#redlight
Everything in me says "RUN"
but the world holds up a hand
tells me to wait,
to breathe,
to stay exactly where I am.
And I hate it.
Not because I don't understand,
but because stopping
means thinking..
Means hearing every though
I've tired to "outrun"
every feeling
I buried under movement.
The red light glows
like it knows something I don't..
So I sit here
engine quite now,
heart louder than ever,
wondering
If this pause is protection
or punishment.
–––xx10m
Apr 29
Apr 29, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
Tonight, I dreamed of killing someone
While lying, awake, in my bed.
I grabbed at his neck,
And bruised up his flesh-
My hands shook, as I wanted him dead.
I tore at his eyes,
I called out his lies,
And now here I am breaking lead.
I bit at his wrists,
As his hands turned to fists
From the anger his body was fed.
Tonight, I dreamed of killing someone
Who failed his attempt at controlling me.
So I picked up this book,
And the red lights I took,
And stopped the shaking with poetry.
Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024 at 3:23 PM UTC
You always scoop me up with a smile and a wink.
I can't help the smirk that comes in sync,
You open your broken door to let me in
You're straight out of work and you still hold the scent
of the day on you, and we're spent but still I stay on you.
And I don't need to know, but I'll ask "How was it?"
while you're driving through our cities,
for you, I wasn't just a way, I knew.
I stare at the green patches and the spills of blue,
we listen to the radio and I listen to you,
lips glisten as grass and morning dew,
tongues run along them fast, and we have a clue,
and we glance way up ahead, as the cars come to a slow
you lean over and press them to me, under the red glow
You've a hunger and my lips abundant-
a feast, for plunder, and it's no wonder
under the disguise of your caddy sedan,
you're the man whom I call daddy,
a ***** man with a solid plan
and we'll drive by some thirty friends,
and park down and around the bend,
and scramble in through your basement door
even though it's no secret anymore
We'll say hello to your mother,
pretty sure she knows I'm your lover-
and though I hide the shame
cause I don't wanna be lame
My name in your parted mouth
And you in mine, hard down south,
makes for an even better night
than kissing at all of the red lights.
Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 10:10 PM UTC
in a world where
you stole
the end days
of my life
and sold it back to me
for half my whole...
faith is a business
for the opportunist
and hope for the
luxurious-----
----my world----
only a room
and a stage wide
dying every morning
and revived every night
pole
after
pole
after
pole
after
pole
and yet still none could
catch my fall.
my world where
water is as scarce
as dryness------
and sleep is abundant in supply
as respite is bursting in demand
and love is a capitalist.
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 6:30 PM UTC
We were unknowingly stuck at a broken stoplight as I was watching you dramatically mouth the words to Use Somebody by Kings of Leon. I was cracking up in the passenger seat but all of a sudden the song changes and I'm wondering why the light is still red.
We brush it aside and listen to the next song while paying close attention to the stoplight cycles.
The third song comes on and at this point everyone is aware something is up. We look around for that line up of cars and sure enough.
Cars from behind are turning around and cars in the front of us take the safe right turn instead.
It was funny.
The way all the cars reacted at the same time. As if a plane with a banner was in the sky saying: THIS LIGHT IS NOT FUNCTIONING.
All this to say that sometimes, if not always, humans are secretly on the same wavelength.
Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 3:45 PM UTC
I can never tell when you're staying or leaving
Slowing or going
You got my mind going crazy
Heart not knowing where you're going
Just knowing one thing
What my heart wants
Staying going never leaving
Green light red light with my emotions
Never know where to go
But I know how I feel
But where do I go with it all
Go fast Slow down
I never know
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 12:56 AM UTC
And on my way the light turns red.
Now I’m stuck with time to think.
Maybe I should turn around
But your warmth is calling me.
Red light adding seconds to my clock.
One second is all I need.
My cup is full of arguments
But for you, I’d spill my drink.
Fingers drum and throat, it catches.
Legs stick to vinyl seats.
Logic sings and reason whistles
But your hiss, it sounds so sweet.
Skip this song and then the next.
**** this whole CD.
As time, it stops. Decision reached.
But then the light turns green.
Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 1:36 PM UTC
Snags in her tights,
Chipped black on her claws,
She stands against walls,
Vulnerable to the brawls.
A skirt grazing her thighs,
Too small for her liking,
She pulls at the seems,
And feeds the old men lies.
Lips that bleed,
Mascara stained cheek,
Frame too slim,
She's in the gutter, sensual and meek.
Lady of the night,
Rolls to your car,
beckons you with her finger,
hopes you won't linger.
A ten note slips,
Into her grip.
She squeezes.
It will feed her addiction.
She has money to pay,
Children to feed,
She digs her knuckles so much they bleed.
Life carries by,
As she tries to get high,
On the fumes of other men.
But the red light comes on,
Her skirt hitches up,
She cries as he whispers
good girl.
As he kisses her neck,
She thinks what the heck
Am I doing with my **** awful life,
Selling cheap love,
To father above,
In hope she gets a better price
than the tiny sum
From every business bloke that comes, beckons her into his arms.
She pulls at her pleather,
At her last tether,
Why am I in this life?
Soho's her home,
But it leaves her numb to the bone.
She has more than budget passion,
She craves style,
She fashion.
But instead the needle pierces,
And she sinks down,
Hating the body she's in,
Women walk and they frown,
But they don't understand how the girl feels deep down,
She just wants true love.
Oh heaven above?
If there is a Holy Spirit,
Let me be it,
For this withered young **********
Belongs in your constitute,
Please, she begs, save me from the charity brutes.
Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:13 PM UTC