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Kacie Apr 2014
It had been a whole 16 hours,
Since their 2am fight.
She stood in the parking garage,
resting herself against the edge.
From behind her, the noise escalated:
heel to pavement, heel to pavement.
It grew louder and louder,
coming toward her,
but she didn’t turn to face it.
She stared straight,
and fixated her eyes on something, anything.
A blue light, off in the distance.
She kept staring and dared not to look;
she didn’t want to ruin the moment
of him reaching his arms around her waist
and resting his chin
in the empty space around her shoulders.
So she stared at the blue light,
And the footsteps grew closer
and closer,
and her body readied itself,
but they suddenly passed her up,
and she realized,
it wasn’t like all the other times.
He wasn’t coming this time.
and even though the space around her shoulders stayed empty,
the air suddenly became very heavy.
Marly Apr 2014
the rain outside sounds like paper being crumpled,
the winds similar to pages of a book being turned.
descending planes become the way one strums a guitar;
all of the strings vibrate loudly,
and sl o w l y l  o  s  e  t   h   e   i   r    v    o     i     c     e    s.
i hear the stars singing,
their lonely songs echo through the darkness that is space.
empty space,
full of distant planets,
lonesome, chorusing stars,
lost meteors,
and long forgotten space debris.
at last, the rain and winds have ceased.
silence.
i have never considered silence as an absence of noise,
because silence itself is something you hear.
i often hear silence as a siren.
someone, somewhere, somehow,
is asking for me,
begging for my help.
someone is wishing for their desperate pleas to be heard.
i hope they know that they are not alone.
sometimes i think about how divided people are.
but darling, this world is compressed in more ways than one.
the only things that divide us are thin plaster walls,
thousands of footsteps,
and clothing.
do not forget that.
called it flow because there is a flow between each subject and none of it made sense, buuuuut.
SG Holter Apr 2014
Body (recommended)
A certain grasp on time, space and the concept of kindness (pending)

Proper footwear, underwear and silverware (essential, recommended, no)
A cat on your lap of the kind that will always be kitten that sits in the window
And watches the world while you sleep just to -since it can't speak-
Never mutter a mjau about all that went by,
So you watch it at breakfast on SKY (surprisingly likely)
Notes (optional)
KRB Apr 2014
so this
                   is
it--
back   and
     forth so        effortlessly
words said so               clearly, taken
back           so quickly.
back to     pretending
that        
it's        not         hard
to read      between the lines
if           you       just           try
                          hard enough.
back to what I said before--
this
                  is
all
           there
is-- empty           spaces,  
meaningless
words.
this is for you, you *******.

— The End —