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#asphyxiation
I’m underwater Im all turned around I can’t tell what’s up And I can’t tell what’s down Is down where the air is? Is it left, is it right? If I knew the way to it Would I even return to the light? So my body just tumbles Over and over itself My lungs are bursting I have to breathe I take a guess And start to flail Too late though I open my mouth And all goes black I float to the surface They all point and say Look how close they were! If only they’d tried!
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Mar 26
Mar 26, 2026 at 5:27 AM UTC
Breathless
Sharp and dangerous. That's what you think when you hear about them. "They'll **** you quicker than you could blink" "You'll hear the soft ****** of charms, spurs, and then it's over" "The gunslinger- now he's straight from hell, no one could out draw that man, no matter what gun you have" "I've always heard you had to watch the swordsman, he's like a ghost, never know where he'll be" Now, I knew next to nothing about them. Everyone they visited usually ended up dead. Hard to confirm. Standing here and looking at them though... These soft men, all smiles, joking, relaxed. I don't know about the stories but they're sharp and dangerous alright, etching their mark on my heart. They aren't known for asphyxiation, but they sure stole my breath.
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May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 2:48 PM UTC
Soft
You've got my eyes. Captured my heart. As if a love deity chose you for me. You always lie. But I cover it up. You always cry. But I cover it up. Your lips drip red with all the things you spew. You've got my eyes. Captured my heart. As if all the stars in the sky pointed to you. You always hide. But I cover it up. You're always blind. But I cover it up. Lungs filled to the brim with lies. You've got my eyes. Captured my heart. My entire being is owned by you. You always lie. But I cover it up. You always cry. But I cover it up. Choking on your lies, burning from the inside.
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Jan 28, 2018
Jan 28, 2018 at 3:27 AM UTC
asphyxia.
choke me, you gasp in the blinding heat of your embrace his movements falter but return with more vigour, as if such a thing was possible you guide his hands to your neck as if guiding a child lost in his path; and yes, maybe you both are still children trying to find ways to survive in each other his nails dig into your pulse, into your airways and never have you been more intimate he is inside you, wholly, completely within the cages of your ribs and your lungs try to gasp for air but it really doesn't change anything much (you've been breathless around him for quite awhile, after all) you still seek for his lips, his tongue in your mouth; you want to **** everything from him into you until you both become too entangled and neither of you could be distinguished from the other
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Jul 22, 2017
Jul 22, 2017 at 1:12 PM UTC
and more
Breathe, Just breathe, All you gotta do is breathe, Come on breathe ... The nerve of the butterfly that took my last breath, The nerve of our affection to be the cause of death, The nerve that I'll be left 6 under, The nerve of my heart; in an enteral slumber, Breathe, Just breathe, All you gotta do is breathe, It's my Loves Asphyxiation, When my eyes plant on you, There is no shaking, When my lips meet yours, There is no faking, The ****** of your him to my her, It's in the love we make ... Breathe, Just breathe, It's my Loves Asphyxiation, Chemistry on another, Level, I feel the levels changing, The air in my body is scarce, I can't breathe when you're not around, My hearts asthma is affected by you, The way you make me do the things I do ... It's My Loves Asphyxiation Breathe, Just breathe, All you gotta do is breathe, Come on breathe ... She's gone and he's not attending any funerals....
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Mar 13, 2016
Mar 13, 2016 at 6:16 PM UTC
Asphyxiation
Building contrasts between the holes shaped by fists through wall cracks to finger holes in my knitted jumper- I feel hole-punched by layers and sediments, each blend of fibre becomes microscopic to a solid form, or a strangled kite: Do you know how a kite flies without breath? It makes sail in the earth, depths in oceans, drowns in vacuums.
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 3:20 AM UTC
Asphyxiation
We fell together like we had no other choice. We fell like two body bags in the back of an ambulance. And suddenly you were killing me, a razor to the femoral artery in a bathtub. My own shirt wrapped around my diaphragm, your laughter made louder by lack of oxygen to my brain. And there was nothing else. My wold turned black and gray because of you. When I was a real girl, back before I ever met you, I would pray to god for a cleansing rain to wash me of my sins so that I didn’t burn if I stepped foot in his home. It has rained 729 times since then and I am still stepping on hot coals.
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 4:03 PM UTC
****** Suicide
Ribbons or rope or laces that loop while embracing your waist and encroaching your throat. Ribbons or rope, no difference I hope, for the use of helping me force you to choke "Ribbons or rope?": in a whisper you spoke, as the air you gasped tasted of broken glass. So turn blue for me now, as blue as I've been for you. So lovely to choose between ribbons or rope.
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Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM UTC
Tough to Swallow
If you break us our jagged edges will cut and sink into your skin like shards of righteousness But abide by us we’ll protect you hold you in our arms lay warm hands along your neck and squeeze
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 2:39 PM UTC
Rules
I wish I could give you this beautiful pain    Its captivating to endure         To watch it unfold inch by unbeatable inch             Its long                  Makes you hard and callous And makes you grovel in gravel begging for the end      And it becomes a road           A winding, twisting road that wraps around your throat       A gorgeous asphyxiation blurs the smiles of the passengers in the cars on the asphalt                 And you blur into unreality          The road ends    The film in your head stops And your left sitting unblinkingly...
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 3:49 PM UTC
Beautiful Gorgeous Asphyxiation Pain
How about I I throw you into A room with Dust and chemicals You won't be able to Breath Through that Asphyxiation
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 7:07 PM UTC
Hmm...