I Tear My Skin Away
I tear this skin from my body,
And run...
Even if the world screams,
That I am only an illusion.
I tear the bones from my legs,
And crawl.
Through pain, I will grow,
Through suffering, I will become.
I rip the muscles from my arms,
These teeth from my jaws...
And with nothing upon me,
I carry on...
Like a broken puppet, still shivering,
Still forcing its way through the darkness;
I tremble for I am nothing...
And yet, I am moving. My voice still screams...
I draw breath into these tired lungs,
As I rip the flesh away...
And I shatter these mirrors before me,
With a voice that will not break:
Because the world can
this is a warning. by littleblueraccoon, literature
Literature
this is a warning.
i.
The first thing you need
to know about people is this:
we're shitty.
ii.
If you cut off our head,
we will grow two in its place.
We will divide and conquer
until there's nothing left
but tiny gaping mouths,
clacking and salivating
at the crumbs of an empire.
iii.
They tell me hurt is like
a paper cut:
quick and forgotten,
forgotten.
They're wrong.
Hurt is the first step
off a balcony,
the first gasp
in a chain reaction
screaming from the railing
to beyond the pavement.
When I finally hit the ground,
I looked up and saw my halo
dangling from the edge,
dented.
iv.
We cycle.
He said, she said,
I wanted, he lost, she won,
I ruined
Ghost
i hold my own wrist,
as if it's broken,
'cause there are no hands,
available left to hold it.
to rest in the base
of your touch cannot happen.
it's much too tough to ask.
so i sit staring
into a blank field,
eyelids empty,
body in reverie,
mind in ennui,
sick of you and i.
i love you
but hate i fell too
deep into the pool,
of what I thought was true.
5 feet, 5 inches,
brown locks,
spectacled eyes
once folded
around my 5'7'' frame,
now left a shell.
my arms hold me,
as i clutch my abdomen,
and rest against the floor.
i lie there,
knowing the pain
will finally stop
but aware,
that it's just beginning.
because the hardest
part a
This is how you bespeckled my bones
with bewilderment: you kissed hushed heart
whispers and slumbering secrets
into my fingertips. You infused awe
into my joints, causing me
to ask how snowflakes got their
shape and how long would it take
to get from the Sun to Capella.
You taught me that energy is neither
created or destroyed; stars do not die.
Eyes washed with emerald sorrows you
told me that they evolve, they change
into something entirely different,
or not so different.
I now know we are made of the same
particles as someone or something else.
We began someplace together.
We're made of so much more than "star-stuff",
we are made of each
You only fly for a little while by Tangled-Tales, literature
Literature
You only fly for a little while
She was just four years old
kicking her feet
harder and harder,
as the swingset creaked
and cracked
She finally reached the peak,
jumped off,
and said,
"Mama, I'm gonna fly."
and so she did;
three feet into the air,
sticking the landing
like a gymnast
And I wonder everyday
if those were the same words
she muttered
before jumping off that bridge,
unable to remember,
you only fly for a little while.
I've lost the strength to speak to you.
I'm looking at you here beside me,
Curled beside me like a dream come true,
Breathlessly mouthing my heart's revelation.
I've but the courage to lie awake,
Staring at the ceiling as you sleep.
The pictures of us are framed on the wall,
And my smile forbids me from rest.
With the thought of the coming dawn,
I fight back the urge to laugh.
Because, with sunrise on the horizon,
I can see the bright future ahead of us.
I see the life I'll live with you.
I couldnt bring myself to bury her.
I couldnt bring myself to empty the ground of dirt and of earthworms and of the spindly weed roots, and fill in the ochre gap with her body. Her coffee-cream fur held her tiny skeleton from falling out when they hit her. I try not to think of miniature beat-less hearts and mute lungs. I never saw her dead, but I can imagine.
They found her on the median strip. Breathless and still by the endless whoosh of traffic.
In my mind I see Mums face; I see her heart throbbing at her feet and her cradling the dog, like a precious baby to her chest. I see the love flowing down her withered cheeks
The Sun and the Moon by FightingIsolation, literature
Literature
The Sun and the Moon
Spoken words and a crumbling tower,
A great death of happy memories.
Broken heart and a mumbling coward,
A blow to pride, to hope, to dreams.
Woken anger and a rumbling thunder,
A lust for sweet, vengeful rebound.
Token attacks and a humbling slap,
Another broken heart to the fire.
As the fire dies, at the end of it all,
In the smoke and pain of hopelessness,
Two people drifted apart,
One North,
One South
To separate dreams, separate beds,
And calmer bays of day and night.
I watch as your
latex skin, folds
against the breezes
and then melts into
puddles of
solidified sunshine.
Your lips smacked
poison against mine;
with our first kiss
I was already dying.
My mouth was
filled with holes
that leaked words
of unused wisdom and
I pretended to wonder about
the constellations that you
erased with your thumb.
And about
your bones that
crashed into the earth.
But there were no
meteors to coat your fall.
How did you survive?
A message to the broken by Tangled-Tales, literature
Literature
A message to the broken
You drown yourself
in liquid sorrows,
letting the salty mess
burn your wounds,
and the sadness
to drip in your mouth,
consuming your words
and you say
you deserve the pain,
but I want to dry your face,
and whisper in your ear
how the clouds cry too,
while they hold such beauty,
and so do you.