Twinkle

I heard your voice tremble;
you said that you were lost.
You couldn't hear your heart
beating hard over the noise.
So, I showed you my face
in the gleam of the moon
and I begged you, please,
look up.
I need to see my twinkle
in the oceans of your eyes.
I promised you my light
would lead you home.

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"And you know I was lost when I found you." Copeland Like a Lie

"So, what was I supposed to do? Just keep on trying through sleepless nights? Fuck am I supposed to choose? 'Cause I begged you everything, everything." Bad Books I Begged You Everything

If Only You'd Try

You let go of the rope

and I took a tumble.

You said that you bled

over the struggle

with that unsound string

that caused all this trouble.

"It isn't my fault!"

You weren't too subtle.

I see nothing but sand.

Not a drop to drink.

I guess I could use 

all this time to think.

You walked out of range,

leaving me on the brink

of a brilliant breakdown.

You're letting me sink.

There are crows overhead

and clouds in these skies

and I think that you could reach me

if only you'd try.

I'm trapped in this hole here.

Listen out for my cries.

Or maybe I belong here

where everything dies.

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Lazy Poetry

I taught you how to read

my lazy poetry,

but I couldn't make you know

what was plainly there
between the lines.

So, I never really knew

if you ever really heard

my heart beating

in these measured words

for you.

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"I spoke bad poetry." Sunny Day Real Estate 5/4

"Drink up baby, look at the stars. I'll kiss you again between the bars where I'm seeing you there, with your hands in the air, waiting to finally be caught." Elliott Smith Between the Bars

"Let a vast assembly be,    
And with great solemnity    
Declare with measured words, that ye   
Are, as God has made ye, free."

P.B. Shelley The Mask of Anarchy

La Beauté de la Mort

In my verses,

I saw you bleeding.

Little curses.

Always pleading.

Needing and screaming,

your veins burst.

You aren't dreaming

and it's getting worse.

This love was poison

upon your tongue,

but it was chosen,

burns your lungs. 

I'm an itch you scratch 

a little too hard.

I'm a stricken match

that leaves you charred.

I'll kiss your neck

while your breath goes short

A wondrous wreck:

la beauté de la mort.

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"Oh, falling leaves should curse their branches for not letting them decide where they should fall and not letting them refuse to fall at all." David Bazan Curse Your Branches

"I try to will myself away while shouting habits plead their case." Kevin Devine You'll Only End Up Joining Them

Plain as Mine

Utter the truth.
Just this once.
Feel your muscles
rest.
Don't bite your tongue
for everyone.
For your gut,
that isn't best.
So sing it in
a fragile song
or scream it from
your chest.
I bet your sins
are plain as mine;
but here,
mine are confessed.


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"I'd give myself a hand if I were you." Kevin Devine Confessional at 6pm

Keeps My Veins

You've made quite a mirky mess

with those words you wouldn't say.

It doesn't hurt me any less

and, no, it's not okay,

but still I stay, I acquiesce;

I count the hours of the day;

and when I finally confess,

just please don't run away.

In the ruins that remain,

sleep the hours poorly spent,

but the rest is always worth the pain

if our hearts were warmly met.

Here, the stars will know our names;

they'll dance for our amusement.

You are the flesh that keeps my veins,

the tongue that keeps mine wet.

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"My cotton mouth was wet with you." Kevin Devine A Billion Bees

Knots

I know that it's hopeless

and you know that that's true,

but death is just a promise

that someone made for you.

I'll wrap myself in darkness

if you're wrapped up there too.

And, if we're being honest,

I'd love no other view.

In the ever-long interim,

while we watch the same sky,

please sing me our hymn

as the clouds pass us by.

Then, I'll kiss your eyelids

and you'll kiss my thighs.

We'll be lost in our limbs,

in the knots that we've tied.

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"If you wrap yourself in daffodils, I will wrap myself in pain. And if you're the queen of California, baby, then I am the king of the rain." Counting Crows Goodnight Elisabeth

"Remember that the only things we need sometimes  are chilly nights and warmer thighs, 'cause there's nothing like being held." Saves the Day Hold