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The boards creak and moan
from time and poor carpentry
The nails gripped by aged wood
have become crust collected and
shrunken to form

The bare walls once displayed
the smiling faces
of past eons but now
there are only the faded remnants
of square foundations
of lives that once
hung on the wall

The stairs complain
like an old man
from unsubstantiated fears
The second floor
seems solid only responding
to the remarks of my shoes

The old bedroom
once the center of attraction
overlooks the buckled sidewalks
and **** infested yards
of a street that now has no cars
or people passing by

I stand in silence for the moment
and the moment stands silent for me
And for that moment
I lay in time's eternal graveyard
in hopes of reviving dead dreams
 Jun 2016 surpratik
Sir Loin
Are you really so blind
That my love for you is a mere crack within the atmosphere of a million galixies
Have you not felt me watch you as sleep
Count your every breathe until the very minute you wake up
Memorize every crease and crevice your body holds
Count every step as you walk away from me
Account everything you ever said or wore
Are you really so blind
My soul drowns in agonizing despair
Head full of dread
Please understand
You are my every thought
Even when my mind isn't working
Every night my subconscious produces vibrant colored memories and recollections of every kiss
Every word
Every stare
Every feeling
From the beginning
Are you really so blind That you dont see me lingering at the very thought of you not believing me
Love
 Jun 2016 surpratik
Rapunzoll
i raised her
with a violent birth
my vocal cords tangled
like a drunk couple
making love
with her name.

she emerged from
the slit in men's throats,
a grown woman,
her sister followed,
from suffocated coughs,
glowing like streetlamps
from mouth to mouth,
never happy,
never settled.

girls like her,
they don't enter this
world easy,
they leave it in a mess,
exit it like a highway,
move on to the
next place.

there's a stain they
always leave,
yellow on the teeth,
marks on bed-sheets,
empty rings on
bedsides with last
nights drink
gone cold just like
their feelings.

just a girl they say,
harmless,
girls have endless love
in their hearts,
and endless hate.
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 May 2016 surpratik
Rapunzoll
he only thinks you're
pretty when you cry
when the aching
vulnerabilities sting
like red welts along
cheeks that are
white as teeth
only then are you pretty,
when the red blood
tears fall like soldiers in
the war of peace and
he kisses the place the
bullet exits
he promises he will
still love you as the lion
that murders the lamb
when the sky bleeds,
crimson echoes down
mountains of death
his viper hands
snake round your
hips and you just
don't mind, you just
don't mind anymore
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 May 2016 surpratik
Rapunzoll
i know you're searching
for a savior
but you're just another
ship captain and i'm
just another lighthouse
flashing you towards
the rocks
attention only makes
me more distant
at night i suffocate dreams
of you with a pillow
until i lie beside the
cadaver of our love
wrap it's cold,
dead hands
around my neck
like a scarf in
this winter hell
last i checked the
weather report
promised no sun
a god told me  
i'll sleep like the dead
when i live
like them too.
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"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?" - Other voices, Other rooms
 May 2016 surpratik
Mahdiya Patel
You seem to leave scars on the inside of my flesh , they cut from the inside out , not the other way around .
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