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Did you ever want something
So passionately
You could taste it
In the back of your mouth
And swallow the sweetness
Of desire?
Did you ever need something
So badly
You kissed at the
Winds to bring it to you
In a hot flash
Of pain?
Did you ever get that
Lovely pang of victory?
Achieve what it was you
Wanted, you need?
And then have it torn
Away from you with such
Gust, such despise
That you didn’t even have
Time
To chase it?
So now I’ve lost everything
I worked so hard for-
Everything I wanted, needed, loved-
Right out the front door.
To get it back would be a miracle
But I am ready to try.
I’m not just going to sit in this corner,
And watch my life walk by.
Touch me, tease me,
Play with my head.
Abuse my empty body-
Inside it’s rotting dead.
I’ve put my feelings away again
I’ve cast my heart aside
I’ve lost my love in senseless pain
And for once, swallowed my pride
I’ve hid my emotions so they won’t show
I’ve done away with them now
I’ve again, turned love into a foe,
And changing things is impossible now
I’ve let you have your greedy way
I’ve put my feelings away
I’ve got emotional debts to pay
And you’ll distract me if you stay.
A long slender thigh
On the green coverlet lies.
She moves not an inch,
On the inside desperately she cries:
“Oh love! Save my bleeding tears,
swallow my pain and beseech my pride!
Close these doors of violation!
Oh love! Hear me cry!”
Her long pale arm,
Rests on his limp form
Like the brewing on the raging sea
Before the rising storm.
She stares upon his body, still
And motionless in the morn
Her long and slender thigh
Lies abandoned in scorn
“Oh love! Take my pride!
My violation and my rape!
Close these doors opened in my mind-
Cover my eyes in Death’s cape!”
She cries out to herself,
Oh! Why can no one hear?
She love this man so much,
How can she bear to have him near?
If we were both birds
what kind would we be?
two ravens-two hawks
blue brested beasts with feathers
would you follow me to the sea?
If we were two butterflies
how would we know?
a flash of colour-a tint of shine
a fluorescent glow of wings
that we were right for each other so
if we were two lovers
what would we say?
my hands on your body
your flesh on mine
our two beings as one
as night turned into day
If we were colours reflecting our moods
how brightly would we shine?
dark as night-bright as sunshine
the happiness of pastel
would your colour be mine?
Since we were two friends
now what do we do?
as we split apart-these tears on my cheek
this pain in my heart
because I thought you loved me too
I see you
standing there
your face on her
your hands in her hair
your movement
swaying to and fro
I see that body
oh shall I ever know?
Shall I ever know what it is like to be touched
and felt and held in a lover's arms
sand to sweetly and caressed gently
wooed by a lover's charms?
But your charms are most desired
and you are spoken for
I am just the one who stands here
feeling more morbid evermore
You glance at me-a quick flash
and in that glance I felt
a quick flash at what we might be
had Fate not given us what she'd dealt
So I shall sit here
in my quiet state
and watch you laugh and flirt and live
and wait for my own Fate
When he says
"I miss you"
I feel warm as a toasted roll right out of the oven
When he looks at me with those epervescent eyes
and doesn't say anything
my heart jumps to my throat and sticks
and why is it that when he smiles
that devilish smile
I can't imagine that smile being for anyone else
But when he makes me angry
just by making a joke
I feel cold as dry cereal
and when he makes me mad
just by saying something he knew he shouldn't have
than I can't stand to be near him, or around him, or by him
but somehow he always manages to say
"I love you"
and my heart will mealt faster than ice cream on an August day
You say you're leaving
I know you are
but with all my heart I want to deny it
I don't want you to go.
I want to love you.
I say I love you
but that's not enough
It must not be enough
because you're leaving
I love you. I love you. I love you.
So now you go.
Why is life so painful
painfully unfair?
Why is life sos miserable
miserably full of despair?
Why does torture happen
happen slow and long?
Why won't this pain leave
leave me and be gone?
Why is life so wicked
wickedly evil?
Why is life so mean
meanly an upheavel?
Why does love happen
happen so quickly?
Why can't it leave
leave me just as swiftly?
Why does pain prevail
prevail without relief?
Why does anything happen
with pain and sorrow and grief?
Why is the world a painful place
with little happiness?
Why is life so indescribable
indescribably lacking bliss?
Why can't I go somewhere
somewhere far beyond?
Why can't love be kind
kind enough to do no wrong?
When you call
I jump for joy
When you're gone
I yearn for your embrace
when you're near
I want your lips against mine
When you're holding me
I feel reborn with pleasure.
When we make love
I never want morning to come
When you leave me alone
I feel the void return
When you return to me
I cry with the agony of when you were gone.
I walked up to him
steady outside
trembling within
and spoke his angleic name
and he turned
not to face me
but the angelic face
behind me.
He thrusts me open
and dives inside
looking for something
he will never find
searching and wanting
that which he shall not have
and he invades my mind
and he invades my body
and he steals my spirit
and wounds my heart
but, not like it's never
occurred before
You say no heart have I
You say no feelings I 've got
that increadable.
I could have sworn contrary.
If it is not a heart I have
than what is this lump that
exists heavily in my chest
the sound of its shattering
echoing through
my entire existance
because you say you are leaving
If it is truely stone
and ice cold
like you say
than miraculous am I
to posess a stone that bleeds
and ice that cries
Those cruel, evil eyes
that can see right through me
the depths of my soul exposed
naked for all to view
Those reflecting changing eyes
that cloud with anger often
and leave me guilty and shamed
crying pitifully on the floor
Those torturing, tormenting eyes
that make me confess to
crimes I am innocent of doing
and rape me of my privacy
and commit me to insanity
Those beautiful, caring eyes
that cry when I'm in pain
and are overflowed with love and joy
and happiness introduced
that I had never known before
Out of a relationship
and into the mindset
of being alone again
but not really "alone"
just without someone
but that's okay, because
right now I don't need anyone
People will love you
and then they will leave
but Life doesn't take
time-out for you to heal
you have to manage to do that
at the same time that everything
else is going on
