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Shane Carmichael Nov 2012
Stop.

Leave me in this misery.

Do not pull me out.

For my misery is my greatest accomplishment.

In my misery you rise above.

In my misery you succeed.

In your success is my demise.

But you, a rarity, creates all.

Can you create death, or does death create you?
Shane Carmichael Nov 2012
So many layers I must reveal
So many hats I must wear
So many faces I must present

You see some clearly
Others you have yet to even glance upon

Please do not mistake me for someone who gives up easily
Likewise do not mistake me for a fool

I have learned to separate what I want to be to you
And what I am to you
Shane Carmichael Oct 2012
FLASH
“Blame it on my ADD baby...”
My fingers graze from the brim of your jeans and drag from the crevice
between your upper thigh and stomach to your batman bellybutton ring and pull
your skin between your cleavage to the base of your neck while my teeth
drag along your bare chest, laid out before me.

FLASH
“Learn to take your **** with a big-*** smile...”
I’m shooing the dogs out so you can get ready for work and I can stand back
like I always to do take in every inch of you while I can.  The smoothness of your
flawless skin, your beautiful back that seems to greet me more often now, that
adorable smile, and most of all the eyes that made the world stop.  Well, mine hasn’t
started back since.

FLASH
“I’m half the man that you think that I have been...”
Driving.  More.  You’re telling me a story about this band that you like and
I listen like a little child because your stories, no matter the subject, always capture
my full attention.

FLASH
****, I need to get some sleep before I never sleep again, because I’m thinking
of everything I love about you.
Shane Carmichael Oct 2012
My thoughts float through this mystified air
It’s me not you, I solemnly swear.
Mismatched thoughts meet and greet
Your baby blues cause my heart to beat
Fingertips run through my mangled hair
Remind me that for someone so fair,

You’re extraordinary.
Shane Carmichael Sep 2012
I just want to stick my entire body in a bottle of water
Don’t drink me
Just let me be

Let me float in its paradoxical waves
I don’t like it out here anymore

I just want to go back to normal

If I ever was, normal.
Shane Carmichael Jul 2012
It’s simple... isn’t it?
The way it was supposed to be, right?
Following protocol and finishing orders.

Let’s break the rules.
Let’s be different.
Let’s stop living in everyone else’s eyes

and be us.

You catch on quickly, dear.  
Glad I found someone who likes to break the rules just as much as I do.
Shane Carmichael Jul 2012
Up, down.
Up, down.
Up, down.

The repetitive motion of you chopping up fruit and cheese was mesmerizing.
Not sure why, it just was.
I couldn’t help but sit there and stare at you.
Weird, right?
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