I just wish I wasnt so lonely
I miss you
I love you
And I hope
We do come
Back to each other
Because I
Believe
We are
Meant to be

I once lived by a river
That flowed with a seducing call
Drawing me daily to it's bed
And Liberating me in it's waves.

I miss my raging river
That use to splash all over me
Bringing joy and excitement
To my otherwise lonely days.**

©Tina Thompson

Forever intended to circle but never trace the puckered skin of my aching lips

Untasted you take away from all that is beauty as my mind chooses unwitting ly to coalesce upon the ghost of you

There is no life sufferable without you in it, no cause too great to overcome yet there is a flaw,

For our loves gain double an equal measure must be afforded lost, For there in lives its worth. Oh my dearest love,  as selfish as I pray I need to be, can only reek of compassion thus,

You **** me softly every smile, every soulful look, every sweet word veiled with bitterness

an aquired taste for those addicted to love's misdirection

The outline for my sweet destructon,

And you my favourite design.

you're pointedly avoiding me again
I'm not gonna ******* invite myself over
and **** you
like what the ****
leave me alone
but don't leave me completely alone
just behave normally, please
this isn't helping anything
it's weird and it's uncomfortable and
it makes me feel like **** that you'd rather stand alone
than talk to a group of people that has me in it

I'm not crazy, I swear
I just notice everything you do, okay?
and these poems are unfiltered nonsense
pure emotion
that hold no factual basis
and even if you aren't avoiding me
it still feels like it
and I'm not crazy
I just don't like when someone who
I've had a secure friendship with
for 8 months
suddenly becomes less than an acquaintance.
it hurts. like there's a piece of me missing.
and fine, I get it,
if you need a break.
this will be your third break weekend.
maybe you made the decision to dislike me
but really, I haven't seen you ever dislike someone this much
in the way you behave towards me.
please, take your ******* break,
take your whole life as a break away from me,
please,
as long as you're happy.
I want you to be happy.
so just because I have feelings for you
doesn't mean I'm gonna do anything about it
or try and make you feel uncomfortable
because I've felt this way for a while
and you didn't seem to be uncomfortable the whole time.
I want you to be happy, so
I'll keep my distance, fine
I'll deal with it- I'm dealing every day
training myself to not care and to not notice
as if you're just another of my friends
but you're still always in my peripheral vision
like a rock in your shoe
you might not be consciously thinking about it
but you know it's there.
I'm sorry I feel this way about you
and I'm doing my best to fix it
so we can go back to having an actual relationship
without it being weird.
I'm not crazy, I swear
but it's hard to orient yourself
when your head is spinning
under,
over,
and around
your heels.

*** and love
are not synonyms
I didn't fall in love with you
because you touched me
I fell in love with you
because you made flowers grow
inside of me
when no one else could

h.a

I forgot my thumb
on my candle fire
till the smell of burning flesh
awoke my paused consciousness.

I bit my lip
and looked by my right side for
a small tissue-paper,
only to find the rats staring innocently
at my candle and my thumb.
It is fascinated by
the way the candle affected
my thumb
i guess.

I looked up
"no light"
was the reason
for the frown that
graced my slightly
pimpled face.

Heat!!
"shoo" i said
because of one of the rats
that sat on my
hand fan.
It shifted a bit
and i reached for it.

Thirst!!
All the water bottles and kegs
empty
all taps hissed, "no water"

Then the stomach growl.
Nothing in my cupboard,
not even a chewing-gum.

Gosh!!
I hate here.
I then layed down to
fantasize about my dream boy.

Sleep came
and floated me off
Nigerian Waters.