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mikev Sep 2016
My stomach is a monster
My stomach
Lives a monster
It has fangs and venom
It can out run you
Out smart you
It will crush you as it melts your flesh -
My stomach
Has another plan.
mikev Sep 2016
Most days, I wake up
Sick to my stomach
Exhausted - Ready
For the weekend,
Most days I'm
Painting my tomorrows
I'm red with anticipation
I'm - lost at home with time I borrow
mikev Sep 2016
My words can cut like daggers
My red yellow guts spilt like confetti
I was drinking party favors and
Knocked the glass half full over -
My hands tremble like the floor
as I walked up stairs back then
The weeds and the flowers bloomed together that summer -
The sun hot, cooking my skin
Like an egg on a stone
Like a fish out of water
Like a fist raised against the law -
That was the first time I knew -
We're all gonna die eventually
mikev Sep 2016
My skin
Likes cold air -
My eyes
Enjoy the dead trees
The cars broken down
The man walking for gasoline -
You smoke in the cold
I drink in the darkness
mikev Sep 2016
We trace events on timelines we create -
Milestones like tombstones, we
pay tribute to a life no longer
A shift in perspective
Another mode of existence
I reach out to others
and they hear me
mikev Sep 2016
404
i read
and i write
i hear
and i talk
oh --
when will
the silence no
longer be static?
when will
the noise no longer
be static?
mikev Sep 2016
i wish i had the charisma my shadow has
dancing in the light
brimming with darkness
i never wished to completely let go of you -
i just couldn't bring myself to call -
i see the streetlights and the insects
fighting to burn, i think that's just human
i didn't realize this burning moon sweltered so silently -
i clasp my hands towards its existence
hoping some gap opens between time and space
and i may leave
and never return
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