Adriana Makenna

Adriana Makenna Mar 2022

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There are no real maps
There are none that are true
You lay the sphere of our bellies down flat
And you face a conundrum of view

So why do we learn they are certain
And why don’t we follow or nose
And how did the sailors of ancient
Find their ways to and back home

Mind map, Google maps, star map
Infinite things trapped in lines
Like drawing a circle round an ant
A taunt from wasted time

#maps #confused #futility

Adriana Makenna Mar 2021

Five more minutes

But
if I go to sleep
I’ll miss out on all of
the nothing.

Like how I forgot to ask
Mel how her day was back.
After she asked me so kindly,
in the shrouded space of a
blacked-out gallery.

You know,
the important stuff.

Restless minds for pretty girls.

#anxiety #restless #overthinking #sleepless

Adriana Makenna Mar 2021

Who talks like that

The night washing over our heaving, fleshy carcasses. Like two crayfish in a current.

So you are telling me.
We ****** in a whirlpool of sound. In a dilapidated guest room.

There. Moaning into you with my eyes, I ravenously endowed our fevers.
And you make it into pretty words.
Prettier than I could ever polish my sprawling lobster legs into sounding.

Who talks like that.

A poet’s muse does it seems.

#disbelief #romance #pretty #words #denial

Adriana Makenna Feb 2021

Closure

Did I taste
like Her
or
did She
taste like
the
old Me?

I don't which one would hurt less.

#cheating #closure #relationship

Adriana Makenna Feb 2021

Stay

She slips out of bed to make
The worlds biggest coffee
And pin him there on the thin
Cushion she bought for his
Part-time big sigh head

Adriana Makenna Feb 2021

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i want to cry so badly that
i want to cry
that i want to cry

you overwhelm me.

i want to cry so badly
but my ducts are dry
the tears well inside

i'll drown intern a l l y

#cry #happiness #overwhelm

Adriana Makenna Feb 2021

Provenance

Amongst many to feel
you sleep in your angry
curled-up ball.
To soften your eyes.

Where have you been
my love?
What can you know?
When did this seed of
you now, find itself home?

Why could I dream of you
before you laid here?
To know some parts of you
fills me with fear.

And dread.
I’ll have to confess my
earth-prints too.

And they aren't always clean.

#fear #pasts #jealousy #love