Hello PoetryVoting

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

Vote

Voting-Boards

Home

HomeFollowingInboxNotifications

Read

ReadLiftedFeedsHeartedHistoryMy poemsNew poem

Explore

ExploreOrbitsWordsTagsClassics
Log in
0
Stars
0
Embers
0
Alerts
0
Inbox

A Summer Thing

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

I wasn’t supposed to fall so hard

I wasn’t supposed to call out for your arms in the night

And my lips weren’t supposed to search for yours

As if they would actually be there.

I wasn’t supposed to nuzzle into my pillow at night

pretending that your hands were nestled in my hair

I wasn’t supposed to make small talk

just so I could hypnotize myself with that something in your eyes

I wasn’t supposed to wake up cold in the gray morning

with the strong urge to be bruised and bitten

In fits of slow, languid passion.

 

Unreal how our bodies match and move together,

Uncanny how our minds meld and play in synch.

My youthful love for life,

Your chuckling maturity, still unsure what life is.

 

Now I play soft ballads full of aching, yearning,

I can wrap myself in a blanket on the floor

With a mug of tea, and think silently on you

And the shadows I wish I could conjure into existence…

They live inside, dancing to burst free from our guilty bodies

Too ethereal, too beautiful, to be abandoned

When we (artists) know we live for such wonders.

 

I wish I had any other option but forgetting,

or descending into madness.

(I’m currently choosing madness..?)

 

And it wasn’t supposed to be like this.

I wasn’t supposed to fall so hard.

I’m so sorry,

My summer love.

Request permission to use this poem
Written by
subconscious-on-parade
Published
Aug 31, 2012
Lines·Words
30·240
Notes

08/31/12

Written for N, and a cold morning in an empty house up Chumstick Highway.

Permission

Request to use this poem

Tell subconscious-on-parade how you would like to use it. We review requests before forwarding them.

AboutBlogFAQPrivacyTermsContact
© 2009-2026 Hello Poetry/v27.0 by @eliotyork
Explore
Hello PoetryVoting
Write