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Rose Amberlyn Aug 2014
Are you familiar with the ache that grows in the heart?
The one where something was blooming long ago.
Feeling arms around you as you awoke from sleep,
hearing a voice in your ear, that you were supposed to keep?

But the ache isn't permanent, and you must wait it out.
This fateful era of being that some call,
a love drought.
Rose Amberlyn Aug 2014
My friend and I are writing a song.
I have been trying to write from the heart and not from my head.

"Feeling crazy from this loneliness,
From a girl who fell too hard,
oh my darling, where's our love song,
Some love never lasts that long."
Rose Amberlyn Jul 2014
Everything remains the same,
and in the old I begin to fidget.
I yearn for new smells and visions.
I need new places,
new faces.

Being in the doldrums washes me out,
like a tide rising by the moon.
I feel wrung out to dry,
my shoulders dangling from clothes pin lines.

I can't sit still,
as if I sit upon pins and needles.
I can't breathe out,
only in.
I need to move,
to begin again.

I am restless.
I need an adventure.
And yet, here I wait.
Hanging from a fish hook,
I am merely bait.

But what I will pull in I do not know.
Rose Amberlyn Jun 2014
She is my little china doll,
sitting on her shelf.
Her fragile figure delicately composed.
Her porcelain face is always smiling.

She is my little china doll.
Carefully, daintily, beautifully.
Rose Amberlyn Jun 2014
The rustle of the forest stirs me in the middle of the night.
I awake to moonlight glowing through the tent.
A quiet falls over everything in a dark velvet wave.
"Wake up," I whisper into the gray light.
No reply.
"Please wake up!" I yell out.
Nothing.
"WAKE UP," I try one last time.
I suddenly hear a muffled laughter.
"Unbelievable!"

"You have a bad dream?"
"No, I just can't sleep. It's too quiet."
No reply.
"STOP THAT."
More laughing.
Rose Amberlyn Jun 2014
Dry crusted rings form in the bottom of my mug.
Caffeine and cynicism rush through my blood.
The crowded streets of the Big Apple echo through my ears.
But my eyes only see one thing.

You.

No matter where I escape to from the quiet of my bed.
I'm sure I'll see you soon.

Maybe the back of an airplane headed to London,
maybe a small car driving along a cobblestone path in the rain.
Maybe free-falling towards San Diego with a parachute above me.
You always show up.

It doesn't matter how long it's been.
We always meet in the "where's Waldo" of it all.

Tonight's episode takes place in Mumbai.
See you there, P.B.
#whereswaldo
Rose Amberlyn Jun 2014
I imagine a long string, looping through the brain.
Purple, green and blue;
shattering and breaking through.
All the tunnels dimly lit,
and the lobby grand in height.
All the swirls and bubbles; igniting my delight.
The brain is but a flicker,
a light bulb that never rests.
Until a loop and bubble clash!
That chaos is the best.
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