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There's anger
in the chamber
no love lost
with a stranger
remind me to keep
track of every sin:
I'm trying
I'm lying
I'm crying
I'm spying
I'm flying off
the handle again.
As kids we'd chalk our house on the street
  and pretend to be grown ups, kissing and fight,
  what we saw in our parents married not buried.
  We smoked cigarettes and had happy hour night.

  We entertained our friends and drank and fretted.
  The women gossiped and we men talked tomorrows.
  We all grew bored and decided to never grow up.
  Rain erased the chalk. We'd glimpsed the sorrows.
Shot down in a bar and again
a cab ride to bed with my wife.
I'm lost in drink ignoring time.
I'll wake and wonder where my
outrage went and hope all is well
in this easy prison of my design.
We were children playing house.
    Always on our knees for our lonely
    praying to keep the monsters away.
    We grew up and married one and only.

    We are older no wiser playing house.
    We have kids. We say 'cause I said so.
    We drink and take pills our romance
    with cliches and no where else to go.
What happened? We were so in love.
  You were life itself. I ached for you.
  Pinky swear, the first, my only Love,
  be gentle, be mine forever. I'm blue.

  Babe? Love? I'm cold. I need you.
  I let you have my secret taste.
  You've split my world in two.
  You laid my world to waste.

  I will rise from these ashes.
  I am reborn. I see the new
  as it is and will conquer it on
  my own terms. ****, You.
I'll just look the other way
  let you steal my night and day
  silence my words I need to say
  a broken life I'll always pay.
  I'll **** me as an afterthought
  piece of meat you never bought
  from a butcher I never caught
  my beauty you always sought.
I lost my wedding ring
it fell into the mud
with all the other ones
our horror of blood.

The end wouldn't come.
***** to death by many
rag doll kissed by some
just a **** for a penny.
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