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I'm not a poet
I'm just emotional
twenty-something emotions
those hit hard

I'm not a poet
only a sleepwalker,
my fingers burning to type
my laptop keyboard so well-lit
so I fall into the desire

I'm not a poet
I just whisper to a quiet altar called Hello Poetry
a fatal attraction
so I type
welcome to the cult
Where's my keyboard, I can't sleep
I screamed 
"I WOULD HAVE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU"
"I WOULD HAVE DONE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING"
I screamed at the top of my lungs
My fists clenched white as tears fell down
I screamed at the world
Until my heart gave out
I screamed
For someone who isnt' there anymore
Meet me at the fireflies

Saw him in the hallway today
Entirely changed the course of my way
Thought I had forgotten him
Thought I was over it
Thought I had changed
But then I saw that face
The one I fell in love with at eleven years old
I remember all the things he told me
While looking at the fireflies
Until I realized I'm the villain in disguise
Saw him in the hallway today
Entirely changed the course of my brain
The look of desperation and hope
Streaked across his face
Thought he had called it off
Thought he had lied to me
Thought we were just loving stupidly
But then I saw myself
The one who said I was too busy
I remember all the things I said
While looking at the fireflies
Until I processed what he just told me
When I saw him in the hallway today
"meet me at the fireflies"
Oh I'll meet you at the fireflies
Change myself now I'm above my lies
I love you
You love me
I'll meet you at the fireflies
You need me
I need you
Let's talk when I meet you at the fireflies

-Addison
I see you in the dark,
A shadow lost in time,
But your light calls me,
And I find the climb.

Through all the years we've missed,
And all the love we sought,
I reach for you in silence,
In every battle fought.

Your tears fall like the rain,
Washing all that’s past,
But still, your voice whispers,
A promise made to last.

I will stand beside you,
No matter where we go,
Through the quiet and the chaos,
Through every ebb and flow.
I never understood the sentence
"I have my heart in my mouth."
Not until I tasted it,
not until I spit it,
not until the words got stuck in my throat
because I felt a weight on my mouth that didn’t let me breathe.

I didn’t understand the sentence
until I felt my chest empty
and its beating on my neck.
Until I cried because I couldn’t even talk.

I didn't understand what
"Having your heart in your mouth"
meant
until I found it there
and I had no one to turn to.
Hopefully 'I have my heart in my mouth' is an expression that IS actually used in english, because the original poem was about a spanish idiom ('tengo el corazón en la garganta') that IS quite common.
"the freeway from here, can you hear it?"
              
                                                 ­             "...it sounds like an artificial river."
"its always on."
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