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September Dec 2013
Time heals all wounds, but
scar tissue is always visible in light
and feels smooth to fingertips in the dark.

Time heals all wounds. Time heals all wounds.

Time has never healed me—
And I was never wounded.
Yet my entire body is smooth in the dark.
(I am yours—but you do not want me)
September Dec 2013
Lovers in Florence,
Red hair like matches.
I hope she lights you on fire like you did to the bridge between us.

I am watching the smoke from my kitchen window.
The smoke is green like your eyes.
2010.
September May 2012
Oh Demon,
Please,

Loosen the hands on my throat.


Oh Lover,
Please,

I sometimes like to breathe,
I do.
I do.
September Nov 2015
WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN, THE FIRST PERSON I WOULD EVER GROW UP TO LOVE TOLD ME THAT TO BELONG WAS THE GREATEST THING HUMANITY HAS ACHIEVED.

"JE SUIS A TOI, TU ES A MOI, I AM SORRY FOR MY AWFUL VERB CONJUGATION."

I AM THEIR AGE NOW AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

WERE YOUR IDEAS FORMED LIKE HYDROGEN TO HELIUM OR WAS IT OXYGEN, LITHIUM, CARBON, COPPER.

I AM NOT YOURS, YOU ARE NOT MINE. MAYBE ONE DAY I WILL WANT TO BELONG TO SOMEONE BUT I WILL NEVER WANT SOMEONE TO BELONG TO ME.
September Jun 2011
Amidst the foggy graveyard stones,
a boy walks over buried bones.
He finally stops at a young girl's grave.
He gave her the drugs that she did crave.

His batch is what had stopped her thoughts.
--A noise breaks out where her body rots.
When it sounds, the boy falls,
for he has heard the Siren's calls.

Angelic voices, so sweetly shrill,
pull him over against his will.
Figures appear, grotesque things,
burned skeletons with bony wings.

Its long white finger reaches out,
the boy does not have time to shout.
Instant contact, sends him down.
Swallowed by earth yet he does not drown.

In seconds he has broken through,
to the land where Hell does brew.
The Devil stands before him, but is not fiery red.
A dark-haired figure, sheathed in cloaks, has eyes of blackened lead.

Handsome would have been his face, if not for the evil smile.
He glares down upon his prey, look nothing but hostle.
The boy quivers and sheds open tears,
for the voice of Lucifer appears.

The voice is coming, not from lips, but from the boy's own mind.
It tells him of damnation, the contract that was signed.
He pauses to let it sink in,
as the boy's face shows chagrin.

"Seek out miscarriage mothers, tell them of this deal.
If they happen to sign it, their child I will heal.
A mother will do anything, especially in rage.
They get to keep their child—until he comes of age."

The boy knows why he is here now, on his eighteenth birthday.
He will persuade the mothers, to sell their child like pay.
They'll do it in the spur of the moment, simply on a whim.
Just like his mother did to him.
September Jan 2018
i consume both love
and liquor in the dark of
Monday's Lucky Bar.
H.***
September Jan 2015
I lean but never fall in love,
because broken mirrors are even harder to repair the second time—
the third,
the fourth,
the fifth,
the sixth,
the seventh.
you were never the one, but you were the seven. and that's my lucky number
September Mar 2012
I am caught
In gold rays.
He plays with my strings.
Plucks and pulls at my papery wings
That flutter and beat
For the lights on the street.
Drags me in through attraction
When night is black and goth.
Just like a magnet.
Just like a moth.
September Oct 2013
Feather pen with a
needle tip
dripping ink into your vein.
It's insane how
quickly we came
—here.

need to disappear. need to disappear.
m
September Feb 2015
m
the last thing i said to you was that i loved you

lost in translation from english to english

i said one thing, and then

you said no more
m
September Dec 2019
m
the memory of you is a warm comfort
a sunday morning community chapel
preaching your name so loudly
you'd think i was possessed
the sun sneaks through my windows
i'm alone in bed
ni co ti ne or ga sm mm mm mm
M
September Nov 2014
M
I want to find you at three in the morning again

I want to know if you've kissed another girl's skin

*I want to know that I taste better
September Apr 2012
My best friend, you
At three in the morning,
You asked me to sing you to sleep.
All I could do was sit; think. Silence.
What to sing,
What to sing.
My best friend, no longer.
A year later, and
I am still thinking,
Of what to sing you.
One of the worst feelings I know is the one I felt when I betrayed you. I'm sorry.
September Jul 2019
clean for almost two years now
i stay up reading
a timeline of myself
high on ecstasy
September Oct 2016
Wish I never purged anything we shared
So I could count the days since we'd last spoken

I know you can't put a measure on sadness
But I can keep a tally of the seconds.
marrrch
September Feb 2014
I'm not an artist,
nor am I a murderer—
but I would **** for the day
where you let me trace circles on your skin
and outline your canvas with mine.
September Apr 2013
Seven seas and billion people.
When we grow will we
upgrade the ocean?
September Aug 2013
My pulse skips from rocky mountains/ to rolling hills/ to plateaus./
glaciers to deserts—
my skin deserts the ground.
8\
September Jan 2014
Days away from you
Are frequent and cruel--


I start to wonder
if it's
mean or meaning.
October 4th to December 4th, 2013. M.
September Oct 2015
I don't miss you—I just think of you
September Dec 2016
you are something akin to
a final shot of tequila on sunday night.
i wake up in the morning
push the covers off my body
and regret you.
September Feb 2013
They take a dip into desire
They take a dip into something
They never even knew existed.
September Nov 2015
when i sleep i sleep alone happily
because we never slept together to begin with
and i don't have your warmth to miss if i
have always lived under blankets and not arms
(but i know i would miss you if i'd had you)
this is about you.
September Nov 2014
there's no one true love—there's five of them
there's fifteen of them. there's zero,
and that's the hard thing to figure out—is if you only
love one person for four years, you could miss out on meeting the person you could have loved for forty. but you'll never know how long you'll last with a person until you've reach the end of the forty.
there's no one true love—there's only ever standards reached
only ever standards lived up to, only ever standards broken. new chances taken and old flames you wish you still had
(but only to light a cigarette with)
let's share a smoke after ***.
it's been months since we've spoken.
September May 2015
Sleep around like clouds
I cloud your mind
and
your mind is broken

***** will ruin your life
so be careful when you go to sleep
because we're sleeping together
and i will touch every part of your


mind
September Jan 2018
our transaction history:
pleasure between keyboard strokes,
stolen moments, momentary wave.


the absence of heat and the heat of absence:
hand between thighs, love between sheets,
every day is the first day of my life.
September Sep 2013
Fuzzy eyes to forget
who we are and
who we aren't with.
Because these definitely aren't our names
and somehow
it's helping.
We used to be real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4__q9CapVo
September Aug 2013
we see angels in forklifts fixing our powerlines but we never see the snake in the river handing out our medication. it's mediation that keeps us mellow.
monday's blues.
tuesday's yellows.
the sadness keeps us happy.
the sadness keeps us happy.
September Jan 2014
You can use blue words
to describe a grey canvas
but that does not make
it colorful.
poetic words doesn't make it okay.
September Feb 2013
I write about the world.
The world does not write about me.
The world does not write at all.

*The world spills ink.
We form it into letters
My pen broke apart while writing the third line of this poem, putting ******* puddles on the page. After my sister saw, she wrote the fourth line down, and I put down the fifth. I think it all played out perfectly, but I do miss the pen.
September Oct 2013
The switch is welcomed
with arms open
like a soldier's homecoming.


It's not love,
but it's
certainly not hate.
and it is exactly what i need right now.
September May 2013
I wish I could skin you of sadness
and offer you more than just
two arms
a shoulder
a heartbeat.
Title is possibly my favorite Arcade Fire song.
September Aug 2014
the father, the father, the creation—

the sin
the sun
the son
listening to some QOTSA and couldn't think of a title
September Apr 2013
Dilate my pupils, my love, my veins.
(I'm) In sane- In sanity.
Vanity of all around
Found a friendship in the faucet
Washed the powder down with bottled water


        stolen.

Let me hold this feeling
Until I can give it back to the sun
Wonder when the world will
wash away wishes with a whiteness

Wholeness
     Stolen.

Happiness.
     Swollen.

Uncontrolled.      Uninhibited.

Why won't the world let me
love the world    with my  madness
My - driasis.

Dilated so I can take essence in.

  Sin.

                         Stolen.
September Jun 2011
So many questions
    flood my head.
Do you know what I thought?
    Did you hear what I said?

When does the heart begin beating,
    and consciousness start?
When will the sun stop shining,
    and humanity fall apart?

Are there things in outer space,
besides the stars so bright?
What happens when a black hole
***** in all the light?

Is the world going to end
in my short lifetime?

    My short lifetime.
So many lives to impact.
So many things to do.
So many things to go through.

Too short.


I want to try everything.
    Know everything.
    Do everything.
    Be everything.

Can I pull off a ******?
Or be a famous Hollywood Actress?
Will I do drugs?
When all my family all dies,
Will I cry for them?

Am I just going to burn out like a star,
and work the average human life,
with no trouble or strife?

So many things for me to try.
    To taste.
    To see.
    To feel.
Will I accomplish it all before I die,
in my short lifetime?
So many lives to impact.
So many things to do.
So many things to continue.

Will humanity fall
in my short lifetime?
Will I ever learn it all?

Am I ever going to fall in-love?
Get called on by the Heavens above?

Heavens above.
Is there really a God up there?
Does our makeshift prophet really care?
About us? About the world? About one person?

Will I travel across the world,
to see it for it's glory and shine.
I want all the world's treasure's to be mine.
    All of them.

Will I find the perfect life,
    in this world?
Will I find the perfect man,
not too distant, not too needy?
I want all the world's riches.
I have to be greedy.

In my short lifetime,
will I commit a vicious crime?

My short lifetime.
So many lives to impact.
So many things to do.
So many things I wish I knew.
September Feb 2013
'Cause my skin writes just a little more raw than
rough fingertips.
September Feb 2017
my resolution,
a false dichotomy: brown
eyes, or purple walls.
September Jan 2014
"Nice guys finish last because they always let the girl finish first"
Taking that advice like a shot of fireball,
I still wish you would have
kissed me.
September Apr 2012
I am
plagued by this—
recurring dream?

And ghosts in the closet
They howl and moan
And make it hard
to stop the nightmare.
And make it hard
to fall asleep.
September Apr 2013
For the one-night stand I have never had and the
Future I'll gladly take like a powder
In a nine dollar drink
On the rocks.

Bartender.
September Dec 2014
You said your favorite weekend was *** and coke
I should have known then, what you meant
when you said you also only drank
hard bar straight
September Aug 2011
Thank you for your purchase.*

I recently bought a computer,
complete with:

Poorly labeled documents, (Untitled53.jpg).
Terms and conditions; a ten-second scroll-through, mind you.
Pre-accepted, pre-agreed.
A clutter of programs I (supposedly) need,
and a firewall,
to keep your virus
out of my heart.

Sadly, however,
this model lacks a *restart.
Blah, I don't know how tired I was when I wrote this.
September Jan 2016
Your words were so sweet—
I bet that when you lied through your teeth—
You got cavities.
September Apr 2014
dramatic sighs and erratic thighs
I picked up the phone and heard only static
you were heavens fanatic and you tried to reach it getting high

waiting for the rapture you become ecstatic
*"if
I'm an addict,
you're an addict."
September Sep 2013
I'll always

see
your eyes closed
like chapel doors.

feel
your hands on my hips.
never thought you'd
explore heaven so early

hear
you pray
to someone who, 'sure as hell
ain't God.
Didn't really want to post this out of respect
but goin' for it anyways.
Now
September Mar 2017
Now
Everything but the present is a fond memory.
to be determined
September Mar 2015
If I were your lover,
And you were across the seas—
I would swim my whole life
in the ocean's long breeze—
I would drown for your smile
Oh, regardless of degrees—
Just to love at your feet,
At your heels, at your knees.
happy birthday
September Apr 2013
Sorry    mother,
Haven't written much.

Too busy putting
    poetry and syllables
into overseas and livables.
September Feb 2014
.

In every here I've ever been,
I've wanted to be somewhere else.
Lately I haven't been finding happiness anywhere I know so I've been exploring.

Title is the album I'm listening to. The guy I'm seeing keeps showing me amazing albums.
September Feb 2013
is mathematics and you, an angle.
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