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 Nov 2014 JES
Steven Fried
Her bones were brittle, her hips
fresh cracked plastic.
Her hair was gray
lackluster straw.

Her sweatshirt was too large, her stomach too small.
Her pain overwhelming, her resolve a mask.

He lay near.

She sat in a wood chair
at the kitchen table;
where she'd been
for days.

She lowered her arm gently, and beckoned,
"Come back."
Her plate was empty- her glass too.

His plate was empty- his glass too.
He lay away, as tired as she.
His eyes found hers
in hungry confusion.

"Please," begged her nature.
Hollowed, that was all that remained.
"I'm sorry."

He did not know.

He looked to her, his first, his last,
his only- perked ears and a dry moan.
He sighed and closed his eyes.

She chose to close hers too,
"Goodbye," she hurt.
love
 Nov 2014 JES
andrea hundt
I wanted to write about how much I loved
the way your fingers move quietly down your guitar
as it gently weeps, but I could only remember the way
those same hands left bruises on my body
and left me sobbing at 2am.

I tried to write with ink how  much I missed you,
but I scribe only with spilled blood.
This is what it was, and always will be.

Strum you do, on your guitar so lovingly
and my heart strings too - more reckless with each beat.
Raise the tempo, my heart rate too.

I want to forgive,
and forget the way this music used to move us,
but my love,
I ******* hate you.
 Nov 2014 JES
snarkysparkles
I've always wanted to step out into you
Where the waters are dark and uncharted
Alluring
But the first step is always shaking
Because I saw the wind
And I was afraid.
for love.
 Nov 2014 JES
Maria Dash
You pushed me down
and that's why I live underground
in a dark paradise
there's where I tend to hide.

Waves wash my pain away
away from where we used to lay
instead of grass and dirt beneath
in sand I woke up by the sea.

You wanted the treasure
but never my heart
I'm drowning and I can't tell which way is up
grab a shell and hear me cry
but you better leave before I eat your heart out .

I own the ocean you love to see
be careful dear
you don't know me
I dropped my secrets to the sea
and now he knows about you and me.

Waves wash my tears away
becoming pearls born from pain.

You wanted the treasure
but never my heart
I'm drowning and I can't tell which way is up
grab a shell and hear me cry
but you better leave before I eat your heart out .

My dear
my beloved
I loved you so much
but playing with mermaids can be dangerous
now you have to pay
the price of betray
so give me your heart
remember you broke mine.
 Nov 2014 JES
JP Goss
Stare at the universe for a little while, you’ll see
Something resembling you and me: a quite sobbing vacuity
Draining all pellucid stars of luster and bravery.
I won’t be home for the rest of my life, hard as it is to take in,
Something went missing in what never was
That all the timbers strip away at the passing years
In anger and patience that slapped me in the face
When I said I’d never be happy again. My pockets are full
Of icy penance for crimes distance and apathy revealed.
Shimmer do the walks ways in the missing parts of the night sky
Shaped, somehow, by you and every blazing heart
Is a comet to earth: ******* vibrantly a poorly strung bandage.
And every light to cross the concourse of hopeless prophesy
And my constructs of relative suffering, an oil-light suicide.
History is always-already the behest of malignancy, but it’s sweet
The protection as I’ve weaponized every interaction to be,
We could have been cause-and-effect and danced like
Idols, gods, and fools in the sky of our experience, but
The God of Small Things, I, bear down on dis-eases rejection.
Like surgery, the tiny cells bereft of the cause of blood, the cause
Of complaint, can do nothing but new hearts reject.
 Nov 2014 JES
darling iridescence
Ink smears have the same significance
as a broken heart.
How significant are ink smears.
 Nov 2014 JES
Emily Grace
I smile at people for no reason.
Just simply trying to be nice.
I've done it a million times.
But when i first saw you, my heart smiled for me.
With love there is a price to pay
and for you i'm willing to go into debt.
I've searched everywhere for the definition of perfection.
I believe i found it in your eyes.
I've never seen something so beautiful.
It's not my fault i love you, it's yours.
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