Olga Valerevna

Olga Valerevna Jun 2016

you've overgrown the body that contains your living soul
Surrendered it to follies that could never make you whole
And every single vine has cast a shadow on your skin
retired you to darkness made of something held within
Consider it a glimpse of what you truly want to see
forever has an eye beyond the thought of you and me
And if you want to follow every person you have won
I'll disappear completely and return to you a song
you may consider writing while the music feeds your bones
but it will not continue when you've eaten what they've known
There's nothing less eternal than the cells we cannot hold
They'll paint some kind of pretense in the stories they have told
The flesh is only flesh if we command our human's way
forget we are eternal as we try to run the day

title and inspiration taken from Margaret Wise Brown's, "Goodnight Moon"

#goodnight

Olga Valerevna Jun 2016

The City of Brotherly Love

I want to be the words that stir you up a certain way
and leave you with the passion that was always yours to stay
I knew you for a moment but my body

wandered off
and with it came the notion I was never yours at all
I wanted to embrace you in a way that no one could
but every time I tried you turned away from where I stood
Today I was a coffin but tomorrow I will be
we haven't died together, separation holds the key
residing in a city not too far away from you
I've learned to be the keeper of the person I once knew

Philadelphia, Pa

Olga Valerevna Jun 2016

Mile Seven

There's no one who can hear me when I try to let it out
A gloomy apparition has been dancing in my mouth
These lips could not keep up with all the words I had to say
So I began evading every chance I had to stay
Consider me a coffin or a place akin to life
We die together slowly as we lie to make it right
The world's another circle 'round the rings we cannot draw
And I will disappear inside the meaning of it all
Address another person but remember who you are
For if you weave a web you may create another scar
The spiders in my head have told me everything they know
But seven miles away there is another place to go

what's moving in your bloodstream?

#seven

Olga Valerevna Jun 2016

The plus, the minus

I know that I can fall asleep in arms that aren't my own
but every time I wander off I end up in your throne
yet what's a king if folly be the only thing he seek
for I have heard the things he said when I was out of reach
his life commands a part of him I will not dare to claim
and all of it is more to him than I have ever been
my blood has boiled long enough for me to let the green
be something that was part of what I didn't want to be
so there he is and here I am - an almost circle's ring
I can't recall a single day remembering a thing

to read me.

#the #plus #minus

Olga Valerevna May 2016

The getaway

See this is how I am when I am barely being me
a piece of skin inhaling every other scent I seek
But nobody compares us to the whole of who we are
The beings in these bodies cannot go beyond the stars
For when we enter spaces that exist outside of time
Our organs fail to function in the breath of the divine
I hope another Spirit has been standing in the gap
My own could not resist the world I carried on my back
So let it be a lesson to the eyes and ears of truth
The more that we inherit makes us question what we do
But if I were a fool then I'd be strong enough to say
I'm just another body who has tried to *get away

can you see yourself?

#away #yourself #get #see

Olga Valerevna May 2016

The Ants in May

To meet another human* in the places that you go
you have be a seeker of the things you want to know
And not just in a way that makes it easy to have been
but so much more connected to the souls inside your skin
'Cause even if you shatter like a clay that enters heat
there cannot be a ****** lest you dare admit defeat
So wait beside the doors that mark the exit you have sought
and let yourself remember why you walked into your thought
The answer could be simple in a complicated way
but you will never see it if you make the choice to stay
I wanted you to speak without the fear of holding on
without believing you are but a shadow of a song
For that can be a mess that you intentionally made
to prove you aren't here because of something you can say
Forget we have the limits we ourselves create and ****
the passion you've been chasing could be living in you still

...how many people?

#may #ants

Olga Valerevna May 2016

The thing of what makes

so what if we made coffins of the people we once were
And ran beside each other in another kind of world
Where everything is blooming, feeding life into our bones
untangling our minds and making perfect all we've known
I'd like to think we'd learn to see the sadness in the truth
And let the eyes of passion show us what we need to do
So rather than exist inside the shallowness of skin
We'd just as quickly settle into what we hold within
I'll give it up to weakness, every doubt that I once had
await a day that tarried but was always holding fast

what if?

#things