Submissions by candencecollapsing (cadencecollapsing)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
26th Nov 2014 4:01am
26th Nov 2014 4:01am
Opacity
I pause.
He is waiting for me to respond.
Waiting for me to reassure him.
I try saying all the wrong things.
Because all the right things sound foreign on my tongue.
They sound like consolation for his efforts.
A second place trophy for a two player race.
The wrong fits all too well into this conversation.
The one about tomorrows and perfection and puzzle pieces.
I wear masks.
Translucent to a degree.
I tell him he will never get past a certain opacity.
Quiet.
Not his fault.
He doesn’t know how to react to walls, ...
He is waiting for me to respond.
Waiting for me to reassure him.
I try saying all the wrong things.
Because all the right things sound foreign on my tongue.
They sound like consolation for his efforts.
A second place trophy for a two player race.
The wrong fits all too well into this conversation.
The one about tomorrows and perfection and puzzle pieces.
I wear masks.
Translucent to a degree.
I tell him he will never get past a certain opacity.
Quiet.
Not his fault.
He doesn’t know how to react to walls, ...
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DRUGS POEM
Published
22nd Oct 2014 00:05am
22nd Oct 2014 00:05am
Third Left Turn
Shiver
That spasm climbing your back
Quaking down your legs
Collapse
Collapse
No one likes replays
Or a lack of cause
With all the effects
Do you feel like a side effect yet?
Light headed spins
They call it addiction
You call it just another cycle
Another slip
A third left turn
You’ve come full circle
Are you at the beginning again?
Or just reaching the middle?
The torso
Keep clawing at it
Like you will somehow scratch it away
Red mark those hips
They will warn him not to touch you there
Will warn...
That spasm climbing your back
Quaking down your legs
Collapse
Collapse
No one likes replays
Or a lack of cause
With all the effects
Do you feel like a side effect yet?
Light headed spins
They call it addiction
You call it just another cycle
Another slip
A third left turn
You’ve come full circle
Are you at the beginning again?
Or just reaching the middle?
The torso
Keep clawing at it
Like you will somehow scratch it away
Red mark those hips
They will warn him not to touch you there
Will warn...
687 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
21st Oct 2014 11:52pm
21st Oct 2014 11:52pm
Would You Just
Let it go
Like an exhale
Like an exhale
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LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2014 10:37pm
10th Oct 2014 10:37pm
The Smell of Cigarettes
The car smelled like cigarettes
And us
You had washed off the stench of her the other night
But I still saw it:
Her hands in your hair, hoop earrings laying askew on my dresser
You were the ocean
I was the wreckage
I was silent
Words cause too many fractures in between silences
The radio was on
You weren’t looking at me
If you did you’d see her
You were the ocean
I was the wreckage
Still lost at sea
You started the car and we drove
Lighting more cigarettes
Trying to forget like smoke so often does
And us
You had washed off the stench of her the other night
But I still saw it:
Her hands in your hair, hoop earrings laying askew on my dresser
You were the ocean
I was the wreckage
I was silent
Words cause too many fractures in between silences
The radio was on
You weren’t looking at me
If you did you’d see her
You were the ocean
I was the wreckage
Still lost at sea
You started the car and we drove
Lighting more cigarettes
Trying to forget like smoke so often does
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DARK POEM
Published
3rd Oct 2014 4:46am
3rd Oct 2014 4:46am
Late Night Cycles
Teach me how to forget him
As easily as I forgot myself
I don’t even remember yesterday girl
Was she something like fire?
Are ashes all that’s left of her?
But I don’t see any phoenix feathers littering her graveyard
Where she slated those opportunities trying to catch what she couldn’t hold
Faltering
Slipping
Tomorrow is a problem
She already knows she’s going to trip on
Falling asleep in the arms of mistakes
And their lonely hearts
Put your hands under her shirt
That’s how she’ll forget you
And be reminded of him again
Over...
As easily as I forgot myself
I don’t even remember yesterday girl
Was she something like fire?
Are ashes all that’s left of her?
But I don’t see any phoenix feathers littering her graveyard
Where she slated those opportunities trying to catch what she couldn’t hold
Faltering
Slipping
Tomorrow is a problem
She already knows she’s going to trip on
Falling asleep in the arms of mistakes
And their lonely hearts
Put your hands under her shirt
That’s how she’ll forget you
And be reminded of him again
Over...
657 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
24th Sep 2014 3:03am
24th Sep 2014 3:03am
You and I Exist Like This
Could we not be metaphors today?
I get tired of trying to classify you as fantasy
We met
You left
Every time
We weren't made for dancing
The song would always last longer than your arms could hold me
We continue yesterday's conversation
Using today's words
And nothing gets said
We are a snow globe
Flipped over
I'm just watching as all the pieces fall
Until the chaos is gone
Not the same as the beginning
But frozen again nonetheless
And I can't stop staring at the space you just left
It's like I made up all these memories...
I get tired of trying to classify you as fantasy
We met
You left
Every time
We weren't made for dancing
The song would always last longer than your arms could hold me
We continue yesterday's conversation
Using today's words
And nothing gets said
We are a snow globe
Flipped over
I'm just watching as all the pieces fall
Until the chaos is gone
Not the same as the beginning
But frozen again nonetheless
And I can't stop staring at the space you just left
It's like I made up all these memories...
699 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Sep 2014 1:15am
16th Sep 2014 1:15am
The Night is for Believing in Monsters
I have ten minutes
Ten minutes to tell you the hypocrisy of it all
Ladykiller and a maneater
Quite a pair
Destroying the general single population
One night stand at a time
Lamps off
We can pretend to be monsters in the dark
The monsters we know we are
Not so different
We're practically the same
Except you've written off emotions
And I always look for someone else to blame
Seven minutes
Enough time to tell you
I am not a doll
I don't wear self pity as if it's a water logged life vest
I will not drown in last night's replay...
Ten minutes to tell you the hypocrisy of it all
Ladykiller and a maneater
Quite a pair
Destroying the general single population
One night stand at a time
Lamps off
We can pretend to be monsters in the dark
The monsters we know we are
Not so different
We're practically the same
Except you've written off emotions
And I always look for someone else to blame
Seven minutes
Enough time to tell you
I am not a doll
I don't wear self pity as if it's a water logged life vest
I will not drown in last night's replay...
653 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Sep 2014 2:24am
8th Sep 2014 2:24am
On the Bright Side
Still as lost as yesterday
But
The world is not currently ending
My atoms are not presently spreading themselves across the universe
Forgetting me
Will there be much to remember?
My lungs stopped exploding a few moments ago
After my heart stopped beating because the angel on my shoulder said it should
I was deaf until I heard those words
A little piece of advice:
Angles lie
At least devils are upfront about it
Skin intact
Hands underwater
They're drowning
Not me
That's why they can hold you so closely
They are reaching for...
But
The world is not currently ending
My atoms are not presently spreading themselves across the universe
Forgetting me
Will there be much to remember?
My lungs stopped exploding a few moments ago
After my heart stopped beating because the angel on my shoulder said it should
I was deaf until I heard those words
A little piece of advice:
Angles lie
At least devils are upfront about it
Skin intact
Hands underwater
They're drowning
Not me
That's why they can hold you so closely
They are reaching for...
679 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
23rd Aug 2014 11:58pm
23rd Aug 2014 11:58pm
All These Words, They Look Like You
You’ve leached your way onto all of my poetry
I cannot write sentence without your name suddenly hiding beneath each letter
The ink I’m using must just be the exploitation of my lack of allure
And I don’t even know how to get you off the paper
Your drafts are everywhere in my apartment
Under my a mattress
Drifting wherever I walk
Maybe I’m abusing the situation
Maybe I’m bundling all of my anxiety into just talking about the color of your fucking eyes again
Or your arms finding there way towards me
I’m allergic to redundancy
Writing is making...
I cannot write sentence without your name suddenly hiding beneath each letter
The ink I’m using must just be the exploitation of my lack of allure
And I don’t even know how to get you off the paper
Your drafts are everywhere in my apartment
Under my a mattress
Drifting wherever I walk
Maybe I’m abusing the situation
Maybe I’m bundling all of my anxiety into just talking about the color of your fucking eyes again
Or your arms finding there way towards me
I’m allergic to redundancy
Writing is making...
826 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Aug 2014 3:11am
22nd Aug 2014 3:11am
Wilting
I realize you are the wilted bloom of flowers I was only trying to save
I should cast you away from the other buds
But I worry for their potential
Worry they’ll be so similar to you that tossing you out would be futile
A rerun
Never as fun as the original
I am caught up watching the slow decay of yesterday’s promises
Yesterday’s feelings
A bottle leaking all the carbonation that used to fill my stomach
I’m waiting until the open air of your lungs turns me into nothing by perfectly flat
It’s like I’m ticking down the days until you’re weeks passed...
I should cast you away from the other buds
But I worry for their potential
Worry they’ll be so similar to you that tossing you out would be futile
A rerun
Never as fun as the original
I am caught up watching the slow decay of yesterday’s promises
Yesterday’s feelings
A bottle leaking all the carbonation that used to fill my stomach
I’m waiting until the open air of your lungs turns me into nothing by perfectly flat
It’s like I’m ticking down the days until you’re weeks passed...
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LOVE POEM
Published
18th Aug 2014 00:50am
18th Aug 2014 00:50am
I worry There's Nothing Underneath That Mask You're Wearing
Now I should start by giving you a disclaimer
These are truths I would say to you
If you gave me a chance
If you weren’t constantly disappearing
They’ve said my fatal flaw is honesty
A modern day Pinocchio
I’ll tell you how it is
My idea of the matter at least
But you boys run away from danger
Real is dangerous
Real can hurt
I’ll tell you how it is
Mixing up the words
I
And
You
And
Like
And suddenly I make it concrete
Lacking any mystery
And you only crave deception and vague hope
I just wish you didn’t...
These are truths I would say to you
If you gave me a chance
If you weren’t constantly disappearing
They’ve said my fatal flaw is honesty
A modern day Pinocchio
I’ll tell you how it is
My idea of the matter at least
But you boys run away from danger
Real is dangerous
Real can hurt
I’ll tell you how it is
Mixing up the words
I
And
You
And
Like
And suddenly I make it concrete
Lacking any mystery
And you only crave deception and vague hope
I just wish you didn’t...
733 reads
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LOVE POEM
Published
15th Aug 2014 8:52pm
15th Aug 2014 8:52pm
It's Late and the Radio's Saying More Than We Are
I must have left dignity in your arms
Must have lost self control in the inches that no longer separate us
All because its too easy
And I just don't want to care
And your fingers are whispering curiosities that I don't mind silently answering
I forgot how to open my eyes
I'm too busy wandering in the dark
Imagining the situation to mean so many other things
Than what it actually does
I
am not her
We
are not alone
In seconds you'll remember
In moments you'll be gone
Like it doesn't matter
Like it never happened...
Must have lost self control in the inches that no longer separate us
All because its too easy
And I just don't want to care
And your fingers are whispering curiosities that I don't mind silently answering
I forgot how to open my eyes
I'm too busy wandering in the dark
Imagining the situation to mean so many other things
Than what it actually does
I
am not her
We
are not alone
In seconds you'll remember
In moments you'll be gone
Like it doesn't matter
Like it never happened...
711 reads
2 Comments
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