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Seye Kuyinu May 2014
Us,
Our love
was like
a fairy
tale

Very real
but untrue
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
This tastes like a bad dream
And its scent, the bitterness of the night.
I have watched me save myself from you
But these memories hold me tight
like skin holds these blood vessels
from spilling blood.
These memories call me like a curse
That looms an abattoir.

Dear, the adrenalin kept me standing
The fear of being wrong kept me coming
This magic, your magic kept me wanting
Wanting what you could never give.

So now, you take to the hills crying fowl.
You tell all that my garment smells foul.
You open up flesh and leave these open scars
You open up while I drop my cards.

This still tastes like a bad dream
And I wrap it under my sleeves
A souvenir for wounds we can't mend
My heart was once made of tissue
But now it textures dark leather
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
You see I lean on horizontal walls
And I see you wondering why.
You think I don't see your eyes
You think I don't see your fears.
Mine have taken over me
Isn't it an irony how a faith
That soars like a kite against the wind
Is mocked by a fear that feasts on me
Like cavity to clean white teeth

You see I lean on horizontal walls
And behind these eyes that glitter
Is what I have lost control of.
Even jesus has refused to visit.
Or that's what I think.

Whenever this wall is broken
When it chooses to stand upright
You'd be the one to teach me to walk
When I finally remove these gloves
It would be you I would learn to hold
When this black eye becomes beautiful
Won't it be you I will be seeing?

I see your heart tangled
Don't think mine is not
I left a note in your heart
One that only you can read
I left them with cryptic words
When tomorrow comes
And I have nothing to lean on but you,
Find this note.

It's the cause of this fallen wall.
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
You probably believe I think its a mistake
I just wanted to give you more space
I have wanted to speak to you in person
But when your words come trickling down
my spine like wax down a burning candle,
I can't help softening but I won't wait
I won't wait, till I have given you  more space

Its hard to find, there's no time to seek a heaven,
Where we can be be as happy as we want.
Sometimes I love you, other times I don't want you
Where do we separate these hearts from logic
Just like we always hated was distance, time and space
I am giving you back the space

So its over, yet you still sit in the dark
Counting all the cases of pity cursing yesterday.
We account for all the pain, all the lost songs.
All the stories you tell, don't they bring
You to your knees when you talk to your god
When you scratch the surface of my memories
Is this not what you wanted?
I'd rather give you this space

I swear I am not trying to make any trouble
I am trying to buy you some more time
To think of me, and to think of you
Look at the skies. They've been falling
Since we took back our last sweet words
See the stars have fallen since the last kiss
I promised you the galaxies and the stars
But now I'm giving you your space
It's interesting how we invite people into our lives because we want  them to occupy a space only for  parties to decide they need their  space
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
you see, i like you like a metaphor
like a metaphor
a metaphor
like a metal fur

this is not a pun
its not a pun
not a pun
this is not for fun

but you will not believe it
but i will always relive it

roasted feelings!
toasted meanings!
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
so we men
get up early
before others do
to clear the mess
other men
have left off from
our women.

so we men
claim innocent souls
opening doors
and pulling chairs
for tortured hearts we call
our women

so we men
having trained
our egos,mastered patience
overhear our neighbor
say this and that,
men are this and that
these same,
our women

so we mend
our women
This, for women who have through experience somehow distrust men.
Seye Kuyinu May 2014
your eyes, clear as day, cocoa brown.
your freckles pinned to your left face
like nut toppings of a generous ice cream sprinkle

you sit quietly making the obvious statement
that a lady needs to be engaged at this point.
you say nothing, waiting for the one with the right words
to make you let out a reserved laugh

but yet you are as untouchable as the cover girl
from any of those glossy magazines.
you brandish a ring on your finger like it was made
of blue diamonds from congo.

you are the sweet sweet taste of sin.
While waiting for a meeting, I saw this really pretty woman who seemed inviting. Found out she was married so this was a no go.
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