You got a mouth on you Creative curses, constructive criticism, cavernous cynicism Your words take flight like vultures flocking to roadkill But after the initial attack Your supporting facts creep forward coyly They are spineless and limp black noodles Slipping out the corners of your cracked lips Knowing they will fail you Even before they have begun They resent you for coming on so strong And not having much to follow up on Reluctantly they move about blindly Stumbling monosyllables breathy and aggravating Littering the air, blowing around in the idiot wind With your jaw clenched and eyes like stone You reluctantly accept the task ahead
You go off about what little you know about politics Just the punch lines, none of the real news The injustice of the world gets you all riled up Health insurance companies preying on the poor The lack of concern people have for themselves or their fellow man Conspiracy theories and reprimand And what you would do if you were finally the tyrant Instead of a member of the oppressed You discriminate against those around you By their race, ***, tattoos, religion, and zodiac signs You are a new breed of the inane
Guilelessness frightens you Though you hate the feeling that everything is sugar coated for you So you don’t buckle under the impact of the truth You wouldn’t have it any other way Because the truth will make you cry instead of set you free Lies swarm around you like flies Clouding your eyes with false perceptions You are drugged by smooth words Slipping out loved one’s lips like honey and swelling in your ear The sweet patronizing nature of it Makes you cringe to no end
My mouth is far from clean I make all the wrong moves Say all the wrong things Looking out for personal gain And resentful of those who have the skills I pine for I try to repeat my words Lull them into submission Forgive myself for the things I’ve done
To silence my sin I punish myself with a lavender bar of soap The bitterness makes me numb It lingers long after it is gone It serves to plug that nasty dribble from making its way down my chin I accept the necessity of wiping the slate clean My palate is far from being cleansed But that doesn’t stop me from scrubbing
The smell is a sham Hiding the underlying fact of filth I draw the bath And let everything around me bubble Rubber ducks smile at me Like dauntless sociopaths
I look into the murky water And there you are staring back at me You mirror me mockingly Your eyebrows arched in surprise You got a stick of soap hanging out of your mouth Your teeth sinking in deep Like a dog that won’t let go no matter how much you pull
Taking hold of my body like a puppeteer You force my image to disappear And be replaced with yours But this feeling of identity lingers in my ability to fear The cold air sends chills down my shoulders Little goosebumps ready to hatch out of my porous skin Your eyes always following mine Ready for the to chaos to set in
Your malevolent attitude slips off like a winter coat dropping at your feet and now you're like a new duckling fuzzy and childish filled with wonder and fear fresh and clean scrubbed raw and bare
You look into my eyes Reach out and grab me by the arm Ease me down in the water to calm my shivers Even underneath the warm water My teeth chatter My oxygen is gone but you hold me still I breathe water in and choke Panic strikes and I try to find your eyes Searching for an explanation But then you are gone As if the pressure of your hands were never there
I gasp quick short breaths Sweaty soap suds skates into my eye The sting is overpowering And I feel like I'll go blind I squeeze my eyes tight The burning refuses to subside So I submerge my head in the water And try to accept what I cannot control
I gather my strength there The red darkness of my eyelids and the thunder in my head and the veins that strike and bulge like lightning Allows a calmness to set in My hair drifts like seaweed Caressing my skin We share a moment in the lukewarm water The turmoil of our existence Finally settling in still water
You and I are one in the same We share a name Although I claim you are my alter ego I am not a double edged sword Just a two faced *******
One side can be as clear as day Transparent in every way Right as rain She is loyal and submissive She is pure and clean Not much to be seen Open and honest to the extreme Not scheming or selfish Never thinking of the responsibilities or the commitments she has made She enjoys her own company And is perfectly comfortable that way She never keeps secrets Or spreads words of hate Just plain and careless She doesn’t talk much but when she does it’s all the same Her words mean nothing She never lies or has much ambition She is monotonous and prefers to be hidden Set in her ways of gambol relinquishing thought and time And the words collecting in her mind Recoil to unkempt corners And she pressures the neurons synapse to detach And leave those thoughts in space No trace of activity left All the brainpower she has Focusing solely on how to navigate Through this rocky terrain
The other is jaded and bitter Never clean She explode and implodes Always spewing words like bullets Defensive and vengeful She enjoys the aura of grunge And flaunts the obscene She successfully keeps people at bay With her attitude and disarray She loves the smell of her own sweat She is in love with herself Trying to perfect her form She thinks she’s real tough And capable of so much more In her mind she is lanky, strong, and tomboyish But she’s just as weak Physically and mentally As the girls she derides Angry, selfish, shallow and sullen
The two share the same ignorance But this one loves to talk anyway Going off of emotions rather than logic And hating everyone for calling her out on her ******* Her superfluous angst is unending But she brings it her upon herself And refuses to see the connection
They fuse into one shoulder-conscious body Insecurities rule their life But they act superior Detesting and dismissing ardent love And they return to their reflection To find solace in the image it shows But they find ways to deconstruct reality If just for a moment And return to a pile of dust rather than a mountain of flesh Flying effortlessly in the wind they were baptized in And break the wall that separates them