Submissions by Damselinhandcuffs
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
31st Jan 2025 6:47am
31st Jan 2025 6:47am
Silent Peak
How much is left for you to feel?
Isn't this lonesomeness killing you with patience my love?
Eating away the molten layers
The pretty walls within your skin
How can you ever feel satisfaction still laying next to him?
Touching yourself
Keeping company to the growing empty spaces
That used to be so full-
Full of love
The deep taste of a shared future
The sweet pallet of its laughter
How much is left to feel?
As he lays sleeping...
Isn't this lonesomeness killing you with patience my love?
Eating away the molten layers
The pretty walls within your skin
How can you ever feel satisfaction still laying next to him?
Touching yourself
Keeping company to the growing empty spaces
That used to be so full-
Full of love
The deep taste of a shared future
The sweet pallet of its laughter
How much is left to feel?
As he lays sleeping...
#love
#MovingOn
#rejection
#relationships
#UnrequitedLove
126 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2025 2:30am
22nd Jan 2025 2:30am
Bug
I used your pet name last night.
It was an accident.
It slipped out of the lonely gap of my teeth
as I slipped him out of me.
It came searching for you like the pest that you are.
I called this stranger your pet name and cried,
It was an accident.
How it still pains me
that you turned out to be a flea only for her.
The bird woman
The one who could leave and still be so present.
So controlling in absence.
But my dear,
you are a bug.
A plague that took years from...
It was an accident.
It slipped out of the lonely gap of my teeth
as I slipped him out of me.
It came searching for you like the pest that you are.
I called this stranger your pet name and cried,
It was an accident.
How it still pains me
that you turned out to be a flea only for her.
The bird woman
The one who could leave and still be so present.
So controlling in absence.
But my dear,
you are a bug.
A plague that took years from...
#breakup
#disappointment
#heartbroken
#rejection
#UnrequitedLove
78 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Jan 2025 1:58am
22nd Jan 2025 1:58am
To Love the Tsunami
It's been years
Since the solitude and still waters of my body met his
His social warmth and plummeting waves
refreshing to my little puddle
A saltless ocean I can't help but sink in
I can still unearth admiration in observing him
His weathered and adorned hot-glued framed glasses
Their fragile state taken back again and again
No matter how many times their nose-bridge spine snaps
or its stretched arms loses the tiniest screw I have ever seen
...
Since the solitude and still waters of my body met his
His social warmth and plummeting waves
refreshing to my little puddle
A saltless ocean I can't help but sink in
I can still unearth admiration in observing him
His weathered and adorned hot-glued framed glasses
Their fragile state taken back again and again
No matter how many times their nose-bridge spine snaps
or its stretched arms loses the tiniest screw I have ever seen
...
#admiration
#beauty
#FirstLove
#love
#relationships
104 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
20th Jan 2025 5:31am
20th Jan 2025 5:31am
The Loneliest Constellation
How can one be so lonely from the beginning,
From the cellular start
Before the tongue and breath have formed, before the light touches the baby
Maybe it was rotting in the marrow of my bitter father,
Tortured in a nebula of his own mind and violence
The infant understanding selfishness in the winning of all this existence
Yes, I should have let a son take my place
...
From the cellular start
Before the tongue and breath have formed, before the light touches the baby
Maybe it was rotting in the marrow of my bitter father,
Tortured in a nebula of his own mind and violence
The infant understanding selfishness in the winning of all this existence
Yes, I should have let a son take my place
...
#escape
#LifeCycle
#relationships
#loneliness
#universe
75 reads
4 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
1st Dec 2023 00:14am
1st Dec 2023 00:14am
Thank you, Seroquel
Honey, I said I love you
And I love you
But it's not enough,
not enough to be your forever cunt
Doomed to the sharing of one-sided feasts and smiles failing to touch me
A weak ego consuming the other
Is it you
or is it me
I feel I am just a...
And I love you
But it's not enough,
not enough to be your forever cunt
Doomed to the sharing of one-sided feasts and smiles failing to touch me
A weak ego consuming the other
Is it you
or is it me
I feel I am just a...
#shame
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth
#sadness
192 reads
3 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
13th Nov 2019 8:29am
13th Nov 2019 8:29am
I Couldn't Tell You If I Met Myself or Lost Myself That Day
I dreamt of the old tear in the stitching of skin and the struggle of position again
but wake up to no blood
I can smell the sweat- but the bodies are nowhere to be seen
The bastard deceived me and found not only his sweat
but his pores into my dreams
He disturbed the morning with hate and killed the child in my laughter ...
but wake up to no blood
I can smell the sweat- but the bodies are nowhere to be seen
The bastard deceived me and found not only his sweat
but his pores into my dreams
He disturbed the morning with hate and killed the child in my laughter ...
#sadness
#hate
#grief
#dark
#shame
589 reads
8 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Sep 2019 1:12am
19th Sep 2019 1:12am
Limbs
He wraps his long tree-like limbs around you
And holds you
Says you are his fruit,
And you apologize
The summer heat licks you with madness
You carve into the flesh of your fruit
To feel something and then the grateful nothing
You attempt to murder the fruit on his tree
He didn't know you were already rotting
The sun is settling red
You watch the blood of fruit settle down past the silhouette of mountain, ...
And holds you
Says you are his fruit,
And you apologize
The summer heat licks you with madness
You carve into the flesh of your fruit
To feel something and then the grateful nothing
You attempt to murder the fruit on his tree
He didn't know you were already rotting
The sun is settling red
You watch the blood of fruit settle down past the silhouette of mountain, ...
#regret
#escape
#shame
#denial
#emptiness
707 reads
11 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
11th Sep 2019 4:19am
11th Sep 2019 4:19am
Chant of Silence
#grief
#dark
#shame
#denial
#emptiness
321 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
19th Dec 2018 7:54pm
19th Dec 2018 7:54pm
Fall
It's autumn,
I watch my face morph in the reflection of the lake that way I have something to blame when I don't recognize that face
It's autumn,
I learn he is married, and he is already undressing me
Leaving what feels like my bare bones naked,
exposed without permission to be skinned alive
It's autumn,
The tree's are lying next to me
I drift off and my body stays in character, awake, obedient...
I watch my face morph in the reflection of the lake that way I have something to blame when I don't recognize that face
It's autumn,
I learn he is married, and he is already undressing me
Leaving what feels like my bare bones naked,
exposed without permission to be skinned alive
It's autumn,
The tree's are lying next to me
I drift off and my body stays in character, awake, obedient...
#depression
#sex
#FeelingLost #emptiness
#FeelingLost #emptiness
822 reads
7 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
5th Sep 2018 10:28pm
5th Sep 2018 10:28pm
In the Belly of Lonely
I belong to no one, to nothing
Not even to myself
To neither the sky, nor this body
My feet feel like trespassers on the ground, my hands are somehow a new stranger
I feel lonely in every crowd of bodies and voices
Which is to say, I feel lonely in my own
In this chandelier of moist bones and tendons
And I wonder- when the elasticity of myself wears will I fall apart easily
...
Not even to myself
To neither the sky, nor this body
My feet feel like trespassers on the ground, my hands are somehow a new stranger
I feel lonely in every crowd of bodies and voices
Which is to say, I feel lonely in my own
In this chandelier of moist bones and tendons
And I wonder- when the elasticity of myself wears will I fall apart easily
...
#sadness
#grief
#loneliness
#greed
#emptiness
626 reads
7 Comments
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