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Olga Valerevna Jun 2015
How do I express this without taking it too far
I'll lend you both my eyes so I can show you what you are
We'll put our feet in places where the sun is always ours
And lay beneath the open sky to watch it fill with stars
The air that I am breathing through the lungs that you provide
Is something like the lightest breeze I want to keep inside
I'll listen to your stories as the melodies unfold
And put them in my pockets, they'll continue being told
Remember where you're going let me follow while I can
I'll meet you on the other side of everywhere I am
finding your happy place
Olga Valerevna May 2015
I sent you out a servant to the sadness in your eyes
Thought there would be the teacher you would learn to recognize
And even as I watched you break a thousand times in two
I left it up to lessons taught to show you what to do
I stored our conversations in the corners of your heart
And buried them in soil that will never fall apart
And should you need to reach me when you stand upon that ground
I'll walk with you again so you can tell me what you've found
For there beside your footprints are the slightest hints of mine
My Faith once had the daughter I've  been keeping all this time
I am my mother's daughter and her father's poet child
Olga Valerevna May 2015
To move through genealogies
consider what it takes
The blood of those before
you filled with all of their mistakes
And what you've given into will uncover how you came
A sort of inquisition to eradicate your name
I called myself "the others" if I staggered or destroyed
Made everything inside of me
so purposely devoid
If not by my own doing
then by those whom I had known
To whom I was connected, thought, believed I could call home
Today's a separation
I have never known before
Or one that I'd forgotten
since I leveled with the floor
There's nothing on the bottom but I cannot seem to look
Much further than the dirt of earth, the silver that I took
The people are in pieces
and my head tries to compare
So often I can only find
the source of our despair
I go to bed in cycles
I can barely seem to keep
Awake so long I wait for dreams
to make me fall asleep
If anyone can see me or engage my busy head
I'll breathe before I speak again, let life be what is said
what is won, what is lost - what will stay, what is tossed
Olga Valerevna May 2015
Kept looking on the bright side I got blinded by the sun
And now it doesn't matter 'cause I can't see anyone
I could've went about it a completely different way
Seen life for what it was instead of staring in its face
What sense I tried to make was just a waste of what I had
And even though I knew it I continued  turning back
The corners of my eyes became the wandering abyss
A place to put my body in a parallel to its
Wherever I was going never got me very far
Whatever I was seeing didn't show me who we are
So now I sit in darkness wait for something else to be
Illuminated somehow by the light I've left in me
I've nothing left to call it but my last attempt to say
The letters I was given when my person was a grave
Galatians 2:20
Olga Valerevna May 2015
Alone at last, the story goes
But in her head she's on her toes
As thoughts begin to paint the end
There's nothing left to comprehend
It's here and now and then and there
It's everything that's everywhere
The book is me, the book is you
The words are everything we do
They're in the sea and if you swim
you'll have to fight with every limb
And when you're scattered in the deep
you need to bring yourself to speak
For what is good will not forsake
So carry, give and never take
Let go of all you'll ever own
you weren't made to be *alone
undo
Olga Valerevna May 2015
I need some rest I need to sleep
but all I do is count the sheep
a hundred more I'm still awake
My eyes withdrawn my mouth agape
So when will I forget to breathe
The way you did inside of me
I want to dream and travel far
Away from everything you are    
'cause where I go you cannot come
you'll not survive where i am from
The world is made of what we feel
So stop pretending this is real
You never were, I never was
The lie we made is both of us
a broad classification of sleeping disorders that make it difficult to get to sleep, or to remain sleeping
Olga Valerevna May 2015
I cant be bothered cant be moved
My head has swallowed many moons
And somewhere in the black of night
I cease to be, surrender sight
So this is what it means to lose
Your mind to everything you choose
And any steadiness you had
Is in a fist of ironclad
I want to see, I want to feel
But none of this is even *real
...or is it?
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