| Poetry Marathon Archive Seventeen |
EightHundredOne
So it's over.
It's the night and you can breath again, unrestrained.
Unconfined, your solitary, succulent, socialite soul goes out to
drink in the warm papaya night that isn't under your window.
Where is he?
Where is the music you always were afraid to dance to?
What does your world become when the same music box tune
plays in your head like candy,
and the beat is uneven,
but you never stop to care.
Spread your wings, soft feathers, multicolored brown, mottled blue.
Patterns in your feathers, stars in your feathers, dreams only now
coming true.
Learn to see beyond.
Learn the time to fall, and how to do it gracefully.
Just because it's obnoxious doesn't mean it's bad.
Just because it's new doesn't mean it won't go away.
Wake up with the dawn and see the face that surfaces like a drowned
sun in your mirror
as your own.
~Becky~
EightHundredTwo
And the beat was un-even
and you never stopped to care
just kept moving, avoiding, leaving
other people called it "running away"
you called it "escape" and somehow
the two were entirely different.
Different feet everywhere you went
and all of them could dance
and all of them tried to teach you
and all of them failed.
You got so used to shuffling
that listening and moving and following
were hard to learn
and you kept tripping
and they'd laugh
and you'd leave.
Your goal in life
was never to get stuck
and you suceeded for a while
but then you learned to spin and looked into eyes
that were smiling
and you never knew eyes could smile before
and your feet wouldn't move the way you asked them to
just kept going in circles
without tripping
and there was more to learn
and you wanted to learn it all.
You learned to smile
to giggle and laugh
and when someone tickles you now you don't
suck your stomach in.
You learned to ask and listen and fall
and someone was there to catch you
and everything was perfect.
Then one day
you fell
and kept falling
and the hands were gone
and you had forgotten how to escape.
FrannyIsRad
NumberEightOhThree
you had forgotton
the way a body has such a presence. how he was so tall.
how could anyone dominate
a doorway like that?
walking two steps to each of his one, you had forgotton
what it was like to smile bounce skip hop
wear sunglasses
gaze up adoringly past the sunlight filtering past his neck and shoulders
you'd forgotton how he could leave you behind
how he'd stride, watching the distance
how he'd leave you one step shorter, so you could
smile and melt and grin and love all you wanted
without fear of being caught.
you know you thought you'd forgotten how to love
you were afraid how thin the butterflies wings were getting lately
afraid that if they tried to flap too hard
they'd curl up and die, fluttering cold to the ground.
were you glad, the day you realized, he would always stop for you
eventually?
turning and smiling as you trotted to catch up
were you rejoicing the day the butterflies wings built up so much
that they caused hurricanes in other parts of the world?
or did your stomach turn
when you realized how much there was to forget again?
you know you are afraid of being destroyed
by something as powerful as
a million butterflies. you know you're scared of being swept up by their
colors and their wings.
you know you are blissful that he'll walk beside you now, his arm around
you now, you are never left behind now,
but it's so much harder to see the sun, from there.
are you glad you remembered
what you thought you'd forgotten? or are you wishing for
a single butterfly
wings fluttering gently
against the sun?
RoyaBoya
8oh4
I bet you thought that I had gone?
I bet you thought you'd gotten ride of me
And my bloody words
But when you gave me that look
I turned around and said
how could i even close
a doorway like that?
My Poetry is the way of me
It's my baby that's only 5 months old.
When my baby poetry weeps
i weep.
When my baby crys
i cry.
When my baby laughs
i laugh.
i watched my baby grow up
from my first poem number 51
to my latest ones that no one has seen.
my poetry is my baby
the baby i love.
Heather who is back on wiki poetry
805
But when you gave me that look,
Such a look I don't think I've ever seen.
My oppionions came crashing down with your hug,
like dynamite for the soul,
my barriers fled as I thought WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?
You happend to me.
Made me think.
Made me question how I looked at people,
how I saw them as impervious to me,
or thin and pourous and yearning to be filled with my love.
I'm still scared.
Still afraid to give kindness to strangers
who may turn their backs, toss their heads,
and dismiss me with a sigh.
But I see myself like a mountain
where before I was a valley.
I see myself as determined
where before I was indesicive.
I look you in the eyes now,
and smile.
~Becky~
EightOhSix
i look you in the eye
look myself in the eye
and try and decide what's real.
the glimmer of mischeviousness
the welling of tears
or the smile?
special smiles from your lips
that i roll up and stick in my pocket
to keep for later
when i'm cold and silent and none of my friends
notice
i take out that smile and wrap it around me
and eat chocolate memories of when
the sun was shining on the porch steps
and perfect was a jar of peanut butter
and saltine crackers
and bare feet.
and i wear navy blue
and remember you.
FrannyIsRad
NumberEightOhSeven
when i'm cold and silent and none of my friends notice
you know i'm all
curled up right now, alone, and
i try to swallow down
emerging panick. something big and blue and freezing
from somewhere deep and dark inside
and i sit
like a glacier
melting
into my hands. i bend over the keyboard
and tears drizzle into the pool. you can't even tell.
you don't even know.
how could you be expected to
i still type in smileys
even when my eyes feel like
stones. rocks. gravel.
scratching.
you make the pit in my stomach ten times heavier
and i can't move. can't breathe. i don't even want to write
poetry won't make anything better
all it does is warm my fingers up
so it constrasts starkly
when i touch my freezing forehead.
where are you to tell me
to keep warm?
RoyaBoya
EightZeroEight
I try to swallow down emerging panic.
Losing control would not be good right now,
or ever again.
Panic would mean crying,
being scared,
refusing to let go of you.
No. I won't do that.
So I cram it down,
stuff it out of the way.
Maybe if I ignore it long enough
it will disappear.
So just hold me
as we watch the time we have left together
rapidly disappear.
~Qetyria~
EightOhNine
so this is it
i swallow my last
real breath of you
and cough you back up
and you stream down my face
so this is it
baby's on fire
a scorcher, this one is.
But daddy's lost to your secrets
that he thinks are his:
I imagine a smack
and your cheek bleeding blue
but even bruised and beaten up
still doesn't suck away
daily aches
from where you chill out
in my chest.
so is this.
this is so.
don't go.
~Maggie
EightTen
in my chest
this feeling of collapsing
caving in
yet emtiness
like when someone leaves and a room grows
larger and smaller
and someone HAS left.
i think it's you.
your feet just shuffling out
of my life
in fluffy pink
slippers and how can friendship
leave so quietly
no stomping
or slammed doors just
gone.
i'm holding a slip of paper you wrote on
when we still giggled together
and i don't giggle a lot
and all the paper says is
"i'll always be here for you"
and i wonder who invented "always"
and how long it REALLY is.
and if "forever" lasts any longer than
"tomorrow"
and the calluses on my fingertips
are fading
since i don't play my guitar
anymore
whose here to listen
but how i was proud of those calluses
now i'm trying to do that
to my heart.
FrannyIsRad
EightEleven
whose here to listen
to the incoherent rambles
of a brown haired girl
and i wonder
do they really want to listen?
or do they just say that
to keep me in a state
of semi-consciousness
i look up at the stars
and its midnight
i'm wondering
who i really am
and who i will be
whose here to listen
to my strange sayings
and singing in the rain
those phone calls
at 3 am
speaking of faerys and stars
and i realize that there are many people
here to listen
all i have to do is ask.
~Jadzia
EightTwelve
Do they really want to listen?
The silences seem to stretch on
for miles.
For every word you don't say
I fill in 20.
I coil the phone cord
around and around my finger,
thinking of all the people you must have talked to
in your life,
and I'm sure they were all more interesting
than me.
When you laugh,
it's like bells chiming
and I shiver in wonder that something I said
could create such a sound.
You know, I never stop
to question
why I care so much
if this phone call is perfect,
or if it's just an odd mix of awkward giggles and long sighs
like most.
I have to prove something to you.
But what if I screw it up?
I feel like there's only one chance,
one phone call
to prove my entire character to you.
Fuck that.
I'd rather just hang up.
~Becky~
EightThirteen
as the plane descends through a tangle
of buildings, skeleton glass brightly
shining back at the plane,
it should have been raining
you think as you dial the number
(your mother's number, your husbands number
your friend's number, your sister and brother)
people saying their goodbyes
through plastic mobile phones
with guns pointed at their heads
through the chill of
their impending death
through the kill of
your sinking hope.
and my shattered shock to
watch your death on the TV screen
to read your obliteration
on the computer
it must have been relief to hang up
after saying "I love you, goodbye"
and swallowing down tears and bile.
you close your eyes and pray
that the clenching shiver
in your stomach, sharp and acid
screaming and raging through plastic
they must be laughing
i hope they're happy
at the last minute agony
becomes a joke, just like everything else
becomes smoke, and stench fills the air
reminding me of terror -- can you imagine?
i can.

EightOneFour
Looking back on that day,
it should have been raining.
Remember when there was rain.
We were united,
brought together,
many voices made one.
Warm, crowded,
we didn't quite fit,
but a little extra crowding didn't bother us.
The rain bonded us together,
then set us free,
dancing off to change the world.
Without the rain,
yes, we are free now,
but we've forgotten how to dance.
There was no rain to close the old chapter,
which makes it that much harder
to begin a new one.
~Qetyria~
NumberEightOneFive
rain bonded us together,
the kind of bond where you don't really want to
know the person that well
i knew just about all
that i was comfortable with.
but acid rain like drops of unrequited love
hissed on our unprotected heads
and now
our poetry is linked.
and now the songs i listen to are tainted
because you've listened to them too
and i think they mean more to me.
i am the one who feels so deep. i am the one who cares more than she
should.
you laugh, you flirt, you put another conquest on the back shelf
and i hurt, i fade against your extraordinarily bright image
loving more than you've ever known.
it was my love that overflowed and splashed down
like acid
on your head. and now you've confused it with your own
and our poetry is linked. linked and i want to sever our connection,
because
i have drowned in rain
and you have always evaded getting in too deep.
RoyaBoya
EightOneSix
i am the one who feels so deep
who cares more than she should
everytime i get close to someone
i can't help but wonder
how much do they really care?
is it real or just an illusion
something to pass by later on
like a silly school girl crush
that you look back on and laugh about
i know you, but who will take the time
to get to know me, who i really am?
"i prefer to dig for gold"
thats the line i'd love to hear
whispered from your lips...
~Jadzia
817
Gone.
You have left me.
But to where i wonder.
Heaven?
Hell?
Is there such a thing?
Is there a difference?
I can't tell.
All I know is you are gone.
We will never read together again.
Or laugh together,
Or lie on the grass and watch the stars,
Or a thousand other things.
I will never hear your voice,
Or thrill when you touch me.
Or feel your lips against mine.
I will never see a smile light up your face.
All these things I will never know again.
What I wouldn't give to hear the words
"I love you"
Wispered from your lips,
once more.
~erynne
817
liftoff
but to where i wonder
in lowercase freebase
and a suitcase
blacknsilver zipper closed and bursting
with bits of me and bits just aquired.
blaming the growl
of nerves
(when a man
in a towel turban sits near)
on indigestion.
behind the eye-dreams
of drugs
when i get home
will there be something left?
or maybe just a hole
with me and my fatsuitcase
standing in the center of a cloud
that used to be steel
and a pulse.
---Maggie
818
standing in the center of a cloud
swirling mists surround me
my life was like a black and white photo
before you came
you color the mists with rainbows
and dance in the moonlight
like a faery
i have bursts of realization
where just for a moment
everything makes sense
like a key that likes to appear
at odd moments of the day
you open the door to avalon
and fairytales at midnight
i smile and you giggle
goddess girl
my life was like a black and white photo
before you came
~Jadzia
EightNineteen
i smile
and remember
when i used to laugh
and a smile is all that's left
no one ever told me that once you forget
how to laugh
getting it back taked practice
just like no one ever said
that once someone leaves they're gone
but you still don't forget
once something's over
you still hurt
and when i cry out in pain
and they ask where it hurts
and i point to my heart and say "here"
and they laugh.
i smile and bite my lip
just hard enough
not too hard
enough to not say a word
and know i'm real and here
and not draw blood
and no one can see because my hair
makes a cutain round my face
and i cry out in pain
and they ask where it hurts
and i point to my heart and say "here"
they smirk a little but look thoughtful.
i lie in bed and sploch
my journal pages with tears
and enjoy the way blue lines look
smeared together
i cross thing out
write them in again in pencil
earase them
write them in again with pen
and i draw windows and flowers
on my palm
no one's gonna hold my hand
so they won't smear
and i cry out in pain
and they ask where it hurts
and i point to my heart and say "here"
and they say "i understand" with wet eyes
and give me a hug.
FrannyIsRad
EightTwenty
smeared together, I can still tell
where I began
before our words blurred together and
you showed me
that language is meant to be used
like a box of 26 crayons -
that a rainbow doesn't even begin
to describe the colors we can create.
For Roya

NumberEightTwentyOne
like a box of 26 crayons
i fall and scatter
the smell of wax and blank paper
exciting, thrilling, anticipating
a mess all over the floor
bright
and brighter i am every color possible
being ground into the carpet
by an unsuspecting heel
i got in trouble
for drawing beautifully on the wall
and i melt
if you leave me alone.
i would have you be my mural
my canvase, my butcher paper, my wall
my blank slate
anything is possible
before i try to scratch my own colors on your skin.
who says that
blank is perfect
and that
scribbles aren't the epitome of eloquence?
i am the orange the blue the purple the green the marks on the table
snapped in two
i am the girl who never knows
when to stop
RoyaBoya
EightTwentyTwo
wasting time with scribbles
i'm sitting here giving into fear
if i give in, they win
i still don't know where the predator hides
i still don't know where the danger lies.
wish i wasn't sitting here
wasting minutes, absently tapping and waiting
should've gone back and climbed the rock face
like i did yesterday
to stand on top and look down
feeling like a beautiful giant.
i like the danger that i know.

EightTwentyThree
feeling like a beauty
and tapping my foot
and wishing i could but memories on a TV screen
and replay them over and over.
pink
hair in the sun
"hair is pink?"
this country girl didn't understand.
one year later.
purple
hair in the sun
"ooohhh purple hair! pretty!"
this country girl
didn't realize how much you change in a year.
feeling like a beauty
all curled up on the sofa
watching
(story of my life)
listen and watch, listen and watch
remember it all
then when i'm home i can pour it all onto paper
and put it in the mail
and i mail it to you because
maybe you didn't listen and watch
listen and watch
and remember it all
sometimes i wish I was the one
being watched.
FrannyIsRad
EightTwentyFour
Sitting down
tapping my foot
not in time to any music
only to hide my shaking.
You still have no idea how bad that was.
Doesn't seem like any big deal to you, I know.
But it brought up a decades worth
of old fears and insecurities
and shoved them right in my face.
I wanted to go hide in bed for the rest of the day.
I would have
if I had thought I could get away with it.
So instead,
walked through the day
in a self destructive haze.
Not healthy, not happy, not good.
I knew the happy streak was too good to last for long,
but there's always the hope that it will.
~Qete~
Eight Twenty Five
I wish my heart was a child's again
Pure and undamaged, a spark of light
Not like this, not this unhealthy
Because I know there's something missing
A feeling where there should be love
Thoughts, fears, and excuses
Rush to fill the empty space
And instead, I look to others
To validate my importance
Tell me I'm special always
Like the sun, tell me I shine
Tell me I'm that happy child
You always wanted a child
Not this fragmented excuse for an adult
Who still looks for approval like a child
Only doesn't have the resources to find it.
I know there's something missing
Some glowing light I could not retain
Now that I don't shine
How can I expect you to love me?
When love leaks out of my heart
Like sand through a hole
Still, like a child
I want to be lied to.

NumberEightTwentySix
missing
some glowing light. i miss
the way i couldn't cover up
the shine. my hands were too small
to hide the smile
that could split
brick walls.
i smell smoke tonight.
and it makes me miss
the he's of before. the ones that made me
know what
first love was.
i miss the thought of firelight and you.
and winter makes me want
more cold. summer makes me long for heat.
i want what i have
one finger holding on to, but not
what i can hold close
to my skin, to keep me warm, protect me from burns
you take too long to reply.
and winter is in my heart
while summer burns in my cheeks.
RoyaBoya
NumberEightTwentySeven
your hands trace out a story
in my hair. I spent a whole winter in your arms,
dreaming of forever.
but that winter
lasted as long as any other,
the permedence of the season
lasting as long as forever, at least
in this case. the rainstorms fading
gradually.
spring's violence jerking me
to reality
to your hands touching me
(again)
and
me
slipping away
like a raindrop
down
a
window.

828
in this case. the rainstorms fading
back distantly in my memory
spring turns to summer to fall
in a space of days, the space of
a thousand miles from someplace like home
leaves are red, here, but the sun is shining,
and the rainstorms are but a memory
of Oregon.
--Aredridel
EightTwentyNine
a thousand miles from someplace like home
and i wonder where home REALLY is
because it sure isn't here
where my parents are
my family is
my house is my family, my home
is where i don't need to think because
everyone understands me already
home is where i can dodge between raindrops
and change things in an instant
and take what scares me and shut it in a drawer
and leave it there
forever
forever
is a long time
but not as long as you'd think
sometimes forever isn't even long enough for tears to evaporate
and sometimes
it's long enough to forget them
forget
forget
forget
is what you shouldn't do
don't forget me?
FrannyIsRad
NumberEightThirty
take what scares me and shut it in a drawer
like peter pan's shadow i will
hide it until
someone with soft hands shows me how to
sew it back on painlessly.
i would but my hands are cold, and shaking
i can't thread the needle
and besides
it's like a haystack in here, and i
am the camel's back.
there are so many metaphors
similies like water flow and just as cold
cloth clings to my shoulders
as i hold words to my body for warmth.
sometimes i'd like to
shut myself in a drawer, rattle the knob, or
be the flickering light on the wall.
clap
if you believe. clap. believe in me.
and i will find a way to attach
words to your shoulders like
the warmest shadow.
RoyaBoya
NumberEightThirtyOne
sometimes i'd like to
stop laughing
every time you say something that
approaches the truth.
you scare me, you know
how close you can get to the fire
i think i would just
burn up and die
if i told you every little flame
you spark in me.
although sometimes your words
are like
a bucket full of ice water
and drenched, i cry,
because i am not waterproof.i am not flameproof
and i am all too mortal.
so i just
laugh and hope
i don't go up in smoke.
RoyaBoya
NumberEightThirtyTwo
So I just
fall
tracing the outline
again and again in my head
so I read too much into it
and spilled it
scared of what may have come
you say you mean
but I'm unclean
waiting for the means to and end
who knows what you think
I'm behind
the pace is off my scale
pale with held and scorched
so I'm forcing it all away
I don't want to say
even to myself
where I've dwelt
and lost instead
so smooth it all down
forgetting is
and loose myself from it's grip
striping it all
down
so I just fall.
~Irina
2nd place.
i'm the 2nd place girl
so I'm forcing it all away.
im 2nd place in everything that i do.
my poetry is good.
but not good enough
my kissing is good
but not as good as the 1st place boy's
my looks are pritty
but the other one's just a bit ahead of you
sorry.
i didn't meen to hurt you.
your just the 2nd place girl.
sorry.
i know you are stround enough to stuff it all away.
that's why i don't mind saying this to you
i have to go now
i still love you,
you just came 2nd place in life
.... that's all

EightThirtyFour
i don't feel /that/ way about you
i know you'll understand
thats why i don't mind saying this to you
to hell you understand
my heart racing at the mere mention'
of your name
those sparkly blue eyes
making my knees go weak
you treat me as though
i'm there as a "girlfriend step-in"
someone to fill the gap of feeling "alone"
guess what? i'm sick of it
to hell with being a "step in"
people think we're together
and nobody will make a move for me
because of you
than you flirt with other girls
and don't hear the loud -crack-
as my heart breaks in two
i thought i was over this
thought these feelings were through
i've been in denial
avoidence
not facing the facts
i'm facing them now
it's over
i'm done
your not the number one priority in my life
(not that you ever were)
fenito!
if only it were that simple
a conscious decision of who you love
so i try
not to let you see
those hidden glances down the halls
those jealous looks as you flirt with other girls
that look of longing on my face.
~Jadzia
NumberEightThirtyFive
i try
not to let you see
or hear
the way tears are dripping and i am
hiccuping.
because you and your
cheer
matter more to me than
scratches/slits on my arms.
so listen to
tom waits, and think of
driving at night, the lights, the way
we can make the dark stretch forever.
because you are warm, and my smile is cute
so we'll laugh
and i'll think
how is it that when you are with me
the coldness is only cold because
your arms are there?
but tonight it's cold
and you went to bed early.
too early for me to
find out
what was wrong.
and the slits on my arm
are too shallow
to measure
how much i want you to be happy.
so i won't cut
but feel the holes
empty, in other places.
RoyaBoya
836
You
Are too shallow
Did I ever go down on you
With the lights on?
Did you once look me in the eyes
When we made love
Every night
Remembering broken hearts
Broken tears
Broken bones
Is that all that matters to you?
Let it go.
837
Is that all that matters to you?
Why would you insist that I'm the cream of the crop?
When you can't even touch me, what you're really saying
Is that I'm good for doing you favors, it's true
I'm a hard worker. dependable. yes.
I used to pray that you'd notice one day.. that
I'm good for other things. Deeper things.
I could be good for more than doing your dirty work
Filling your drinks, running your errands
You praise me and yet you don't know who I am
Otherwise I wouldn't be your second best
If you knew me you'd be right next
In line to claim me as the person who could
Soothe your soul. And me?
I wish you had a soul to sooth.

838
I am walking these streets
And these streets are mean
They laugh too loudly
Jarring me, as I try to remain
Invisible. Because it's dangerous to be seen.
I am walking these streets
And these streets are full of threats
They jeer and snicker
With a heart full of liquor
And cold sweat pours down my face
And I grit my teeth and quicken my pace
I wish I had my bike, so I could be fast
Too fast for them to catch me.
I am walking these streets
And these streets are full of monsters
The darker it gets the louder they cry
Every night I wonder if I'm going to die
I pull my hood over my face
Over my conspicuous pale face
Stuffing my hands into my pockets
Trying to disguise my race, my sex
Trying to turn into a nobody
Because nobodies can exist among goblins
And god knows there are enough of them
Around here. No one smiles.
We walk past each other, grim and tense
Our hands are curled into fists
But our expressions are perfectly blank.
I am walking these streets
And these streets are terrified
They richot with the yells and the
shots fired one right. after. another
here there is nowhere to dive for cover
But you know you keep on looking
You know it's not just about the gangs
And the guns, and the drugs
It's about the hate that infuses itself
In the sidewalks. And I walk on those sidewalks
Every Single Fucking Night.
Sometimes it just turns into a game
Sometimes the fear is cleansing
Sometimes it's fun
I am walking these streets
And they threaten me every time
A note of violence hangs on the air
Vibrating like a note of music.

NumberEightThirtyNine
it's dangerous to be seen
which is why
this computer, this keyboard, they come in so handy
it's dangerous for you to
hear my voice sometimes,
so i guess it's good that i
cry silently.
it wouldn't do to have you
guess
the things that hang upside down on every word
and even though i'm sure i'm being obvious
no one wants me to admit
anything, how i feel, that emotions exist
because
that would change
everything.
which is why
i wrinkle my nose and squirm
to escape
every time you joke about
what's true.
RoyaBoya
NumberEightForty
so i guess it's good that i cry silently
and tell you nothings wrong
and i want to say something funny
just to say you smile
but i don't think i'm concious enough
i don't know why
there's ripples running through me
and youyouyou in my heart
keep smiling
remember honey
when grass was warm
and sun was bright
and white sweaters were cozy
it was youyouyou in my head
and you never knew that your hair
was perfection to me
and your smiles cotton candy
and you sang with a littleboy look on your face
and it was youyouyou in my heart
keep smiling?
FrannyIsRad
keep smiling (#841)
keep smiling
everything will work out fine
keep smiling and noding
just look past it all and pertend that it doesnt bite you
as hard as it does.
keep up that silver mask that you bear girly
you don't wanna let the real you out
keep eating your gold stars and pats on the head
keep living in your comforble world and in your corrner office
eating cold cereal day after day
call me when you get tired of being comforble
in your tin can.
but i'll tell you now girly
its time to pull off your silver mask
and let caned you grow

EightFortyTwo
but i'll tell you now girlie
i'm waiting for the day when you remember
the packages i sent you
the times you called me in tears and i listened for hours
about the boy's who'd left
the boys you wanted
the boys you missed
and i'll tell you that i'm checking the mail every day
on the hopes
you'll send me a letter
tell me you love me
say you remember.
There's someone else i'm checking the mail for too
but we won't talk about that
i don't feel like getting laughed at
just now.
i'd dye my hair red but then
looking in the mirror in the morning
would be worse than it usually is.
Mirror this smile
and tell me who you see.
FrannyIsRad
#843
Mirror this smile
this mere smile
but don't say anything--
I'm tired of your endless
words and endless movement!
In your thousand flitting phrases
I know less about you
than you will learn from
my single silence
(if you'll listen--!)
be still and silent
as a stone Siddartha
don't speak at all
I don't want your words
(with every word
I know you less)
stand still--
I want to know you
You think you cannot live
without a witness
if no one's eyes are on you
then surely you're not shining
(why isn't it enough to know
/I love you?/)
I whisper it against your ear
inscribe it on the inky sky
just open your hands to me
silently
beleive me!
but don't ask me
(if you listen, you
won't ask me
/Do you love me?/)
don't say anything
with every word
I know you less.
--Rosemary
NumberEightFortyFour
don't say anything
with every word
i know you less.
i don't want to hear about the
laughing life you lead
when i am not
smiling cutely on the other end of the phone.
and sure, i feel shut out, sure i wish i knew
every little facet of your day, feel left out when it was just "good"
but
let me drown out the words i don't want to hear
with my guitar strummed lullabies
put my brain to sleep
so i don't have to hear
about how awake she made you feel.
RoyaBoya
845
Put my brain to sleep
So I don't have to hear
Myself, my manic screaming clanging
Thoughts. Crumple them up like paper
Throw them in the trash
You can't help me anymore
So don't say anything
I'll awaken and nothing changes
I wish you would.
I wish you could
Put my brain to sleep
So I don't have to hear it
Make it stop
Without a word
Because I don't understand
Why I do what I do
Why I think what I think
Why I feel what I feel
I wish you would
Put my brain to sleep
Shut it up in a box to keep
I wish you could
But you can't help me anymore
Nobody can help me anymore.

NumberEightFortySix
without a word you
flip my heart over like it's lying
bare and bleeding
on the grill.
rare, well done, soon i'll be
burnt black. and charred.
you'll be
ready to slice me open
you like them
hot.
i like the smell of smoke
but
i wish the air didn't sizzle
when you walk into the room.
RoyaBoya
NumberEightFortySeven
When you walk into the room
that blond girl in the corner
turns to leave
takes her backpack
and throws her pop can away
as she walks through the door.
i'm watching her, not you
everyone else is watching you
but this girl
is fascinating
she looks as if she's perfected these movements
you walking into the room
backpack
popcan
leave
without so much as a backwards glance
a sign of anger
this girl
is good at hiding the clenched teeth and tight mucles.
the pop can in the trash
doesn't even have finger dents in it
this girl has hair flipping, over her shoulder
and empty eyes
down to an art
and she has me watching her
in amazment
and awe
and everyone else ignoring her
and i wonder
if this is what she wants
or if, beneath her carlessness
she wishes you'd turn
and watch her leave.
FrannyIsRad
NumberEightFortyEight
beneath her carelessness
she smarts. i know she does.
with every laugh she wishes you
had never seen her cry. she wonders
why
you can't see her
bathed in the flattering light of moderation
because
giggling and sobbing, that's not all there is
she wishes you
could see her witty
see her intelligent, articulate
wishes she could make you smart
and so you'd laugh
to hide
the painful surprise
reminding you that what you see it not
the whole picture.
she is never so careless
to endanger
the lighthearted phone calls though.
she would never hold open the shutter
because you might not like the picture
if it was over exposed.
RoyaBoya
849
you can't see her
but she's there
standing amidst the shadows
quietly taking in what is said
shhhhh
you can't see her
but she's there
watching you speak
as she glances at you
a smile plays upon her lips
shhhhh
don't say a word
just stand back
and watch the world go on by
minutes turning into hours
and you can't see her
standing there watching you...
~Jadzia
850
just stand back
I can handle this
really
I've been here
and I've handled it
sort of
If I can breathe
then I'm doing fine
right?
and I'm handling this fine
at least I thought I was
but now I find I've been
holding my breath
and when I try to breathe
it hurts
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