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Like an oyster, I coveted pearls
Popped from prescribed bottles
I still love you dear
But I have another girl's moan
Ringing through my ears.
I've made my home in her heart
My roots entwined with her veins  
The weeds of my mind plucked by her timid fingers
For she was scared her poison would spread
Her body had been sick for so long her thoughts doctored by those she pulled close
She ignored the life she spread through her touch
As she healed my withered limbs
My flowers bloomed in the cracks of her skin
And saved each other
We were whole once again
My thoughts of her have spilled out of my mind and onto my tounge
creating sentences I never should speak
My desire for her has built into an aggression for the world around
Now I drop more insults  than solders do bombs  
I cause more emotional deviation than a third world typhoon
Wounding others in ways they have tried to replicate
Becoming the ultimate form of self harm
I have withdrawals from her skin
In which my body twitches  palms sweat and
my mind is consumed in a mirage of her touch
But I cannot be detoxed from her like a common alcoholic
Even though I have purged every emotion out of my body
Like the calories I feared would store over my bones
I cannot rid myself of this burning craving of affection
That only she can give me  
For she has filled the void left by the generations
of sanitarium prisoners my lineage was cursed with
My fragile balance of living thins the longer she is away
But I am no acrobat and I don't know how much longer
I can tiptoe across this tightrope of stability
Red numbers
Scribbled on an essay
Cannot measure
Your intelligence

White digits
Etched upon a scale
Cannot define
Your beauty

Black decimals
Printed on a paycheck
Cannot calculate
Your value

These numbers
Are not branded on skin
We are not
A statistic
The Prince of Peace
wants me dead
Because of the pretty girl
I have decided to bed
It's hard to believe
That in today's world
Leaves fall
As often as bombs.
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