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We speak to put the world to rights,
We speak to make it clear.
We speak to read our thoughts aloud,
We speak to tell our fears.

We speak when we are spoken to,
We speak to be forgiven.
But if we could no longer speak,
Then we would have to listen.
© Edward R. D. Hillier, 2010.
I really did believe back then that fairy's took my teeth
I'd carefully lift my pillow and slip them underneath.

I really did believe back then that sleighs and deers could fly
And once a year on Christmas eve old Santa crossed the sky.

And then my favourite fairytale began one August night
A true life Prince or so you seemed came after his Snow White.

My life was in a state of shock
But with your kiss I woke
I soon believed your words of love and every word you spoke.

But cheating minds can lurk beneath a pair of loving eyes.
If only I had learnt back then
That fairytales were lies.
You know how i feel
when i look into your eyes?
No, you dont.
Because I've never told you.
Although, if i did,
I dont think words could
describe...
but I'll try-

Adrenaline ******
Pouring fire
into my heart
slamming my viens
over and over
my fingers tingle
my chest contracts
it seems
you pull the air
out of me.
Those unbelieveable
brown eyes
just one look
forever burned.
You are what i want.
What i am fighting for,
to keep you,
to love you,
to hold you,
begging you to stay.
Im searching for
your answer
and in that
one second,
when our eyes lock,
I cant breathe.
But i can feel the smile
tugging my mouth
upwards.
And that's all i need
to know.

You...
you make me
melt.
Please, before you
leave,
look back at me
so i can at least
glimpse
what once was
and what, for me,
forever will
be.
Copyright Melissa Taylor 2010
In the crisp morning air I breath deep and stand at the bridge looking out to the sea.
The rocks will never mean the same thing and the sand will never again belong to me.
Light from the sun rises but it will never be like the dawn before.
No one is here but me and the wind seeps through my jacket and into my bones.
I remember when I sat waiting for her to awake and the times we all sat and waited for nothing,
but now I wait for the past as the future brings me the present.
Yet, nothing can compare to what has already been shared and because of that I sit and think of how I long for yesterday.
I wasted so much,
Reviving a wilted flower,
I lost myself,
My confidence,
Now, I possess no power.
Beauty has succumbed,
To a thousand tortured hours,
My zest for life is numbed,
As my heart,
It cowers.

This solitude
Takes me nowhere,
An emptiness,
That leaves me bare.
Lost and lonely,
My devils gorge
Upon one another,
Strip my smile,
Force me under covers.

I am both slave
And master,
Eternally within myself,
I sit calm,
Watch as I rot,
Shed a lonesome tear
For my health,
For what I've felt,
For every desire
That is not.

I pause for thought,
What an insignificant war,
To have fought.
The carpet squishes between my toes.
Your shirt is smooth against my skin as I pace.
The sheets are in a tangle around your legs,
Your hair is a mess of curls on the pillow.
I stand, facing the window with the coffee in my hands.
The sunlight streams through the greenery & glass,
Illuminating the magic still lingering.
It's a lasting state of disbelief.
I see the reflection of your olive skin,
Feel your lips upon my cheek.
I wonder what it's like to love you.
To wake up every morning bathed in sunshine,
Drenched in the aroma of coffee, roses, us.
To be a pile of skin, smiles, and Egyptian cotton.
To be loved by someone like you.
 Apr 2011 Snow Child
Molly Brier
~
Elvis Wolverine Trahan Tkz! Tkz!
was accidentally released into the wild
and it has been stormy most days since
and so my heart howls
i saw him once sitting on top of the fence
tufts of hair blowing in the wind, but
he ran from when i ran to and
it's not that i expect him to want to come back
i know he's gone
i just wasn't ready to release him yet
i was going to let him get a little older and build him a little house
and do it slowly
when it was warm
and we would of played in the grass until he was ready to go to sleep in his little house
and we would have worn daisies and dandelions in our hair
but he's gone and my heart howls
i dream of storms
i dream of him large like a cat
winding through my arms
and touching my nose
with his
~
 Apr 2011 Snow Child
Charlie Sea
Fall in love with me if you can. Fall in love with me. You can love me. You can love. You can with me. If you love me. Fall with me. Love me. Love.

It was all I wanted, yours if you wanted
But over time we all seem to forget things…

Fell out of love with me, you did what I thought you couldn’t. Fell out of love with me. You couldn’t love me. You couldn’t love. You couldn’t with me. You did love me. Fell with me. You did. Love
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