Your heart is on the line - I know - 
But I have nothing left to show;
For all the love you’ve given me,
I have none to give to thee.
And when from your mind I’ve gone,
I hope you know that it won’t be long

Before you move along.
 

A tumultuous tempest tosses

Above my head

But it will not swallow me - 

I will inhale it

Like a breath of fresh air.

When the poetry leaves,
I can’t breathe.
And I’m dying to let out
The words that I dream of
In the heavy darkness of daytime,
But I am so spent.
Every last cent
Wasted on wasting time
With wasted minds
And I
Can’t even fathom
How much has left me since
I left this love behind.

Return to me, my love.

Rough poem…

I’m a lover and a killer—
Oh, I’ll tear you apart.
In one feel swoop,
Suffocate you
And break your heart.

I’ll claw at you until you bleed,
Then kiss you until you can’t breathe.

Do you like the burning feeling
From the brand etched in your skin?
Don’t deny—you love the heat
Smoldering within.

Something surreal moves me.
A force,
External—
Beautiful, yet
Dangerous.
Faster, faster
I move
With tribal passion,
Part of a ceremony
I don’t understand.
I should be afraid,
I know,
But I’ve never known
Such power and grace
To meet with human form,
So I let it take me—

Originally Written 8.15.12

Pain and I,
We are familiars,
And perhaps that is tragic,
To feel pain in youth;
But I stopped seeing tragedy long ago.
Of course,
Now and then,
I catch it in glimpses—
A flashbulb or
A lightning strike.
Recently though,
Everything’s blurred together
In a mess
Of melancholy
Ad confusion,
And I’m too tired
To sort it all out.

Originally Written 8.14.12

And they dance
In cyclic patterns,
Flirtatious circles,
Spinning, spinning, ‘round
But never touching,
Only joined by a locked gaze—
Like chains—
They cannot turn away.
Opposing forces,
Linked by time and fate.
They wait.
But neither approaches.
Hot and cold.
It is forbidden,
So they’ll love from a distance.

Originally Written 8.15.12

Do you ever just take a second, look around, and just sort of think to yourself, “Ew. Life.”

I almost fell for a second there—
But I wasn’t afraid.
I knew you’d be there to catch me. 

Let’s light up the sky
With the flames from our mind -
Burn it all down to the ground.

We’ll retract these lies
And begin to unwind -
All without making a sound.