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I yearn for how life loves to love
On the bridge of experience
Every fine day blooming by the tick
The world is born in the sky
The end is at the breath of the sea
Each dream on the waves is taking high a star at a time
Breath-
that vital wind
life's very rhythm
its essence...
In and out
automatic
an elixir, ethereal
air
sustenance.
Without it there's only death,
with it
possibility
the mingled stench of green seaweed and salty waves
cascades the nostrils of the adolescent girl.
You asked me if i was okay
And I said “im fine.”
I gave you a smile but the minute you turned around
I closed my eyes.
You might ask me why I did this,
she was like watercolor.
no.
She was watercolor.
her bright red smile would slip through my fingers just as it came,
Breath of marble
And how could we continue
to ignore the nature to us fraternal,
in the black martyrdom without land,
of the crucified migrant to the mast
Am I Okay
September 14, 2018 ~ Friday
Kicking, screaming out for help
Sneakers, gloves, here they come
Running through the halls
What I’m Not
September 13, 2018 ~ Thursday
There’s music in the hills
Sounds of song on their backs, fronts, and sides
That which I’ve never heard
I love you
I love your eyes,
The way I can always see what you're thinking.
I love your smile,
The way you cheeks crinkle at the sides and your lips thin.
Oh, god, those dimples
I love your laugh,
She let's down her hair and sighs. Her head hung down. Her heart sunk low as a single tear ran down her face. She couldn't help but wonder When would this nightmare end? When could she truly smile again? Only god could answer her.
What I would give for you to hold me in your arms.
What I would give to be with you another day.
You know, it's tough now, living here without you.
But I'm okay. Yeah, I'm okay.
If I were to die today,
Would you, darling, be okay?
The love I feel
For you is real
And does not need a breath to stay.
If the heavens were to shake,
The earth beneath my feet to quake,
It's not a trial to slay a doe
Among the forest floor and snow,
Enchanted by the final breath
Echoing from the chasm breath.
A soul escaping from a snout,
A final breath struggles out
I want to die,
I'm scared of death,
So sometimes I just hold my breath.
I close my eyes and count to ten,
I pussy out and breath again.
Take a breath, no actaully take two
Everytime you smile, my breath got short
You was a strong ass drug on me, that snort
I haven't seen a lot but you was the true
One for me, two makes me and you in one car
The scarce embrace of
someone so distant,
Yet so warm you feel, just by
hearing their voice
And the dark cloud hangs over you,
only because you want them there,
The circle
The rustle of the blanket
Pulling me away from sleep
From silence
But in the absence of silence
In the midst of noise
You've watched me die once,
As I fell I reached for your arms,
Your back turned toward me
As you walked away
And then was when I knew
You were nothing to me,
So I let myself fall to my knees
how do you write about silence?
how do you write about sadness?
was the silence broken by crying?
was the sadness broken: did it vanish?
how do you write about defiance?
how do you write about fear?
Questions of Destiny
Listening to bass out my window
Wanting my heart to console
Waiting for Mr. Wonderful,
Yet feeling so sorrowful
“Namaste, I say”
Tension in my shoulder,
Strain upon my spine.
Worries trapped in my brain,
No time for cloud nine.
So my skin gets colder…
With one step through the door, out into the escape of stress, and uncertainty,
In...
Out...
From ragged and quick
To slow and steady
Breathing
The first breath I hear in the morning
is his
and hearing that deep, content sound
make facing my fears
Inhalation of disaster
time goes faster
Exhalation of the storm
boils the everbrooding thought
Using gifts to take in color
makes the blackness ever bright
in the light
in the dark
I sing about my pain without ever breathing a word
The melody carried by the pen in my hand
The paper holding my lyrics and heartache in a crisp white shell
Close your eyes,
Breathe in deep,
Shut out the world,
Listen to the beat.
Earbuds in and volume up,
I lean back and listen.
Slow down my heart beat,
Expand my constricted lungs,
You asked me why I am shaking.
Because I am unable to sit still with you.
I want to be closer.
So close the only air I breathe
is the air you exhale.
I want the only space I take up
I hold my breath when you kiss me to stop the rattling of my ribs and the expansion of lungs. So my body remains undisturbed, unless it is touched by you.
I struggle through that crowd
That marches through the day;
It’s rambunctious and loud—
A chaotic parade.
I find myself reaching to find my pulse
searching for the steady sign
that I am still alive
Fingers pressed down on wrists
digging through the flesh and bones that knit me together
I am entering her body.
I am quite full of myself.
She doesn't hesitate to let me in.
She welcomes me.
She always does.
Every second we spend osculating,
constantly coupling in the summer heat,
My world
My own chaos
Surrounds in ways that
nobody can feel but I.
My thoughts
My own ideas
provokes me in ways that
nobody can harness but I
My breath
Life we all need to be
I am controlled by this Bryiana,
What story has my face have told?
Her very presence sends a chill of electricity down my spine
I'm falling further from myself,
Down into the depths that threatens,
To swallow me whole.
The water rushes about my face,
It fills in the space left by my body.
This is where I die.
Again.
It came crashing down on my windowsil.
Raking, tapping, billowing.
It clouded my thoughts, yet cleared them too.
It reminded me of you.
Why do I suffer?
Why do I hide?
Why do I stay silent to this?
I could never reach your approval.
Why do I even try?
Why do I bother with you?
You give me tears, you give me love, but there's more you do that lifts my heart, eve
When I used to look in the mirror, I would see
A girl who struggled, but yet was sometimes pretty.
I struggled with my relationship with my family.
Although they clothed, fed, housed, and spoiled me,
In an indefinable world
Only able to transcribe
Sensations and experiences
Through words, sentences and phrases
A translation,
misread
Lead to schematics
Of life dynamics
Even though you were my whole garden, I was merely a rose in yours
At first, I thought flowers were beautiful
My doctor, happens to reside
Opposite the road ten strides.
So conveniently I asked
His service when my lung collapsed
A horrid accident and gruesome
And not as like this awful twosome
I could see the universe
in your eyes, leaping through
my body, dripping from
my bones.
Your breath took
mine away. As we got lost
together in our infinite lust,
There isn’t a clear memory of you
You just were.
You were there, looped in life
intertwined in stories.
I knew there would be a day when that no longer would be the case.
From my first faltering breath, whisperedPronounced words bound in abandonSpace in deafening silenceScreams muffled in mourningBulging eyes proclaimClarity, reinedUnrestraintSeekingAir.
Take a deep breath in
walk away from drama
when theres a fork in the keep going straight
don't stop to go left or right
always continue from the way you started
if you choose to go left or right
I grow weary with every step I take,
down the endless broken path.
My head grows heavy with every breath,
my vision blurring through a swarm of tears.
I dance because God made me to dance.
I dance because even though sometimes it’s the most painful and hardest thing I do,it can only make me stronger and more dependent on God.
My heart is heavy and my head is unclear
Waiting to Exhale
My eyes are watering and my soul is crying
Still waiting to exhale
My hands are trembling and my smile is weak
And I'm still waiting to exhale
6:05am. My alarm beeps 13 sharp, incessant shrills that shake me up and drag me out of bed, onto my yoga mat. The house is silent and there's just enough dark to see. I inhale deep…exhale deeper, letting my breath roll over my head.
Her doleful eyes pierced his silhouetteThe mind, pushing back his tearsleft his heart unguardedAs lies escaped his breathso did their security
I can see, but I am blind.
I can hear, though I am deaf.
I can speak, yet I am mute.
I find myself wandering, like a spirit,
Walking the same path over.
I cannot tell if a dream has taken me
Everything goes on, moving and flowing. Never stopping. I think and breath, so let me break free. I'll fall and stumble, and pick myself up. I will be fine. All will be well, so let me go, loosen the grip, let me breath.
Tossed out of the ocean
I’m gasping
God take me back
This agony is everlasting g
Deaths cold fingertips
Tantalize and twist
My ship sets sail, it sails out to the sea
I am the captain, so the captain I shall be
I command no orders, my ship sails like I breath
The water so perfect, a ship just like mine sails in the reflection I see
When it senses my essence
feel the cold presence
Shiver from the sent chills down my spine
it slowly invades my mind
Silently scream within this dream
life fades away it seems
Wish I wasn't here
Love at first sight is breath taking
Doing everything in your power to satisfy your heart's craving
Once your love for her becomes real
Everything that she says becomes a big deal
