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I used to talk about love
Like I knew what hell I was talking about
I had all the clichés mastered
My mind made sense of
Nonsensical things
Like, tackling a girl into the snow
and her liking it...
Because it seemed to make sense,
I did it - and it worked

Back when I talked about love like
I knew a thing or two
I would use Crayons to color my best
Staying inside the lines
But love has no lines
I knew so little that I didn’t catch on
A flawless drawing just means
It doesn't have character at all

Now that I talk about love like
a ******* fool
I step on your toes
I laugh a little too loud at
inappropriate things
I respond to your “I’m fine”
With a quiet hug

When you hear someone talking about love,
Like they think they know
What they're talking about
Just give it some time
Once you realize how little you know
You took the first step toward understanding
I don't believe in "Happily Ever After"
until after it happens to me.
 Mar 2013 sugar plumb
sweet leigh
Sometimes I think I love you.

When I've had a little too
too much wine
and I'm a little too
too lonely
and you're there
you're always
always there
and I don't care
I don't care if it's not really
I don't care if I'm only
only pretending
because you're moving
moving above me
against me
above me
against me
you keep moving
and you love me
love me truly
heart achingly
beautifully
and I wish I could be
thought I might be
want so badly
to believe
that maybe I'd be...
What wish?
Do you wish for?
If I had the power.
I would granted it.
If it's within reasons.

For, whatever hurt you've been through.
I'll cure it with the wishes I give unto you.
There'll be only three.
And nothing more.

The first I will get to decide.
And it would be life's blessing.
Where I hope you find your dreams?

Knowing me.
I would decide the second one too.

It will be love.
After noticing all the harm given unto you.
When you unwillingly was used as a tool.
By guys you thought cared about you.

I , might as well decide the last one too.
It would be trust.

Just because a few mistakes derailed your heart.
I would advise you with truth to never give up.
But to be more careful.

Three wishes of dreams.
Three wishes of hope.
Three wishes of support.
Which means you must carry on toward your goal.
[part 1 - The Depending of Rescue]

I've waited so long for you
to take me to the place where light came through
all this time I thought you would save me
But together we were stuck in this dark sea

Myself so lost in this tearing tide
only to find, I was not alone inside
fighting the waves to get free
growing powers grew deep down in me

[part 2 - Becoming Atlas]

Im out into the sky beyond the stars
looking down at the land so far
lost souls still trapped behind
I came back for you, I have to find

Spend my life searching and saving
to stop my heart from this painful raging
help those stand on the land I have found
your still lost in the black, quiet is the sound

I see your eyes, so bright as the brightest night star
Drifting away from my hand, floating so far
Ive spent my life so long to bring you to shore
I cannot stop its what I'm existing for

[part 3 - The Distraction]

In search for you I have saved so much
millions have felt my graceful touch
they plead for me to guide them away
So many I lead to see a new day

Shining light over their homes
making them feel the warmth in their souls
Starting a future that they can live in
But with all my power, I cannot find where you've been

bound by duties you slip away from me
away from view, and deeper into the sea
The older I grow the more of you I miss
but all these feelings I am forced to dismiss

[Part 4 - Atlas Relinquished]

Strength has raged within in my blood
my veins are dried while my emotions flood
away from my heart into the night
tired by the constant shine of light

Broken labored hands are laid to rest
after long years of might's test
exasperation falls over my will
want nothing more to forever be still

I can no longer help to build
I lay slowly upon the field
body and soul unable to lift
watching the world, still, it sits
"Life will always gets better."

Seems I've been waiting forever.
And I was dead.
Dead asleep.
Trying to fight my demons,
In lands you only meet in dreams.
My pillow smelled of fear,
And my skin smells like you.
This perfume is the only remain
You left as evidence
of the ******
We
Both
Committed.
#february15 #2013 #poetry #anarebecacastillo
 Feb 2013 sugar plumb
Barb
We climbed under bed sheets in our day clothes
and I remembered how soaked my moccasins were
thinking of the salt stains that would soon be there
and how pretty you looked when your eyes were closed

My eyes fought exhaustion with drooping lids
and I drank black coffee like I needed it to live
we washed away our secrets from the day in muddled whispers
and soon decided to go for a cigarette

Climbing out of bed like skeletons from coffins
Dressing for the weather in hats and jackets with boots
We ran across the street and almost slipped on the ice
six times

In the back yard of an old abandoned house
We stood facing the the water
I could swear you were changing
beneath the street lights and heavy breathing

It’s time for me to let go of this
but I don’t know if I’m strong enough
I’m worried that this won’t be good for you
I just can’t keep doing this to myself
 Feb 2013 sugar plumb
Alice Kay
The only things that you ever see are

my

mistakes
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