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there are times
my love,
when my heart,
is the greatest of oceans
at high tide.

and all that salted water,

is in love with you.

then,
there are times
my love,
when my heart is a
small puddle,
drying out, in the
summer's sun
after a storm of
thunder, lightning
and god's fury.

but still,
all that muddy water,

is in love with you.

and yes,
there are times
my love,
when my heart is a
babbling brook,
a slow moving river,
a languid lake....
rapids,
waterfalls,
eddy's,
delta's,
currents
and all those....
river driven,
metaphors.

and still,
all that water,
moving
fast, slow,
stagnant.

is in love with you.

and finally, my love
there are times....
when i am
a tall glass of water,
dew condensing,
on the rim.....
waiting,
longing,
desiring,
to be consumed, by you....
When you are silent,
You give me a blank.
And boy, do I fill it.
I fill it with all of my fears.
I fill it with assumptions.
I fill it with the pain of my past.

When you give me a blank,
I fill it with worst case scenarios.
I get that knot in my stomach that tells me you're gonna give up on me any time now.

When you give me a blank,
I break my own heart.
So please, just talk to me.
I'm in love with someone's daughter
living in the shards of a broken home
Cutting herself on two year-old letters
These are moments she can't fake;
reasons to feel alone
So used to abuse, her tears start to shake
I hold her close as her head starts to ache
"I love you too much,
so I can't let your heart break."
She said, "I know you love me,
but you've made a mistake."

I never meant for anyone to be my pulse.
I promise not to step on your feet
if you teach me how to waltz.
If you are going to shine in this world,
it is essential to know:

You will cast shadows.

People will hate you for
the darkness,
instead of praising you
for clarity.
Shine anyway.
Autumn approaches
hiding her dance of decay
beneath russet skirts.

Evenings bleed early
through chill days
bringing steel dawns.

All falls silent
as leaves pirouette gaily
to the swansong of summer.

Birdsong threads remain
as harmony takes flight
to sheltered shores.

Autumn approaches,
bitter winter tracing steps
in her glorious wake.
She wanted peace
So she went to never land
Where she could be herself
Around all her other friends
So she decided to escape

She wanted to be happy
She just wanted to die
But she knew that she just couldn't
So she cut way up her thighs

The pain got to her stomach
She couldn't take her food
So she ate it then she threw it
In the toilet that's when she knew

She wanted peace
So she went to never land
Where she could be herself
Around all her other friends
So she decided to escape
Did you feel me through your dreaming
as I loved you in deep dark
velvet skin your senses warming 
as I kissed your beating heart.

Did you feel my warmth envelop
taking all with slow desire
sat astride the depths of pleasure
eyes ablaze with carnal fire.

Did you feel the tension rising
changing rhythms taking toll
binding flesh with pulsing passion
sweet explosions letting go.

Did you sigh on waking lonely
pray for evening to begin
to feel once more while sweetly dreaming
the ghost of me upon your skin.
He would stick all his dreams inside a bottle
Then throw it away into the sea
Watching it slowly being carried away by the water
Reaching to a being in the sky if he'll ever see tomorrow
He keeps gazing at the bottle
Hoping it would stay afloat
So he could share his dreams and hopes
With another lost soul
But instead the bottle sinks
And doesn't seem visible from the far
So now his dreams are kept secret
Only the bottom of the sea knows how he feels
My brain is a very dark place.
 Sep 2014 Olivia McCann
tc
20:50pm
 Sep 2014 Olivia McCann
tc
it doesn't hurt to be in love with you anymore; i am merely numb
i've hidden fragments of you in separate stores in my mind
and they jump out like grasshoppers
sometimes one at a time
sometimes all at once
and i receive this unbearable desire to smoke the traces of you into every other ***** so they can experience what it's like to constantly want to jump out of my skin to get rid of you
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