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 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
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Air
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
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Air
All I have
is the air
in my lungs
as I gasp

But if you need
You have it
just reach
your hand

Cause
without you
I will not
breathe
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
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Lost
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
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Where did you go,
my love?
Where have I lost you
on my way?

I no longer know
where your mind
is wandering,
Few inches, galaxies away

Where do you
rest your head?
When our world
fells apart

Will you come back?
Will you reach out?
Tommorow, now or
hardly ever
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
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Facemask
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
zz
Under the facemask
I hid my life
my sorrow,
my pain

my love
for you
I save
for another time


But for this
moment
I let my tears
to fall
Something is out of place.
Something inherently
molecular within her
myogenic wilderness:
a modesty, an awareness,
the visible manifestation
of her shyness.
It contracts.
It tones.
It colors her
openly,
just as the sky.
Involuntary,
just as stimuli.
There's something new
about this face.
Something awakened.
Something lovestruck
and silly.
For what else
could exert such
a dilator mechanism,
in all its deliciousness?
On a dead of winter day
our footsteps in the snow
melt too quickly
for anyone to follow

In drops of steady rain
we picnic beside the lake
and watch fireworks
fizzle out with summer

Riding the crest of fall
but stalked by spring
and so, in the throes
of such invisible connections
we're preserved

And sitting on a shelf
awaiting our turn
to be pried open
and spread like jam
for someone to consume...
he promised me
I could be the
smallest word
that I could hide
in his book of
mysteries and
everyone would
see me but
no one would
ever find me
and he tried to
keep his promise
but he never
saw you coming
the clever girl
who could read
between the lines
and understand
the smallest word
 Oct 2020 Carmen Jane
Jayne E
you are back
returned
to haunting me
stalking my dreams
you and the other
monsters
all ghosts seem
to return at once
I can taste you
feel you
wanting another
pound of flesh
for your larder
hedonistic as ever
too much
was never enough
for you
panic rises
black dots fusing
as always
obscuring light
******* the oxygen
out of my room
the air replaced
with your scent
each inward breath
suffocates me further
tick tock tick tock
slowing down the clock
dragging out nights shadows
I left you long ago
why can't you
just let me go.

© J.C.
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