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 Apr 2014 Zalea
abby
i wrapped myself in caution tape
but you didn't listen to my warning
you're dying on the side of the road
and i'm flying to space in my rocketship for one
if you could die by hypothermia or drowning,
which would you choose?
the blue hair dye staining my fingers is proof
that i don't have to explain myself
i filled my bathtub with scalding water
and pretended to feel something
all i have left are burn marks on my thighs
and a puddle on the floor

*(a.m.c.)
 Apr 2014 Zalea
soulfulperks
something as simple
as a peck on the nose
can make my heart melt,
your soft pink lips
pressing against the
tip of my nose,
it’s a warm feeling
the sort of feeling
that completely changes
my mood, the way you
smile afterwards, pulling
me into your warm embrace,
the faint smell of you,
a scent crossed between
the mint of your breath and your cologne
a smell that’s so comforting,
a smell that is my home,
here in your arms is where
i feel warm and safe,
it’s odd how something
as simple as a peck to
the tip of my nose
can set me off and make
my head spin
 Apr 2014 Zalea
g clair
this body of poetry lacking
drafted white, out of sight on this backing
and oh such a wallflower it has become
and it's author, a nut for the cracking

the content within, also slacking
each sentence seems more like attacking
defensive it's true, and she won't let it through
so the message is lost in the packing.

she knows this in spite of her yacking
to reach you requires skillful tacking
to find you or bust, she'll say what she must
with dis gust in da sails, words are smacking.

A ***** in her mind needs some tightening
'twas loosed by emotional lightning
as for what she won't say, her heart gives away
but it's lost in the frost of this whitening.
without much to say I have done nothing again.
 Apr 2014 Zalea
nivek
we slipped out of control
our legs gone
to some other place
while we danced
and danced through
years of control
lovers lost and found
 Apr 2014 Zalea
KM Jones
sobriety
 Apr 2014 Zalea
KM Jones
What are you searching for at the bottom of that bottle?
Any message to be found, I'm sure you swallowed long ago.
I lose sight of you with every shot glass emptied.

-watch as you grasp at the shadows of the charisma upon which you rely.

You commit to the role of comedian perfectly; ironic
Your wit dulled along with your senses.

- like a court jester with no head to lose.

But someone like you should never play the fool.
"I love you's" mean less when tainted with tastes of whiskey.

And I just want you to want me like I'm that last drop...

I'm not asking you to let me be your sobriety.
I understand dependency...
I know I complicate recovery...

with my red wines and reminiscing.

- and I just want to clear your head like coffee beans...

You tell me I'm intoxicating
- and I don't know how to tell you I don't want to be just another drug.
 Apr 2014 Zalea
arielle
you had your pulse on the line, it went straight and then up north.
Hang up the phone if you're not going to say it.
I have open wounds from where the bullet hit
and chest pains from the phone calls.
I think we were running a hospital rather than a relationship,
maybe we're the casualties of a war breakout
because when we broke up,
i cracked my ribs under street lamps
in Florida
and my heart on tables in the class room.
You were burned into my poems like a forest fire
and I promise, there's no putting this one out.
And if I can't tell if this is love or just an airport terminal,
who's to say it's a fight in the first place?
We can't swim the ******* ocean without one of us drowning
and odds are, the other will be holding us down.
But we are not anchors, love, we are only
the after thought of someone who has been through this before.
We are faulted and we are not ashamed.
No, we are not ashamed that we are broken and we will remain this way.
Keep your hand up if you're ready to fall because you've already broken us down once,
let me do it again
and again and again
until we both know that this is only the airport terminal talking
and we have no room to say anything.
This is on my other account but i'm posting it here as well.
 Apr 2014 Zalea
Alex
haven
 Apr 2014 Zalea
Alex
You told me to come out of my head,
and I told you I was a prisoner there.
You told me I had the power to change it all.
I told you that you didn't understand.
You insisted I could ignore the thoughts that haunted me,
and then I tried to believe you.      
I was a goner for sure,
but you spoke to me like I meant something to this world.        
And I think you saved my life again.
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