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Literature
cigarettes, vodka, and axe
i learned about loneliness last night,
belatedly, because no one ever bothered
to explain it to me- it was
something best kept for the time it existed in
the blank space where a hand had once been
a soft shaky touch
now absent
the sorrow comes in sultry waves
with the indigo tide of me missing your breath
on the hollow in my sleepy neck,
a whisper backandforth inandout and then
a hitch, a twitch and the slow descent
from sea-froth into dreamland
we drifted, content, into the
scared scarlet hills where nightmares roam
where i made my home, knowing that
in sleep your whispers still coated my pillowcase
and i was not alone
we s
Die:
Such a simple word, spewed without thought.
"I wish you'd die, I wish you'd be killed."
But what if we actually gave meaning to those words?
Can you understand the emotion, the magnitude, the weight,
Of actually seeing the life of an individual depart?
Can you look them in the eyes, as they bleed into your hands;
Observing their final moments, as the light fades from their eyes?
Or are you simply a soft-hearted coward,
Sitting fat behind a computer, wishing death upon others?
To say that one is deserving of death,
Suggests that you are ready to kill.
And if indeed you are ready to kill,
Then you too must be prepared to die.
The heart of a lion,
The strength of a bear,
You said I was fierce
& I just stared.
You expect me to thank you,
expect me to smile
but these aren't compliments,
meant for a child.
Would you mind finding me
in all the thoughts you've thought...
Would you mind if I ran free
in all the thoughts you've got?
A sound plays and my eyes splatter
down my face
Music forms in the ripples on the floor
I see your face.
I look up and the sky is clouds and pillows and beds
where we once slept
They drift by in slow motion, like a dream
a passing sentiment.
Would you mind finding me as the figure you once knew, a dancer
Would you mind if I lost my way back to you