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 Oct 2021 Vanessa Gatley
eileen
spending all my days at home

I forgot constellations exist

why'd you leave

I can feel myself go dark

I think I want to be alone

see you in my dreams

wiped away my tears

why am I always sad when someone leaves me

they should be crying

not me
I went fishing and the fishing was good,
I came back full of fish,
With an ocean behind,
With a peace of mind.
You never know what's the best:
To go east? To go west?
To feel the pains of love in chest?
To be prepared for the pest?
 Sep 2021 Vanessa Gatley
nivek
love
 Sep 2021 Vanessa Gatley
nivek
forged in pain
love overcomes
more,

love eternally
reigns,
love is all.
She watches me
as I illuminate her
head on the pillow,
still cornering the daylight
into the rear window.

She lays, outstretched,
filling the back seat of the car
with unwrapped thoughts,
too deep;
my rays can only reach so far.

Her sleepy eyelids blink
at me in question.
A suggestion?
I hide my face behind a cloud.
"'till soon," I whisper.
I'm only just a surface moon.
If we fail to follow our dreams, we chase shadows instead.
 Sep 2021 Vanessa Gatley
AE
You take flights on paper planes
on September nights to escape the rain
love sits beside you
and so does pain  
in their hands, feelings from June
and they sit there waiting  
to take you to the moon
The sun is gone
and now my heart
is falling like leaves.
The wind takes me away
and I'm left to face
the fall alone.
I've an egg inside me
that's in the process of—
cracking /
What hatches, we'll see.
I'll offer it my love,
and it shall be lovely,
eating me from inside,
until it can—
no longer hide.
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