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I would feed you crepes
while the city sleeps,
every night,
until I die
or until my whisking arm
gives out.

When I gasp with adrenaline
as you corner the road,
does it drive you crazy,
as you drive me
mad
to buy doughnut holes
at 3 A.M. ?

We share an addiction to lazy behavior,
but differ in our love
for coke,
for coffee.
For what?

When we broke years worth of tension
I thought it would be
more like
snapping a dried, autumn twig,
the crack of a whip
or dropping
a florescent tube light-bulb.

Instead it was that of morphine;
warm and gradual,
if at all.
I'm sorry I made such delusions,
held you high as perfection:
an irretrievable beast.

I thought myself shallow
in thinking
I was finally better than you
at something.

Now I think myself shallow
in thinking
I could do without you
because of your behavior
or lack there of.

I was wrong.
I thought I found
the disappointment
enough to
quench my lust.
But I'm yearning
just as ever,
even knowing what I'm missing.

So I'll sit here,
knowing we crave
the same basics
and differ
in specifics.

I'll sit here writing
as I watch you sleep.
I'll wait
as our ****** tension
slowly grows back,
like a forgotten
perennial ,
once again
making itself evident
and waiting for the
shing
of the garden shears
to snip its stalk
like a taught thread.
i seem to always be fighting,
rushing,
tweaking,
worrying about it all,
blaring deafening music,
weeping tears of joy,
hollow sorrows,
grief most of all,
moments lost,
and destinations found.

long and short stories untold,
the wind in my hair,
the rumble of the thunder,
journeys that never reached an end,
rivers,
the ocean,
and beautifully scattered out trees.

my first real kiss,
hot,
sticky,
restless moments of love,
and of silence,
lonesome and tireless,
alone.

oncoming head lights,
troublesome sirens,
and my head is a mess,
angst,
anxiety,
and dreaming bigger dreams,
whispers of the future,
and memories of the past.

oh i've felt the cold sting of winter,
the withering heat of summer,
watched all my dreams come true,
and crumble,
just from my life inside my car.
 Sep 2013 Nathan Callies
Annie
Stop blaming your problems on
"society" when you trap yourself
in your own mind.

Don't call yourself  broken
if you've never tried to fix
yourself.

If you haven't used up every
single remnant of your strength
trying to stay alive and
trying to be positive, don't you
dare even think about giving up.

Even when you have reached all that
you can take, take some more.

Your heart is still beating,
your lungs still function,
and you're still blinking,
and you don't even have to
think about controlling
any of that.

So now you think you're broken,
society has hurt you, judged you,
and you can't take it anymore.

Go back to the basics.

Live. Breathe. Blink.
 Sep 2013 Nathan Callies
Evynne
I watch you as you carefully observe
The bite marks
With a serene look on your face
Reading the love notes
Written boldly in flesh

They feel good and hot
You can hear the words
Echo quietly in your head
As the saliva sinks in
Like poison ink

I have tattooed
Every single inch of your skin
With kisses
You are completely covered in love...
My love!

I am never letting you get away from me
And I hope you never grow tired of my touch

I'll love you until the day that I die
And then I will love you still
 Sep 2013 Nathan Callies
Jemimah
my box
full of arrows
cardboard, paper
coloured, black and white
but always blurry, wordy, flaunting
stopping, pointing, shouting, whispering
telling me of paths that I could tread
one at a time I pour them out
upon my purple bed
and let them fall
wherever they
may land
Finding direction in life
is all but straight-forward...

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