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 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Helen
close your soft lips
against my wrist
drink from my pain
seal the ragged wounds
that my teeth have torn
against my skin
where I've gouged myself
so you can drink the life
I give to you
against my wishes
Drink
my blood, your water
sweeter than wine
arm held out straight
in stoic love, to you
against my heartbeat
Drink
blood of my blood
you can gain your life
against my own
*Drink
generally (if you know me well) I'm not a masochistic person but family brings out the best (worst) in us all...
Like rock,
and honey,
I pretend that I
am not “I”
until their fists find my face
pry open my mouth
and spit on my tongue
until I praise them
for letting me drink

because I still feel
their grubby hands,
with sweaty palms,
with fat fingers,
applying pressure
anywhere it hurts
the most

they seem to favor
my throat
I hear the lark, said Alice,
it sings in my ear like an
angel’s voice, brings me
pleasure in my darkest
hour, plays in my mind
like an echoing dream.

I see the morning sun,
its beams dance at my
feet, swirl around like a
child at play, my eyes
rejoice at the sight I see,
dread the thought of
blindness in some new
day’s gift, push away the
ideas as if they were flies,
push all away like one fulfilled.

I smell the lily’s scent, its
aroma brings me out in a
rash of joy, its smell invades
my nose like a vanquishing
army, opens me up to the
pleasures of smell, makes
me want to sniff forever,
drink in until my head swims,
my sleep recalls the aroma’s kiss.  

I feel my lover’s fingers along
my flesh, sense his skin smooth
along mine like a skater on ice,
like one sliding across a polished
floor, the fingers caressing like
a butterfly’s touch, tickling to
laughter, fondling until my voice
says, ah, don’t stop, fill me up,
squeeze all on until the final drop.

I breathe the wind’s breath,
inhale the morning’s freshness,
the air of angel’s exhalation,
my lungs take in like a greedy
girl, sup in each particle as I
dance along, remembering now
the air of summer, the filling
of my lungs like a fish the water,
opening my lips in a happy song,
my voice singing across an open sea.

I ******* lover’s tongue touch
mine, feel the tongue and mine
in dance, lick and lick until the
pleasures erupt, the places engorge
and swell, I taste the saltiness
of my lover’s ***, the sweetness
of the heavenly hive, the tongue
swimming along my lover’s thigh
and arm and on and on, my taste
buds explode into a rainbow of
colours, my tongue feeling like
a snail’s flesh, moving and sensing
until my mind says, No more, no
more and I hear the waves of dark
depression surge in on my shore.
 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Lydia E
Why?
 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Lydia E
I'm too overwhelmed, I can't be helped
I just want to be able to breathe
I want to smile, I want to laugh hard
I want to be able to feel joy
But I can't, I'm stuck
In this rut called my life
I don't know the reason anymore
I wanted to see flowers open for me;
I wanted to see treasures within this sea;
I wanted to hope with my eyes closed;
I wanted all lies with new hand disposed.

Like a fool,
I believed in everything that already deceived;
And in my hope you retrieved
                                                 final breath of love seeded within me,
                                                 stealing life as though it were for the taking:
                                                 In this revelation I am lifeless and forsaken.

And no flowers in beauty will greet,
no treasures spill at my feet.
My eyes flutter in darkened skies,
while my heart cracks with decades of lies.

So undeserving in my lighted embrace,
So undeserving to behold this broken face,
So undeserving to steal my heart beats:
So undeserving am I, of these cruel defeats.

You are all the demons of my nightmares,
You are the epitome of one who cannot care.
You are the lost one, among stars who cries:
The one who burns love with stealthy, inhumane lies.
(C) 2012 Melanie Kate
 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Tearani C
Tested and built to last.
Fragile and transparent
I am stained glass. They laughed
When I turned my chin up and spoke
What everyone hoped would remain
Untold, thought none were bold enough
To mention all the lies, mistrust and superstition,
Scared to be under eyes, that heads would turn to listen
How you are all talk no action,
So I said I was done I won’t listen.
You clench your fist and hiss than
Said I was broken.
your sister turned away, stopped caring for you,
your dad did too, and all those friends you care for,
that hole inside your chest that yearns for a kind word,
No one had heard.
he paused for breath before continuing the list,
I observed his eyes turn cold.
I clear my throat I had not broke
I am brave enough to be vulnerable.
Every one here already knew all of that.
they see through me I’m glass.
I just think its silly your all wherein masks.
Well he said I guess we all get what we deserve
And turned away, and that hurt.
Because I saw his pain and knew he
Still didn’t mean a single word.
 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Mary Lee
You
 May 2012 Sean Kassab
Mary Lee
You
You
(What we had)
(What we did)
(Shared)
(Wanted)
(Believed)
(Said)
(Thought)
were a lie.

Every touch
Every word
(Glimpse)
(Breath)
(Laugh)
(Tear)
(Kiss)
was an act.

An intricate play
for you to get what you wanted.
How does that make you feel?
ends in screams of silent tears
for those that are going
and those that have gone.

They once ran through lands
of meadows and streams
tricking teachers into believing they were deathly ill
just so they could go fishing on a sunny afternoon.

He was drafted
leaving her behind
hoping to return with more than a box
to call his own.

They got married
without a proposal
knowing it would
“just happen.”

Together they raised
a girl and a boy
and soon they had children
of their own.

I followed them
like a newborn calf
follows its mother

riding in the combine
running through fields
sitting patiently on ten-gallon buckets
waiting for the bobber to be submerged.

Tonight I, their granddaughter, scream silent tears
because
she is going and
he is gone.
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