Trying to go with the flow
In ways in which
Heavy hearts seldom float
Poetry
Silent suffering.
Watching a bird take off
A reminder life carries on
And the radio plays
As if there isn’t silence beneath
Lipstick
Always on the wrong side of love
It’s been a while
Since you could take it all in
With your lipstick manufactured crimson smile
You can wipe away
The mistakes you kissed
Lipstick stains left on the ruins of us
A mistake we made
We no longer trust
And with your lipstick manufactured crimson smile
You erase
The way we loved
And with your lipstick manufactured smile
I’m the mistake
You wipe away
At the end of the night
You take your painted lips
Wrap them up in paper tulips
Forgetting the nights you let slip
The words on your tongue
That kissed
“Nothing to regret it’s just a kiss,
just a kiss”
“I was thinking of you
I promise this
I promise you this.”
No more frogs, no more prince
You said you want to rewild
Want to be free
And I told you
Freedom doesn’t exist
You’ll soon see
You’re chasing a myth
Goodbye – lyrics
In the storm
I gather myself
Pull my heart
And these strings
They call my veins
Like barbed wire
Around my throat
I black out again
I know there is nothing
Wait-ing
On the other side
I’ve seen it
The darkness
Thats never ending
No lighthouse
No life jacket
Just the waves and I
Take these strings
They call my veins
Like barbed wire
Wrapping around my throat
I black out again
I’m a monster
Deep inside
But you’re ugly
Just like me
So come with me
And step inside
The eye of the storm
Let it take us
Just you and I
Take these strings
They call our veins
Like barbed wire
Around our throats
Blacking out again
And I only wish
I could have said it sooner
Goodbye
I wish I could’ve said it sooner
Goodbye
And my heart
Is thrashing in the ocean
And my lungs
Are filled with too much emotion
I’m barely even breathing
I wish I could have said it sooner
Goodbye
*Note I can’t write music, can’t sing. If anyone wants to try putting it to music give it a try, and let me know about it.
*another Note. Yes the lyrics about veins and strings is inspired by the song Bleed from Cold “Take all these strings They call my veins Wrap them around Every fucking thing”
Metamorphosis failure
Your eyes an intrusion
Sending shivers up my spine
Please don’t look my way
I’m monstrous tonight
With all these thoughts
Trapped inside my brain
Like Caterpillars trapped in purgatory
Never quite getting anywhere
Or past the realm of here
No catalyst for tears
Sunday wordle: Writer’s block
[Put words here]
I can’t seem to hit the right vein
For the air to take and create.
The team of little critters in my brain
Have taken a break
Another one about the Eurasian Jay
His dinosaurian ancestry shines through
The glimmer in his eye
A hint to the wise
Feathers fluffed by the wind
Ear tufts twirled
By the hands of evolution
Screaming out to one another
To be part of the dinosaurian sequel
Eurasian jay
The Jay
One may say
Is a moustachioed magpie
Or it may just be I
But I see wisdom deep set
In his pale blue eyes
Garrulus glandarius
What significance comes
From such a noisy name
Matching the moustache
Which should surely bring him fame
His covert feathers flash by
a blue flame
In the blink of an eye
Blind
Why can’t you see that
Your pushing past
Dinosaurs
Who trespass
The periphery of your vision
But not the centre of your mind
Leaving giant prints behind
You, standing there
In the footprint of Argentinosaurus
The world hanging on
Waiting for you to notice
Not whole
Don’t overwhelm
With your gratitude
Or disappointment
I know I’m not whole
With or without you.
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