I carry with me
every word and every song
i've ever heard
the ones that rock
and the ones that roll
out notes like waves
and every bar of sunlight that ever fell across my face
and every raindrop that has touched my skin.
And every thing i've ever seen
from the litter on the street
the chewing gum that fills the cracks
to the silent falling snow
on a winding road
and the smell of car fumes and bodies and concrete and late night chip shops
and the smell of sheep and grass and soil and early morning
and the sound of us laughing.
I think that you are still in love with
that girl i used to be
you remind me of her
i'd love to know why you
never told me you
loved me
and i'd love to know why
i never said it back
but i've met someone who
has pushed you to the
very corner of my mind
and that's where you will always be.
i broke both our hearts in 10 seconds
and four words
that song you were playing
will forever sound like
missed oppurtunities
and promises that neither of us could keep
a small secret part
of my newly beating heart
will always be reserved for you
but
i can't do this.
Every year i curse November
When it holds me in its cold embrace
But this year
I will melt
Winters frozen fingers
with the beginnings
of warmth
in my almost healed heart.
I walked in the
cold winter rain
that soaked my skin and bones
in a concrete city,
that I will come to know
as well as I used to know
the lines on your hands
And I will call it home.
5PM rush
and rain is falling
5pm crush
and there's two boys
that I could know
in another life
and they are just like me
books in hand and we think we know it all,
He says to his friend:
"I don't believe in God, but I believe in something"
Well me too.
It's been a year
Since we sat in that tree
Surrounded by autumn leaves
We were wishing
For better days
I'm miles and miles and miles away
Surrounded by autumn leaves
On an golden afternoon
And I have my better days
Do you?
Hello 3AM,
my old friend,
you have eyes that glow like electric lights
and mine are always sleepless
you smell like stale alcohol and
sound like techno darkness.
Autumn's here
and I've packed my life into boxes
with every leaf that falls I will say my goodbyes to
summer laughter,
and the sunset wheat-fields
I'm leaving for the rattle of city trams
and smoke and noise and car horns
and the thud-thud-thud of 4am music
and the chance to start again.
I carry with me
every word and every song
i've ever heard
the ones that rock
and the ones that roll
out notes like waves
and every bar of sunlight that ever fell across my face
and every raindrop that has touched my skin.
And every thing i've ever seen
from the litter on the street
the chewing gum that fills the cracks
to the silent falling snow
on a winding road
and the smell of car fumes and bodies and concrete and late night chip shops
and the smell of sheep and grass and soil and early morning
and the sound of us laughing.
I think that you are still in love with
that girl i used to be
you remind me of her
i'd love to know why you
never told me you
loved me
and i'd love to know why
i never said it back
but i've met someone who
has pushed you to the
very corner of my mind
and that's where you will always be.
i broke both our hearts in 10 seconds
and four words
that song you were playing
will forever sound like
missed oppurtunities
and promises that neither of us could keep
a small secret part
of my newly beating heart
will always be reserved for you
but
i can't do this.
Every year i curse November
When it holds me in its cold embrace
But this year
I will melt
Winters frozen fingers
with the beginnings
of warmth
in my almost healed heart.
Darling,
All the World's a Shadowplay
and i've left the darkness for the Sun
The streetlights
Were our spotlight
Outside a cinema
But we were the only
Show playing
Now i'm Centre-Stage Fright
Solo Act under bright lights
An accusing audience of eyes
Stares and says
You know in fake romances
There are no second chances
Christiane,
You drank away
your wasted youth
red lips stained
with cherry juice
Off the rails
At Bahnhof Zoo
The next heart that fails
It could be you
And whats more
with sunset veins
i think i would have done the same
You said
It smells like Africa
And it did
But Im a thousand miles away
Boxed in by english hedges
The rain tastes like
Red dust of oneyearthreemonthsfourdayssixhoursandseventeenseconds ago
I miss it more than you could ever know
a tongue of tea leaves by canislupusaeterna, literature
Literature
a tongue of tea leaves
she has spoken with a tongue of tea leaves
the autumn pied piper
across discarded beer bottles
plays to the phantoms
of summer
the wind, her dusky eyes
a twinge to her rouged lips
rouge, and ragged
her nail polish sparkles
little asteroids glitter
like Orion's belt
she has three places, out of time
three droplets of crystal
the crystalline
she, with her tongue of fortunes
the divine, prediction, prey and predator
she's counting courtship flowers
the tolling bells
among absinthe and aromatic rings
the nettle and bee stings
so that between chances
"Frail bones predict what fragile minds can't detect,"
He trailed off slowly, "And my bones are achin'."
The air around me hung low and depressed,
Sticking to the back of my throat like a stormy syrup
I'd tried to swallow down.
I peered out the kitchen window
And caught an inklet of patched-over-grey sky;
I wondered what was in store for the day.
Impartial to the gloom outside, we stepped out onto the back porch;
Grandpa wobbled out with his cane in hand and we waited.
In the hushed stillness the trees traded birds
Robins, swallows, whippoorwills, and cardinals.
If you squinted hard enough at the sullen shrubbery,
You could
will you meet me in the spaces
between our fingers
become tiny
atom-like
indivisible, but one
(and all the smaller pieces
that don't matter)
trade electrons
become
heavier
elements
----
a hollow note
crawls up
my throat
when you
depart
----
twenty minutes to dawn
(i know this because we've been here before)
in this moment, and this thing of arms and arms entwined, called embrace
this moment on soft notsosoft ground sheets
this look
it's the same
and in this moment
this moment is again
----
and your voices
singing as the past
ricocheting off
ceilings and walls
that do not house me
anymore, i hear you
strum af
I fear this.
I fear that.
Let come what may
I fear nothing.
All stuttered sentences
stuff themselves
and be damned.
I need a reckless thought to whack Havoc with.
This reeks of Nothing.
Ain't that something?
No.
Just dry ramblings
from an ancient pen
half-cracked
from the mad fool
who held it last.
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You can have the whole world
Does that mean I can have Pariss smell of early morning coffee in a tree-lined street, Africas red-dust-rain and New Yorks City lights.?
**
I leave a piece of myself in every place Ive ever fallen in love with.
I am in Italian sunshine, Germanys vineyards and the forest I walked in when I was nine years old.
***
I have no roots but I have walls. Maybe someday I will let you in.
****
I dream of running,
Of never looking back
*****
I dream of all the places I still have to see,
Where I plan to leave myself behind