#smothering
I am left yearning to drown,
When smothered in your love.
Breath, breath is optional,
I live off of your love.
Addiction, obsession, craving,
Need, you are need,
So I repeat the same words back to you,
Drown me.
Jun 16, 2025
Jun 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM UTC
oil slicked skin, smothering sunbeams
when did we get so far?
once upon a kin, could we do it again?
soaking up your energy like a sponge
been waiting on your remedy for too long
i have been too strong, waiting for the one
May 22, 2023
May 22, 2023 at 8:29 AM UTC
You wrap around
me, like a fog.
Haze of bitter
sweet miasma.
Smothering.
Smothering.
Apr 20, 2019
Apr 20, 2019 at 2:55 AM UTC
She fell into me and I couldn't let go.
I wrapped around her, climbed
Inside, and waited patiently. Soon,
She will join me; become me.
Her color,
Her temperature,
Her scent
Will be me.
Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 10:14 PM UTC
i like the rain.
the sound, the smell, the feeling against my skin.
its warm water seeps into my roots and and feeds my restless soul.
but it’s raining a bit too hard,
and my leaves are falling,
my flowers are wilting.
petrichor stains my stinging lips and fills my lassitude lungs.
there’s too much water.
rain turns to rivers and rivers turn to waves.
i’m afraid i’m drowning.
― i need a minute to breathe
Jul 1, 2018
Jul 1, 2018 at 2:41 PM UTC
I am angry
but too exhausted to express it.
So it remains smoldering
beneath shaking hands, and burning skin.
Smoke gathers
but it's not smothering the embers, nor the flame.
No, it's smothering me.
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 at 12:40 AM UTC
light flickers behind her eyes
a spark? a flame? electricity?
would Zeus approve of the
lightning bolts
her eyes seem to sling at me?
if not, will at least
Aphrodite grant me her blessing?
it's in my nature, like a moth,
to be attracted to bright things.
the light brings me closer
i'm aware of proximity
i'd like to think
i'm aware everything.
but yet, the light dims in my hands:
smothering
stifling
my love is suffocating
my need for intimacy
makes it hard to breathe.
i ***** away anything
that's close enough to me.
the smoke clouds the flame
forever gone between us.
i'm sorry.
Nov 21, 2017
Nov 21, 2017 at 6:39 PM UTC
Crush me,
Add another blow,
What will one little hit do,
To an already drowned soul.
Choke me,
Smother my bones,
What good is the body,
With an ashen soul.
Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 12:51 PM UTC
Dreams pretend you are not alive
Broken and hallow
You are a smothering lie.
Creeping beneath my skin
Poisoning my senses when I am lost
Though surrendering
Tell me why?
I am still in the fire
Burning in agony.
No I won't cry
I won't anymore!
Tell me why?
Why are you still alive?
I don't dream
Still you dwell
In my eyes
With every tear falling down
I call out
Scream with bleeding throat
Tell me why
Dreams say you are still alive
A more of a smothering lie...
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015 at 9:08 AM UTC
If you were a flower
I'd drown you in water,
burn you after you died,
and keep the ashes under
my mattress,
then craft a poem
out of your roots,
and toss your soil
into a lake.
Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM UTC
God, I miss you
I miss you!
(You miss me more)
but I highly doubt it
Does it ache in your chest
when you think of how warm
my breath is on your lips?
Do your knees tremble and buckle
beneath you after imagining our last kiss?
Do you find yourself squirming
giddily in your seat when you
recall something sweet I said
to you when we were in bed?
Does your skin crawl with
anticipation for our next encounter?
Do your fingers fidget when
the urge to divulge emotion is so
strong you want to punch things?
Do you fight yourself daily to just
keep yourself at bay in fear
of smothering me? Something tells
me by your delay in replies
and your nonchalant guise
that you don’t miss me more
than I miss you.
May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 2:57 AM UTC
The silence he gave was smothering,
and all too loud.
May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM UTC