I think you left a piece of you in me. by DearPoetry, literature
Literature
I think you left a piece of you in me.
This tangled mess you call a heart,
daisy veins & sin;
She's bringing me down.
& you were merely shivering
kite-string clavicles.
Nothing,
pressing winter bones
against my sun-stricken mouth,
darkness searching for a home
buried in my lungs.
You whispered breathe me
lovely in the inhale/exhale
of carbon dioxide suicide.
She speaks only of you now,
lonely & mourning beats-
Crack open this damn ribcage;
set me
free.
I don't deserve to be an artist.
I don't know how to hold deep meaningful conversations with strangers.
I don't lament at night about a lover I have lost.
I don't watch the white smoke ebb into darkness.
I don't spend lonely nights admiring the true beauty of the world.
I don't sleep restlessly from the truth of suffering within this world.
I don't lie through my smiles or struggle to create them.
But I do think I am a writer.
I am completely, irreparably damaged.
I cry all night over old words and emotional baggage.
I weep over my lost innocence.
I spend nights
i am but a weary passenger
wondering who
might be missing me -
nobody
can tell whether this is just a famine
or an infestation,
it's strange how that works -
here,
maybe you are lying beside me
or above me
but i am suffocating -
love's
not one of those things that
you can forget
easily, not quite like -
me.
we have the softest heartbeats by paperheartsyndrome, literature
Literature
we have the softest heartbeats
i don't know what it means when you say
you don't know what i mean.
the implications of my every sentence stain the
atmosphere like neon lights and i'm left wondering
how you can still be so clueless. how after
all this time. after all the sentences we traded
with each other. after every minute that makes
the miles smaller. you still don't get it. how
you could still not get me.
this is the part where i need to remind myself
that you were never mine.
you've never been anyone's because there isn't
a sentence simple enough to make you stay so
three words and eight letters won't leave you
breathless in between my bed sheet
we became an atlantic tragedy2 by ChloroformBoy, literature
Literature
we became an atlantic tragedy2
verse i:
We first met in 1912
April 14, the ocean smelt
beautiful. Just like your face.
and eyes and skin. the crashing waves
mimicked your hips crashing into mine;
mimicked you crashing the party in my mind
this boat crashing against the tide's
bone structure. Rocking side to side.
it was my first time; I was scared as hell
it was your first time, I couldn't tell
disaster could be seen from two nautical miles,
but I was too blinded my the curve of your smiles
in case you forgot, your clothes sank to the floor;
your body sank into mine; my heart sank into yours.
in case you forgot, your clothes
He holds out a chubby fist that clenches a slightly wilted red flower, and he smiles as hard as he can. The flower is beautiful, and his mother is beautiful, and his child's mind thinks they must go together.
"Thank you, Lucifer," his mother says kindly, and halfway-smiles. She places the flower on the table beside her and returns to her book.
He keeps smiling even as he turns away, even as he walks to the door, even as tears burn his eyelids. But he waits until he is outside his mother's room before he bursts into sobs and runs like a demon back to the garden. It takes him hours, but, once he finally finds the plant with the red flower