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I'm placing a classified add
Nailing posters all over this town
Cause ever since it is you left
I've been missing a smile

I'm not saying you're the one who took it
After all it could have been missplaced
But the very last time I was with you
It was sitting happily on my face

If you wouldn't mind helping me look for it
You remember what it looks like
You saw it for ten of its best years
When it saw you every night

I do find it odd that it's been missing
Since you haven't been around
It didn't take long to notice
That its been replaced with a frown

That's why I'm placing a classified ad
And nailing posters all over this town
Cause ever since it is you left
I've been missing a smile
 Sep 2013 wounded words
Anna
You taste like heaven.
You make me worse.
What's your last name?*
What's your first?
i used to do

but now i don't

i used to will

but now i won't

i used to rush

into it all

but now i'm lucky

if i even crawl

i used to laugh

but now i cry

whenever it is

i look at life

i used to leap

when they said jump

now all i am

is a permanent duh

i used to see

through rose colored shades

now i count it lucky

if i'm even awake

i used to do

but now i don't

i used to will

but now i won't
 Sep 2013 wounded words
brooke
the last time we
spoke with our
voices, i asked you
why won't you sleep
with me on skype?
and
you nervously smiled, played
with something between your
fingers. i asked again, why?
I felt you aimlessly search my
face before you said, I don't
want you to see what I've done
if i accidentally roll over.


I hid beneath the covers and cried.
you said
[                          ]
(c) Brooke Otto

more stuff.
 Sep 2013 wounded words
brooke
we tirelessly scream
I trusted you at blank
faces, promise we can be
bandages but we'll only
ever be temporary antibiotics.
never promise someone you can
save them because you can't, don't
offer your self as a service to the wounded
because you are wounded too.
(c) Brooke Otto

I promise that at some point I will write happier things.
Like coral reefs dancing
with the curl of the tides,
you are always changing..
ever growing.
And sharp with your freedom
I feared that you would drown me
but your waves were playful
and dressed with sunset
scarlet whispers
unspoken,
quick glances
of flame thrown
recklessly from your eyes,
those waving embers,
Oh the sweetness in their burn.
They beg for strokes as soft
as sunrise
and lips as lingering as the breeze.
© 2013 Chaotic Melodic
 Sep 2013 wounded words
AM
The mask
 Sep 2013 wounded words
AM
I see you in the parking lot
Sitting in your car with your eyes shut, head bobbing
As your music rattles your windows
And you explore the cavern of your mind

I want so badly to offer you a light

You feel me watching, feel reality encompass you
You awake from your trance
And you put on your mask

You are so sure that this mask will keep away the pain
But I see your demons clawing at it, begging to be set free

I've seen you
The you behind the mask
You have shed it before me many times
But as soon as I glimpse your naked face
And you see it reflected in my eyes
Vulnerable
Broken
You don your mask again and ask me never to speak of what I've seen
 Sep 2013 wounded words
Brandon
Another day and its falling apart
I try to fight it but it never changes
I try to rearrange but it stays the same
Can't explain away these words
Or how I can't complain
But there's these memories
They just won't let me go
(Let me go)

So I drain myself of you
Feel you letting go
Tear me all down
And throw it all away
I drain myself of you

I've bled for too many miles
And these lungs are too full of sin
It's crashing down around
All the mistakes I have made
And all the words I could never say
(Could never say)

So I drain myself of you
Feel you letting go
Tear me all down
And throw it all away
I drain myself of you

It's crashing down around
All the mistakes I have made
And all the words I could never say
(All the words I could never say)

Another day and its fallen apart
I tried to fight it but it never changed
I tried to rearrange but it always stayed the same
Can't explain away these words
Or how I can't complain
But there's these moments
They just won't let me go
(Let me go)

I drain myself of you
I drain these lies of you
I drain myself of you
I drain these lies of you
I drain..
Drain...
You sleep earthquake some nights
like a puppy
Whimper and swim

You dream like the grand canyon did when it was just a shallow river bed

You never expect to get so big
to create so much space

So I know holding you won't make you still

Your head in my hands like a sunrise
strands of gold
drizzling between my fingers

Your body
like a lonely bear living in a city
you miss home
eat only yellow things
Dandilions
and honey
bumble bees
and chips of paint from fire hydrants

Inside you belly it is always
daytime
always spring

So much light
you don't sleep well most nights

And I wish I could place my hands
inside the space between your shoulder blades

and take it out of you
hold it swirling in my hands

I will put it into a jar of water
and in then in the fridge
so that it might learn stillness in the cold

I will come back to bed to you
a beer bottle still in my hand

I will pull the blankets from you
and let the dark settle
Inside this new space

And maybe this night
You can sleep peacefully
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