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I’d love to give you truthful sentiment.
You’d take it as a ******* line again.
I’d love to lie to you to get my way,
and then reveal (magician-like) intent.
You never thought I’d have the ***** to say
not one thing of “I love you” (or the same),
but I avoid this loving lying when
you don’t believe me – think my words are lame.

You will not share in my false love, but I
can trick the brain, the heart, the lover’s eye;

though I refuse to play this trick on you,
though faking it is something we both do.

Together Lies and Love live in a home,
I doubt that Love’d survive it on his own.
Desire and
All the sweet pulsing aches
And gentle hurtings
That were you,
Are gone into the sullen dark.
Now in the night you come unsmiling
To lie with me
A dull, cold, rigid bayonet
On my hot-swollen, throbbing soul.
Early morning ponderings
of an ever restless soul

Confronting that giddy feeling in my gut
like butterflies whispered
laughter laden

Heavy yet light as blown
kisses in doorways

Love is welcome solace
from sleep
I wake to a cloud,
The imagined memories coming back,
So lovely they seemed in my sleep,
Such a nightmare when viewed by the truth of daylight,

Trying to shake the feelings,
I look to the steaming water to wash away the dark lies,
The flowing shower clears my mind,
But only to ponder all the freer,

The cloud has cleared to reveal the shadow,
A shadow of memory,
A shadow haunting all who have experienced pain,
Regret and betrayal are in its smoky tendrils,

Distraction is sought in activity, work, company,
But at the end of the day, darkness again consumes my senses,
Nostalgia wears a seductive smile,
And the temptation to recollect cannot be quelled,

Rather than run from the reminiscence,
I feed the shadow in my mind,
For a brief moment I give in,
I remember without hindering,

An eclipse of my soul,
I allow the dark to overwhelm,
I bleed from closed wounds,
I shed tears of the past.
She stood before me
Long grey coat fringed with dewy beads
The gentle rain walled our world
Existence bounded by her umbrella
Her body matched to mine, but held apart
Toes, ankles, calves, hips, shoulders.
We stood so close
To stay dry, of course
Her body glowed with heat
A heat that washed over me in waves.
The damp shirt steamed on my back, my body responding in kind
So close.
Figures flickered in the distance, far beyond the walls of our world.
Meaningless flickers in a meaningless place.
Our small world empty of all but our heat
A meaningless place that we belonged to
Her eyes traced the outline of my face.
Her cheeks glowed, seemed to press against me, though she did not move.
My hand on her cheek, her neck. Although it did not leave my side.
A meaningless place we should return to.
"I have to go." ... "So do I."
"Soon." ... "In a while."
This is a poem,
This is a poem like other poems,
But this poem I dedicate to you,
And it's not a single certain somebody,
But to all of those you's,
Those you's whose dreams are just on the edge of coming true,
You see these are the you's that need to keep on going,
No matter how much life hurts you,
And with each passing day you begin to lose hope of any virtue,
You see, the you's have to keep going, have to keep on writing,
They have to keep searching,
The have to just keep breathing, no matter the pain that each inhale and exhale take,
Just don't let it break you,
You see these you's see suffer, not in vain,
But for their brilliant brains, that are like sparkling diamonds amongst the bitter cold coals that lay dead,
They are the ones who are worth it, they are the ones who see happiness, rather then ever having it,
They put it in place of something else,
The you's put up walls because their heart has already been broken,
And they won't let you in,
See they hold back everything,
For such a silly thing, like maybe hope, or healing, or if they are really crazy love,
Or maybe just someone to pay them a small bit of attention,
See these you's see the world through their own eyes,
Their own ways,
And they won't let them touch you,
And if someone whose special ruins it for them,
Well that would perhaps **** everything,
But they  wouldn't die,
They learn to somehow survive
So that's what you'll do,
You pick up the pieces they broke off and reattach,
Soon you'll be good as new
And continue chasing those silly butterflies
No matter how far away from home they fly,
I hope to God, that you's like you will still try
A moment spent gazing into her eyes, is an eternity of wonder captured by the mind.
Time begins to mean so little in the grander scheme of this chaotic life.
My love for her is unexplainable, it just is.
There is no means in which words could ever depict the beauty of her gentle kiss,
or the touch of her sweet embrace.
This moment turns into an eternity of everlasting love-
A love spent lost in a lifetime of wonder captured by time.
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