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Sharks have to move to breathe
Sometimes I feel as though I am the same
If I stop moving I will suffocate
Relaxation feels like a pillow smothering my face

If I stop running they will catch me
All the pain I’ve spilt
My shame
My guilt

All combined into a lurking monster
Chasing me through the forest
I want to pause
But I can feel the monsters claws

My lungs start to ache
The tears stream down my face
I cannot brake
I cannot lose this race
My heart was unoccupied
My soul long since died
I thought I would always feel bare
Until you were there

Your hand in mine
The feeling is simply sublime
Your touch covers my face
As all of my problems erase

Your eyes are the most beautiful things I have seen
This love I had not foreseen
My dear, you are all that I crave
I will love you until we are in the grave
The person I wrote this poem for is no longer my partner. However, I still like this poem, so I am publishing it.
Peter Balkus Jul 23
I feel like a failure,
when I compare myself to people
who already died.
Ander Stone Jul 23
eyes of rumbling fire
when she looks at me
with that burning desire
I walk the distance
and bathe in flames for a while.

lips of thundering waterfalls
when she beckons to me
with those Parthenopean calls
I swim the distance
and dance in waves for a while.

the way she claims me
and gives herself to me

skin of icy winds and hailstorm
when I look at her
with a thirst to take in her form
she glides the distance
and I drink her in for a while.

hair of dark shadow and stone
when I talk to her
with trembling voice and tone
she strides the distance
and I steady myself for a while.

the way she claims me
and gives herself to me

hands of red and teeth of white
when she kisses me
with a hunger so full of spite
she cuts the distance
and I give myself for a while.

cries of pain and howls of delight
when I kiss her
with an ordinary, yet ravaging bite
I cleave the distance
and she becomes ravished for a while.

the way she claims me
and gives herself to me
leaves no room for the scavengers
My eyes stare at words
like vege and meat
on a cutting board,
cutting each to meaning
                               sound
                            meter,
sentences and syllables,
my OCD mind refuses to stop
revving the gas pedal
on my 1991 Buick LaSabre
before doing donuts in the parking lot
of a shut down K-Mart.
Regrettably, I’ve never actually done donuts in a car. I have been in a car when someone made the choice…15ish years ago.
I have been alive long enough to know places that have gone out of business. RadioShack, K-Mart—and the first one—Hollywood Video. There are others I’m not even thinking about, I know, but I used to love Hollywood Video as a kid.
Hey you,

You started off as someone
fun

As someone who could turn
the light of sun

packed inside this bowl of
Hope

And you'd string,
yes...

You'd string me along.

Hey you, again.

Just different form.

You look like someone who'd share that bone
With me

Who'd look at me and see the stars

But you only saw a mirror to your
false ideals

You narcissist who only thought
Of you and only you
alone

With all those chats, you never did
you never asked:
Who I was and why I was born

---

Oh!

Hey you...

You looked different?

You feel a little in between

You're like those other two (or three)

before...

But you still hold some scars
you tore
your heart ligaments
and you'll bring it back

But I can't be here
As you try to tie

it,

zip it,

lock it and unlock it

for the love I can

give
is so much more
Than you ever deserve

NOW or before

So, yes, I missed you dearly
Missed you last night.

Even whispered:
'What if I said it was
you... it was you I was
thinking of?'

Would you...

Drop your walls and let me in
Take me for what I can bring
And know that I will not be
Your remedy


Because I, too

am looking

for someone to bring that torch
for me.



So, I walked away and said adieu
Stopped looking, really



and in the not so far away tune

Someone called me


As I stand at that corner
Giddily getting my coffee


The voice was gentle
Even familiar

It felt like
HOME



And I knew...

I just knew.



Especially when he called me out and said,



"Hey, you!"
JAMIL HUSSAIN Jul 23
We are connected not by fate or chain,
But by the fire that runs through joy and pain.

When I dissolve, thy breath shall still remain,
Calling my name in air, in mist, in rain—

And from that breath, the world shall rise anew:
A flame from ashes, and the skies from dew.
Breath Into Being 23/07/2025 © All Rights Reserved by Jamil Hussain
Olive Jul 23
In the light of thy moon eyes,
thy heart screamed the depths of oceans,
while your tongue turned to stone,
bleeding words.
Olive—
Zywa Jul 23
When your life is tough,

you do need a tough language:


poetic language.
Autobiography "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" (2011, Jeanette Winterson; normal means: heterosexual), chapter 4, The Trouble With A Book . . .

Collection "Inwardings"
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