Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
terra nova Aug 2014
You are a study in

contradiction,

(Filofax looks and

roller coaster smile.)



You've patience short

as a fireman's hosepipe,

eyes that you

narrow like the Nile.



You walk like you're dancing

at the Pope's wedding;

talk like you haven't

got the time to stop.



You're always grinning

when it's raining

(down from the bottom

and up from the top).



You mock like a bat

but you're scared of darkness-

scared of losing

your own two feet.



Your misplaced faith

In your own self-loathing

lurks in the sun

taking pride in defeat.
terra nova Aug 2014
Smiling, she takes breaths of water,

Chokes in perfect grace,

Covers up with makeup all the

burn marks on her face,

Curls up in the corner,

shoulders straight as straight can be,

Sees the rough outlines of windows

in the surface of her tea,

Puts her pens in perfect order,

Does her work in perfect time,

Looks perfection in a mirror,

Thinks mistake-making a crime,

Has the whole world in her handshake,

Fears the whole world in her head-

Yes she's smiling at the camera,

And she's wishing she were dead.
  Aug 2014 terra nova
tc
i remember that
game of dominoes
we played at your
grandma’s house
and your grandad
made us tea and
we ate your favourite
biscuits and all i
can recall is the way
you whispered
“i’m so glad you’re here”
over the table and
we were supposed to
be that couple who
were eighty playing
dominoes with our
grandson and his
new girlfriend he’d
brought home and
they’d drink tea and
she’d eat his favourite
biscuits and their
love would be like
déjà vu and his
whispers would bounce
to her over the table

is there a secret
to making a love
as strong as i believed
ours was, last?

maybe i should have
asked your grandparents
terra nova Aug 2014
let me go hide in the sand-

a modern ostrich for these

torrid times.

i don't need you holding my hand-

i've complex words and

****** rhymes.

i've grey-blue light and

silent street,

the echoed sound of

far-off feet.

i'm done with you, and also

me. release the anchor:

*bonjour, sea.
terra nova Aug 2014
you
you are a black hole but you are my

black hole and

i would defend you to the ends of the

earth. i would defend you to the

end of me and until you had

swallowed all my starlight, and perhaps

that is foolish but i'd rather

lose my light with you than shine

without.

— The End —