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Pepper Dove Apr 2017
The clock read 6:50
on a dull
rainy evening
Soothing saxophones
serenaded my eardrums
While smoky swirls
of Myrth
filled my nose
when he
decided to set sail
to Sick Bay
Organs
clenched tightly
to one another
making it easy
to forget
how to breathe
to breathe
to
breathe
Creeping
from his pores
the creature
of panic
came out
to play
disguised
as tiny droplets
trickling from his brow
inhale
slow and steady
now
exhale
just
breathe.
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
A heavy head hangs woefully
so lonely
emptiness takes over me
stubbornly
I'm left with my thoughts
until
my gaurd had been cut off

Glossy eyes now approaching
faded, jaded
now I'm loathing
I'm noting
a smile full
of empty promises
when the butterflies flew
from his lips

I'm more
than dinner and a movie
I'm deeper
than the floor below the sea

you're floating

in shallow waters
oh so murky

so
leave me be
don't provoke me
I'm sulking.
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
Trouble
on my mind
look to me
look to me
now you're sorry

Hand
inside my hand
follow me now
and don't worry

Going over your head
I'm
going over your
head
going over
your head

You're

going under.
Pepper Dove Apr 2017
Temperatures escalate,
not too much more I can take
the way you fill my heart
with rage,
  reveals an empty page.
Emotions hang woefully,
  so lonely,
  suffocating me
Trapped inside my spinning head
I teeter with thoughts in red.
My heart bellows, and it howls
for moments of connection through,
your dreary, heavy, silent moods
   My words
        fall to
           the ground.
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
Your biofeedback's
telling me to look
inside
your eyes
visualize
a timeline of lies
silhouettes of wings
dance across your face
from frantic moths
swarming
tree twitching limbs
creatures pouncing from each end
distracting
from all the pretend.
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
So close to me
can't reach
yet...
I keep stretching.
Water beneath my feet
eyeing my reflection.
Smile faintly
gawking at me
won't let me be,
stood to turn
then fell right in
forgetting how to breathe.
Pepper Dove Feb 2015
Black smeared speckles
peppered on tops of trees
Still
and silent
Gawking at me
Squinting eyes uncover
the unruly umbra
I too...
have been deceived.
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