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Rhet Toombs Mar 2016
A sickness
That seems forever this time
Lungs of concrete
Ninety degree indifference
My grandmother's hands on a crested portrait
I cannot live to see you leave
Charcoal morning
Grief made permanent
I'm constantly afraid of your mother's words
And how they remind me of the night
Rhet Toombs Oct 2016
Purity stripped

This pain left days ago

Without dreams inside

Parched

There may be something more

Swallow

A tree of smoke

A night will come where the stars shine for you

To an end you will know

Promising nothing in return

Her glowing neck

Eyes that calm tempestuous seas

You allow this power to find peace
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Why must you starve my love?
Impetuous
Resigned now
Being cast down upon the walls once more
A seemingly trudge
Royal blood you say
Waiting for a hero
Fairy tale ending
Hidden quietly
Behind your grin
Consciously ambiguous
Traveling
To the abysmal keep
Where your true feelings
Wither
Away
Hush now
Under broken glass
And trampled petals
Deep breaths for the taking
Rhet Toombs Jan 2016
//Raeion speaks and so we felt alone again >tonight<,,,,,,
[she talks of midnight, stars, and you]
As her birth had it's price
So did her departure
.Eleven.years.old.with.a.laugh.unwilling.to.admit.depra­vity.
Raeion ends a souls term to live forever
(her brother bleeds out on a sidewalk)
-The ocean remained blue although she never saw it
_Collared to agony
Raeion is given nothing
burnIng chilDren tO a black frame
A perfect weight
###continue
'remains of a wish unfulfilled'
Rhet Toombs May 2015
Leave both parties behind
Fear of memories fractured
As underneath I let you sleep
These small words
Used as hopeful bricks
For loving structures
You're my only angel
These secrets of your deepest well
Flowing purity from beyond
So cruelly
I pulled you from the wreckage
Steered from broken lovers
Diminishing light
This heart now boils over
Perished systems renewed
Until decay
And a belief
Of trust
In the highest plateau
Pray
Sleep
Please
Never leave
Your voice is the echo
Of machines
Hammering the iron of my heart
Back into place
Rhet Toombs May 2016
May
With all its emotional whereabouts to burden our thoughts once more
Your mother in an undercoat of turmoil
My father's winding eyes past ten o'clock
This life has not been easy for you
But I still collect the drippings from your eyes, time to time
When there's a satin moon
Never understanding the existence of eternity
And this note will never reach you
Because we are now both expired on this late day.
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
My body will break

Then the world will die alone

Maybe my lips will speak truthfully

Yours show pain from last year

That's why he thinks he loves you

I can feel the sadness grow tight

Lay in bed and beg for answers that only I can give

My garden grows

And you fall further, unaware
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Language, anguish
Wrapped myself in blankets
Thinkin' about girls that consider me strange-ish
Well who really cares
Givin' off looks, and creepy stares
Stalkin' and talkin'
Chills and sidewalk chalkin'
Layin' in bed with you
Makin' plans we'll never do
Pretty girl, anywhere, I'll take you to
Just wanna kiss,
And kick it too

Sleeping tonight, feels so wrong
Alone, tonight, feels so long
But you call, talkin' *****
We up till seven-thirty
You know I'm right here
Let me whisper in your ear
Let's fu- I mean make love
And then maybe, if push comes to shove
I'll let you act just like a white dove

Scheming, dreaming, it's all seeming
A little hot, but not shot
All my plans and secrets too
Cause when I'm in your bed
I'll stay lovin' you
Rhet Toombs Sep 2015
Because you prefer it
Winding down with a stranger in bed
Your prayers and future lost
Better fasting in mind
With a heart that jumps too freely
Just a window glow
As night comes for these shards
Your swiftly torn undercarriage
Vexed to the incalculable
Bleeding out under hot water faucets
Rhet Toombs Aug 2015
Shattered glass as the curtain drops
Noticeable yawns of immortality
Agreed now we breathe
A ***** of pain
I die twice on tile floors
However we will change
To a gradual descent
Your bloodline dead
Teeth keep you still
Everything left to God is quiet now
Simple dreams
Our mistakes lay downstairs
There's nothing more
Rhet Toombs Sep 2016
The ending shriek of a dogs bark
As you jolt awake from this nightmare that isn't one
Rhet Toombs May 2018
I see this birth as death
Memories pierce our grief once again
Your desire
My prayer
Small lights turn the city to blood
How scarcely we envied the sea
Trembling senses make us look further
Find my compassions worth
You speak of leaving
Only the dead escape this torture
And we are still much alive, my love
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
A feeling where you are already alive but people don't cry for you
Rhet Toombs Jan 2015
Twirling, swirling, killing time
It's midnight as I wait for you
Sixty odd days to go
Driving
Being ripped apart
Birthday lunch next door
Invisible empire
My high-school crush
And then, I said:
That's how you dance,
With lit cigarette in hand
Rhet Toombs Aug 2016
I was never seen alive

An endless floor sans you

We enter emotion and hide our breathing

There is freedom here

Machines pierce seasons

Soaking core

Wishing I had closed my eyes

Forced poison

I should have known

Infinite midnight

When you start to scream it goes unnoticed
Rhet Toombs Sep 2016
Just for now

We will get out of this alive

Correct

Who you used to be

Ghosts steer me to a false past

And your face hasn't been clear since

This fogged window

A place for mourning

Insist on my departure

It's okay

And we're both afraid

And we're both apart

Can't seem to find my pace

My place

My safe way of going on

Maybe it really wasn't for me

And maybe your hand is clutching another's

I will feel rest and wither

A summer is spent on cures

Hands on my shoulders

Tell me to come in

It's all I have now

Sweet dying love

You are still the one

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