Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Regine Howl Mar 2013
Pick at your lips anxiously, the way you pick at everything.
Rip skin to the quick, til there’s red fingers pressed against your white teeth.
Wondering why the words she writes are so empty,
that she can’t stop anything from the numbing boredom.
She slams back a shot, with her tears to the back of her throat.
The amber liquid burns across her mouth,
leaving her tongue licking at the wounds like a flame.
Regine Howl Mar 2013
you dug into my ribs, planted seeds of bitterness with your distance.
and now you’re back and here we go, I am going to tell you white lies just as you taught me to.
they’re growing around my tongue and I could bite it and choke down my blood,
but I think you’d prefer I just admit how I feel instead.
Regine Howl Mar 2013
living without you is painful, at first
the amount of time crying over bath drains
oh then there's the drunken conversation with strangers
its embarassing, how i will tear my life apart when you're gone
then after about six months, someone with a hero complex comes along
and i will allow them to invest time and affection into me that i have no intentions of returning
it'll be a cheap distraction, not even thrilling - but i will project my attachment onto the unsuspecting soul
they won't know any better, and i will recover quickly after the break with them
in an attempt to rid my hair of your scent, to rub your prints off my bones
i will cover it up with strangers' lips and other boys' habits, a quick fix
then after a year or so i will allow myself to drink too much
and spend the night talking about who i am really
thinking of and if they're smart then they run
if not, they hang around and keep putting
****** adhesive on a wound that i
need therapy for and i grow
to resent them for trying to be
better than you, even though that's
what i trained them for, my body rolls
with waves of heat because there is no way
i turn into a cruel monster, breaking as many
minds as i can reach because if not, i would have to
admit to what i am feeling, and what i feel is the idea of
settling, the spine choking ***** inducing settling of your life being
mundane, accepting a life without you in it is exactly that to me
Regine Howl Mar 2013
After I met him, he stole all my words-
he extracted them from my throat with his silver tongue
There wasn't a story I wrote that he hadn't left his tone on
they weren't mine anymore
It was only silk spun tales of the way he kissed me,
and left bruises that made me wish they were scars
Even if he was neither the antagonist or protagonist,
the lines were all about who I wasn't admitting I was thinking of
Whether at the movies or laying alone in the grass,
he was the star
Cause at night or even in broad daylight
there has only been one guarding and protecting
my imaginative and deprecating designs

— The End —