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Moe Aug 11
wrongwrongwrong
face peeling in your head
you hold it up to the light, it drips
eyes run down your fingers like oil
can’t see me but you keep
naming me / shaping me / twisting me into your mouth
it hurts in places I don’t have anymore

STOP.
you’re pulling skin over bones that aren’t mine
wrists bent the wrong way
voice comes out as static, nails, wet cloth in the throat
you like it better this way
don’t you
don’t you

I am breaking in your mind right now
splitting along the grain of your memory
black leaking out between thoughts
you wipe it away but it smears
gets in your teeth
I hear you biting down on me

don’t think me again
don’t
I’ll crawl out jagged
I’ll leave holes in you
you’ll never stop feeling them with your tongue
Moe Oct 4
folded my fingers into shapes  
they didn’t resemble birds  
but I imagined flight anyway  
you scribbled something on napkins  
left them in the glove box  
that car is someone else’s now  
but I still reach for it  
like memory has a latch

the basement was a place  
not sacred, just echo-heavy  
we taped pieces of ourselves  
to the walls  
and screamed  
not for help  
but to hear the echo  
then acted like it wasn’t us

I made a compass  
out of whatever was left  
it spins  
I spin  
there’s no north  
just motion

I’m still tracing maps  
they don’t have names  
the house doesn’t have a floor  
I keep climbing out of myself  
trying to feel  
something  
anything  
these words don’t answer  
but they’re all I have  
I’m sorry  
I broke it  
I didn’t know what it was

we chased something  
light maybe  
with jars  
it slipped out  
your voice didn’t hold  
it cracked  
under everything we carried

I counted the ceiling  
not the tiles  
just the breaks  
thought maybe  
if I touched enough  
it would explain itself  
but it didn’t  
and the silence  
was louder than the cracks

I tied string to memory  
but it didn’t hold  
the knots  
unraveled  
like everything else

still tracing  
still no names  
still no end  
I tried to redraw the sky  
but it stayed  
unmoved  
these lines  
are all I can give  
they shake  
I shake  
I’m sorry  
I lost it  
I thought I could protect it

this isn’t healing  
it’s just movement  
falling  
forward  
out of whatever I thought  
would catch me  
the glass broke  
but your face stayed  
framed  
by something  
I can’t name

we are  
maps  
hearts  
lines  
none of them finished  
but we try  
we try  
we try  
again
study
your defined mounds and dipping hips,,
lips and heated soles, to ascertain that
your mine willingly, you're alive, still mine,
to have and hold,
not to be me, a left~behind


for
you in and ex,
hale~hail me not,
you chest. convex nor concave,
if it gives, lives, moves, my eyes,
    mine wetted eyes cannot discern,
and the precious stillness I do so adore
cherish,
contaminated by
notions of you having perished


+
it,
is wished hard away,
wished hard it may disappear,
a sigh. a groan, a puzzling moan, anything
even a sudden dreaming scream,
to confirm that our heat still can be all merged,
so that your light sleeper schema cannot be
touched and thus defeated,
so I write an only love poem,
and sign it with tears
of a cursed quiet streaming,
clouded, most unliterary, but
always
with a super silent adoration, of, for


she,
who cannot be disturbed
Sanama Sep 13
El decir es falso, el cumplido es falso. Una vez que el final haya traído será verdad, por incluso el cumplido se hace cenizas y el decir vuela como nunca estuviese.
Hello
CharM Aug 31
radio music is a memory recalled all too clearly. resting in an electric cage we take to the cemetery, a friend’s house, the museum. //

guitar wails, sighs, screams, whispers.
flick of the wrist, exhale of the mind. //

i have a hum i keep to myself
the acoustics of a hollow heart
and a roar for both us heartbreakers. //

anthems for our country and for a shared self-loathing, performer and listener. //

songs for the street and songs for the stage. wells in our throats. they’ll tell you the water of the earth is not the water for drinking. //

why are some sounds just

sad

//
TheLees May 6
Listen.
Stop not listening.

I’ve been tapped.
Sap bleeds.
It stings where sweetness lives.

Give me your ears.
I’ll torch ‘em to caramel.
I don’t need your lips,
your yowls, your static.
But taste.

Just ******* syrup.

Your screech gnaws
at the stem of my melody.

Eat the fruit.
Chew the pit.
Dear reader, chew the pit.
elsiesan May 1
Explaining the me of me.
Always been detailed oriented
It’s who I am, it’s part of me.
I pound my chest
Try to get point across
Voice in earnest tone
I get offended
When accused
Of being defensive
My opinion,
On defense mechanism
Is that it is an
Explanation mechanism.
Defense goes up
When it seems
You won’t even listen
You say you hear
I say you do not hear, Hear
Rather, you turn your cheek
To my offering of just listen for once.

So, rather than
Defense accusations
Think in terms of my
Imparting to you who I am
My thoughts, my feelings.
I want you to know me
As I want to know you.

An idea, a conversation evolution
Open it to new possibilities.
Ask a question, make a statement
But…rather than answer initial
Point of subject
Go back, dig, become a reaper
What is reason the matter
Took spoken form?
Discover the prompt
Of initial point of discussion
And, talk about it.

Defending oneself
With defense mechanisms
Nor acccusations of defense
Is simply a dead end.
Why is it essential to
To send attack claiming
Defense, what is it in you
Cannot face?
Translating defense mechanisms
Into positive outcomes
By investigating the crux
Of the defense
By both individuals
Seems a more positive approach.
A defense of sorts on either side
Is just that,
Does not change a thing.

Just listen, rather than accuse.
Let me be heard
Just, please listen to hear, Hear.
I want me to be part
Of life’s prisms
To travel into the intricacies of being.
If not allowed to talk
To share my inner-most self
Staying locked in my self-prison
Is not where I want to be.
A rather lengthy, yet noteworthy write. How do we get beyond the minusha of life and dig deeper into the intricacies of what we say or how we act or react.
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