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be the rainbow
after the rainstorm--
I'll be moonlight
for your midnight
passages.
please
Tony Scallo Nov 2014
Tick..

Tick..

Tick..

It passes by the second
Echoing each click
Like a metronome
In the depths of my cerebral

I dread the next strike
Minute hand like a knife
To remind me that my strife,
Still has no resolve

It blocks my bliss
And I can't seem to exist
Without its presence,
It always persists

Always measuring
How long I allow it
To rule my life
Like a countdown

Another second
Another minute,
Just how long
Will I be in this?

Can't you hear me!?

Hello?!

Such a rude clock
I scream and I yell
Yet it just never stops

Speaking almost indirectly
To tell me
You will never wait around
For my approval

So I don't just watch you pass

I live

Within each
And every tick

Tick..

Tick..

Tick..
  Nov 2014 Tony Scallo
Megan H
She loved the rain.
She loved the way it fell with purpose,
The way it changed from sprinkle to downpour.
The way it caressed her face
When she looked to the clouds
She thought it to be gentle
Beautiful.
So maybe that's why she didn't notice,
When the flood began,
That she was drowning.
  Nov 2014 Tony Scallo
Jason Cirkovic
Is there tear gas in this room?
Because I can't stop crying
The gas crawls down my esophagus
And crushes my wounded heart.

“God this hurts”

I keep typing,
Praying to computer screen
That I'll forget the smell of your hair
I type till my fingers bleed
So I can forget what your touch feels like
How our lips fit perfectly together.

“God I hate myself”

The only phrase I think of
When I'm pleading for things to back to normal
Back to the days
Where you didn't want to to crack open my skull
And see all of the ugly things
That drift around my cranium

“Baby please I'm sorry. I’m a mess,
A klutz, who waltzes around with stupidity
Baby I get this feeling in my head
When you are not around
I want to keep writing you these love letters
By sliding them under your doors called your eyelids”
But I can’t

I sit alone in the bus called life
Looking across my seat
I see you, my love
Holding onto the bar
Your pretty Blue headlights
That make me drawn to you
Your pretty Blue headlights
Covered with the rain I caused
I'm a rain man,
you see, when people get close to me
I get scared
And force the skies rain to tears with pain.


The only thing that floats in my mind
Is that I hope the man of you life
Buys you flowers
Sunflowers especially
And shows up to your work unexpectedly.
I hope you can travel to Paris
and keep a long list of all of the countries
you've cuddled in.
With him.
I hope you he can handle seeing the stars
From your eyes every time you guys cuddle
Under the moon light.
I hope he can teach you how to slow dance
And I hope that he can teach me
On how to be a better man.
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