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I watched the city disappear, then watched it re-emerge from the night sky, dabs of watercolor on a surface gathering pigment I hummed and watched myself shudder and stumble and balk because, (and I want to sit you down and tell you this somber eyes, twisted fingertips) I loved deeply, completely, and I crawled down the steps of letting anything and everything go; I moved on, I moved away, but I lacked the strength to disintegrate the questions pooling in the bottom of my gall bladder "well what if would you..." I was different then, I fell so delightedly! but things did so hurt, time stole the breath from my throat and I soaked my pillows so thoroughly I drowned. I want you to know that, I want you to know that I have had my heart broken violently and softly (and perhaps that was worse) I have loved and I have ****** and I have watched a boy like you fade into the sunset. pacing through the motions: feeling bright, content things are new and better but I'm capturing unextraordinary in all the traps I set for bliss, like a maze I'm losing where all the dead ends say unremarkable and screaming at the walls "start feeling, you **** because I have sweet and loving and caring but I find myself craving the instances I hated when he would spit fire and I would burn bright, because I am a purveyor of highs and lows and I just feel flat.
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 10:55 PM UTC
I want to love you, but I can't do it today
I watched the city disappear, then watched it re-emerge from the night sky, dabs of watercolor on a surface gathering pigment I hummed and watched myself shudder and stumble and balk because, (and I want to sit you down and tell you this somber eyes, twisted fingertips) I loved deeply, completely, and I crawled down the steps of letting anything and everything go; I moved on, I moved away, but I lacked the strength to disintegrate the questions pooling in the bottom of my gall bladder "well what if would you..." I was different then, I fell so delightedly! but things did so hurt, time stole the breath from my throat and I soaked my pillows so thoroughly I drowned. I want you to know that, I want you to know that I have had my heart broken violently and softly (and perhaps that was worse) I have loved and I have ****** and I have watched a boy like you fade into the sunset. pacing through the motions: feeling bright, content things are new and better but I'm capturing unextraordinary in all the traps I set for bliss, like a maze I'm losing where all the dead ends say unremarkable and screaming at the walls "start feeling, you **** because I have sweet and loving and caring but I find myself craving the instances I hated when he would spit fire and I would burn bright, because I am a purveyor of highs and lows and I just feel flat.
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 10:55 PM UTC
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