Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
The day you went away, I looked at the wisps in the forest to search for your secret grave but they just turned to me and faded away. I searched the sands for your parched remains and i knew when I'd find you because life would spring from where you'd rot and the oasis you'd bring would flood the desert floor with our memories we spent a lifetime trying to endure. So I built a ship for two, to guide me through the storm to the next beckoning light that calls- another rock to crash upon, my foundation? lies in pieces of micro-organic emotions and concrete unhinged delusions. The seat next to me is taken, I know she's already...dead, but still, I remember her presence and I'm not mistaken, I'm waiting to pass over so that when it's over, we'll start again and row through the waves- together. Sure, it looks weird now: a young man who looks old, and people say he looks dead but thanks man, I try, I just can't drop down at the last breath, to rise up in depth, so I feel I can never drown...sad. The only drug is your gasp as you frown at the last glimpse of my face- enraged? alien? sadder still, I don't remember, Everything happened in a beat back then; metronome swings of fervent passion. Our nights were tunes of harmony and disarray, we swung them together and stitched new holes in places we liked by ourselves; defunct from casual belief and such times! People strained to find insanity, androids in love looked for guidance upon us,   who dreamed of mortal sleep. Our dreams, were nightmares we always woke up from a second earlier before it ended. Waking up was more real at times, and at times, I couldn't tell the difference but I dreamt nonetheless and so, we decayed beautifully; so used to it anyway that we didn't stop for a moment, to look at the skin beneath our bones. Everything in angles and shapes and simple motion bent to our rules of private physics and the laws of Fatal Human Attraction. I knew the science and knew the value of distance and its measurements: too close and it pushes back, explodes and leaves absolution, the aftertaste. So I tasted implosion- time and again, just to keep our crosshairs fixed. If one of us moved closer, our bullets wouldn't miss, and now, I can't smell you if I did, I'd touch you, but I can't hold my breath yet, my lungs still keep me dead awake. Till then, I'll just hunt you, keep dying, and see. Till then, don't come back. I'm ready, haunt me.
0
Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
Ghosts Can Love Too
The day you went away, I looked at the wisps in the forest to search for your secret grave but they just turned to me and faded away. I searched the sands for your parched remains and i knew when I'd find you because life would spring from where you'd rot and the oasis you'd bring would flood the desert floor with our memories we spent a lifetime trying to endure. So I built a ship for two, to guide me through the storm to the next beckoning light that calls- another rock to crash upon, my foundation? lies in pieces of micro-organic emotions and concrete unhinged delusions. The seat next to me is taken, I know she's already...dead, but still, I remember her presence and I'm not mistaken, I'm waiting to pass over so that when it's over, we'll start again and row through the waves- together. Sure, it looks weird now: a young man who looks old, and people say he looks dead but thanks man, I try, I just can't drop down at the last breath, to rise up in depth, so I feel I can never drown...sad. The only drug is your gasp as you frown at the last glimpse of my face- enraged? alien? sadder still, I don't remember, Everything happened in a beat back then; metronome swings of fervent passion. Our nights were tunes of harmony and disarray, we swung them together and stitched new holes in places we liked by ourselves; defunct from casual belief and such times! People strained to find insanity, androids in love looked for guidance upon us,   who dreamed of mortal sleep. Our dreams, were nightmares we always woke up from a second earlier before it ended. Waking up was more real at times, and at times, I couldn't tell the difference but I dreamt nonetheless and so, we decayed beautifully; so used to it anyway that we didn't stop for a moment, to look at the skin beneath our bones. Everything in angles and shapes and simple motion bent to our rules of private physics and the laws of Fatal Human Attraction. I knew the science and knew the value of distance and its measurements: too close and it pushes back, explodes and leaves absolution, the aftertaste. So I tasted implosion- time and again, just to keep our crosshairs fixed. If one of us moved closer, our bullets wouldn't miss, and now, I can't smell you if I did, I'd touch you, but I can't hold my breath yet, my lungs still keep me dead awake. Till then, I'll just hunt you, keep dying, and see. Till then, don't come back. I'm ready, haunt me.
JunkheadRooster
Written by
Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
Request permission to use this poem