I'm trying to write how I speak
but looking to the sky has no sound.
Half eaten breath
sliding across my tongue like a piece of candy.
After years of sewing sentences together, trying to accelerate my youth
you have offered me a new language,
with hope that there is an end at the end, and it will be glorious.
If I ever believe these things you proclaim
I will put the pen down for good;
Nothing more to say, to discover, to spell.
But I do, I do want to write.
Each day that passes, picked, ripe, then rotten,
I conjure up the courage to just kneel and listen to the words.
I shake my memory box
and you survive, you rise to the top each time.
After this thought, there you are, and after this thought...
A particular one, that has caused much disruption
is that
if I ever become someone else,
with pain that isn't mine,
with a different tongue, with different breath
you will still remain the greatest moment of my life.
You hold the last word I will every say,
and somewhere along this life I will receive it,
whispered into a pillow and placed under my head
and as luck would have it, I am unattractively curious about what it is...
Until then,
I try to write how I speak
Jul 10, 2021
Jul 10, 2021 at 7:07 PM UTC
I'm trying to write how I speak
but looking to the sky has no sound.
Half eaten breath
sliding across my tongue like a piece of candy.
After years of sewing sentences together, trying to accelerate my youth
you have offered me a new language,
with hope that there is an end at the end, and it will be glorious.
If I ever believe these things you proclaim
I will put the pen down for good;
Nothing more to say, to discover, to spell.
But I do, I do want to write.
Each day that passes, picked, ripe, then rotten,
I conjure up the courage to just kneel and listen to the words.
I shake my memory box
and you survive, you rise to the top each time.
After this thought, there you are, and after this thought...
A particular one, that has caused much disruption
is that
if I ever become someone else,
with pain that isn't mine,
with a different tongue, with different breath
you will still remain the greatest moment of my life.
You hold the last word I will every say,
and somewhere along this life I will receive it,
whispered into a pillow and placed under my head
and as luck would have it, I am unattractively curious about what it is...
Until then,
I try to write how I speak
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