Homely

I found this from 10 months ago...style. Mark needs more happy poetry dammit!


There's home in my heart that I made for you
I put it in the hole where you ran me through
And the poem inside is made from the words
That I spoke but you never heard

I left the door locked
Hoping you would find the key
But it seems you never looked
And I think it time I leave

The burning candles I have been smothered
The roses withered and paintings covered
I let the dust grow around
Every article of love I found

the pictures of you I tatered and frayed
and threw away
I never again want to see your face

Retreat

Phosphorescent eyes
leaving;
Waves crashing upon lips
wells and currents
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EL FIN

Hung

I could fill the room with anger
from my closets of regrets,
but it still wouldn't be enough
to outweigh my happy thoughts of you
yet there's no way for me to express
the fears I cling to on each breath
I watch leave my lips

It's rather fitting that you
hang up when you do
I never have anything to say.
So instead, I will undress my mind, bare it all.
Let me hide behind these walls no longer
and in their place
Let me see the eyes that are so damn far away

Separation Anxiety

So this love for me you had I hope it falls in another's lap
after the three days it took to realise your mistake
of 5 months less a few more
and you want to make sure I'm okay?
What's with this silly joke you play?
Enjoy your freedoms, from my oppressive ways.
Enjoy your new life, now that everything's changed.
As for me I'll cling to this stage
while the actors take their bows and leave.
Here I'll stay.
Now that I feel so hollow
and the frogs in my throat ate the butterflies below;
I hope you enjoy your time alone

I used Scotch tape to keep my dreams in place
Hoping you'd replace them for a while
Now I know that I am not where you want to be
And it's not you, it isn't me
And there's no misunderstanding
so don't worry like I do
Don't worry like I do.
I guess I thought everything would be okay
But my love you escaped
I'm stuck trying to hold water between my palms
working out where we went wrong
But then I realise as I let the water touch my eyes
that this is just how it goes
People change or at least that's what they say
I think all along, we're just hiding who we are
from ourselves
And we spend so much time finding what we lost
But at what cost do we regain what was gone?
I hope this is worth it. I hope this is what you want.
Because darling you deserve it. Everything you've got.
Honestly I love you and it hurts to see you go.
But I know it would hurt more to use any means to force you to stay.

Huff and Puff

I drown the silence of this effervescent scene
With the noise of someone's memories
As I disguise my own reality
With what they want from me

Walls of straws and sticks and bricks
less than one inch thick
hide away the deepest of my secrets

Yet with each of my breaths
I lend you more of what's left
Without doubt without fear
I know I want you here