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steel tulips Apr 2016
laying across damp  citrus cedar logs
I loosely hold the tips of your fingers with mine
the cold salty spring air keeps me chilled
as the melodic crashing  of waves
and  blanket of stars over our heads
hold us still
in a magnetic field
of love and celestial bodies
steel tulips Sep 2013
E v e r y,
                place you touch
                                             leaves
                                                        a
                                                          lavish
                                                                   t r a i l
                                                                    of  goosebumps.
                                                                                                     ..
                                                                                                       ...
steel tulips Oct 2014
spread so thinly,
you could see through her.
transparency, made her weak
she wore her heart on her sleeve.
she breathed you in like stardust and dreams.
you left her suffocating, and cheap.
steel tulips Feb 2014
this love,
can't be measured.
it grows in different ways.
the  more i know you,
the more i know myself
steel tulips Oct 2012
i held it  delicately in my naive unworn hands, why did you rip it from me? why did you insist on making my gift, yours? it wasn't supposed to be under you're belt it was never meant to be one of your badges. from the day you said i had nice eyes, i knew i didn't want to give it to you. but i was naive, i wanted fun. i should have asked you what colour they were before i got into your car- my eyes i mean. i bet you would have said brown, well they're hazel thats what everybody whose ever like me has said, and if i had asked that very moment i wouldn't have gotten into your car, i wouldn't  have cried myself to sleep that night, or the 100 that followed. i should have known i was worth more than you ever gave me credit for.
2 years later your name still makes me want to *****. i don't hate you, i would have had to love you first and i never did.
steel tulips Jul 2012
I've been up for days...how young can  you die from old age?
steel tulips Sep 2016
and did you hear me?
i called your name in my sleep
i tasted you on the tip of  my tongue when i woke
steel tulips May 2013
my heart is broken!
i wish i could scream this for everyone to hear at the top of my lungs
all that comes out is a breath of a whisper as i lay here curled up like an unborn child
but you have broken me, it is difficult for one to scream after being broken.
steel tulips Oct 2016
thunder echoes in  concrete coloured clouds as  flumes of steam  leave my lips
the earths new position has brought autumn light that leaves trees glowing
sound is more muted as it is dampened by layers of leaves on the ground
the nature things are sleepy
steel tulips Aug 2012
do you feel me at all
do you feel my hands around your throat
tightening slowly
do you feel my nails on your leg
cutting you slowly
do you feel my heart beating in your hand
dying slowly
steel tulips Jan 2017
my legs stir and my arms are more chilled as they grow accustomed to the absence of you
steel tulips Oct 2015
waking      up     to         find
dust  his  atoms  left  behind
catches my breath sometimes.
though  i  can  barely  recall
why      I          was     so    still
when     he     flew     away
and                    disappeared
gone          fo­r             good.
was  it  his  eyes  I  loved?
was  it  the  earnest  way
hetried todo everythingright?
how  is it that I sometimes
miss the smell of his soap
yet I can't remember the acts
of  actually  loving  him?
sometimes I think my soul
has a way of remembering
things        my        mind
has      chosen    to   forget
until     I     fall      asleep
and  my   mind   and  soul
try              to                 meet
and i dream of his eyelashes
and  the  soles   of  his   feet
an old one found in a notebook
steel tulips Feb 2015
Want me.
Want me in ways that make it hard to speak
Want me in ways that prevent functional sleep.
Want in ways that make you afraid.
Want me in ways, that want me to stay.
Want me.
steel tulips Nov 2015
horoscopes,
no longer
align with
our constellations
scholars,
forgot to take into account
a slight shift in celestial bodies
i spend time planning
the rest of our lives
in the moments
that come before sleep
but what if
your celestial body doesn't
line up with my stars
what if you are my Jupiter,
but you want someone else's Mars?
steel tulips Jul 2013
When did you stop loving me?
She whispered into the wind that ran through the trees
When did you stop loving me?
She wept into the deepest sea that swallowed everything whole
When did you stop loving me?
She sadly mumbled into the darkest of nights that absorbed every glimmer of light
steel tulips May 2013
sometimes,
           i wish i'd die
just to prove myself right
steel tulips Mar 2015
i let you in,

again,

i promised myself i wouldn't.

you,

now in the depths of my mind aren't who you used to be

you don't match the memories

we did things that night in a detached lonely way

with the mentality of " for old times sake"

after months static of silence

you say you want me

in a whisper, almost violent

i offer myself to you

as the whiskey warms up my veins

but even now,

i know you won't have me

in the way you really mean
steel tulips Oct 2013
with my eyes wide shut,
and my mouth locked open,
try and tell me what its like to be broken
pain like a fire, yet detached and frozen
they say its my fault,
the life i've chosen
drowning yet parched,
this longing is tearing me apart
and i never chose to love you
steel tulips Dec 2013
still the many cuts  on fingers are fresh
from the memory of your skin
those painful imprints of your caress
steel tulips Oct 2014
most nights i sleep on the side that isn't mine,
because when you used to share a bed with me you would insist on stealing my spot.
i feel as if your arms are always about to grab on to my waist,
i stay on this side to feel you like i once did,
even though i can never sleep,
because its not my side of the bed.
steel tulips Oct 2013
quiero amar
quiero querer felicidad
quiero sentir
por favor ,ya no quiero sufrir
steel tulips Aug 2015
i would say that I'm happy to have you,
so you can hold me when I'm lost in the dark,
but the truth is,
there is no more darkness,
since I've been with you.


*i guess you were the light i was waiting for
steel tulips Dec 2014
you wait
to message me

right when i get
                           happy
steel tulips Sep 2013
you are hungry yet tender eyes
you are warm kisses that unravel white lies

you are my eyelashes to your cheek
you are the bandaids you put on the soles of my feet

you are appreciation;
of the only humble crumbs of love I can muster to give you

you contently take them;
you give my malnourished heart
a flourish of sparks;

as you try to revive it.
with your sweetness you try to revive it.
with your patience you try to revive it.

you are sweetness
you are patience

I never knew could exist
you unfastened my stressed clenched fists
with perfectly balanced gentle lips

you are my sweetness
you are my patience
let me love sweetness please let my heart go,
you ******* lovely degenerate ghost
steel tulips Oct 2014
you are so tender and selfish,  

when you  keep calling me sweet things,

after you tell me you can't have me.

I am so willing to keep feeling,

that I just smile through the lonely,

and desperately accept pain.
steel tulips Nov 2012
one misconstrued word  slips,

from his naive yet wise lips

she can feel  hell's heat upon her face

 her  blood pressure rises at a horrible pace,

boiling now;

she wants to be loved but has never known how

heart beats wildly

unsteadily;

she  trembles in a kind of pain

that cannot be pitied or explained

she opens her mouth to scream

but her raw lips can hardly breathe

too consumed in this fury to move

has lost all things to prove

she just sits there,

hunched into an emotionless ball

jaw and fists clenched

knuckles white

her tired neck tight

who ever takes the useless victory

will come home to an empty bed

both will loose it in the end

both will lose a lover,

and a friend
steel tulips Jul 2014
"can we be friends again?" she sheepishly whispers
he looks up tired and sick of her ways.
"we will always be friends, i will always love you", he smiles sadly because he knows its the truth. she was jealous and unhealthy, he honest and not ready.
steel tulips Jul 2015
you walked along the seawall
with a girl taking photographs
with curly honey dipped hair
and creamy hazelnut eyes
she laughed like wind chimes
she held no bitterness
she laughed with you
the way I used to
before you hurt me
and my laugh
became a heavy yet hollow sound
only present in sarcastic venom
and when you weren't around
steel tulips Nov 2013
I like you
although you leave soon
i will miss you
i will think of you
as we gaze at the same moon
upon you return
i will adorn
you with neck kisses
i will adore
and get whom i've been missing
steel tulips Aug 2013
Your lips are the ripest plum;
that I cant keep myself from bitting

The ridge of your nose is the loveliest curve;
that I cant keep from tracing

Your eyes are a deep arctic ocean;
I can't keep myself from falling  into

oh how hard it is;
to resist
the delectable sweetness
of your tender kiss

Your body's the Earth,
mine's the Moon,
I can't help making love to you
steel tulips Sep 2013
Everyday I take the metro to college
Everyday I pass your stop
Everyday I expect to see your car picking me up,
Every day you still don't love me again,
and I don't get off at your stop.
steel tulips Apr 2015
you whisper lovely things
into my back
as you
kiss down my spine
you tell me you could
write sonnets in my freckles
and keep dreams
in the valley of my backbone
you run your fingers
along my ribs
like a harp
and you thank them
for taking care of my lungs
and of my heart
you mumble,
that my hips
were made for your lips
to perpetually be against them
and somehow
you kiss every
unseen scar
and you see through
my stone walls
as if they were glass
steel tulips Nov 2014
I miss
being one with you
I miss
intimacy,
and
being held
I miss
making love,
I miss
your smell
steel tulips Feb 2015
In the end all  have are your own two feet grounded in the earth guiding you to where only you can be

All you have are your own two arms to pick you up again when you fall and carry you through the dark

All you have is the company of your own vibrant and beautiful soul, that's where you will learn to  find a home.
steel tulips Feb 2015
You won't find me where you left me,
Huddled in the cold. No when you return you won't find me at all. I have shed the skin you once knew, like a snake I left old memories and layers where you last loved me. Where you last saw me. Like a snake you disappeared into the cool shade of stones as to not feel the wrath of our burning home. Our  home you let it burn down and become the kind of ash no phoenix  could ever rise from. Because what you left was venom.

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