I see a girl with emerald eyes
That glisten and ensnare
The world with it’s skies
Without the slightest care,
Free from what’s soon to destroy her.
I see a girl with eyes so cool
For they’ve seen the world fall
To armies so cruel
That they’ll take it all
Away for the chance to entrap her.
I see you with your eyes cast down
A single glance and I peruse
A distinctly permanent frown
From the emotional abuse
That you let yourself go through.
Tell me that you love me
I want to hear you say the words,
but also feel them so I know it’s real
and not just my deepest desires. I want
your words to feel so heavy that they create
fire from the friction of being rubbed against
your tongue. I want your eyes to show so
much passion that they make me feel
your arms grasped tightly around
me with just one look. I want
you to make me feel like
there’s nobody else in
the world meant for
you as much as I
am. All it takes is
three heavily
weighted
words.
I love
you.
Straight past the busy street
With cars as fast as a shooting star
Blurring past you in the night
To the quiet neighborhood
With houses lined up side by side
Sleeping next to one another
For warmth, comfort, strength in numbers.
The dull glow of the street light
Takes place above the neighborhood
As if it were a glowing planet
Keeping watch, keeping us safe.
Turn right down the winding road
That slithers like a snake
Passing more sleeping houses
With the occasional dim television night light.
One more right will lead you to
Transplanted palm trees reaching out to the heavens
With birds resting in the palm frond fingers
And cats prowling the trodden earth
With hungry eyes- disturbed by the
Put-put-puttering of an old
Busted white Chevy blundering down the street.
Pass the park that preserves youth
And you’ll find yourself at a crossroads
Ahead of you (and even behind you)
Lies a quiet neighborhood slumbering
Looming in the unknown darkness.
Look to the left, now to the right
And see the street stretching before your eyes
Overpowering lights reflect from your eyes to my own
As you stare at me with wonder
At the beauty of this place where we live.
You take my hand and together we are
Launched into space on a trip to the unknown.
Again, I fall for that wicked smile
Like a glimpse of sun
On a frigid winter morning.
Perchance your hands will warm my heart with
Elation as they grasp mine in the
Church of lust and no return to the
Island of insecurity from whence we came. I’ll
Abandon my life in a flash for a chance to have a future with you.
A generous offer- but for who?
Is it for me, or is it for you?
“I’m sorry, I cannot go” should suffice
But what shall I saw when you ask me thrice?
You see, though we live side by side
You and I do not walk the same stride
I walk to my own self-satisfied beat
While you walk as you suck on your cult-like hive-minded teat
As you tell me why you’re right and I’m wrong
But it seems like you were wrong all along
Because you are not the rule-maker, decider or king
For maybe if you were, it might mean something
But since you’re not, when you speak, it is quiet
I don’t hear a thing, but keep talking- it’s a riot
To think that you’ll never truly know
What’s up above you or even down below
For there’s no room for your high-horse where I’m sure you’d like to be
And I’m sorry we won’t be in the same place for you to see
That the only “right” way is the one that’s truly your own
But maybe when I’m in Heaven, I’ll throw you a bone.
Self inflicted punishments
Punishing a wounded soul.
Soulfully devoting kindness
Kindly protecting others
Otherwise left forgotten and alone…
Alone in abandonment…
Abandoned, with long forgotten hope,
Hopelessly she falls
Falling toward an invisible self.