We're moving as fast as snails.
It's alright though, my Mother told me that snails see the beauty in everything we miss.
These legs are dragging; there's a detachment between my mind and those shuffling feet.
I forget where I'm going. i need to retrace those steps to find out where I lost the she that I could have been.
Tired, cold, alone.
Desperation
Rushing through
My veins with every
pump of the heart.
Breaths. Short & sharp.
Getting caught at the back of my throat.
These walls are closing in now;
feelings compartmentalised
into this cube, this
ever-contracting cell.
I need colour & light,
I need sound that isn't just
"you stupid cunt"
I owe you:
one kiss.
one hug.
one punch to the throat.
You gave me heartache,
sore ears from the yelling.
I learnt three things:
love doesn't evolve from the clenched fist.
you'll get treated like trash if you stand for it.
your favourite food is beef stroganoff.
...and I hate it.
Love was never a problem,
only the in-between part of the day.
It all changed:
when I left you.
when I rejected your phone calls.
when you fucked someone else.
I wanted you to burn for me,
you did, you do
But I'm better than you
Goodbye to the shitty weather
and the goosebumps on my arm.
Goodbye to this fucked up town
and to the boy who thought he was mine.
Goodbye to the love that felt like a leech
and goodbye to this disease.
Goodbye to the friends I thought would stay true
and to the things I screwed up when you weren't around.
Goodnight to the warmth of the heater
and the quiet pitter-patter of the rain outside.
Goodnight to my little furry friend
and to forgetting who I used to be.
My hair is now black and my heart a less dusty pink.
Not as dirty as the sun as it sets
over a polluted Sydney sunrise,
that I haven't seen in years.
"I'm getting over
One moment; We're trapped.
I'm wondering, where did you go?
This isn't you.. Can't be you.
There's a gun pointed towards me,
But it's held in those fingers I always treasured.
The guitar callused fingers,
they're caressing the trigger.
I'm scared, what if the blood doesn't coagulate
and I'm left here, bleeding to death.
That's half my worry, does the bullet mean we're over?
Can we go back, before I was tied down
Dripping my life onto your starch sheets.
That's the beauty, you're an anal clean freak.
I tried to repress your rebellion,
Unconsciously shot, small of my back.
It's love, hidden behind cigarette distortion
Drifting,
There's a child crying itself to sleep,
Mummy had a date tonight,
But the monster under the bed stayed in.
All these games, he's just a kid,
everyone wants it their way
but he just wants to be loved,
not a pawn between Mummy and Daddy.
It's a childish vision, isn't it?
To want to be loved.
When you yell in front of him
he thinks he's the cause.
He wishes he didn't exist,
when he hears the slaps,
he sees the blood,
he cries, and at that point,
he dies inside.
Now he's not a child anymore.
He's had a second chance but he blew it,
fourth, and fifth and sixth,
and he's destroying what was
once noted as innocence.
If it hap
To the prettiest coral coloured petal,
lying delicately upon a stem
that's destined to lie perfect for ever,
kept in a cupboard, in a jar.
To dry and to live on,
just one petal upon a stem.
It means so much to keep this dream alive
that if it ever crumbled,
my heart would too.
The flower came into sight
one perfect Sunday afternoon;
on top of the headlands
as I pondered upon life, love and the merits of
a live-in boyfriend.
If I were ever asked,
whether I knew the answer
to a question seldom begged:
"When do you know it's love?"
I'd say this petal
in it's perfection, is love.
The petal, in its inanimate glory
will never
Sitting here alone and cold,
The water stings my face.
I think of my day,
Slump my face on my fist,
I'm just the stranger.
The eyes stare,
And the mouths need not talk
But I hear the words.
I know I'm not the one confused.
Whispered words don't reassure me,
They merely make me freeze.
Each tear is entangled in raindrops
Am I in the middle of an experiment?
I just feel so connected
And dangling from string
At the neck.
It's a parade of the beautiful
In my gutter.
Winter nears,
And still I cease to be noticed
From the person who
I wish was nearer
But fades away like
Lights in a storm.
You'll never know
If I was just a
Hold the trigger, caress it til it's warm.
Your fingers gonna be here awhile;
Gotta create tension before you shred their skin
(with a bullet through the brain,
or lodged between a lung and the heart,
nestled in some cartilage.)
Everything'll keep pumping,
but with each breath they'll flinch.
Flinch like, like they'll bow down to you.
This is how it's gonna be,
the moment before the tunnel end is visible
and angels start to sing the chorus.
Bittersweet like cold..white..wine.
Yeah, fuck yeah, they'll whine at you,
they'll beg for mercy.
And then you'll be BAM!
Start sayin to them as they start to stop
"soon you'll be over, y
The nine to five is over for another sixty-four hours. I'm not counting, are you?
Arms out the window, controlled only by the wind. Piercings all over her face she yells at a boy of five; a mother of four and a foetus ready to make it five.
"Get your fucking arms in the window you little shit"
He winces. She's hit him before.
I retreat and pull those arms back in from the wind. A train flies past – we would've lost our arms if it weren't for the human scrap metal facility over there.
Social infidelity
with a spark that'll burn.
Far too relaxed
for impersonal relations.
Queuing up for something
only to slam the door in my face.
I've made it this far
but it's the journey not the destination
that's proverbially supposed to matter.
I don't know how I feel
about trusting intuition;
walking blind
and running without a purpose.
Misconception by deception.
The cognitive elements of perception
but I'm failing to recognise.
Thanks for watching while I fall
and pushing me off the precipice.
Warmest regards for the misunderstanding
in which I constructed myself as human.
He looks terrible. He wastes days away lying in bed. He acts indecisive because he doesn't want to appear cocky or self-aggrandizing. He doesn't want to be rude. He isn't confident. He doesn't have the ability to tell me what to do, or tell anyone what to do. He couldn't start a fight, he'd say I was being unfair if I got nervy at him. I feel like aggravating him, forcing him out of comfort [but the point would never get across].
He hasn't seen daylight in so long. We saw the sunrise once. I never sleep, he slept all day and stayed up with me at night. We played video games. He mustn't have thought I could play them on my own, [2player syndr
not enough words to speak on the telephone.
a conversation divided through stops & starts.
stuttered syl·la·bles, forgotten words.
i've gotten to a point where there's nothing left to say
because i've said it all before
to someone not unlike yourself.
relationships prosper through articulation.
if i can't write it down,
and i can't scream out loud
there's only so much that these eyes can yell.
it seems as if my life has been,
until this point, only marked
by the comings and goings of
everyone i've ever loved.
my father, the angel of Christ
[with withered wings & shattered eyes]
marks the very start of this lethal game.
too ma
the indication came with no surprise,
there'd been ill-thoughts &
impersonal patronisations
floating through our hearts:
we'd proved to be our demise.
we're nothing but the best of friends
until the well runs dry,
we'll do everything you want us to
as long as you'll bend over backwards for us.
i hate to say
i told you so.
the past is just a capsule
for the things we've left behind.
If by candlelight you meant
Romance
Hold off,
Give me ½ an hour
[I've got to pretty my gaunt face]
By the end of the night
I'll be
Joining the dots
Between your every freckle.
Lets talk past lovers &
The times we've not been in hospital
For an illness we never had.
Lets talk scars.
Lets talk about where this is going,
Where we're going
On Saturday night.
I've been here before
I think
But I've never cared
I've not been the type
They've not cared
They made no imprint,
Left no bruises, only scars.
We talked in white lies,
a conversation in code.
Our concerns were of third parties,
and fourth and fifth,
the latter two with nothing to do
with the issues at hand
but more than willing
to give oxygen to the flame
or to stand by and
hiss at the right moment.
I promised friends I'd write in code;
we wanted to be the first ones with the gossip
especially when it was our own.
We wanted it to be a secret
until we were sure we couldn't lose.
The win, when executed, proved indifferent –
we were just the same as before
but now we had scars to show
of battles and romance
and friends burnt to ash.
intentions + misconceptions. by susypow, literature
Literature
intentions + misconceptions.
A blank page to match a blank face.
I'd like to say that I know,
that I really know.
Something ,
Something ,
ANYTHING!
But sorry, I've run out of hot air
and patience for respect I was
so sure I held for you.
[But I wasn't so sure.]
But Dear me, I'm sure now.
We're over, this friendship,
it's over.
It's not like
we were that good
anyway.
i am a pretty old deviant, having come to dA in January of 2004. my other account is still accessible and updated at www.soosiep.deviantart.com
this is merely an extension of the original project, which hopes to segregate the various types of art i produce. keeping the poetry and prose separate from the things which distract it.
take a visit there if you like, i'd be happy to have you.
www.soosiep.deviantart.com
xo susy
Hey Susie I got interested in your work over a year ago and have since moved on. You have (however briefly we met) made an impression.
I am now addicted to philosophy, I'm not sure if that's your fault or if its just something that I knew for longer that I had to get into to bring balance to my life (pure skeptic)