Submissions by Holly1419

Rapture is in the experience of love, the sufis say
an available method of divine union
God has given us many paths to Her
The sufis wrote their way there
But I’ve been forgetting how to sing sometimes in the morning
Seems I fall flat, I fall flat, I fall flat again
And who is it that can tell me who I am?
All the books you read and the songs you sing in the shower
Ain’t gonna prepare you for what’s there…
Yea....but they kind of can though, right?
Like not completely but they still have real power…?
Its hard to remember it matters all...

Months ago, as the cyclone gathered steam I wondered,
Is THIS IT? My first big love?
So many things they say about first love were true
for me in the way that I fell hard and fast for you

the insanity I felt as our souls were busy merging
my brain and body full of only you,
couldn't concentrate, could only day dream,
sitting around sighing like a lovestruck fool,

Days I felt I was nothing but part of something
Something that was somehow more thrilling than a roller coaster ride,
I was so full, that I couldn't write-
a...

Freshman year psych the professor poses:
“Just cuz you’re within four walls with regal stained glass
does it mean you get a hallucination pass?”

On an international phone call, a dear old friend
But she’s gone a little off the deep end
The aspiring active listener I remain neutral and open
Until I hang up and realize OH SHIT
She just told me she’s digging tunnels for the apocalypse…

My dad, hating authority all his life it grew,
Now he's the elite, he’s got the truth, he knows...
The rest of us just swimming in the plebeian flow
But he...

this is word for word
what happened was the poetry and I just the scribe

You my sometimes lover who thinks this is as it should be
who thinks we will be together forever
i see you once a week
I arrive

You hug me, rub me, bite my neck, say "I missed you so much, I missed you so much"
You are overtaken with me and I fold, you pull back you say,
"I'm so connected to you, your soul, your body"
You said "lets lie down in each other's arms"
the cheese of it works for me,
You lift up my shirt and place your hands on my stomach as we...