Olga Valerevna

Olga Valerevna May 2013

*******

as I was walking in your shoes you put your feet in mine
paralysis took over and you rested on my spine
I moved as though I knew the pain was lulling you to sleep
and so I focused on the road I saw in front of me
a carrier of many things
I kept you closest still
for I could not submit myself to any other will
I let the salt from everything flow out of both my eyes
in daily liberation from the questioning, the whys
to have you here reminding me that we are still the same
is all I need to get us through and hold you in my frame

for someone who knows me so well

Olga Valerevna May 2013

Thumbelina

I'm covered up in layers of the other peoples' skin
And I am losing track of just how deep I've gotten in
To you it sounds absurd because you cannot comprehend
That hid among the living are the ones who will pretend
See, they can take a day and manipulate with ease
The shining of the sun and the coming of the breeze
For they will place their shadow over that which isn't theirs
And try their best to claim that the truth is everywhere
The eyes inside my head are the ones that follow suit
I'm looking into everything and I'm pining over fruit
It's only when I fail to remember what I've seen
That I can take a second to uncover all of me
I know this very well but it's hard for me to grasp
My vision fully blooms in the things that I see past

"A pleasure is full grown when it is remembered."
- CS Lewis

Olga Valerevna May 2013

I've carried on (10W)

so many conversations in my head

it's like I never

left

.

Olga Valerevna May 2013

Travel far, you're going home

The book is closed, the end is writ
And here I am rereading it
The words unveil with every line
A placid state, collected mind
I spare the pen, its stain of red
Allow the ink to soak instead
Into my flesh and through my bones
My skeleton has always known
That what is done within this life
May come disguised, the form - a knife
And it will lay upon your back
You may not even feel attacked
But scars will form in every place
That you have ever tried to face
The end is writ, the book is closed
So rest your eyes, you've made it home

Olga Valerevna May 2013

Save this

I'm falling into
all the
holes in
everything you say

because I walk
beside the
one compelling
me to sway

but when the
wind has left my
skin I hide
it in my
lungs

and taste the
breath of life
each time I
saturate my tongue

my open lips
release a
tune I do
not comprehend

that manifests itself to me
in ways I
can't descend

it only lasts
but long enough
for me to hear the sound

of something
coming closer still
of feet upon the ground

and that
is where it all
begins and clarity returns

as I am climbing
out of you
without a single burn

Olga Valerevna Apr 2013

Et· y· mol· o· gy

.
..
..
The moment I laid eyes o   ..   n you I couldn't turn away
And I began to see yo  ..   ur face in every single day
The time it took to mem   ..   orize the color of your eyes
Distracted me from noticin   ..   g the weakness hiding mine
But now that I have come to kno   ..   w the role that you have played
I stand prepared to walk away   ..   from things in which I've stayed
My heavy, dark and weary h   ..   eart had almost ceased to beat
For close I came to welc   ..   oming the lunatic in me
..
..
.

Olga Valerevna Apr 2013

I set the clocks (10W)

to take a swim

but keeping time

has sunken in