lies
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broken bridges
Father you are laughing right now, aren’t you? I always held you up on a pedestal even when you had me at my lowest. How stupid I was. That love made me feel numb, wrapped dull hands around my throat. All I had wanted was you.
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falling, fallen
You taste better without nourishment numb buzzing and filling my veins confusing reality with delusions How long will it be until you miss me until you call on me again beckon me with clear vials- -misshapen canteens misconstrued truths- It doesn’t take much to fall into submission
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kaleidoscope
It’s a shame that you don’t love me like I love you. A misfortune for me, it is, more than it is for you. I’ve chopped up my hair. Went two shades of blue and green, one crimson and grey, light petals of pink to detach myself from you. I have become broken down…
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imprint
I don’t think he ever knew what love meant. He could never even fathom it; taste it, touch it. That mundane little soul never knew what it was. Although, he could say it. I would watch him open his mouth, tears forming in my eyes at the beauty of that singular meaning on his…
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Witching Hour
I always wake up at that witching hour How lonely oh so forlorn eventide is now My nightmares come to me just like those hands One greets me satiating my solitary the other one runs away much like you did
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Emerald in Color
Things never went smoothly That stabbing in my chest couldn’t go away darling not at any cost Every single time I closed my eyes I still saw those olive ones could pinpoint every single speckle beige or chartreuse Those irises flickered as much as your blues I…
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Palaver Sermons
It couldn’t have been long Maybe six months Eighty-seven thousand and sixty hours Perhaps it was decades, darling Everyday in your presence multiplied into eons Every moment aligned perfectly So perfectly I’m sure we were together in every single dimension every parallel universe constellation The galaxy shifted…
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The Face of Janus
It’s easy enough to do it with a smile A haughty laughter that sickens you but makes their faces glimmer Produces peachy cheeks radiant with rose color tints floral shades They convulse from their bellies No matter how much your eyes beg for alleviation
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Hyakinthos’ Cry
‘Oed’ und leer das Meer’ You gave me hyacinths from your garden Crude little buds that were as green as those lies lies lies that ricocheted out of your mouth and into my throat I had become nauseated because of those incipient little blossoms I imagined a prickled case around those…
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Daphne’s Revelation
Have you ever been in love? It’s terrible isn’t it? It grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go until you’ve succumbed to the suffocating feeling It takes and takes Until there’s absolutely nothing left the same way you’ve started You’ve fallen in love with that idea …
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The Scent Of A Lie
That red hurts my eyes Blindingly passionate a touch of edacity It sticks to you like those little insects inside of a web A web full of lies Until you get eaten up and dissolved Becoming one with that rapacious desire
Éloa 