Maybe your bones
Are funny
And I'm ticklish,
Afraid to
Start a war
Where you'll beat me
By finding
My weak spot,
Where I'll break
By the slightest touch of you,
Laughing until tears
And crying until
I'm breathless,
And as we lie
There between
The sheets
And the pillows,
We'll know
These are the moments
We'll never forget
The memories
We'll never regret,
No matter what
May happen
After we've settled down
And we're serious
Pretending
Nothing ever happened,
But inside we're
Giddy and silly
And dizzy
And happy...
APAD13 - 100 © okpoet

I remember
The first time
I learned to lie
"It doesn't hurt" I cried
As tears spilled from my defiant eyes
And the beatings continued,
I remember
The first time
I learned to play
Make believe,
"I have plenty of friends"
I answered to anyone who'd inquire,
And now I'm a chronic liar
Are you ok?
Yes I'm fine,
Are you sad?
No, I'm pretty happy,
How's life?
Just peachy thank you,
Just trying
To get through the day
Pretending to be glad
Rushing out the door
Knowing no one
Waits for me
At the place I call home
Looking for my knife
I recede from the outside lies
I cut deep,
And as I watch the blood seep;
Through the fabric of my parting skin
I relish the pain, the rush and the thrill of this sin
The only truth I know;
Before I cry myself to sleep...
APAD13 - 099 © okpoet

He may not notice
The subtle
Fading of your smile
But I must be cursed
If I must flinch
At all
The fleeting
Changes
Of you,
Like astronomers
Study
The stars
And catalog
All their movements,
And unlike
The weatherman
Who predicts
Through all
His charts
And graphs,
I know;
Down to the smallest degree
All your emotions,
But I'm only
A foreign observer
Who can't change the channel...
APAD13 - 098 © okpoet

I'd kiss
The red off your lips
Until they were
Just glossy pink,
And what would
Transpire
Between the sheets
Would make anyone
Perspire,
Between
My passion
And devotion
Lies only you,
As my fingers
Comb your hair
Like my words
Brush your thoughts,
And my lips
Utter all the musings
Of your body,
How all your curves
Give way under my
Calloused hands,
Like my mind
Gives way
Only to you...
APAD13 - 097 © okpoet

I wish
You'd stay a bit
And linger,
Instead of
Walking away
While I bite my finger,
Afraid to ask
For you to say
One more word,
Hoping you'll
Look at me
One more minute,
Wishing you would
Graze my hand
Accidentally;
Incidentally;
Casually
Sparking
Another fire
In my heart
Already
Phoenixed
Twice over
In a minute,
While on the surface
I sit back
Nonchalantly
Keeping my hands
Steady,
Holding back
From wanting to
Find any excuse
To grab your hand
And ask
Do you really have to go?
To laugh with you
And share
Another moment,
How dreadful
The time in between
Your visits,
But you'll never know...
APAD13 - 096 © okpoet

I feel the flow of my words
Like I'm donating blood;
But never do I know
When enough is enough,
And I drain myself
Down to the white
Sheet of me;
Just within an inch
Of death,
Having placed
An IV drip
From my veins
Into my pen
And I can't stop;
Writing all the thoughts
That stream
Through my mind
Twenty four / seven
Coverage
Of the weather
In my heart,
How it rains
How it thunders
How it shines;
How the breeze
Blows throughout
When you're in my thoughts
And when you're in my dreams
Which is where you always seem to be;
So, that's where I'll be too, with you forever...
APAD13 - 095 © okpoet

I pushed
And pushed
All the while
Really wanting to pull,
I pushed
Too far
And away
It went,
Away from me
And there I stood
Regretting,
Wishing
The wishes
I had been wishing
Before
Not having listened
To my heart,
Instead
Reasoning
With my logic
That I couldn't
Lose what I never had,
And there I sat
In the pit
Of my despair
Done in
By my own hand,
Alone to be...
APAD13 - 094 © okpoet