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The New Kestrel Apr 2013
It would help if
I could see.
I've forgotten my glasses and I can
hardly see the silver-green
of your eyes,
can hardly see the veins in your hands
when you take mine in yours.

It might also help if
I could think.
I see you looking
across the table at me,
my heart leaps,
my stomach drops,
I feel myself getting hot.
My mind goes
Blank.
Even though I can't see the silver-green
of your eyes,
the veins in your hand as you
take mine with yours,
it helps to know.
The New Kestrel Apr 2013
Say
I can say the things that cannot be said.
It sounds contradictory,
But it is possible.
I will use my body, my soul.
I will hold you while you cry,
And catch your tears in a stained glass jar,
So I can break it over someones head.
I will be your confidant,
Silently mourning your sadness,
But keeping it hidden by your request.
I will be the person you wont be afraid to open up to,
You would come to me,
And let go.

I can say the thing that cannot me said:
I am here,
And so are you.
The New Kestrel Apr 2013
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The New Kestrel Apr 2013
Although life is one pitiful concert,
Not everyone needs to play or perform.
The music plays, happily or hurt,
But never loses the mind it flows in from.

The ear of an adolescent girl
Listens intently to quizzical noises.
The voice of a teen male yet to unfurl,
Cracks under pressure before other voices.

Nerves take the best of him, dragging away
The voice of one blossoming new artist.
The listener and artist go to stay
Under the lonely heavens in the mist.

If the two bodies officially met,
What would become of old decisions?
Just as if the mist would rise and wet
Their instruments, would it mute musicians?
The New Kestrel Apr 2013
acceptingoneforthemselvesisonlyanewlydifficulttask
The New Kestrel Apr 2013
dontletthelittlethingsharmyou
The New Kestrel Apr 2013
Some times
I wish I spoke in
In a different tongue.
So no one understands the words.
So I could be as outrageous as I want to be.
So people would think me kind, but I am cursing them
For being the opposite of what they think of me.
So no one would bother me about homework.

So I could be alone.

I don't know why I wish this,
But I do.
Maybe so I can think.
Speak
Be
Only what I want to.
And only when I want to.

I don't mean to wish for isolation,
But I do.
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