love is an unanswered letter
a fluttering
hope
a bird
on a wire
love speaks
softly
of flight
to choose
to change
(seasons)
to remember
the
sky
love is a gentle reminder
weightless
and waiting
unshaping your eyes
love comes with no
conditions
no bending
no breaking
a quiet surprise
Don't dwell on something for too long,
or hold on to something from the past.
Don't let it hold you down,
because you'll fall behind.
You'll fall behind on life,
on your responsibilities,
on everything important
because time waits for no one,
life does not stay behind
and wait for you to catch up.
Nothing will be waiting for you.
It will keep on going
and you'll have to play catch-up
on everything that didn't wait.
So let go,
don't let others hold you back.
Don't let your regrets and past events
weigh you down.
Cast them aside because you don't need them.
You'll feel lighter without them, anyways.
autumn mo(u)rnings by inthespacebetween, literature
Literature
autumn mo(u)rnings
i hope i die on a cloudy day,
because i want the sun to mourn me.
& when the birds fly south for the winter,
i want them to tuck my name under their feathers
like a prayer
and carry it somewhere i'll never go.
i watch the leaves turn fiery,
fall,
& decay in mass graves on the ground.
my throat catches, stopping me
from making another sound.
when the snow starts to fall,
& evergreens are the only life around—
i won't be there to see it.
Her wings be not white
but blackened and burned.
Singed by the fall
her actions hath earned.
Her grace is absent.
Neither here or there.
I cannot find it
and I do not care
for though her halo
be shattered and rent,
it changes not
that she's heaven-sent.
when she was young
she knew which way
the Nile river was,
no matter how many times
she spun around.
the insides of her eyelids
were encrusted with
hieroglyphics;
her tongue held the tattoos
only a sphinx would
recognize.
but he came and stole
her egypt, the way a poor man
steals a piece of bread;
to sustain his body, his heart,
his broken lungs
sick of breathing.
and for a while she lived
in the dark, wishing for her
egypt to come back to her
with it's golden sand
and pharaoh smiles.
but her mind was not a mind
without her egypt,
so to the man's house
she moved in the dark.
and with her hands
she claimed his throa
Here you are again
in a hospital's bed.
Very much alive.
Wishing you were dead
because you know
with too certain dread
that you can't escape
the beast in your head.
It always has you
in a cast-iron bind.
You look for any
escape you can find.
When you think it's gone,
it creeps up behind.
This palpable terror
inside your mind.
It's always hungry.
It's never full.
It will not be sated
when everything's null.
Which is why you try
to do more than dull
this horror's existence
inside your skull.
I’m 15 and just losing my dreams.
Coming home to find you gone,
Shell Shocked Heart Break.
Red and Blue Red and Blue Red and Blue,
Sirens sounding.
Please, PLEASE,
Let him come home!
It’s been a few days
One bottle, Two bottle, Three..
Take it away
No more not today,
I still need her,
Can’t lose both
It’s been a few years,
finally shed a few tears.
Not one but two,
because no matter how much it hurts,
the truth,
Neither came home that day.