Summer: Favorites

Dec 2015 Summer

nika

I am in love
With the freckles
In your right eye
The islands
That keep me from drowning
In your depths
And ground me to reality

I am in love
With the scars
Across your shoulders
That have no story
And might be burns
Familiar to my fingertips
At a single touch

I am in love
With the blue ink
Across the right of your chest
A quote from some film
About an existential crisis
Printed on skin
You're my favourite book

I am in love
With your love
For clichéd things
Like pictures of moons
And quotes that are lame
But most of all your thoughts
Of moonlit oceans and love

I am in love
With the way
You give without regret
Of the loss of money
Or time spent
Without ever expecting
Anything back

I am in love
With the mess
That you're always in
Your creased clothes
And your car
And the chaos that is
Your daily routine

I am in love
With the curls
In your ***** blonde hair
I like when its short
And looks tidy and good
But I love when its long
So I can run my fingers though it

I am in love
With the smile
You have just for me
The slightest little curve
Of your lips to the left
That makes me smile
Whether I want to or not

I am in love
With the way
That you see me as someone
That I'd like to be
As someone worthy
Of the love
You've given me

I am in love
With your hands
And how they fit every inch
Of my body just right
Like a piece of me
Just wasn't there
Before

I am in love
With your promise
That bloomed out of silver
That you'll stay for a while
Like a drop in the ocean
Caught in a hand that might
Be able to hold onto it

I am in love
With you
Your chaos
Your flaws
Your promise
Your love
Endlessly

Dec 2015 Summer

Hungry for something else

Dec 2015 Summer

A Lopez

Hungry for something else

I'm a murderer
I've stabbed my own heart.
I'm a thief
I've stolen my own happiness.
I'm a liar
I've told myself how much better things would be.
I'm a slothful woman
I fell asleep.
I'm greedy
I've eaten my own pain.
I'm hungry
Just not for sin again.

Dec 2015 Summer

Don't Think About It

Dec 2015 Summer

Homunculus

Don't Think About It

If you live in the US,
Your tax dollars fund
Drone strikes, that
**** children, and a
Military, that
Bombs hospitals, but
Oh, well
Football's on,
Whatever.

protip: don't pay your taxes

#war #distraction #stupidity #greed #corruption #laziness #diversion #imperialism

Dec 2015 Summer

Perfect - Part 1

Dec 2015 Summer

Jack Thompson

Perfect - Part 1

I wrote a perfect poem once. I scribbled it down on the back of a half used napkin. It wasn't short and is wasn't long. The lipstick laced food marks couldn't taint what was already perfect. There was no love and no sadness in the words. It embodied only emptiness - it's most pure form. Nothing left wanting, no thirst unquenched.

In a moment of clear sight, I knew only the right words were forming. In that moment the half empty bar around me sunk, drowned, imploded and combusted - for all I cared. I had just written a masterpiece.

#love #poem #sadness #empty #perfect #napkin

Dec 2015 Summer

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Dec 2015 Summer

Lottie

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It feels like I'm finally learning how to breathe without you.

Dec 2015 Summer

careful what you wish for

Dec 2015 Summer

NV

careful what you wish for

because when she was young,

people would ask her

"what superpower,

do you wish for?"

so without any hesitation

she replied "invisibility."

and then,

and then she grew up realising

it came true.

Dec 2015 Summer

Again And Again And Again

Dec 2015 Summer

Anne Sexton

Again And Again And Again

You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.

I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
It is old. It is also a pauper.
I have tried to keep it on a diet.
I give it no unction.

There is a good look that I wear
like a blood clot. I have
sewn it over my left breast.
I have made a vocation of it.
Lust has taken plant in it
and I have placed you and your
child at its milk tip.

Oh the blackness is murderous
and the milk tip is brimming
and each machine is working
and I will kiss you when
I cut up one dozen new men
and you will die somewhat,
again and again.

Dec 2015 Summer

I wasn't ready for this.

Dec 2015 Summer

bex

I wasn't ready for this.

How am I supposed to fall in love if I don't even know what love is?

The more I look at you, the more I think about how much I want to hold your dumb hands and ne dumb with you bc im dumb nd im so sorry if this stops making snse. i think yhere was soda in this alscohol and I wasnt readu for it maybe isf you could jsst hold mt hand one more time that be freat. im si sirrt vyt i ca nt stay sober much longer okat htis is oakt
pleese forgiv ,e ne

this was a draft but ******* i dont remember writing this. i think it's from like 2 years ago?? it broke my own heart ***

#love #drunk #regret #**** #yikes