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I hardly think about you
Except when the music plays
And I realize that no one else
In the whole wide world
Knows the lyrics
But us...
Once or twice a day is not that much, after all...
 Jul 19 Bekah Halle
badwords
Fig
I did not bloom for you.

I wasn’t planted with hope of a hand like yours

to pluck what I became.



I was here.

Growing in a quiet grove,

on the edge of the unseen—

roots tangled in silence,

leaves turned to a sun I thought only I could feel.



You came like weather.

Not loud,

but felt.

A shift in the light.

A question in the wind.



I didn’t call to you.

But still,

you found me.



I watched you stumble in—

mouth stained from strange fruits,

eyes glazed from sweetness that lied.

And I knew you were not lost.

You were done.



Done with wandering.

Done with feasting on ache.

Done with mistaking hunger for worth.



You looked at me like I was something

you’d dreamed once and forgotten.

Like tasting me

woke up something ancient in you.



And it did in me, too.



Because I didn’t know I was waiting—

not for you,

but for recognition.

For a mouth that didn’t devour,

but asked.

For hands that didn’t harvest,

but listened.



And when you bit into me,

you didn’t praise.

You closed your eyes

and let silence say it.



That was the moment.



No music.

No miracle.



Just two beings

who didn’t know they were searching

until they stopped.



Now here we are.



Still.

Rooted.

Fed.



Not written in the stars—

but grown in the dirt,

together.
Frequently,
a reminder appears,
an app zap,

It's a good time to check your posture!
arrives with precise
ir~regularity,
when I,
couch prone
neck bent,
spine most unfine,
not in a good way,
it somehow knows,
which way my toes are curling

Got me a weighted vest,
to help me
grow down
straighter,
but realized,
already had one,
whole life long,
with the weights
maldistributed,
too heavy,
and the curvatures
of spine and line
was what made me
so unattractive,
were curved
with hard bad work
over decades,

Yes. Way to Late,
To be undone,
I Is What I
have become
undone by design
                                but I write not of my physicality, but
                          of mental posture, of my integrated thoughts,
                   the integrated consciousness of a lifetime of thoughts.
              deeds, desires, fires started and extinguished, acts summary,
as zeroes and ones, binaurally coded in my treasury of memory cells,
       edited by time, seasoned illusions, shame, with no recompense,
                totals of entirety and the totality of the net net of gains,
                          losses, courages *******, sticking points that
                                     unraveled by self~disassembling
                                     and the stench of actions untaken
                                    make me a bent soul, by ineffectual
                                    posturing, flim~flam, and eventually
                   the reminders to check my posture cease and desist
,
                                            with no word of farewell,
                                               nor a pose left behind
                                                          ­    <…>
In place of shadows
sunspots and creases
an embankment the gray of day seizes
      nailed to peril as a savior
      pushes out all traces in its labor

Dust and smoke
--the heartless void
above the faded ring of hope
      say a sated prayer
      for your fellow wayfarer

I'll shield your body between
the rays and surface
I'll be your dark clouded step
     when your own feet fail to purchase
     into the ground they sink
I am light hearted
Didn't used to be that way
Till I realized you are my savior
Then fell to my knees to pray
I was lost in life
Didn't know which way to turn
Mistreated by those I trusted
My soul then left to burn
Then one day I realized
That you would never harm me
That is what opened my eyes
That's what set me free
I needed to love myself
In the way a parent would
Learn to live with my shortcomings
And embrace all that is good
I thank you God every day
For forgiving all my sin
For showing me I'm loved
Thank you God, love Lynn
 Jul 16 Bekah Halle
Malcolm
Soft light
Velvet night
Gentle skin
Drawn in

Moon sigh
Hearts high

Flame bloom
Lips swoon
Fever lace
Timeless space
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
July 2025
Magical love
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