Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Marie Jun 2014
I latched onto you
because in the storm and chaos
that I was going through
you were
the calm
the quiet
the stability
that I thought
I needed

That was why
it was so hard
for me
to
let you go

Because it meant I had to face everything
head on
without you
to hold on to
and
keep me from
drowning
Austin Heath Apr 2014
I don’t think history is romantic.

I’m “American”; this means I’m unburdened

with having to be nationalistic or patriotic.

Don’t have to be prideful about hundreds of

years of ******* and mythology.

It means I might hate Bukowski,

but I find him way less repulsive

than Shakespeare. I had to stab a

pathetic sense of “spirituality”

[religion?] in a public place with prejudice,

to truly gain a sense of enlightenment in

pure hopelessness. Something like that.

I might be deaf to some other culture,

but I’m hearing megaphones in America.

— The End —