Peter Gerstenmaier

Peter Gerstenmaier Nov 2024

One

Wrap your legs around me
And let me fade into you
Until our souls
Become one

Such sweet embrace...

#legs #fade #soul #one

Peter Gerstenmaier Nov 2024

Writer's block

I'm afraid my words
Will forever rest on
This mediocrity pillow
And I shall never be
Worthy of the
Muse's kiss

A poem about writer's block is such a bad cliché... but my friend Mariya here at HP was just talking the other day about 'der Kuss der Muse', so I think it's appropriate to write about it.

#writer #block #words #mediocrity #inspiration #muse #kiss

Peter Gerstenmaier Nov 2024

Stay

You knew from
The very start how
Badly messed up I am
So you should've said no
You should've runaway
Yet I'm glad you didn't
I'm glad you chose
To stay

I can only hope that I haven't fooled you into it...

#messedup #runaway #stay

Peter Gerstenmaier Nov 2024

Bleed

I often think about
How he took you to
That filthy motel and
Made you bleed just
So that he wouldn't

One of my best friends got pregnant when she was a teenager. She was very scared, but wanted the child anyway. Yet her ******* boyfriend (the father) took her to a motel and made her do an abortion.
She never recovered and took her life within a year... no woman should be forced to do an abortion. Just as any woman should be forbidden to do one.

#bleed #abortion

Peter Gerstenmaier Oct 2024

Hell

I've given up religion
After every church said
There's a special place
For people like me
Just for trying to
Make my pain
Go away

My father beat me up pretty badly for as long as I can remember... when I was fifteen I said no more and gave him a little of what he deserved - and got kicked out of his house for it. That same week my first girlfriend dumped me.
It was just too much for a teen to handle without proper help and it seemed like that despair would stay forever. So I went to 3 different drug stores and bought every pain killer I could get my hands into... and took them all at once. I was so lucky my system rejected them and made me throw up.
So that's why I cut the cord from church... isn't God love? Isn't God forgiveness? Or am I doomed almost from the start?
I like to think not... I like to think that's no more than an earthly claim.

#religion #church #hell #pain #suicide

Peter Gerstenmaier Oct 2024

Gap

If filling the gap
Between the man I am
And the one you deserve
Isn't enough reason to
Get up in the morning
Then I don't know
What ever will

I like to think I'll get there...

#gap #deserve

Peter Gerstenmaier Oct 2024

Ode to coffee

Only you can take
Me out of bed and
Get me through the
Dullness of my day
Only you can give me
Energy enough to keep
All those intrusive
Thoughts at bay

No need for sugar
No need for cream
I like you dark
Bitter and true
I believe we make
Such a perfect team
When we're together
I never feel blue

So call it love
Call it addiction
I couldn't care less
If I have a cup of
Hot strong coffee
I won't fade to stress

Just one cup will be fine... or maybe twenty.

#coffee #ode #energy