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I used to laugh at those
that take their own lives
over lost love.
But look at myself,
having only lost
chances at love.
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
JL
Elliott
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
JL
Good god
Im late for work
I can hear her thinking
I watch her leave
her eyes smile so right
I watch the clock go round
I watch the clock around
Off shadows, numbers, lines
I know when the boys come to the counter laughing
begging for a kiss
her black hair
with its line of pink
I can hear her voice
that Southern Belle
through her smile
"Well honey your sweet but Ive got a boy"
She comes home
the front door is locked at night
she drags herself in
broke for the night
and falls into bed
and falls into bed
and falls into bed
Two hundred miles away
I can hear her voice smiling
"I love you baby"
that shiver you only get
when someone kisses your picture
my picture crumpled in the hand of a sleeping doll
My picture crumpled by the Southern Belle
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
JL
I've come to realize that your not from this town
You are some long place away
The trash that I live in

I walk the streets
or drive my car
I know all the drug dealers
And all of them know me.

All the hippie guys
who are stuck on some concept
smoke ****
eat shrooms
become god
kinda concept

All the rednecks
Trucks and Jeans
tabacco spit

This trash town
that I love so much
the gas stations
at midnight
we are lost as can be

but what does it matter
when you aren't here
you're in some far town
across years of rain soaked highways
bright headlights
miles
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
JL
Petal
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
JL
I boldly laugh at darkness
Boldy it laughs at me
In the black of
sparking
silver
moonbeams
I have seen the moth kiss
I have seen it kiss
the naked
bulb

If it rains
Tonight I know you will think-of-me
I used to smile in the dark
When you whispered in the rain
Your eyes were shining
bottle caps
in the passenger seat

the moon
is closed in dark clouds
Soaking feet in our shoes
The rain falls on the roof so loud
I feel it in my head

but you ask to be held


I would smile when you looked and said
"Do you think it's funny how the rain kisses my skin"
and I would answer slowly

and you asked to be held
 Oct 2011 Melanie Beth
Sophiea
And maybe I'm about to fall
Push me up against the wall
And kiss me
Save me
Don't erase me

Let the time go by in days
And maybe as my heart decays
You'll love me
Take me
Again

And maybe time's an empty threat
To satisfy the foolish bet
I found you
I cracked you
And time fell to pieces.
Waiting for it to take off,
your ticket held fast and tight.

butterflies all bright and scattered,
flutter for feels.

storms in the sand--
with words to say--
some waves crash--
a depth deeper in my veins.

Like little sailors,
guided by skipping stars
across inviting eyes,
flickering like the full moon on fast forward through its phases.

cool caress--
morning mist--
fields of flowers all fogged up clear as day

Old films long forgotten--
stored away--

You're color in my black and white frames.

skin flushed--
lips lush--
gray's gone--
there's such--
a motion in me I recall the difference,

alive alone--no.
alive again.

Petals loosen up the light,
melt into and match the glow--
flickering like--Monet.

You're one wild garden.
One beautiful bouquet.
Lying here with you
Under the covers of your bed
Forgetting about everything else
Only thoughts of you in my head

I wish I could stay here forever
With you, like this
A smile comes so easily
With a touch, or a kiss

Lost in this moment
Please don't wake me from this dream
It's us against the world
You and I make a perfect team

But tonight is only temporary
Soon I must go
Back to hectic reality
You know I love you so

You are the light at the end of the tunnel
The one thing I look forward to
When life is heavy on my shoulders
If only you knew

Just the thought of you
Carries me through
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