"backandforth" poems
screamingloudly, shoutingcrazy
don't know why we do this daily;
backandforth the screaming match
when our ideas they just won't catch.
two bullheaded people clashing heads
until one of them storms off instead.
i mean well and you do too
but our ideas just won't go through.
banging heads against brick salls
our yelling echoing down the halls.
im on page two,
youre on page one;
all i know is this aint fun.
screamingloudly, shoutingcrazy
i dont know why we do this daily.
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
i learned about loneliness last night,
belatedly, because no one ever bothered
to explain it to me- it was
something best kept for the time it existed in
the blank space where a hand had once been
a soft shaky touch
now absent
the sorrow comes in sultry waves
with the indigo tide of me missing your breath
on the hollow in my sleepy neck,
a whisper backandforth inandout and then
a hitch, a twitch and the slow descent
from sea-froth into dreamland
we drifted, content, into the
scared scarlet hills where nightmares roam
where i made my home, knowing that
in sleep your whispers still coated my pillowcase
and i was not alone
we sank, satiated, into
the wasteland in our wasted heads
knowing that despite the terror, we could share your bed
knowing that when i woke, gasped, drenched in sweat
you would brush the hair
from my forehead
i'd remember my respite
and we would settle down once again
and as i lie, disconsolate
my ribcage heaving, desolate, i pull your jacket
to my face, breathe in your scent, your comfort
rise from the depths
and thank whatever guides our fate
that i only feel this pain
in the present
Jul 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 at 5:34 PM UTC
It's your turn to work.
For a year
I have shuttled my life
Backandforth
Backandforth
For you.
To see you.
But now it's your turn.
You can come see me.
Use your gas
Use your time
I can't do all the work
All the time.
This is supposed to be equal.
Also, get a job
And get some independence.
It's time to be an adult.
May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 5:53 PM UTC