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Here we are, now, who are we this time? The sentiments are still the same, aren't they always? We listen to the radio top 20 and we sing along, brazen like the best of them. Today I'll be Achilles and you can be Odysseus. No, not Patroclus, this isn't like that and neither are we, there's no room for speculation on what we could be because that was last time, last time I sat on your white bed and you pinned my wrists down, I was ten and you were twenty and god told you to **** me and it ate you alive, when I left you to go to the countryside, pregnant with someone else's baby, was I ever your baby? Maybe a few other, separate, parallel lifetimes ago. If I'm Achilles then you have to tell me when to go to war, you'll know that I'll fight you every step of the way and no, we don't love each other, but this is the role you play this time and you'll do it for me, won't you? Yes, and the next life, I'll be a nice jazz tune that you turn on the radio to and find yourself crying and aren't sure why. we're still connected, even metal covered in copper covered in your skin and sweat. The next I can taste it, because you'll be the ****** drip as soon as it kicks in, but you have to be the one that gets me dead at twenty-five, so make sure you wait for my signal, my white flag, like before when you watched me in the garden, like before when you dragged me off the dead body of my wartime lover, or when we met in the rain in the romance novel yet to be written and kissed and kissed and kissed and, kissed. you are my friend. we will never be separate. you are the love of all my lifetimes, even the ones where we will never touch or laugh or look each other in the eye, and even especially then, because I'll still feel your atoms and my atoms, the only home that can ever have a name: the touch of something familiar. Siken was right, I won't be waiting forever, there are a hundred other me's to match you's and if this ends all bright-white nuclear i'll still be standing with the skin melted all off, poised and ready to receive the next generation, and that's what i thought of when you asked me if we were ever sky giants, if we ever met before this moment, and you thought because i was silent that i didn't feel the same but baby, i do, and here is all of it, our mythology, don't you feel it? the constant reaching of me to you? the small hands covering every inch of our mouths even when we don't touch? Next time, I'll be a small hand and you'll be a small hand, maybe then we can love properly.
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 3:32 PM UTC
Mythology
Here we are, now, who are we this time? The sentiments are still the same, aren't they always? We listen to the radio top 20 and we sing along, brazen like the best of them. Today I'll be Achilles and you can be Odysseus. No, not Patroclus, this isn't like that and neither are we, there's no room for speculation on what we could be because that was last time, last time I sat on your white bed and you pinned my wrists down, I was ten and you were twenty and god told you to **** me and it ate you alive, when I left you to go to the countryside, pregnant with someone else's baby, was I ever your baby? Maybe a few other, separate, parallel lifetimes ago. If I'm Achilles then you have to tell me when to go to war, you'll know that I'll fight you every step of the way and no, we don't love each other, but this is the role you play this time and you'll do it for me, won't you? Yes, and the next life, I'll be a nice jazz tune that you turn on the radio to and find yourself crying and aren't sure why. we're still connected, even metal covered in copper covered in your skin and sweat. The next I can taste it, because you'll be the ****** drip as soon as it kicks in, but you have to be the one that gets me dead at twenty-five, so make sure you wait for my signal, my white flag, like before when you watched me in the garden, like before when you dragged me off the dead body of my wartime lover, or when we met in the rain in the romance novel yet to be written and kissed and kissed and kissed and, kissed. you are my friend. we will never be separate. you are the love of all my lifetimes, even the ones where we will never touch or laugh or look each other in the eye, and even especially then, because I'll still feel your atoms and my atoms, the only home that can ever have a name: the touch of something familiar. Siken was right, I won't be waiting forever, there are a hundred other me's to match you's and if this ends all bright-white nuclear i'll still be standing with the skin melted all off, poised and ready to receive the next generation, and that's what i thought of when you asked me if we were ever sky giants, if we ever met before this moment, and you thought because i was silent that i didn't feel the same but baby, i do, and here is all of it, our mythology, don't you feel it? the constant reaching of me to you? the small hands covering every inch of our mouths even when we don't touch? Next time, I'll be a small hand and you'll be a small hand, maybe then we can love properly.
I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS I JUST HAD TO GET IT OUT I'LL DELETE IT LATER
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 3:32 PM UTC
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