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saige Apr 2018
away
we go
don't say
a word
i feel you
i still do
i swear i know
it's hard to keep
castling
it's not worth catching
an outcast
over
so stay,
i'll go
saige Apr 2018
You are strung like pearls
I, a tight rope
Us, a noose
We can't slip through
saige Apr 2018
the baby doesn't know
the arms rocking him are bones
the woman feeding him is
weening him
onto life by
weening
herself
off

he doesn't see
her teardrops through his
own
he doesn't see
her eyes droop as his
close

she does her best to
save him
even if she cannot
raise him
and the lullabies get
softer

slower
shorter
still

the baby doesn't know
saige Apr 2018
so i broke my key
trying to slash your tires
we love in spirals
saige Apr 2018
this is heaven to me
this isn't happening to me
he is too good to be
next to me

beside the pane
i watch the stars from
the one i trace
raindrops down
and open when
it snows
alone

but not for once
not for now
this nightfall comes
together

i pull him close
and want him closer
who cares where heaven is
when there's an angel in
my room
saige Apr 2018
his name
buzzing in my hand
quit spelling myself out
swipe a tear infested screen
instead
smile once i hear him
speak
humming in my ear
warmth through the glass
poke at old windows
pan for words
as i ramble on
he laughs a little so i
copy that
feels like
fresh air, still
everything inside
is calling me names
dumb for walking and talking in
circles
why even try to explain?
hang the hell up
you've got nothing to say
for yourself
but he called me out
of that maze
for a moment
so here's my heart
plain and shamed and open
i am too lucky
to be called
his
saige Apr 2018
oh
and while you were gone
the lights went out completely
i hope they never come back
on
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