A Poem About A Poem

There is a melancholy woven into exhales, 

The fumes of heartache stir in your brew. 

And I wonder why the somber flavor, 

The stale aftertaste of lingering rue? 

Your language is lovely but its sound so sad, 

Like the bloom of roses on thorny vines, 

Curling themselves into the curves of the tongue, 

Where they melt away from papered lines. 

Why are stories more endearing framed in rhyme, 

Their romantic undertones always incomplete? 

Because what is a poem without a melodic accent? 

But a beautiful, clumsy way to translate heartbeats.

In Lyrics

In lyrics I see road maps

street signs and flashing yellow lights,

follow routes to forgotten streets over the gps and lose myself

listening to the voice of someone I don't personally know.

In lyrics I see fingerprints

collecting just enough dust to hint at their existence,

watch waves sweep away delicate sand castles to prove they're not real

and taste the salt of the ocean with my eyes.

In lyrics I see billboards

for plays performed on stages too small for such big stories,

distracted by the cakes of makeup on faces distorted with timed emotion

but feeling regardless the meaning in their soliloquies.

Unwritten

 

The blankness of this page is full of stories

I try to write but the words evade me

The artists in my mp3 player do it so much better

As if their lyrics were the script between my long, drawn sighs

As if my heartstrings were the first to play those melodies

I hear the throb of my soul in someone else's song

And its language feels lost to me.

Spellbound

You speak in lyrics

With a voice like velvet

Drawing eyes with your dance

And hearts with your song

They flutter to you

Shudder for you

Caught in a trance

In a spell gone wrong.

I wonder if you see

How they burn

How they churn

How they yearn for you.

In their minds is your face

On their lips is your name

They’re obsessed

They’re possessed

When you give just a taste

It’s enough to spark a simmer

So discreet

Still a treat just the same

You’re sweet but you’re vicious

Your poison’s so delicious

And they implore you

To explore you

They adore you

And the dream that you are

Barely out of reach

But always just that.

I Like You Human

I like it when you’re human
When your guard’s down you come out to play
And for those precious few moments
When you finally let yourself breathe

I can see you for who you are

I like seeing the tears in your eyes
Your hair messy when you wake in the morning
A blush for your every ignorance
I’ll use my kisses to trace your imperfections
So you can see who you really are 

Let fall the armor you wear
That burden you bear
I beg you to give me your heart
Beating, raw and vulnerable
And I will show you how to use it
What it’s like to live
Sorrow that only death can relieve
And happiness worth sticking around for

Forgotten

The memories I so cherish are slipping away
Leaving me with a creeping fear I can't allay
The fear of becoming just another distant memory
A flickering image of what I used to be
Trapped between your dusty photos and old tales.
Whatever thought you had of me pales
Threatening to creep into the closet of your mind
Into the corners of your brain's forgotten design
Before it shrivels and disappears.

Fading Numbness

I can breathe again

Just in time to feel my heart ache

Just like it remembers

Only this time it hurts so good

I can’t sleep

My sins haunt me in my dreams

I’m shaking and I can’t breathe

I’m afraid but I kind of like it

My eyes burn

Too much of me is pouring out

Yet I’m smiling at all the pain

Because it’s better than feeling nothing