Youth teases your ears and eyes, running back and forth along them until it digs ruts large enough to plant an elder Oak between the two.

i can only take the breath you sigh
i can only feel the coldness emanating from your shoulders

her angel voice can sugar coat my eardrum until the day I die from diabetes. her curly hair must have libraries of stories to tell because I've been lounging in her life for years now, and I still always lose my page. her colored nails blind me just long enough to make me miss our exit every time.

I wish I had a girlfriend I could write poetry

and your favorite woman keeps dripping disdain,
after biting your neck with her deep hollow fangs.
her skinny arms wrap around you like thorn ridden vines
and hold you to a bed that speaks only in rhymes
frightening figures dance in her eyes
but you cant break your stare from those tragic blue cries.

it's not that I fear losing you and your sole presence, but that once I lose you, I have lost myself. There is no sole soul to have left, or else it would have had nothing to leave behind. All fauna feel our fears and all foilage fills our lungs, so do not pretend you are without,and look within. I promise you will see the alluring woman you dream ( Read more... )

I remembered. It was vivid. The smile came to my face the same way it did that morning, two hands full of newspaper, and a brow lined with ink. It was warm...no, it was hott. sweltering actually, and it was miserably wonderful. Skipping in and out of people's front porch lives, giving them the repetitive news of yesteryear. The past was something ( Read more... )

i've shaken the tears from my eyes when the earthquakes that left everyone else devastated couldn't do it.
I've grinned that ugly grin until my teeth cracked themselves, and the powder coated my lips in a bitter blanket

I've brought my knees to the cement and listened to the river's truth,
I've chased my self respect around dangerous corners,

sucking on candy caned eyelashes their sweet swirls made love in her mouth. His sideways glances burst with flavor and his iris screams "i love you". around her little finger spun the universe, and it spun her the warmest sweaters for the coldest nights. Shovels of granite up to her shoulders, begged her to make them into pages of gold. But her ( Read more... )

Horus and Seteh battled each day
to bring light to the earth, and take it away
The morning brought victory to Horus' name,
Until Seteh gained the high ground and night was his slave.

inside there is a garden lush with new ideas. but once they've come they've gone for good and no one's to remind you ( Read more... )