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Jun 2020 · 154
My Answers, On Display
Yuppy Cups Jun 2020
How do I do?
How do I see?
How do  i face the consequence of my reality?

How do I cope?
How is it real?
A revival of our mosaics within the weaving of a century

There were many times I didn't want to do this life.
Multiple hours of struggling with the advisory council within my duvet.
I was drowning or sinking but wasn't breathing, or swimming or living.
and on repeat: sad and depressed, lost in aloofness

And I had nothing, nothing of use to say.
And yet I had all my answers on display.
Just trying to get on with it when life feels non-progressive. When you know what you need to do and just need to work up the energy to do it.
Nov 2018 · 251
The History of Mankid
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
Rampage, savage.
Human imagination.

Build, better, stagnate.

Left.
Right.

Lucid.
Source, remix, medium.
Infinite.

Residence.
Reboot.
Ride.
All those centuries summed up.
Nov 2018 · 287
Feeling of Lightness
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
Put this in poetry for me

Play me a beautiful tune

Plant a seed in the ground

Expand our world - create something new

Turn on all the lights and make a magikal feeling of lightness

Describe how the world tastes and feels

Let's dive into the ocean of forever

And never let go!!!

Rewrite the books on how to

Create something that lasts longer than now

Fix the broken pieces

All this is ours to feel, to breathe, to do.

See the meaning behind the spaces

Render me speechless

Drive me, float me there

I want it all - nothing less
When you really want to embrace everything there is to learn on this wonderful planet with someone you really care about - be it a lover, parent, friend, pet.
Nov 2018 · 204
Past Lives
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
It comes in whispers

Like sleepy murmurs

Warm, like sunshine on your skin

Non-invasive, but persuasive

And then your savage imagination

Demands an audience

Suppos-ed standard storylines

Implanted from a distance

First unit on the scene

Says 'close it up tight'

But by now I know better

No more 'fight or flight'

And the wind kicks up the leaves

And the oceans go wild

As I roll up my sleeves

and release the mind

In my purple velvet fields

I'll roll on the fresh, cut grass

And then I think I'll scream

And shatter what once was...
We have lived many lives. Every time the present seeming so hard.
Nov 2018 · 235
You chose her
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
I feel so hurt by you.

You chose her over me

But the ultimate irony is

I'd never make you choose, you see?

I'll give you space to come back to me

Just so you know

It may not be the same this time

And I'm the fool somehow

I'd probably take you back

And I'd forgive all that's been done

I wouldn't even need an explanation

Just to see your glowing face in the sun, the sun, the sun

You don't even know how much it hurt

You don't even see the pain in my heart

But I'd never burden you with that

I really just want a new start
When he can't seem to choose but you are too in love to realise the brokenness and need on both sides
Nov 2018 · 1.2k
Leave Be...
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
I don't want to

Complicate you

I just want to

Add some value

Extricate me

From my heartbeat

Elevate me

From this deep heat
No stress no fuss. Just want to be near you in whatever way I can be.
Nov 2018 · 236
Away
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
I can't wait to get away, she thought

Not answering to anything except the wind.

Ice-cream for breakfast, jumping on the bed.

No "have-tos" all day without end.

Step aside obstruction

Drown me in discovery

Recreate who I'm to be

A ballad of anonymity
On moving to a new place where you will be unknown for as long as possible.
Nov 2018 · 221
Far From Near
Yuppy Cups Nov 2018
All the little turning wheels

Following the dotted lines

in a rush to get to cubicles

To type on tiny keys

Is it really logical

To see a meaning in it all

Isn't it worth so much more to be leaves

Upon trees

It made me bulletproof

Seeing you so aloof

And I'm trying not to take it so **** personally

And every-time I think it's clear

And we've risen past this atmosphere

You turn around & flip the script on me

You're far from near

Choose your words carefully before you begin

Standing watching the dripping tap over an empty sink

We are a beautiful crime scene.
About how humanity just barely lives from day to day and all the futility mixed in with tiny sparks of life here and there.
Jan 2016 · 310
Untitled
Yuppy Cups Jan 2016
My willow tree has fresh green leaves
My neighbour's dog is rolling in my grass so happily
I do see the sunshine, sparkling
And I feel it happening

I had to do it
I had to burn myself
I know I promised
I had to break that s well

Without you
Everything is wrong
Without you
I'm sorry darling, I just can't write a happy song
Jan 2016 · 572
Dance With Me
Yuppy Cups Jan 2016
My case is cracked
You've ruined me
You are the only one
With whom I want to be

Our song was short
Our words were poetry
I don't want to dance alone
Who will dance with me?

Our story isn't done
The fullstop isn't writ
Till our hair's grey and long
I am sure of it

There's to much to explore
Too much to be seen
And even if we're far
Will you still dance with me?

Our files are downloaded
There's nothing to unpack
We've come this far my dear
No way we can go back

So many things entwined
Such complexities
I'll keep it simple darling
Will you still dance with me?

Will you still dance with me?
Will you still dance with me?
Jan 2016 · 526
Tangled
Yuppy Cups Jan 2016
I know it's all over - but i still feel perplexed
And we can't go back there - but we haven't moved onto the next
All these twists and turns, of going back to being friends
I begin to recognise the swollen tension we possess

Cause I've heard what you've said.
Been frustrated and bled
I've seen how we've cried, how burned and burned inside
And now we are tangled.
Tangled
Tangled, my friend

I have been consumed - by your freckles and eyes
I have felt the comfort - of my best friend by my side
It's so strange to feel, you, no longer next to me.
And it feels so surreal that we still talk daily and daily.

Cause I've heard what you've said.
Been frustrated and bled
I've seen how we've cried, how burned and burned inside
And now we are tangled.
Tangled
Tangled, my friend
Jun 2015 · 640
Heart, Break....
Yuppy Cups Jun 2015
I can’t help never falling out of love with you
I won’t apologise for being in it.
Swirled, wrapped, scents of us..makes no sense
Our difference drives me wild, chemistry
But.
Polarised frustrations fester
Your presence, your essence I will always feel.
Being a part and now apart
How does a heart, heal?
Does it?
Apr 2015 · 352
And There He Was..
Yuppy Cups Apr 2015
You dare just stand in front of me so open and innocent.
Don’t look at me with such open eyes.
I can’t stare into those eyes.
So true and expecting.
Sometimes I feel like you could just lean over and kiss me.
When did our simple understanding become so complex.
I like definition – you like variability.

Why can’t we just be simple?
I was not looking but there you stand.
My heart in your hand.
I don’t want my heart out of my chest.
I didn’t want my heart singing a song I didn’t write.
But there you stand.
I was not looking.
Apr 2015 · 289
Because We Are So Different
Yuppy Cups Apr 2015
It upsets me when I feel I have no space to fully explain myself.
I feel I get cut off and then there is just no discussion.
You are right because of the way you see it.
And you perhaps are...You see it the way you do and that’s it, so absolute.
I don’t see things the way you do.
Do I get space to explain?
Are we too different?
Sometimes it appears we are.
I’m tired of getting upset.
I’m tired of not being understood.
I’m tired of feeling like I do belong, then I don’t, then I do…
I’m sad about it.
The harsh tones… I can’t do the harsh tones anymore.
Then the softness that follows.
The care that follows.
Making sure I’m ok, doing things gently because you can feel I’m upset.
Because we are different.
I can’t do sudden bursts of energy and emotion that explode and fade as fast as they arrived.
My gradual build up has a gradual recovery too.
Because we are so different it is hard for me to explain this.
And so I write.
But you want actions and I have words.
So so different, we are.
Apr 2015 · 949
My Damaged Passion
Yuppy Cups Apr 2015
How do I find myself falling for a boy?
My damaged passion, choking at my throat
I let it percolate and run for cover
Imagining him as my lover

Pulling tricks out of never
Salty skin, I love his taste
One last chance to break this fever
He grabs me round the waist

The heat, so close, I shiver
No more tip-toeing along the shoreline
I submit, my lips quiver
Sensuality is mine

Warm, heavy breath
This boy will destroy me
Soft teasing tongue
I die, willingly
Apr 2015 · 439
The Writer
Yuppy Cups Apr 2015
This food was bad. The grease dripped off the polystyrene into the bowl as if life itself was disgusting.
He sat in his flat, unable to write. How ironic that a writer with so much experience couldn’t write his own story. He was so good at observing everyone else.
Then the haze of dubstep pounded through his apartment walls and he imagined a ****** scene in which the cops would find his neighbours filleted on the floor and all over their filthy couches.
The blood spatter, the details in which their ears had been molested as he felt his were... what happened to real music?
He felt raw.
He felt injustice.
He felt motion in his fingertips and began to type.
Ferocious typing.
Typing to the beat, angrily aiding and abetting this criminal assault on his senses.
He stopped to take the last sip of his last warm beer. He smiled…
The age old sadness and disdain that comes with writers inspiration, especially when the sound track isn't your choice
Feb 2015 · 799
The Man Cycling
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
There's a man cycling around in circles downstairs
He's not getting fit.
He's cycling too slow
The birds sound annoyed at his lazy circumnavigations
How can he be content on such a hamster wheel?
Sometime the pointlessness of the way do things is exhausting.
Feb 2015 · 391
Years
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
Sitting at a cafe, spilling food on my scarf
Thinking of the things I didn't do so well

Feeling on a world that I created myself
And I am wondering why I made it so hard

I spent years not alone
I spent years making home

Years in my mind not my heart - now I know

Years feeling half, half of a whole
Years finding joy making up for it all

Watching as a waitress gives an unconscious smile
- watching and wishing it were mine

Understanding how I left my freedom behind
Feeling like I still didn't waste my time
Feb 2015 · 487
Untitled
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
You should know that I have settled down with some plain guy from a small town
I'm so quiet now; the simple life is good.
I no longer need to be understood.

But are you still crazy over me?
Could I still make you bleed slowly?
Could the intoxication of me
still paralyze who you want to be?

I still think of you, I do.

You should know that
I have settled down with some plain from a small town.
Feb 2015 · 344
Heart Me
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
Baby, baby,
Heart me, heart me
Heart me, heart me now
Baby, baby,
Want me, want me
Show me, show me how

Baby, baby
Tell me, tell me
burning aching sounds
Baby, baby,
Break me, break me
turn my life around

Touch the flavours
See the scent of lust
Upon my pillow made of dust

Baby, baby,
Extricate me
Sweetly, sweetly play
Baby, baby,
Strip me tease me
Do things I cannot say
Feb 2015 · 462
Strings
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
Being connected is so complex
I've trapped my screams in a biscuit tin and..
I put my head back, let out a slow whine
Endless drumming wrapped around my spine

There's no excuse for wanting to flee
Irritation, all this energy
oh-oh-oh overwhelm me
Prisoner of light, growing..growing

Thunderstorm in an atom
Numbness creeping up my thigh
Electrical, hysterical
There's a ghost in my lullaby
Feb 2015 · 425
Sometimes
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
Sometimes I cry because life is so hard to deal with
It's that simple and I still don't understand
It's always my turn with no-one to hold my hand
And so, sometimes I cry when I'm alone in my head

Sometimes I whisper because, I'm scared to admit to myself out loud
It's confusing, it's complicated and i have no plan ahead
It's always my turn with no-one to share the blame
And so sometimes I whisper and I hate myself the same

But then you see sometimes I smile because
the sun rose from his dormant shadow
There's life, there's hope and I cannot defy nature
But it doesn't make my road smoother to carry my weary self along
So sometimes I smile because not everything has gone wrong
Feb 2015 · 556
Soft Skin Spell
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
Walking around with my head in the clouds,
talking out loud - not thinking about it, not thinking about it
Lying in bed all dreamy and sound
Feeling around for your hand - I found it, I found it

Each soft skin spell you wrap around my senses
Each fleshy crevice, your lips of service
Intoxicate me, oh I am restless
As I listen to the words we knit together

Sitting outside just being quiet - feeling the breeze
I turn around to see - you looking me
I look in your eyes they sparkle and shine
I smile and I put my head - on your shoulder, on your shoulder
Feb 2015 · 305
So Blindly
Yuppy Cups Feb 2015
So blindly I trip on life's surprise
Blinded by my lustful need for rain
Spoiled by my own spiteful words
Hello parade meet my pain

And once again the sun is not my friend
It's morning and I will wake and pretend
My spring with a touch of crazy
You're my yes, in a world of maybe.

Mirror in front of me
I'm breaking apart so happily
Let me play with my demons alone
how can I not be your home

And once again the sun is not my friend
It's morning and I will wake and pretend
My spring with a touch of crazy
You're my yes, in a world of maybe.

— The End —