticed for it.
643 · Sep 2013
Jeez
M Clement Sep 2013
There's an eye in my mouth
All-seeing speech

There's a noise in my throat
A voiceless breach

There's galaxies in my fingertips
And something outside the window

I used to kick the sickest spit
Now I just sit and stare, though.
642 · May 2013
Addicts Anonymous
M Clement May 2013
Addiction is
Sitting at this computer
And still looking through a catalogue of emotions.
Highs and lows
Spirited Woes
And all the things not so secret

Addiction is
Not really willing to give you up
Or leave your life
Even though part of me really wants to
But the majority doesn't.

Addiction is
Putting up with my own ****** writing
Infused with infatuation, cheap words,
And half-hearted flattery

Addiction is
Still texting you good luck
But wondering under what context it will be read
Hoping that it's under a new leaf
of understanding

Addiction is
Hoping the best for you
And realizing that, I too,
Need to be elsewhere
God Bless this twisted emotion-riddled mind of mine, and may He bless you evermore abundantly.
632 · Apr 2013
Key party
M Clement Apr 2013
I want to check my emotions at the door
And drop my keys in a bowl
Baby, oh baby
Take all of what I got
And I'll pretend to do the same
I have a book of your emotions
Because I know I'll never see them in real life

Use me, abuse me, and take me to someplace darker than this
I'm a globe trotter
And a dog-walker
Your dogs look tired, why don't you sit down?
Oh, there's no seating save for my lap
You know what to do

I came without you
I can do me all by myself
I don't need you
In fact
It's a hell of a lot easier without you

I can be exactly
whoever the ****
I want.
and I can ****
Exactly whoever I want.

Catholic with a very foul mouth
Not that I'm proud of this
But I'm proud of my writing
No lie
Few alibis
I'm really in China
I have small feet to keep it tight
If you know what I mean

There's nothing in me that wants to continue
And don't read into this, because it's as much about you as it isn't
That's to say, not a whole lot?
Paradox

I know it's never meant to be easy
But sometimes I wish it were just a little easier

I like music that screams at me
It makes me feel at home.
Sick?
Maybe.
Life,
Don't you know it.
Just don't flatter yourself.
In all honesty, this is just thought spill. Whoever reads this, please don't think it's about you. I promise you it isn't. This is about me, and it always has been.
630 · Dec 2012
The journey
M Clement Dec 2012
Dear Wayfarer,
Oh wayfarer, me

Show me the way to the nearest
Adventure
Show me the tallest of trees
The lowest of valleys

I wish to be lost with you,
Oh wayfarer,
You know your way around
I can tell by your grizzled features
And you impenetrable courage
Facing high cliffs like the ground below them
Was no more than a step below

Oh Wayfarer,
Dear Wayfarer, me

Take me to a road less traveled,
In times like this
Show me antiquity.
I want to see the roads of old
The ones less traveled in days such as these

Oh Wayfarer,
Oh Wayfarer,
Dear Wayfarer,
Me

Realize that this world is yours to explore
With caution
But courage
With brazenness
And humility

Oh Wayfarer
Wayfarer: Me
M Clement Apr 2014
I guess this is more procrastination than anything else,
But writing is writing, amiright?

it's funny, starting a line with no capitalization,
you know what else is funny? Misspellings.
But that's not really what I was going to say.

There's something about pieces of my past that drum up passionate writings.
Congrats to you, if you're reading, you're a muse of somesort.

I was reading 1 Corinthians today.
Workin' on dat daily struggle, that getting closer to Christ grind.
Grinding on the cross.
hashtag: blasphemy
Conjures up images of Jesus at a dance

Back to the point: Paul urged us to stay single.
I find that so weird, but in reality,
It's no weirder than desiring others to fill our hole(s)

There's a **** joke there somewhere...

I'm being crass for the sake of it
An ***, because that's what I make of it.
I write, I writ, I wrote
Am I right? This rite? Is it rote?
Wordplay

Really though, stay single, for the sake of your relationship.
That's what Paul said.
A married man or woman is tied down to this earth ever more than those unmarried.

Is that why I'm single?
I ain't even mad.
Even if I do miss the touches,
The hugs
The intimacy

I know that in it,
When I'm in the thick,
I miss my relationship with Christ more.

Where's the blood
Where's the body when I need it most?

I am the one locking myself away.

Eucharistic struggle
The Communion struggle.
That last line is a good summation of this piece
If this is a poem, indeed.

Maybe I need to make some lines that rhyme for the sake of the time you've spent reading this journalistic entry for the sake of my last century and maybe this one coming.
I'm bumming around for cigarettes that I don't smoke, for **** that I won't ****, for a joke that won't end in any punchline you find funny.
Baby, honey, I need to leave; you need to see the light of day, and I need some time to pray, because everytime I'm with you I'm suffocating. You're pulling, and there's no more rope; you're the trickery, and I'm the dope. And every time  my flesh was in yours and you were on me, I knew what we were doing couldn't be, and that what we were doing wasn't for me, but all for you. I'm all for you. I'm never not.

Except when I'm not.
It felt like something that I needed to be said, and it felt so good to spill it out on paper. I hope it reads as well as it felt to type.
615 · Apr 2015
After much consideration
M Clement Apr 2015
I am a Fuster Cluck
I am mother-duck

Color my medically mental psychiatriosis
Red-blue-purple

Snowball my eyeballs into your throat-hole
"I never asked for this," said Adam Jensen's blow-hole.

I feel best self medicated on that fire-water's chest
Feel my insides warm as my outsides loosen
I may explodinate my thought bubble-quotient

I'm sick of being in my head
Worrying about you, worrying about life
Worrying

Lay it at the foot of the cross
I know which one
So why am I sitting here holding all my problems in my arms
Cradling them like a small child?
I just wanted to write.
M Clement Feb 2013
Like an army in my mind
I hear the pulse of 1000 soldiers' footsteps
Ringing in my ears
Horns screeching across pavement lines
As fools of importance show that they are
the ones with the bigger ego

Shaking away everything
that demands my attention
I tire of this
I am so very tired.
614 · Apr 2013
I pull up at drugstores
M Clement Apr 2013
I skipped some passion
There was a moment when words pulsed
Through my veins
And instead of letting the blood flow from my finger tips
I pent it up
Instead of penning it out

Girl, you're crazy

So, it's late
I'm late to class
The funeral's started
And my ship's just set sail
And as the wave get choppier
I realize that I'll never get there
No use fighting the ocean, right?
Divine intervention

I have no time to give
And no hour worthwhile
And every minute is a breath
Every second is nice touch

There's candlelit dinners awaiting
in the silence of drawn curtains and misery
Someone asked me to build God

No one asked me anything

Mix little lies and lots of truth
Call it a serum for relations

She says the truth is so dark
I think of pitch blackness

Have I mentioned I find comfort in the blackness of night?
Get that anonymity

Swallow to let it hurt you
Spit it out to let me know
I swear I'm ready to understand,
You just need to let me.
M Clement Jul 2013
On a street corner
Sits a lone house
And Ivy crawls up its walls

and crawls
and crawls
and crawls

As if hoping, someday, to become
the house itself
Sharing is caring.
I wrote this on a walk yesterday.
There's a great amount of poetry that I've written that I haven't shared with you all. I wonder if some of it should ever see the light of day.
607 · Jul 2013
With a blue jacket
M Clement Jul 2013
Then there was nothingness
And as she looked between branches
and tree trunks
She saw little
For the interwoven tapestry of wood and leaf was too dense to peer through

She took her first few steps
Hearing the crunching of leaves and brush beneath her feet
Breathed in a deep, cool breath of fresh, mountain-air
And she passed
With one, silent breath

She became one with the brush
606 · May 2013
Weary
M Clement May 2013
Travelling
I don't recall this tire
This ache of a call to sleep
It's making me criminal
Insane, feeble

In secret gardens
In worlds so very far
I wish I had no feelings
Facing would be easier
And longings would be non-existent

I guess there's good news
I no longer
experience feelings of days past.
New pages written
New books to be filled.
And this is just the first day

Welcome, weary traveller, to the arms of Love.
Three more weeks.
I hope to find you there.
I'm in Iceland! I've had so many poems run through my mind, but so few made it to paper (due to lack of available paper). So this is what I got for today. I'll write more in private, and maybe post them later.
M Clement Jan 2017
It's two in the morning,
And nothing glimmers with any sort of light.

The ceiling lamp is buzzing its way into oblivion, and my computer screen won't stop screaming my face off as words continue to recreate themselves all over this paperwork I like to call poetry.

There are clothes on the floor.
A lump that literally states "I'm a bachelor with no tastes";
All my clean clothes are unfolded.

I take time for ******* pageantry, as if video games, film, and other likewise media are my lasting friends.

"Look at me,
I know so much!"
He kindly curtseys to the judge
as he skips away so gayly.

An "Always Sunny" Marathon, at my place maybe?
He says like a Jewish Decapodian, scarfing down some bay leaf.
Just kidding, I'm way too poor for that.

I'm supposed to have my **** together;
I'm supposed to buy a house!
I scream, I rant, I rave, I shout!
Until another stupid ******* ***** me a good one,
Right on the mouth.

I mumble for weeks; I continue on.
Let us all sing, again, the soldier's song:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'

Oh God, what have you done?
Brought politics into a world that had none?
Forever tainted this bill of mine,
For it's possible that it 'twas not designed
for a working world,
for a human social structure,
for a being who's supposed to be good.

We get a mockery each time,
Spit dereliction, each line.
*fists up in the air* WHOOO POLITICS, GO SOAPBOX
597 · Sep 2013
Breakfast(s)
M Clement Sep 2013
Sufferin' Suckatash
Mr. Peter smoked a bag of hash
And browns
Her eggs within screamed for joy
As no one, said no one
And he played with a bag of toys

Boytoys
Noteing
Nothing
For Nothing's sake

A snake's in my boot
My friend, please shoot
Aim for my innards
and have me for dinner
Let's break down
The newest tech
As we sleep on the brand new deck
And make love
Until the sun and moon collide

I'm sorry
For I know not what I do
Or do I?
And if I did,
would that make it any better?
M Clement Sep 2013
I hurt in the most sincere of ways.
I'm struggling to keep composure
And to keep the ripples
I've created
from doing what they do
596 · Jan 2013
Whimper until you look away
M Clement Jan 2013
Bones before antlers
Let's see the splinters

Irritation propagation
You really know my buttons

Walk around once
Walk around twice
Can't stop unless we say

I remember this being far easier
Yesterday
595 · Jul 2013
Demons
M Clement Jul 2013
Hello my Demons,
It's been a while,
Or so I believed.

                             Here's the truth:
                             You've been here all along,
                             Just a different guise.  

I really wish you'd leave;
I'm pretty tired of you,
And I'm tired of the me
That exists when you are
Around.
                            
                                I'm really hoping this
                                Is the final time I reference you,
                               Because I've got better places
                               To be than
                               In your clutches.
M Clement Jan 2017
It's been a long time since I ****** with a pen.
Told my lady tonight something I just can't forget:
If you really love something, at least do it on the side.

So welcome me back, O wordsmith, if you would delight.

If not, fade me to alignment of some other greater ill,
fate me worse none, than one thought, but I will still keep a bill
of every broken, ****** up, and beautiful thing that I've been given,
and I'll still want to turn that **** into a living.
I haven't written in so long, but it's not something I forgot my love for. I've always wanted to become a better poet, and one of my dreams is to get my work published. Who knows if it'll ever happen, but I'd like to keep writing in the meantime if you'll have me.
593 · Dec 2013
GPOY
M Clement Dec 2013
If I secretly wanted to explode
Would you tell somebody?

Pass center-left
We're strangers now
Happiness?
Not really
Contentment?
Maybe.
I can't help but feel we're better off
No we...
You
Me
Separate entities

Backside volley
To the side of the valley
Favorite my tweet
And I'll flip-flop my meat
Meet me at the grocer's
Five-dollar Tuesdays
Make sure it's ******.
Unapparent Appalachians
I spelled it wrong initially

Thought-o-sphere
To drivel near.
I got stuff to do.
I got stuff to do.
I got stuff to do.

Just touch me,
Somebody.
590 · Aug 2013
Out-of-body amusement park
M Clement Aug 2013
I am elsewhere
Corporeal presence notwithstanding
My eyes drifting across walls
of the surrounding apartment complex
Only for such drifting gazes
to be marred by leaves, branches, and trunks

But as physicality ties me down to terra
My spirit and thoughts attempt to transcend
Physical
Only to be tied back down by the God-made anchor
Pushing zealously
Feverishly
I am "man"
Sharing is caring.
589 · Apr 2014
I used the "F" word again.
M Clement Apr 2014
I'm a robot from the future
Laser eyes
Cyber-**** the tyrannosaur

The worst thing is more what I'm coming to
Frogger onto an oncoming bus grill

Watch my innards explodinate.

I work to grab you
I grab to work you
Winkie-face emoticon, except,
y'know IRL.

God's calling recently.
I'm struggling to pick up the phone.

Only place to put my hope in is Him.
Why can't I pick up the receiver?
I'm back, son.
587 · Feb 2013
Alan in Wonderland
M Clement Feb 2013
Here's the truth dear Rabbit
I've fallen down the hole, now
And I need you take down what I'm saying
It's important, I tell you
Important

I want so dearly to reveal myself
Let me rephrase:
I want to lay with someone
To
In a simple way
Give of myself
Someone else will enjoy me more than I
Rabbit, you understand, don't you?
You of all...
animals
Know of *******
You're a rabbit.
Don't look at me so *****-ly
You're a rabbit, you have a reputation about you

You do understand me, don't you?
I guess I should explain
No, keep writing
If I'm gone, it should be told
I want to lay with someone,
Because my vulnerability is not something I want to share
If I truly open up
Rather than acting like I have it all together...
By the way, I hardly accomplish that
You saw me crying by the tree, did you not?
That's the whole reason I've fallen down
I wanted to escape
I so badly want to be with a woman
To escape
I know better
But that doesn't mean I act better

Dear Rabbit, have you finished?
I think I'm done ranting.
If you would please,
Post that on the tree outside this hole
I have to explore escape
I just realized how much I hate this poem.
583 · Nov 2012
Like a freakin' turkey
M Clement Nov 2012
One more poem, I guess
Just for tonight
High of musical melodies
Take another hit of that sound

I want to do alliteration
But ******* buy back
And I forget my place.

I haven’t spoken in a while
Like, really spoken
I remember saying
“The best times are when I’m speaking”
And then I outright
Avoid it.

I bathe in this now.
It disgusts me.
I ******’ bathe in this now
Don’t look up, you’ll drown
583 · Dec 2012
Alliteration Pt. 2
M Clement Dec 2012
British beauties bewilder background believers bringing backwards beliefs
582 · Nov 2012
Showers
M Clement Nov 2012
If I were the man
Tom Cruise plays in Top Gun
I'd be half the man I once was

Truth is, however,
I've never seen the film

So call this premature enlightenment
Or idiosyncratic ignorance

I'll be here all the same.
579 · Feb 2013
Paying my respects
M Clement Feb 2013
Why, in God's name, are you so beautiful?
Can I buy you a drink?
Can I talk to you a bit?
No, I swear, if I was trying to get into your pants
I'd already be there.
****-y
(Insert jokes about *****, Caulks and the like)

Really, though,
I'm here to listen
I am hear
I want to be here
Like a fisherman
Your face the bait
I had to take it
The chance
Now I'm here
And I want to listen
Now I'm hear
Just pay me the same respects
I'm really trying
Just for you
****, you're beautiful
579 · Nov 2013
[I'd do that for you]
M Clement Nov 2013
Un-motivation,
I have a way about me.

Are you enjoying me, anonymous reader?
Because my self-indulgence is wearing on I.

Let's **** the flame together.
There's a mess on the table.

If I ignore her, will she eventually leave me be?

Thoughts, thoughts, and scatter-plot dots
I've got intelligence down to a science.

Do I write for you?
Do I write for me?
Do I write for Him?
Do I write for she?

Who's the head?
And who's the heading?
Who's the body?
We're just beginning.

Musical significance on the back-note taste bud of my lower sound registry.
That was a long line.

I like the 4th wall, if only because it breaks for me.

Alligator tears have no place here,
and nor does this lackadaisical approach.

I hope you all ride first class,
and I ride coach.

[Title]
578 · Apr 2014
Traffic up ahead
M Clement Apr 2014
Then there's that moment
Comedians have spoken about it
Friends have mentioned it
Girlfriend's have noticed it

And he can't get rid of it
It's like it's innate.
Maybe that's how he wants it
Just a reminder of how ****** it feels
Used without the proper permits.
574 · May 2013
Misfortunes of the heart
M Clement May 2013
You once told me about your pain
It's in your leg
And I'd watch you wince as you walked
You'd say "I'm fine"
I knew so different

After a while you'd say there's a gnawing pain
That it no longer hurt as bad

I think I know what that feels like now
M Clement Nov 2012
**** I’m old as dirt
And I still don’t have my **** in a stack

At least I got life on lock
Better than THAT guy

Fake.

I don’t know what I’m doing.
I can tell my poems are getting *******…
Seems to happen when the night gets later

Don’t blame me for this ****.
I’m freaking tired…
But it could be something else
That is just ******* up how I’m feeling.

At this point, I’m rolling my face
On the keyboard
I’m sure that was pretty obvious

Give me some criticism I can’t handle…
Actually, just **** me.
I think I’d handle that just about as well.

I think about that ****,
But I can’t handle it.
Sticking my **** in someone
Sounds like ****** to the virginity

For some reason, it sounds so normal until I put myself as the
Perpetrator

Old women watch *******
Solid logic.
This one's a little more raw than most. Sorry about that.
570 · Oct 2017
Breakfast
M Clement Oct 2017
I paced back and forth
Kitchen to living
Room
Bowl in hand, I seat myself.
Discomfort.
Discomfort leads to frustration,
Frustration gives way to irritation
Irritation is stopped by standing again.
“It’s just breakfast,” I say to myself.
I can eat anyway I want, **** it.

But as I try to plop on the leather couch once again,
Some of the ever-precious cereal milk flows forth
From the lip of the bowl
To my pajama’d pants.

I’m going to stand and eat.
Thanks, breakfast.
Twitter prompt.
570 · Jun 2013
Sometimes, a poem just ends
M Clement Jun 2013
"It's been less than a year."
He said with sincerity
Did he believe it?
Was the question
The answer was
M Clement Dec 2012
Body: Corporal
Lively: Entertaining

All these thoughts,
I think when it's raining

Give me Caesar
Give me audience

Take me down to Greenwood
Providence

My thoughts
Are aging
My mind's
Not racing

Truly
It's the end of the year
569 · Apr 2015
listless
M Clement Apr 2015
A discontented silence raised itself among the fellows

Which of us?

Then it becomes a ******* race.

I write to seek and to find

Please, someone define the languish of hypocrisy
I can do me all by myself

Scattered brain splattering
Jackson *******'s word-painting
Find Pascal's triangle inside me
I hope it's in the mouth.

Arbitrary. Periods.

Here I am, delirious
567 · Apr 2014
Way way Waaaay down
M Clement Apr 2014
You monster.

Skippable story
For the glory of something else.
Meg Ryan's everywhere.
Another movie with Meg Ryan.
Natives, man.

Indian Jewish
Pork and I stewish.
I used to write to side-track myself.
It's back again.

Purple footed ostrich
****** for me
You monkey faced animal

The who wants my flesh?
The you wants my mess.
Thanks Meg Ryan, you're everything.
The ants go marching.
We're watching Joe and the Volcano, or whatever it's called.
564 · Jul 2015
Across the Seven Seas
M Clement Jul 2015
"If I never write you," she said,
"you'll know I've found what I needed."
And thus they parted ways...
And he still awaits a letter.
M Clement May 2014
Crimea...
More like Crimea River

I don't get the issue.
Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook Prompts. This prompt: Crimea
561 · Dec 2013
[A good poem]
M Clement Dec 2013
][
|I had it.|
(I've)
Glorious
(had)
Implore me
(it.)
There was something
[70x7]
There was.

Something in the water
Holy mountain
Uproot and walk
[Something in the water]

Blue dream
Apparently smokeable
Kush life
Kush type
(Never smoked a day in my time.)

Box this.
Seriously,
Print it
Box it.
I could try and draw lines
Just send it to me.

[There's]
[something]
[]
Look closer
Assuredly
-OVO-
Ever over Ever
There was a point here
As there was over there
And if you connect them
There's a picture
Hint:[elephant]

The point of this poem is that it means nothing
but everything in it means something at some point.

Long lines
#dealwithit
I just need some shades
This was experimental for me. I just went, and I think it's really bizarre.
560 · Nov 2013
If at all…
M Clement Nov 2013
I regret when I write romantically
It catches me off balance,
And, upon looking back,
I catch myself feeling disdain
For a me that was far too feeling than stoic
For a me who couldn’t see the future for what it could be
For a me who was caught up living in the moment
And not watching for the downward spiral

That being said,
I’m imagining a life with you
But I hardly know you yet
If at all.
I've written a great deal of feeling within the medium that is poetry, but I almost always find distaste in it. This is particularly the case with "love" or "infatuation" pieces. This is a not-so-subtle reflection on such, but the desire to give it up is filled with nothing but false will.
M Clement Jun 2013
Baby,
I'm drunk of of emotion and
peculiar situations
John Mayer's additions may not be helping
but
There's something in me that craves you

Don't get me wrong,
I love physicality,
But that's not what I'm getting at
And I'd be satisfied if it were never
Part of the equation
(though I'd miss it terribly)
I miss you
Like the plants in the shade miss the sun
Like the dry dirt misses the rain

You give me a sense of wholeness
And I wouldn't be where I am right now without you

So whether we spend the rest of our lives
(and our nights) together
Or we go our separate ways
Know that I love you
I always will
And you will always have a piece of me
And I am, and forever will be, more than ok with that.
559 · Jul 2014
onomatopoeia
M Clement Jul 2014
The question I get once upon a never:
From where does your writing stem?

The answer is inside, with a clever, witty reply, and an honest tinge in the vocal happenings.

So another never ever asks:
Where are you, friend? How are the days? What has happened to your writings?

The answers are: somewhere. Not great.

And lastly,
I oft perceive my writings as weakness
And outer showings of a deeper flaw, so forgive me if I seem aloof.
I have not yet managed to find the proper skin to settle.
Recent musings with a deep desire to come back to some sort of prose.
M Clement Jun 2013
I am seething regret
I am the walls of the terrace which you broke down

Filibuster my longwinded-ness
And break the backs because of your freedoms

I am seething regret
We call it freedom of the body
I call it ******, and **** it, I will not be silenced

I am sick and ******* tired of children dying
I am sick and tired of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers crying.
We are so selfish, that we refuse life, because we believe our bodies have that right.

I am a man, yes, that is true.
I cannot speak from a woman's point of view.
But I guaran-*******-tee you
That my viewpoint would not change
If my genitals sank in rather than pushed out

I could spit tacks
And I could break backs
Watch me seethe and writhe

I don't want to hear your point of view,
I want to hear the sound of silence
Because no more children would be dying
For freedom
This is a harsh piece, but they are true feelings. If you'd like to discuss, please don't be put off by my anger. There are few places, save for poetry, that I can accurately express my feelings; I don't want what is written to be a deterrent for positive discussion.
Thank you.
556 · Apr 2013
Mr. Money Bags
M Clement Apr 2013
If I had a nickel for every time I thought of how you smelled
I'd be slowly becoming wealthier
554 · May 2014
Oh, yeah, I get it.
M Clement May 2014
Your shoes, my shoes
Red shoes, blue shoes

Let me walk a while,
In the mind of one other than myself

Overt themes and righteousness blatant

In the mind of another, things are complacent
I get it, now, what you meant when you said "x"
and I replied "Why?"
You didn't mean it this way
You meant we should try.

There was something more there, than I first heard, alone.
I gathered a different inflection
From the use of that tone.

To walk a mile, a 10 minute affair
But I understand so much more, once I've chosen to walk there
Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook prompts; this prompt: trying a new perspective.
547 · Sep 2013
Why did I/he/she do it?
M Clement Sep 2013
Caught up in emotion, lack of thought,
or what else?

There's little worse
than looking back
toward your past,
seeing the good out of your missteps,
but still regretting them
all the same.
547 · Dec 2012
Summer of a year past
M Clement Dec 2012
Depression made me want to not wake up.

Love?
Ridiculous, I don't feel it.

Care?
Is it there? What's it feel like?

Numbness?
There we go, I feel that.
But
Can you feel numbness
Or does it enfold you?
Engulf you?
A true darkness, makes your rose colored shades
Far darker
Remember all the things you loved to do?
You don't, with these lenses.
Remember all your loved ones?
Remember the feelings you had for them?
Had.
Welcome to depression, son.
***** doesn't it. You want out,
You want to bail this ship,
Swim outside the darkness,
But it engulfs, and refuses to
Let you swim away.
The Kraken of emotional duress.

Just wait for someone who's a better swimmer,
Find someone with a brighter light,
I had to.
Apparently I didn't know how to swim.
544 · Jul 2013
I Believe In Ghosts
M Clement Jul 2013
I almost believed I saw you
Today, on Normal Street,
But your hair was different

And I was different
And you were different

And as I believed I passed you by
Today, on Normal Street,
I realized
Our ghosts merely passed
And nothing more.
M Clement Aug 2013
And that's when I heard the heart break.
Tell me, do you hear it?
There was fragility in its entirety
and now the entirety is on the floor

Silence
Breaks nothing
But intense dialogues
Between quarreling lovers
Between family members
Between friends

There's a caveat,
A cut in, if you will,
But I dare not speak of it here
No, I dare not speak of it here
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