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dare to be invisible

She's riding in my passenger seat, telling me about the girl who won't separate the sheets

Steering wheel hot under my hands as I drive down a service road miles away

The whiskey shots she had early hit my nose, and acid burns my eyes

Cause you're riding shotgun and I can feel the bleeding in my mind

 

I haven't spoken to you in months, despite your hidden attempts

Longer still, since I've seen you under the night sky with your love at your side

It has been almost a year since I kissed you last

I can taste you now because I smelled the mix of cigarettes and bourbon

 

Years it's been since I've known you, if ever at all

The dust in my car clings to the bits and pieces that remind me

***** amplifies the fact that your skin cells and hair are probably still embedded in the seats

Next to me the girl is still talking about the god ****** laundry

 

Just yesterday my email put me into a panic

There was your name, asking for friendship, within a cloak of invisibility of course

The tab flashed as brightly as a siren to me yet I didn't move nor budge

WBF he asked, just for a second, no more

 

No more, well how convenient for you isn't it?

It's always within your time frames, when you need it

Never friends when I have been crushed, when I lay cursing you in your last shirt you left

Abandoned on my floor

 

I hit the blinker, turn down the workhorse, and nod my head

Trying not to breathe deeply while agreeing with whatever she said

I dropped her off at the liquor store and as she slammed the door

My throat burned with a scream that you would never hear

 

Two long years, your scent stayed with me

In my hair, in my heart, in my bed

Even though you were happy in CO, living with your high school sweetheart

And I was home, fighting with mine instead

 

You came back, she ruined you is what you claimed

I left him and tried all the wrong ways to save you

So we fell asleep too many times together on someone else's couch

And after telling me you loved me and begging me to return it, you left me

 

Said you were in love, with a girl who hate ****** you

Screamed the word perpetuated into the phone

and that wound is the rotting hole that you used to be kept safe in

A soul that was so tightly wound with your snores and your thoughts and your beastly smile

 

The car is parked, and I do not cry for you even with the feeling

Like you could be right here, trying hard not to love my car dancing and my real laugh

I am a smart girl, I say today just as I did yesterday

Smart girl furious that I made it all up

 

I thought I knew the boy in the combat boots picking flowers

I believed him when he cried onto me and swore I wasn't a joke

That he wasn't saying them behind my back, the one he clinged to when he made love

That's what he told me we did, I said we were making stories

 

I forget from time to time, but I am furious that I believed him

That he let me believe him

More than anything, he was supposed to be my friend

He wanted me to be invisible

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