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Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
We will share this death
Unrest with subtle detection
Further collapse
A lighter consumption
Agony prone
Shutters open to relax veins
Focus with a decayed world
You're still learning to stand
Remembering the end
Passing twisted resonance
Bottled winter
Half-bruised with buried innocence
You want to be known
Rhet Toombs Apr 2023
Let your hand fall to find my skin as a home
On a broken future we taste the days forgotten burn
Wonder for missing eyes
Earth's call will turn our frames strong, again
Quiet
Watching
Golden soil lies beneath your waking fingers
Drowned lights
Alive
These mountains save a birth of our promises
Rhet Toombs Apr 2023
A tender state to mark your breaths
To forsake my cruel wound
What has been forsworn will dwell eternal
Youths jewel
A rose fortune is lost on this day
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
There is now a bridge between us
But we still accumulate warnings
A fortune is now wasted in Winter
Nature is dying
Inside my wrist, again
I am still wishing for payment in heart
It seems you will haunt us for another night
Sleep in walls
Timid lust
Rhet Toombs Mar 2018
And where our walk is heavy and the silence is impeded by love, I will be strong and you will know God sees the strength I have to carry you home one more night.

This is all.

Want and need together as one spiraling past the depths we've seen
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
In a green room we struggle to sleep and breathe
She reflects liquid pride
We feel closer to weeping
Tight lines and clean silk mark our demise
And there's a tainted hell waiting beneath all men
In a journey of guilt that we're left holding
Eyes like coffins
Muscles crush underwater power lines
What a waste to be left at midnight in this bed
Agony unnoticed
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Sealed in space
Motionless love theme
Neglecting a soul saved
Precipitated malice
Unoriginal to a shameful crypt
Rearranged embrace
A slave within
You keep steady warmth in Denver
I wither continually in Memphis
All
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
All
Window storm
Refraction of opal hair
Gatherings of a salvaged flock
Incomprehensible
A series of melted bruises
Final lap of my somnolence
Short of my hands around your throat
You may promise nothing
Stop us
Rhet Toombs Mar 4
The many rifts among lovers now
Faint
Multitudes torn from fragments
No longer a taken requiem
Torn
Come between
Feelings of more than this strewn across caves
Vexed
Quiet now
Rain with thorns
Silence to heal wounds
I will hum my melodies forever alone
Rhet Toombs Oct 2016
This reflection of slumber

Unnoticed sirens find us missing

Fulfilling ecstasy softly

A small push to know lasting rapture

Love bridges this lonely nocturne

Listen as corners devour deeper

Stray flocks of lightning illuminate pale crests of your posture sleeping in my bed
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Impossibly transporting desperation
We skip to a deafening consumption
Complex sirens
Photo sterilization
Hysterics
Paranoia
Grief without repentance
More of your witnessed erosion
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Will he ever love?
Tragic now,
As I see the footprints
Trudged through the snow
These ashes fall as snowflakes
And an endless winter
Has now been brought forth
You're alone now
There's nothing wrong
Must be too strong for you
Build your temples, child
Stay by the withering flames
Now once removed
Twice caught
Three times fallen
In it's most eloquent stage
Rhet Toombs May 2016
I want everything to become how it once existed

The foolishness of youth
Long cars ride with empty promises on my lips
To dig my nails into the earth again and feel safe

This perished effort to move on leaves me tainted

Next year will not be better

My love for sleep continues with great pace
I sit and stare with smoky eyes

You remain as a still in my rusted memory
Rhet Toombs Jun 2015
This undying reprimand
And ceaseless mourning
Forgetting to continue in measure
To keep these things at bay
With grace
To say more than enough
Handing floating remorse
Give sway
This night
Born from a lonely day
Pray
Like before
Stomaching passion
To never be whole again
Departing visions
Grasping your innocent defeat
Drowning such sweet melodies
Rhet Toombs Sep 2016
Ribbons of your torn shirt unraveling in space

Trapped

Cold sweat

Electric violence

Tears idling on my face
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
In the picture
Of a treacherous silence
I hear fate whisper its lonely plans
A lost deliverer
Of doomed hearts
The soundtrack
To a perfect purgatory
And their war torn eyes
They will
Cry out
Once more
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Wicked
And how could you know?
Lonely blood
And my heart pounds
These are my friends
Betraying the tide as it comes in once more
Walking
And destined above all
To be alone
No one
And anyone knows
Just how high you'll go
Alone
Rhet Toombs Apr 2023
Fist clasped so tight you cried
Shedding skin for another
A sky burst into black
What is gained seems broken
Smoke slips through
Nights of warmth breathe again
I could feel your eyes save me
Rhet Toombs Jun 2015
Your heart understood mine
Peaking through the chain links
Seen flying above
Coursed through parchment
In these fine lines of our DNA
And how she cried for you
As smoke billowed in July air
With these rooms of the house
Yours seemed invisible
But you perceive this distance
In smiling eyes
And smudged windows
Blessings sent
In a whisper
Or a tear
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
A chamber promise nothing less
Pre-screened destiny
This is how the night begins
We slip inside our seventh skins
One minute and thirty-nine seconds
On short circuit
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
Her words have failed

Feeling stained

Your mother unaware

Mistakes save but fade

All right

Loud existence and in a flash

Silence, ******

I no longer realize your power

And we're built to die with better choices

Burst

Closed

Torch the lonely

Float away
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Pity
Isn't it too?
That as I neared a reproaching breath
That I should be pulled under
And with no one to hold me
Funny
Isn't it too?
I saw you running alone the shore
Once more
And kept running
As I swam away
You opened the cellar door
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Evil demons
Red light demons
Frost breath
Winter death
Keep harm with her
God's plans so sure
Meals with family bread
Forget every word she said
Suicidal thoughts
Self-harm plots
Just me and you
Guilty conscience, dinner for two
I'll be everything you never wanted to
Sleep soundly tonight
Silent screams and silent bite
I guess you lied
My patience is tried
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Lay still
Intention to ****
Lies and ***
Taking pills like tex-mex
Your love is so cruel
Your arms held me like a fool
Dungeons dark and deep
My body lays and my eyes weep
I was ultimately worthless to keep
Goodnight my dear
Nothing but my mind to fear
So when you feel a little bit colder
I strongly suggest to look over your shoulder
With the blood on your hands you'll need a mop
And now this is where I think the poem should stop
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
The most unholy of nights
A hibernation from servitude
Ghostly
Grey
Illuminated
You send him to decrease the pain within
Rhet Toombs Nov 2015
Pirouette through a graphite cocoon
Fixed clutch
Temporary disdain
Feeling undeserving of a lockdown
Car crash smile
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Breathless
You too could see
That this heart isn't your playground
Even though you promised
Are you safe?
Are you loved?
Your environment
Has taken care of you
And you speak
You speak only as you know how
Surrounded in the amphitheater
Amongst the friends and foes
I am not there
But I'm on my way
To your corroded memory
The gutted consciousness that is your mind
Night after night of questions
Left me unable to answer your repose
Tranquility
A source foreign and fragile to me
Never made voltaic by the moonlight
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Finding myself
With no keeper
No doors closed
I sway
Move into the night
With fervor
For what lies ahead
The delicate instruments
Grinding
Stowing away
The secrets kept
From the surrounding cities
Turmoil
Building up
Releasing an uplift of spirits
I could hardly imagine
Rhet Toombs Apr 2023
I pray that you see this
You know who you are
And when he first ****** you
It's in your moms car
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Branches of regret
Pillars of imagined perfection
Restored features
Optional decaying cells
Moments trickling into chaos
Waking from a black frame
Your melted singing voice
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Your lungs keep steady rhythm
But let your hands shake
Passing by the moonlit streets
I will let you lie restless
And hope that you're okay
Second level parking
I wait for you there
Like a moth to light
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
This late night testament
Of our forlorn grace
Starlit proof
Suffering of cast down treasure
Whilst driving through highways
Steady tempo
And keep your beat
To a certain future
Witness the sunk in smile
Never opposing
Always
Ever watchful
With blotted intentions
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Turn the music up
My favorite song
Ethereal
Set in motion
Ice cold window
Coasting at seventy-five
Dropping low
In the right direction
Passing every exit
The murals written
The night time
Jumbled emotions perpetuated
In a handshake
Or a smile
Sigh
Yeah
Now that's the real America
Rhet Toombs Jun 2015
Images emerge
This scarred
Twisted
Fallen vision
Remove
Send out the signal
A rebirth
Day to day
Our life and death
Fissioned from the lonely soil
Of a few weeks ago
We just got by
Favored towards forgiveness
Caged love by night
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
All of our memories now wasted away
Page break
My mother's voice downstairs
Stretched dawn
Tonight's drippings
Dreams of your torn mouth
Visions again of a failed birth
Glass and it's promised demise
Cancerous resonance
(slit)Flushed(slit)
(exit)Naked(exit)
(fail)This how I feel(fail)
Being driven away
White coats and tourniquets
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
I didn't know anything about a ******
I was called from sleep to be told your love had died
The lanes and lights passing you by
But your path never strayed
Your mind became lost
Because the enduring sounds of the waves
Kept you up at night
I'm still here
And now, a knock resonates at my motel door
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
Body alone

She could have done so much better

Now they have a child together

Her laugh is broken as ever

Slit wrists don't make her shudder

Tomorrow they awake with fever

Another cigarette is the only endeavor

Let's creep silently

Quietly

In this instance, maniacally

For my love, in its entirety

Is nothing but a sobriety
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Infinite years past
To dig with impatience
Seems like forever to you now
There's nothing here
But betrayal
Twisted words
Depths unknown even to you
Pleading
Again
To go home
Forbearing a tainted helix
Your fingerprints
Not much to see
But stained with rage
We beg for love
But are given faith
However durable
Unquenched
In the simplest of ways
Rhet Toombs Mar 2018
A creased smile eternally present on my image

This arm exists to close guilt

Your tragedy spoke words but left me to question it anyways

Never separating the fine line of the road and the constant blues your face hums still in the night

And you may plant flowers to the ceiling

You might see bodies laying in the ocean

These numbers slip your pride to a slow rot

You can't collect the moon

Your bottle won't sing, anymore

As if my eyes and heart could feel blood once more
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
This complex code
The love shared
Whispered through the pines
Back again
Is not as you think it is
Suddenly
But with gentle reprieve
Perverse lips
Stolen notebooks
The shelter
Felt by you
Alone
Love without gravity
In time
As I know you
Darling
Wait
Sleep still tonight
It will come
As you sit thinking
Praying and dreaming
Above
And with a sudden gasp
Your heart rampages
With no known destination
Rhet Toombs Jul 2015
The ground quietly settles
In search for a final lover
Innocent strength forming freedom
Rendering gleaming muscles useless
Pricing a broken smile
Beholding a discarded identity
A prayer with cancelled meaning
Glimpse these trembling signs
When they awake to drown indifference
Commit this confusion
Losing my souls inheritance
Hollowed demands
With healing desperation
Consume my sworn efforts
As we fuel a reborn process
And collapse with tangible wounds
She wept with haunting surrender
I mourned a dangerous solace
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Slip through the window
Undo the screen
Car parked outside
My friends are waiting
******* on cars
Midnight rise
Deep breaths
To heal
And feel
Again
Your voice slowed
And slurred with sleep
You never come
So I listen alone
Precise in impunity
But weak in stature
And I hope
That only once
Your need
Would have a cause
So great as this
Rhet Toombs Apr 2023
She's a friend, not a lover
Yeah she's a friend, like no other
Rhet Toombs May 2015
How could you know?
For staring on that time
Into the nothingness
Feeling so alone
But your absence
Witheld
Simply comforted me
Though you drank of sweet sleep
My eyes swallowed the turmoil
And my memories stayed suppressed
Though I wanted them dead
Offered up
With palms stretched out
Engrained
Like satellite images
Reasoned to exist
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
There was nothing
Nothing but loneliness
And the subtle
The desperate words
That never came forth
But in a moment of despair
That was all that had been offered
And the quietness
The few things that could be shown
As we sit and stare
In the eyes of the night sky
Rhet Toombs Mar 2015
No I never said her name aloud, or around you
Fainted collections by the bedside
Never known from the emotions felt
Prayers
Things families kept
My west side bedroom
And you didn't understand
Just how much it hurt you
The night time shell
You remained
Faded in my image
Turned away
Burnt out in shadows
Clothes in the closet
I wept the whole way home
Designed by the day
By the pain we realized
Prior to twisted agony
Never feeling how the road sways
I'll still be losing blood
Deep ocean drowning
Kick
Losing breaths
Looking from the lights of the aftermath
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
This bed of ashes
Confined innocence
Cry all night
And I'll taste your current
Permeated
Transformed
Thrown across
You'll miss
This bullseye
Of our love
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
The waiting
And the darkness therein
Bending of lights
As I stood in awe
Of the architecture of flames burnt
So lovely
The ghosts within those walls
Whole again with dream-like motion
At once
Sitting on a boat outside the city
Seemingly limitless
Staring into that great abyss
Always searching
Always waiting
For you to find me
Shaking in the misty morning sunrise
To return from the sun being dipped
Gone
And if I find you
Take my hand
Stroll the dimly lit corners of this city
Please know that fear cannot touch us
And walk into tomorrow
As the same day
Rhet Toombs Mar 2018
And we will search for a memory torn

Warmth

Two dances

A window kiss and lies are now past wounds

Your form is breathing and fruitful

We hope this void is worth the pain
Rhet Toombs Oct 2015
I feel duality in your breath
Blue spirals
A dying wave
We were nothing
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