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Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Like pulling bark from a tree
You tug at my mind
Separating eventually
From the tall aging oak
Standing here alone
With a piece of you
That I know will eventually die
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
A glimpse of peach
Succulent on a cloudy day
Canines plunge through the skin
Piercing through a sea of flavor
As colors collide
The bleeding red pours into crimson
Casting darks to my swallow
A tempest of treasures
Exploding on the buds of my tongue
Within the sultry dripping
Of these wet lips I use to kiss
To plant upon you
My darling
My peach
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
My skeleton shaking
Collapsing down on itself
Splattering organs onto the earth
As the organics hold hands
Churning life amongst the dirt
A vibrant red howls
My heart
Stranded above the mess
Watching miracles
Like a jumper Contemplating the end
blood burning rapid
Dripping impurities ubiquitously
Sharing what feelings are left
Before you consume all that I am
All that I was
All that I will be
And my brittle pumping heart
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Whispers in the silence
Like tears amongst the violence
I trusted you with my life
And you went and unleashed the tyrants

Spewing lies to my face
Like morbid acid and mace
You gutted me with your knife
And spread me open for deaths embrace

And now here I am alone
Wishing you'd just pick up the phone
Even if we quarrel and strife
I'd take the latter if it wern' t for the stone

Encased around my dreams
The ones where nothing is as it seems
Where we're husband and wife
Yet I burst awake in the screams

Just wishing you were here to hold
Until we both grow pale and old
Even if disease should run rife
We'll keep eachother warm in the cold
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Beside me lays your warmth
A casket of coals
Glowing throughout the night
As I watch over you

Such a thing
You share with this world
The harmonious spectacles
Clashing all at once

For as long as I'm conscious
Your mind will be safe
And your heart lay sultry
Thumping in the background
Of your various dreams

I must join you now
Where we can touch once more
Beyond this metallic taste
And unforgiving edges

Let me remove my shell
Placing my parts in jars
And I leave you my soul
Where we can smile once again
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Mist dances with the trees
As you and I used to
Sifting through one anothers life
Wrapping our love
Against our warm hard bodies

Eventually these clouds disappear
And we're left with such a bite
That only the cold
Can sweep us off our feet
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
I cry only in the silence
Bathing within the tears
Regretting what I say once
Because rehearsal tests fears
Like a diamond in the rough
Just waiting to be unveiled
I'm like an Animal to the trough
I'll survive where those have failed
Picture me dying
Better yet picture me sane
I'm the one constantly crying
While you maintain your fame
Amongst the fog and the rain
I'll remember every word that you said
As I embody this pain
And wish I were dead
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