I’m learning to wear sadness
Upside down
Please forgive
If my smile resembles
A shanty town
© 2016 June
Poetry
Smashing!
Romancing death
Kissing that skeleton
With stale cigarette breath
Teeth clashing, tongues lashing
Bones smashing
And in his glad rags
Death doesn’t half look dashing!
Gaping holes
I’ll give ‘em a good thrashing
Thunder’ll be flashing
Between the teeth gnashing
What a night to be out bashing
Having a shindig we’ll die fucking laughing
Music on, shoes tapping
Romancing death
And everything’s just fucking smashing!
© 2016 June
Sway your hips to the music
Sway your hips to the music
Like you own every note
Pirouette on to me
Make me forget
The history my blood wrote
Shimmy that butt to the drums
The sound of my heart beating
You are the antidote
Breathe life into me
© 2016 June
Take me as i am
I will not shed 
my skin just to please you
standing there, dressed to the nines
Smiling and twirling your hair
Begging me to imagine what’s underneath
You must take me as I am
Not as who you want me to be
©2016 June
The Crash
The stars still shine at night
and the sun still rises
Despite anyones plight
It’s like time doesn’t care
To respect you and I
It just goes on
And when you’re doing alright
It goes in the blink of an eye
Those smiles forgotten
Before you break down and cry
And in the turmoil
Time teases you
Lingering to torment
Never staying still
But never quite on the move
And you’d figure this would give you
Chance to react
Get yourself back on track
But despite our perceptions
It all comes tumbling down
In the blink of an eye
While also somehow remaining
Like the longest of times
© 2016 June
The man i ought to be
Standing from a crouch
As the wind tries to pull me down
My heart beating with fury
Ready for a shakedown
Seeking and fighting for glory
Trying to be the man I ought to be
© 2016 June
The music continues
The music continues
Like it’s all not happening
It’s surreal
Noticing time doesn’t stop
When tragedy strikes the clock
It keeps ticking
Time not registering
Your departure
And the music continues
I sit back in my chair
Drinking up the empty air
Dust in my lungs
Grief stricken
and it’s so surreal
How time doesn’t care
How it doesn’t just stop there
Spits you out and strips you bare
And the music continues
© 2016 June
Could never imagine
I want to be the silence
That accelerates the breaks
A thunder storm of shock
Rolling across your face
To communicate the ferocity of this pain
I could never abbreviate this self hate
Encapsulate it for you to contemplate
I want to be the knife
That cuts through the silence
Before you call in the sirens
Remember I tried to be an island
Battling these tyrants
Running amok in my head
The asylum
I tried to be defiant
But I never could imagine
Sisyphus smiling.
© May 2016
Let’s pretend
Let’s pretend we’re strangers
we know no names
no restraint
apart from the way
my hands grip your wrists
we’ve never met
we’re just passing through
and fucking
on a whim
In the process of collapse
Slowing down
taking everything with ease
its all what it is
as free as the breeze….
fuuuuuckkkk
the stresses have got so that
i can’t tell what stresses they are
no words I can attach to them
they’re just there, floating around my head
rock back and forth, that always soothes me
nope not today
nothing works.
Breathe. Fucking breathe
or maybe if I just….
put my head under the water
and fall asleep
and oops
all stresses are gone.
Restricted
by by these thoughts
conflicted
what’s real what’s not
hello?
Maybe if I just….
lost my trail of thought
hello?
Is there anybody in there?
I know this building (me)
is in the process of coming to pieces
I’m trying to rescue you
hello? Is anyone there?
I’m trying to get you out before the ruin
torch light shining on the walls
they’re damp
and stained with blood
the upper roof has crashed in
wont be long now
this building is collapsing
can’t get to the heart of it
that will have to wait till the pieces have been collected
after the fall
this is place is gonna be derelict
for a while
forever if forgotten.
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