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Brandon Cotter May 2021
***** me with your love
Stab me with your beauty
Gut me with your kind heart
Yet leave me alive long enough
To regret the day we ever met
Rae
Brandon Cotter Oct 2020
Rae
Along the moss covered stone we walk
In harmonious clatter of the hills
As stark chills sweep our way
Our skin is like fog along the roaring river
Gently skimming on our clammy existence
Simply clumps of flesh wandering
Enveloped by these jagged hills we roam
As the salty meat of an oyster
Surrounded and encased by the hardness

Hold me close darling
As we forage this cold world together
Besides the monumentous red wood
Sharing hands with the earth we skip
Like pepples across the water
Yearning for somewhere new to grow
New to learn and love
May we dance in the foliage
Of the forests of our hapiness
And spend eternity like the open meadow
We both sprouted from long ago
RED
Brandon Cotter May 2022
RED
It dawned on me the other day
Your fingers swept my palm
I knew what I wanted to say
And I tried to stay calm
Your left dimple sprung alive
As we carelessly got in the car
Is was supposed to be a quick drive
And now your melted to the tar
I should have said no to the beer
And noticed the roads were wet
Now my reality is my worst fear
And my cherished love is just a regret
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
The berries harvest an electric brisk
Channeling fears
Of the roaring seas
Oh how the clouds ran that day
Beside tides of tireless wakes
Spewing from airless lungs
And of dreams
Pouring with laughter
Open toed and gay

A touch to my lips
Provokes my blood to dance
Joining hands with your heart
To the rhythm of your soul
We clasp
As a hymn of whimsical folly

Cheek to cheek
I taste you and all your wonders
Tantalizing every taste bud
Of adventures to come

As your **** latches to my gums
Surviving the swallow
Clinging to the last of our memories
I regret ever consuming you

The after taste of you lingers
Like empty vases scattered from death
Hollow of the red I once held
And the smell I followed
When lost in the dark

I will find you someday
Deep within those woods we wandered
I will pluck you from safety
And we'll plunge into chaos
The chaos of love
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
I've been waiting.... to wake up
           From a Ďream
Or from real i t y
                                    Or somewHere       In be
tween
               As              a shade
Cascading further into the darkness
Where   structure               Has.    no meaning
Colors no light
             And my    Life
                                           No resolve           for
      the restlesš
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Just another hovering face amidst the millions
Clammy hands twitch like newborn foe
Instinctive to endless madness within us all
As a single entity, we gaze upon the heavens
Tattered clothes mimic these tattered lives
From which we can now be free
Darkness plummets towards earth and all its wonders
Like the master taming the frail
Silence has no place here
As it is chased down and executed in front of all
**** you for your feathered beauty
And **** you for keeping the calm
Now our voices will be heard across the land
From deep within our lungs we will scream our last chant
Together, our clatter will crack holes in         time
Our sound will travel forever past this insanity
Further than the rage that is instilled in you
Further than the Gods which you pray upon
We will not answer to you no more as peasant flock
Our time is now to revolt against ALL aspects of your life
May our lives be a sacrifice for those who come next
As a platform to disarm the ugly we face
We have the power!
And we have the grace!
To take back what is ours!
NO MORE SILENCE!
NO MORE PEACE!
WE ARE THE NEVERENDING
FLAME OF PAIN THAT WILL FINNALLY BE HEARD!
Run
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Run
My dearest
Entangled in my thoughts
Keeper of my heart
Where have you run To?
An impression lingers
Beside me on this empty bed
Yet I know it will eventually fade
Just as our love had
My dearest where have you run to?
Away from the pain?
Or away from my grasp
As long as these stars fall
I will miss you
My dearest
Until the day I find the courage
To run away
And finally
find you
Brandon Cotter Nov 2017
Mindless sparks of your pheromone
Erupt emotions hidden deep and dark
Of my hollow graves
As if my thoughts wonder about
Leashed to a core
Wandering eons in search
Of the more
Or less
Growing upon these limbs
Of a dying tree
We grow to a future of the unknown
As clades of mankind's debacle
Fighting for a single chance
Just to love
Or be loved
In this dreary frightening world
We call home
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
A single heartbeat echoes on forever throughout time
Crackling amongst the trees as they sway in the wind
Skating over countless wakes into the shimmering sunset
Shattering through space into all-embracing nothingness
A lonely heart beat stranded amidst oblivion by its lonesome  
Abandoned by existence
Silence

A twitch of sound
Could it be?
Still carrying throughout the extinction of all other sound
Fighting, still fighting to thrive on the idea of its failure
Crashing towards life like the lonely reaper trying to consume it
Faster and faster it flies through the heavens soaring high
Booming swiftness hurls it closer and closer to your life
Closer yet so much closer to its home where it began
Pugnacious defiance to reach the one it is trying to save
Seconds decide the difference of your beating heart
Silence

Though promising, life could not be saved in time
The beating heart has expired
It is now just an empty vessel, leaking and dissolving to ash  
Through lengthy intervals ash will soften into nothing as it was meant to
But a single heartbeat will echo on forever throughout time
Side by side with the
Silence
Brandon Cotter Dec 2017
You are
*******
The worst thing for me
Yet all I could ever need
And tonight I need you badly
If I **** myself
I want you to be there with me
Smothered on my lips
Violently flowing through me
Pulsating past my heart
So that I can feel your love
On this peaceful winter night
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Years from then and you’re still in the doorway
One hand in your pocket and the other on the frame
Though shadows, they refuse to be stored away
Vivid to the clothes on the ground, everything’s the same
You hurt someone you loved and couldn’t see it
In the mindset of forever you forgot to live for now
The moment things came crashing down you couldn’t believe it
You kept asking yourself how
How do I live without her here, how do I go on?
Why should I pretend to be happy and fine when I’m dying inside?
You spiral down into dreams, into an abyss of fault, you’re gone
Nothing can dig you from this grave, dug in full stride
The snapping of a bird awakens you from your despair
Mystified by the room you roll to your left and cry
Struck by your reality like the warmth of a shimmering glare
There is no reason to live without her, just another reason to die.
Brandon Cotter Sep 2018
Falling in love is so ******* dangerous,
If they don't catch you, it's practically
S
  U
    I
      C
        I
          D
            E
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
You see those words on your phone?
The ones that pop up as suggestions
Before you type something
The stories they tell
And the pain they hold
Of the words we use most
That we'll never get back
These are mine
I.                        Love.                   You.
Let me know what yours say.
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
How benevolent my character
As the sun spits rage upon your earth
Floating above the madness
I condone all who sacrifice for me
At a mere glance of notice
That my brow will quiver towards your gesture
Entertain not my body
But my entity until the end of time
For my shadow will cast death upon all
And all will hear my name as a screech in the night
A howl at the moon
A crack throughout the skies
I will be heard through all of space and time
Until time can no longer fathom flowing further
Bestow every thought you can muster
Towards my ear within a matrix of tribute
To ride away would not be wise
For the soul of you and your blood
Will serve at the feet of the dead
Until the echoing of my boast
Comes crashing down upon your heads
Confining you to my side once more
To ride away would entangle your fate
In misery until the end of clocks
With me
The master
And you
The tame
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
For a thought, jump for the sky
Remember living but do not cry
Silky wisps of air pass on by
Vision is useless, don't even try
Feel your spirit like a thought of trance
Twirl on, twirl on as if your last dance
Fight to expand from the crushing grip
Spare no memories from your final trip
Be as one that is, not to shatter away
As time will halt masterfully as you stay
Eons pass along with your beautiful flow
Just flicker ever so often with that faint glow
Cutting into our minds like a knife
Watch on, as you give us your life.
Brandon Cotter Oct 2017
The entirety of our lives
As we strive to coexist
Like a bee amongst hives
In a maze with no exits

Tiptoe along the lines
Of what's right and wrong
We see our future and it's binds
Like the hook to our favorite song

With regrets haunting our dreams
And decisions tempting fate
It's hard to hide the screams
When our emotion runs off hate

In the end when all that's left is love
And our star has lost its light
Our existence will rise above
In this dreary cosmic fight

To have a place in history
Of all wonders and the sublime
And to finally solve this mystery
Of these shackles we call time
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
Like the wheels on my first tricycle
I am broken
Used and worn as my rustic soul sits
Beside the growing weeds
At my parents house
I watch you waste away over the years
Growing tired
Blood red peels from your core
Scattered around for all to see
Maybe one day I'll return
To find you've moved on
From those sun striken rays
Pumbling your existence
And hopefully it gives me the strength
To move foreward as well
And understand that the past
So beautiful and joyous to the senses
But Nothing will put me on the wheels
Of that lonesome bike ever again
Brandon Cotter May 2018
My galloping love
Untamed to these treacherous hills
Steady the unraveling nerves
That fall like petals
From these outstetched stems
You once relied on

Emotions culminate atop this crest
To the enjoyment of the howling wind
Brushing cascades to the north
I feel your presence crashing into me
Like the carless crescendo
Exciting
My broken heart

Your smile dances around my head
As a sultry chasse
inviting memories abound

Of the prancing *******
Beneath our swimming souls
And our warm blooded bodies
Falling in love
Like a tender tompé into my arms

I can feel your touch
A subtle
Yet electric brush of comfort
As the pouring rain smears around me
Casting clouds into shadows
Like your hiding just out of sight

No matter the distance traveled
Or the places you call home
I will always be holding your hand
To mend a bond gone aloft
But not forgotten

Until the sun and moon
Forget how to play
I will cherish what we shared
With a key around my neck
To our locket of love
And everlasting friendship


For you
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Forecast eternity onto my soul
As a book scribed in circles
May you splice what knowledge
GOD
Has to offer
Or retract your quivering brow
For in the lands of time
MAN
Will rule forever
Tempt not this fortune you seek
For, echoes of the dead
Travel endlessly
Hand in hand
With the living
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
The contents may be under pressure
I think to myself
As I lay on this cold floor
Mismatched socks and a pair of gym shorts
One last jab at myself
To replace this fear with humor
the razor gouges my smooth skin
A quiet patter echoed throughout the house
The blood pooling at my thigh
pain slowly drowns away
Like a ship cracked at the hull
There is nothing left to do
But wait
I will not struggle towards the surface
I will not panic in the darkness
As my lungs fill to no return
I leave this cold world
No longer afraid
And no longer hurting
my aching heart rests
As a sun setting along the sea
Brandon Cotter May 2021
Why is it I feel you on the coldest days
As the sun cowards behind the clouds
La de da da
Ballads of rain shower the earth
And scars swell at the thought of healing
La de da da
As the darkness dances around me
You sing at the sight of my falters
La de da da
Breaking me down for the last time
As I struggle for a grasp on what's left
La de da da
My only hope is to someday recover
And survive long enough to forget you
Brandon Cotter Sep 2017
Midnight summers gale flows hand in hand amongst the waves
Dancing under moonlight awaiting our blistering star
Every crash mimicked as wind gallops swiftly midst it’s wake
An unbreakable bond with nature and life
Swaying for eternity composed of one another’s soul
As wind howls louder unleashing a barrage of force
The vast sea answers with swells that dwarf mountains
Back and forth calamitous waves sink and rise
Diving beyond the depths of known and rising high for the moon
Leaping into the air knowing the wind will catch her before she falls
Thunderous roars crack holes in sound and space
As lightning fills the voids to all ends of its existence
Sacrificing everything for sound Whilst it echoes endlessly
Soaring through the skies of humanity, widening so gently
Covering all known as a blanket of vibrating love
To caress and nurture all beings to rest
Upon our final pirouette, just as our star rises into view
My breeze calms to a whisper
Your tranquil sea envelopes the land
Daybreak welcomes warmth and serenity as we rest
That is until I see you again under the glowing stars
Hand in hand we will dance
As wind
And water

— The End —