Your face is like a devil to me,
Eat my heart and leave me to bleed.
Hold on to my love with a dying kiss,
Cross out my eyes like that slashes on your wrist.
I've been asleep since noon,
Demons line the walls of this room.
You know what you do to me,
Leave me crying deliberately.
I'd jump out of my skin for you,
But would you do it too?

-qtsp- 6/4

15 Days & Counting

To pass the time
that I have to wait
I read street signs
and count the miles
between the states.

I hope when you arrive
I'm enough for you
I hope you still feel alive
I know that I can make
these hopes come true.

So now it's only fifteen days
which is still a lot and it's still
about two months late
but I can handle the hesitation
because I have the power and will.

When you come to me for the first
time on June 26th, I promise
to kiss you until my lips hurt
and I promise that everything I said
in this poem is completely honest.

I love you with all my heart
Angelface, you've made it all worth it
I hate the times apart
we had to spend, but that time
wasn't enough to make me quit.

Here we are, four months down the line
after the first official moment we met
(disregard the first not-so-happy time)
I was happy that day, it was the best
but, with you home, the best hasn't came yet.

-qtsp- 6/11

I once knew a girl who thought death
was easier than living a mess of a life.
Her family was stained with ****,
but I told her she had to put down the knife.

She said she had no purpose, no reason
but I pointed out to her the small, pretty things
and told her emotions and feelings changed like seasons,
and happiness would come with the summer the world brings.

She believed me and started to change her ways.
She was so gorgeous when she smiled.
I could press my lips against hers for days.
She was perfect to me, my wonder child.

The girl I once knew was dead, like she wanted.
Rest in peace, she was sadder than she needed to be.
Now with a smile and happy eyes that were once haunted,
I knew this girl had to know what she meant to me.

So I told her I loved her through a text, even though
I wanted to say it in person so I could see the look on her face.
It would have been one of those smiles I love, I know.
And since then I know we've both found our place

Right by each others' sides where our smiles are the brightest.
That's where we belonged, we couldn't fight this.
I was whole when I surrendered to her with a kiss.
I finally learned the definition of eternal bliss.

-qtsp- 6/14

I had work so I
took the train to
Sacramento.

There was a beauty
on the train with
red lips and a petite frame.

She sat beside me,
and called herself Lea,
and smelled of flowers mostly.

I wanted to kiss her lips
and hear her heart beat
and grab the fabric at her hips.

We both got off in Sacramento
but she went right and I went left
and that was the last of the pretty girl I didn't know.

I watched the car hit her
I rushed to her side,
but it was too late; she already died.

(qtsp)

Since you left
I spend most
of my time
sitting in my car,
listening to those
sad radio songs
that make your
heart go numb.

I only go inside
when I go to shower
and even then
I leave my car radio
on and loud so I can
hear the songs
through the window
and can cry along
with the other
broken souls.

-qtsp- 6/14

i always tell
myself to take
a structured
approach to this
writing business
but how do you
structure and
organize ideas that
are scattered about
your mind with one
common relation:

you.
you are that
common idea,
the thing that keeps
my fingers sweeping
across the keyboard,
pressing all the keys
that'll make the beautiful
words pour out, but they're
only as beautiful as you are;

you are so beautiful
to me, there is not
a doubt in my mind
that you are the most
gorgeous ******* the
Earth, which is why,
when you fall asleep
with me on the phone,
I listen to you breathe
and sleep for a few seconds
before saying goodbye.

now at eleven forty
i listen to lana del rey
in my bedroom, diet
mountain dew, and
the song has no relevance
to you, but it reminds me
of how i feel about you.
do you think we'll be
in love forever?
(qtsp 2013)

you said so many things,
i held close all the things you'd say:
from meaningless words to things about the day;
from i hate you to i love you in every single way;
from good bye, i'm leaving, okay;
you said so many things,
i wish you would have said you'd stay.
-qtsp- 6/15