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 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Chesapeake
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
The sweat of night
Beading from our pores
An array of questions
Few answers
All of them wrong
But felt so right
Ive loved you from the beginning, I'm glad you stuck around.
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Where has your heart gone?
Did it flee with the rest of you?
Fit inside your carry on as the
wings caught air beneath them,
Im tired of speaking in check points,
Ive been waiting at your gate for days now,
Hoping for you to round the corner,
Back to this most timid of loves,
I'll even hold your bags,
Come home soon.
I miss you, can't wait to see you soon.
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
folk
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Ive sailed seas of letters,
Oceans of consonants,
drank from rivers of vowels,
I know that the depths of words
lies far beneath the surface,
Somewhere along its floor
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Termite
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
This blood fat summer has swallowed me whole,
Gulped down my body in one swift inhale,
Living with this pair of fists battering my surface,
One resting on my jaw, another on my gut,
Sleeping under shingles and tin roves,
Waiting for night to settle itself in,
While the others dreamt in their beds,
I wandered twilight streets with a bottle and a question,
Saw my reflection in a puddle under streetlights,
Wondered who’s face stared back at me
An alien memory clawed its way out from beneath my skin
Left a scar for me to remember
The boy I once knew
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Safe Haven
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
An empty chair,
This lonesome retreat,
I've sailed away from the thought of you
Split the tides like a knife,
Forgot the person I once was,
Looking for some far away shore
Somewhere to drop anchor,
It is more difficult now than ever,
Our names no longer in association,
all the lingers are the memories
The constant in these reflections,
Something to be learned
Something to be lost
I am too afraid to see the aftermath
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Candy
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
6 months without you feels like forever
You are a burning ship, destined for drowning
Watch as you take the ones i love along with you
Trying to shout my way through the trance of your voice
The messages you keep leaving remained unopened,
Ive rerouted my veins, changed my direction,
But the thought of you clouds all my conversations
Its been so long since my blood has held you like a child,
Since your embrace has wrapped itself around my heart,
Some burning fever has left me with petty thoughts
Is it the bits of you that remain?
Or the knowing that this fight will and has always been
A back and forth between the rights and wrongs of my conscience
I hope they'll understand eventually
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Untitled
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Tupelo
Some days I want to hold you forever,
Others all I can do is think about the skin
underneath your clothes
 Jan 2016 Madeysin
Jack Thompson
A life is a stepping stone of regrets.
If you keep looking at it wrong.
Premature hindsight.
Never knowing how these stones will change us.
For the better, if you let it.

I'm still learning.

So just don't give up on me yet.
Even if I'm one of your regrets.
Or we're yet to meet.
I'll be one of your tests.

I'm Sorry.
© All Rights Reserved Jack Thompson 2016
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