Twinkle

Twinkle Jul 2017

You don't understand

I've fought fire, like you've fought grace
I've fought desire, just like you've fought to get past your drunken days.
and if there was, ridiculously, for even a moment
a chance for us,
I would know.
I've wished for nothing else.

Twinkle Jul 2017

Untitled

I'm trying not to tear myself apart
betwixt all the whens and the hows
I know you asked me to be sweet
but I can't help the filth from escaping my mouth
      it is as if I predicted this
      I watched you watch my walls come crashing down, and when
      the damage was done
      there wasn't much left to ponder about.
                  You escaped with the morning wind, gone with no chance
                  of ever coming back.
                  I'm here now, picking up the pieces, trying to tape up all
                  the cracks.

Twinkle Jul 2017

flOwers

Watch the flowers
                       you left to burn,
       Watch the flowers, Watch them turn
                   black as the shadow,
                      you're so afraid of;
                  but you can't outrun.

Twinkle Jul 2017

Untitled

Smile, they said
You'd look beautiful.
but it's this smile that feels like a cut on my face
who am I to befool?

Smile, they said
You'd look pretty.
but it's not the looks I care about you see,
I just want out of this city.

Smile, they said
It shows you're happy.
Then why are tears falling out your face, when your lover's marrying someone else
I see you're smiling your heart away.

Twinkle Jul 2017

heLLo?

"Hello?!"
              I don't know
                         You're knocking at my door
But I'm already lying face down on the sofa
                with my socks on the floor.
          The sun is out,
                   the air is cold,
I don't understand what business you got   here
             just knocking on my door.
So maybe I'll turn down the volume on the TV,
                 Pull the pillow over my head
    and hush myself to sleep.
          Quietly and "unconsciously"
I'll let this one go.
                                 "Hello?!"
                                         Hit the road.

— The End —