i am not afraid of monsters by Emocinderella, literature
Literature
i am not afraid of monsters
i am not afraid
of monsters under the bed.
i am afraid of the ones
who sneak their way
smiling
into my life
i will walk out the door today
and i can tell him,
and the next guy
no.
you taught me to cut to the core
pick out his insecurities
and say the unthinkable
you taught me to be strong
when it comes love
cold and uncaring.
i can block someone on facebook in 30 seconds or less.
and when i broke up with him,
i never spoke to him again.
you made sure of that.
and every night you don't listen
as i say no and stop
and i run to my room
i try to convince you i'm serious this time
and trying to find the block button
but you're a
he slept a summer by my side by Emocinderella, literature
Literature
he slept a summer by my side
in june,
i crashed your car
into the back of a truck
and caused a four car pile-up
i remember the windshield shattering,
the car filling with smoke
and being unable to get the door open
i also remember
seconds before
when i could have sworn
i saw isaac
in the car exiting the highway
i should not have looked twice
i guess that's how karma works
but you stayed with me.
also in july
we lived together
we slept in the same bed,
and you cleared a couple drawers for me.
i said, "isn't this strange?"
but you didn't think so.
oh and we had a gym routine
most nights we curled up
on the couch and you educated me
on jerry lew
my hands are cold
and my god,
why are you so far away?
i loved this city
but maybe that's just
because you were always
on the other side of it
and now
i have that
flight-or-fight
response
each time my mother
asks me if i'm really
going to eat that
so i drive and i drive
and i drive
i sing out loud to the radio
some power ballad,
pounding my hand on the steering wheel
and telling myself
to breathe inward deeply and exhale
but i can't do it
i can't live with people who don't want me
i can't stay in this city with no opportunities
i can't be here any longer
nowhere is far enough away
when you are nowhere to b
he slept a summer by my side by Emocinderella, literature
Literature
he slept a summer by my side
in june,
i crashed your car
into the back of a truck
and caused a four car pile-up
i remember the windshield shattering,
the car filling with smoke
and being unable to get the door open
i also remember
seconds before
when i could have sworn
i saw isaac
in the car exiting the highway
i should not have looked twice
i guess that's how karma works
but you stayed with me.
also in july
we lived together
we slept in the same bed,
and you cleared a couple drawers for me.
i said, "isn't this strange?"
but you didn't think so.
oh and we had a gym routine
most nights we curled up
on the couch and you educated me
on jerry lew
my hands are cold
and my god,
why are you so far away?
i loved this city
but maybe that's just
because you were always
on the other side of it
and now
i have that
flight-or-fight
response
each time my mother
asks me if i'm really
going to eat that
so i drive and i drive
and i drive
i sing out loud to the radio
some power ballad,
pounding my hand on the steering wheel
and telling myself
to breathe inward deeply and exhale
but i can't do it
i can't live with people who don't want me
i can't stay in this city with no opportunities
i can't be here any longer
nowhere is far enough away
when you are nowhere to b
i know why this happened.
it was bad karma,
i deserved it.
it happened because
of the distance,
because X miles of land
is too far
for love to stretch.
and the age difference:
you were too old
and arrogant,
i was too young
and naive.
it was because
i needed too much
reassurance
that we were okay,
and you felt that was
a waste of effort.
i know why you are leaving,
it makes perfect sense.
but
there was no explanation offered
when you said
you don't love me anymore.
don't forget me.
my weakness
is your name
the sound of your voice
your clark kent jaw
which occasionally i like to be scruffy
winter is so cold without you.
i am waiting for
warmth and sunshine again
for that first day
when i can step outside
in a sundress and be okay
then you'll come home to me
and i will never
never
never
let you go again
i will follow you anywhere
if i must.
i'm not a cheat
but i tend to stray
my eyes wandered
and my lips a little
and i fluttered my eyelashes
but that was before,
before i knew
you are mine to keep
and i am yours
and that's the way it is
so i will learn to be what you nee
Once upon a time,
There was a little girl who loved to dance. She practiced very hard in her dance class, and would dance for hours and hours. This always made her very happy.
There was a young man in her class who sometimes would help her with her dances. He would lift her high in the air so she could feel like a beautiful swan. She, of course, grew to love the man very much.
She thought of him as her prince, and wanted to dance a pas de duex with him so very badly. She said to herself, "I will love him until I die and no one else."
However, the man was much older than she, and did not see that even as a little girl she
i love you
in the way
that keeps me awake late at night
and makes it difficult to write anything
makes me want to run away to another city because
being so breakable scares me
and when i'm with you
i'm happy
but still i'm unhappy
and a little unsure
when i'm away from you
it's the same
but worse.
i just thought you should know
that i can't imagine life without you
but sometimes i don't want you
at all
because i know she might always be around
that your bed isn't all that comfortable
nor is your arm
when i sleep on it
but somehow
i sleep peacefully
most nights i want to say goodnight
twice
your eyes are pretty
a
this, I think,
is the way that empires
fall.
there are sometimes
catastrophes
Vesuvius, Alexandria
but I will not go out
in such an explosive fashion
this time.
my second death
is preceded by decline,
slow and inglorious;
erosion working its
weary charm
upon my architecture.
the difference is this:
disaster is unprecedented.
it is a noble sort of way to fall,
at the hands of that which
you could not control.
but I am allowing myself
to crumble to dust.
the forces of entropy
have not strengthened:
I have simply stopped cobbling myself
back together.
someday, archaeologists
will discover my ruins
and sigh
hypothetical realities. by neonsquiggle, literature
Literature
hypothetical realities.
You haunted me.
I spent tearstained eternities wondering what life would be like in another place,
what my world would be made of if it were not scars and fights
and being told I wasn't good enough.
You were my biggest what-if and you were always my escape route
when reality became too painful to bear.
But you were painful too.
And the thought of elsewhere was never good enough.
I'm better off without you.
We were never written in stone.
We were written in letters of fire -
we burned bright and brilliant and we burned painful, and so painfully long.
I like to think we both loved hurting each other more than we could bear,
that it was only our bruises that made us beautiful,
and I know you remember me in blood and in belligerence.
We shot maelstroms through quiet skies,
and we let our lightning consume us.
We crumbled, anyway.
i.
wake up. i can't stay long.
we are a series of fleeting moments that spell out "bad timing" and "tragic romance". you are broken machinery and i am still trying to decipher the binary code for love. ones and zeros collide into a lump in my throat and suddenly, the idea of saying goodbye makes my fingertips ache and my wrists burn.
ii.
do you remember when we kissed? it was a messy pile of metaphors and we were scared that somebody would see us and try to clean us up. i still ghost the back of my hand over my lips and imagine that it's yours, but then i remember that "yours" and "mine" are not words that apply to you and me anymore.
ii
I'm in love with a girl
whose hands are always full
of excess glitter,
from when she's trying to shine.
And her fingertips are always raw
from all her clumsy attempts
at a staple gun;
forgive her, she's only trying
to put herself back together
[because she won't let me help].
But she'll never realize
how much she means,
how the loneliness caught in her lashes
only makes her more lovely;
--she's too busy trying to be a star
to remember that they only shine
with a cold light.
Maybe someday
I can help her find a boy
who can make her fingertips warm
with something more than just
broken capillaries.
I don't miss
your hands all over me
because his arms make sure
I'm never cold.
And I don't miss
your thirty-proof breath
caressing the nape of my neck
because his nicotine-stained fingertips
put my pieces back so deftly
it's like you never t
he slept a summer by my side by Emocinderella, literature
Literature
he slept a summer by my side
in june,
i crashed your car
into the back of a truck
and caused a four car pile-up
i remember the windshield shattering,
the car filling with smoke
and being unable to get the door open
i also remember
seconds before
when i could have sworn
i saw isaac
in the car exiting the highway
i should not have looked twice
i guess that's how karma works
but you stayed with me.
also in july
we lived together
we slept in the same bed,
and you cleared a couple drawers for me.
i said, "isn't this strange?"
but you didn't think so.
oh and we had a gym routine
most nights we curled up
on the couch and you educated me
on jerry lew
This is in reply to a comment you left me on Jan. 23. I tried to leave the comment there buy it wouldn't take it because I'm no longer a premium member. Knew I'd find a way somehow. Thanks, Cindy, you are very generous and kind too. I've been hiding out after my embarrassing fiasco with your review. Now I really don't want to post but know that I am just a really big chicken. Shortly after your letter of explanation I spent most of one day trying to write a free verse explaining how I felt in response and how great your poetry is. I might still post parts of it if I can find it and have the nerve. I find that sometimes when I let writing rest and go back I see that it doesn't suck the big one after all, just the mamma and baby sized ones.