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Tatum O'Brien Nov 2014
Oh! Anxiety,
wash over me.

Coat my body,
in hot chilly sweat.

My palms are waterfalls.
My feet are ice.
My armpits are needles.

Anxiety,
watch over me.

Forget the. . .
apparently it wasn't worth remembering.

Speed to where I need to be.
Ah ha! I recall what I forgot.
In order to be where I needed,
to be.

Anxiety,
listen to me.

And to the whispers,
that taunt and harass me.

Wait,
Listen to them first.
Then me.

Anxiety.
Please leave.
Tatum O'Brien Oct 2014
Who was she?
What were habits,
and quirks?
That made you smirk so softly
at the mention of her name.
Do you still see her?
As you drive around town, remember the past places
that you and her both occupied.
Do you take me to the same places?
Who was she?
And who am I,
except a girl who has come to realize.
That maybe it's not me that you like,
but the similar mannerisms that I have compared to her.
Who am I?
Am I the rebound?
Tatum O'Brien Sep 2014
What is it that which we do,
makes no matter which way we go,
a harrowing event that falls to the wayside,
destitute and broken, filled with blight.

Roll over and shun our own self.
Reject I, that am all but gone.
Pity self, pity selflessly.
Then reject that too.

Look at the sky,
past the buzzards circling the ravishing corpse.
Once there was more,
and there will be again, a New World harks.

Time passes in longevity,
yet in the blink of an eye-
it becomes the past.
Always so long ago.

Ravines fill with raging rivers,
rushing without respite.
Not realizing that it takes time,
all the energy at once can not change everything.

Not at once.

Lay fallow, heal our wounds.
Rise again with elegance,
or at least determination.

And do it all over again.
From start to finish.
Break down, over and over again.
And do it with finesse.
Tatum O'Brien Aug 2014
Were it easier to be that cat,
who sits in the corner.
Staring right back...
As if I were the foreigner.

Boldly lifting my back paw,
not breaking eye contact.
And as if it were a sight you never saw,
One cat ******* ransacked.

No ***** given,
that's what I see in that cat.
Boldly driven,
and not looking back.
Tatum O'Brien Aug 2014
I am only human,
and so are you.

A biochemical machine,
with a soul.

Billions of years just,
for this moment.

Waiting to press,
my soul with yours.

What are the chances,
that our hearts beat together?
Tatum O'Brien Aug 2014
Reach for me,
   like the wings of birds reach,
       kissing the wind soft and tenderly.
               Bold, but not daring a siege.
                       A hawk singing a melody.

Fall into me,
   not like a pebble causes a ripple.
      But as boulder would off a mountain.
           with chaotic energy pure and simple.
                Reactions amounting.

But do not love me.
Those words would have become undone.

— The End —