He licked his lips

His voice was dry

His eyes look sad

She wonders why

It's been a while
since this pen touched a page.

I didn't think of you any less, though.

The room is clouded with smoke;
Much like my mind, I think.
Only-
My thoughts are more poisonous.

His name stuck
stubbornly clinging to the jagged edge
of locked jaw.
Her eyes retreated to the back of her head
drowned in a pool of blood
Memories swayed her in and out of consciousness
as the paintings with lost smiles absently stared.
He thought he was clenching the fist of a man...

I heard the little boy behind the man
when he said love should be like this.
But all sense was stripped
from a mind soaked in pain
Eyes bulging with pride and fists
dripping blood.

She watched him become a stranger
Heard every footstep fade into a distant memory
as she lied there swallowing his battered words
wishing life didn't have a present like this-
wishing the future would look past her.

"She couldn't say who it was,
  all I could hear was it's someone she once knew."

Something in his eyes told me
that all he ever wanted
was to be loved.

FRAGILE!
HANDLE WITH CARE!
They screamed to me
Letter by letter-
baring the tomb of ****** scars
throbbing in his heart.

I can't help but feel their warmth
whenever they're fixed on mine

And I can't help but yearn their affection
whenever they're gone.

Sigh...
I pray for a day in a world
where greed don't exceed necessity
Even the stars can't lift me now.
I swallow the sky and cough out clouds
to numb the pain
I spat on the earth.
I sunk deep into a pool of guilt.
I wonder if steep debits
would steal my soul for free
And leave me crying at work
without company
Will I crumble to dust
or will I fight for me?

I look up to the sky
inhaling loneliness
I can't say how long death would flow
through my bones
I'm dying inside out-
death's always been repressed.

I wonder if I'm really content
with this solitude
Or how much longer I'll embody the pain
of many souls..
A gun without a bullet I hold.

Sigh...
I pray for a day in a world
where greed don't exceed necessity.
I pray for a life without debt,
warm tears and cold sweats.
I get lost in my mind
when the lights dance-

The sky sure looks beautiful right now.

Like the sun casting out shadows
I doubt
Definitely
That a love I allowed
to pierce me this deep
made me believe
that pain remedies the wound
of memory, and

That I would stay the same.

My drink was laced with death

What do you expect when you're seen
as a vulnerable prospect?

Through my drowsy heart
pulsed a pang of regret

My tears ran miles when
Panic started to sweat

My drink was laced with death

Of me there was nothing
for him to take

But a drink too early
spun regrets too late.