Submissions by candencecollapsing (cadencecollapsing)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Dec 2013 3:08am
6th Dec 2013 3:08am
Wilting Season
These ivory petals
Only smell like
your
vacancy
Only smell like
your
vacancy
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
26th Nov 2013 6:52pm
26th Nov 2013 6:52pm
Cells for Suffocation
And I feel dirty while you seem clean
Gnawing feeling inside me
Alive in me
I think my heart beat out of my chest
Wound in my pride
I should love you less
Just arms length away but no fingers to grasp
Take it back
I'd take it back
Yearning for a breath now I'm just
Fighting for an exhale
Inhaling too much bullshit
No time outs in this game
Out of air
Everywhere
Carbon for killing me
Black and blue
Inside you
Scorching skin
Tender coals delayed the flames
Not the same
It's not the same
Gnawing feeling inside me
Alive in me
I think my heart beat out of my chest
Wound in my pride
I should love you less
Just arms length away but no fingers to grasp
Take it back
I'd take it back
Yearning for a breath now I'm just
Fighting for an exhale
Inhaling too much bullshit
No time outs in this game
Out of air
Everywhere
Carbon for killing me
Black and blue
Inside you
Scorching skin
Tender coals delayed the flames
Not the same
It's not the same
764 reads
4 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
26th Nov 2013 4:44am
26th Nov 2013 4:44am
Forgettable
You are silent
You are voiceless
You are nothing
Aimless distress calls through those subtle tapes
Momentary blink
Grit of the teeth
Transparent invisibility
You stole with your westward fingers
Jutting between my ribs
Just to find evidence of the gaps that exist there
Drudging further between each exhale
Your grip is unmoving
And I am cemented
You claim I have always been just a root
With no branches
A first attempt
With no second chances
But I feel you have only sliced away my foundations
With a string for a saw...
You are voiceless
You are nothing
Aimless distress calls through those subtle tapes
Momentary blink
Grit of the teeth
Transparent invisibility
You stole with your westward fingers
Jutting between my ribs
Just to find evidence of the gaps that exist there
Drudging further between each exhale
Your grip is unmoving
And I am cemented
You claim I have always been just a root
With no branches
A first attempt
With no second chances
But I feel you have only sliced away my foundations
With a string for a saw...
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LOVE POEM
Published
16th Nov 2013 6:59pm
16th Nov 2013 6:59pm
My Dog
You are so distant
In my arms
This physical touch is never enough
I cannot breach your separation from me
And I am clinging to you
Like the recollection I’m terrified I’ll lose
It’s wavering as soon as I
Pause
And in these moments I desperately clutch you
I recognize
I have only been inhaling your scent
And I am blind to the casket
It only hides your vacancy
Oily vapors
Capture what used to be mine
Replacing me but they are
Washable
Water can so easily erase you from me
I could kiss you...
In my arms
This physical touch is never enough
I cannot breach your separation from me
And I am clinging to you
Like the recollection I’m terrified I’ll lose
It’s wavering as soon as I
Pause
And in these moments I desperately clutch you
I recognize
I have only been inhaling your scent
And I am blind to the casket
It only hides your vacancy
Oily vapors
Capture what used to be mine
Replacing me but they are
Washable
Water can so easily erase you from me
I could kiss you...
722 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
6th Nov 2013 3:51am
6th Nov 2013 3:51am
I Gave You That Gun
A big lie
Maybe next time I'll figure out the truth early enough to cuss you out in some fierce little rhyme
Rewind
To careless breaths
Eye contact
I'll meet you out back
In your car
Fogging your windows
The music sub-par
Like a diluted lemonade
Take the ice away
Set down the tray like you're serving me some temptations in the dark
Your lips left their mark on this heart
Well shattered past all hopes of a restart
Be smart
That gun you're aiming is loaded
Our distance isn't far enough apart
Eyes glued
Staring at you...
Maybe next time I'll figure out the truth early enough to cuss you out in some fierce little rhyme
Rewind
To careless breaths
Eye contact
I'll meet you out back
In your car
Fogging your windows
The music sub-par
Like a diluted lemonade
Take the ice away
Set down the tray like you're serving me some temptations in the dark
Your lips left their mark on this heart
Well shattered past all hopes of a restart
Be smart
That gun you're aiming is loaded
Our distance isn't far enough apart
Eyes glued
Staring at you...
663 reads
6 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
4th Nov 2013 10:41pm
4th Nov 2013 10:41pm
Body Count
Wear the blush
The asphalt may wash out the rest
Chalked outlines mingle behind
Outliving the discarded mess
She said the light outside seems bright tonight
The moon's out can we escape
You're my place
The place I feel safe
The chalk swept up into the wind
Faint memories rested in the churning air
Flying high
Sinking low
Stuck in between with everywhere
And nowhere to go
She said the light outside seems alive tonight
The moon's out can we escape
You're my place
The place I feel safe
Can we, can we go?
...
The asphalt may wash out the rest
Chalked outlines mingle behind
Outliving the discarded mess
She said the light outside seems bright tonight
The moon's out can we escape
You're my place
The place I feel safe
The chalk swept up into the wind
Faint memories rested in the churning air
Flying high
Sinking low
Stuck in between with everywhere
And nowhere to go
She said the light outside seems alive tonight
The moon's out can we escape
You're my place
The place I feel safe
Can we, can we go?
...
643 reads
2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
3rd Nov 2013 2:42am
3rd Nov 2013 2:42am
Drifter
I'm a drifter
Shape shifter
Floating in between the empty air admist the talking heads
I'm nonsensical
Incapable of describing what is incoherent even to myself
I'm a drifter
Sloshing the pavement
Staining boots impermanently
Vapor slips through fingers
Easy to lost
Shell of skin
Hollow spaces between them and me
Coffee house gas grits permeating their eyes
Expelling desires through fragile ticks
Shifting weight
Toes denying guilt
Sturdy shakes
I'm a drifter
Able to detail asphalt engraved pathways more than the...
Shape shifter
Floating in between the empty air admist the talking heads
I'm nonsensical
Incapable of describing what is incoherent even to myself
I'm a drifter
Sloshing the pavement
Staining boots impermanently
Vapor slips through fingers
Easy to lost
Shell of skin
Hollow spaces between them and me
Coffee house gas grits permeating their eyes
Expelling desires through fragile ticks
Shifting weight
Toes denying guilt
Sturdy shakes
I'm a drifter
Able to detail asphalt engraved pathways more than the...
593 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
30th Oct 2013 2:19am
30th Oct 2013 2:19am
Headphones for Killing Me
Treble clef
Turned to cliff
Notes that filled my lungs
Now strangle my throat
Speakers up too loud
All I heard you say is...
This is my
Favorite
Song
Turned to cliff
Notes that filled my lungs
Now strangle my throat
Speakers up too loud
All I heard you say is...
This is my
Favorite
Song
643 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Oct 2013 3:07am
28th Oct 2013 3:07am
Dripping from their Eyes
Sticky
from unsympathetic
Sympathy
from unsympathetic
Sympathy
603 reads
2 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
21st Oct 2013 2:32am
21st Oct 2013 2:32am
Sobriety
Tonight he’s just drinking a glass of water
But that does not erase what I remember from yesterday
As my eyes kept twitching to that always full glass after he’d broken three others before his second bottle was even empty
Ranting words that have no meaning because after awhile all I heard are the sighs she lets out in my left ear
Her only attempt at disapproval
Because there isn’t a cork big enough in this world to fill his gaping mouth
If I tied them all together his wine bottles could sink the Titanic
But this time the passengers woulnd’t even know to...
But that does not erase what I remember from yesterday
As my eyes kept twitching to that always full glass after he’d broken three others before his second bottle was even empty
Ranting words that have no meaning because after awhile all I heard are the sighs she lets out in my left ear
Her only attempt at disapproval
Because there isn’t a cork big enough in this world to fill his gaping mouth
If I tied them all together his wine bottles could sink the Titanic
But this time the passengers woulnd’t even know to...
733 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2013 1:52am
10th Oct 2013 1:52am
flu shots gave me small pox
If you're the wave
Then I'm the water
Instantly gone
I'm just waiting for another
Line on this table
Credit cards for symmetry
Another, another
Instead of screaming for each other
Contagious to arms
Allergic to touch
Weak signals finally gave up
Perched on a branch lightning struck too soon
Collapsible
Expendable
I caught fire just for you
Then I'm the water
Instantly gone
I'm just waiting for another
Line on this table
Credit cards for symmetry
Another, another
Instead of screaming for each other
Contagious to arms
Allergic to touch
Weak signals finally gave up
Perched on a branch lightning struck too soon
Collapsible
Expendable
I caught fire just for you
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Oct 2013 6:35pm
8th Oct 2013 6:35pm
Wasted Leap Years
Days
are all that
Replace
you.
are all that
Replace
you.
659 reads
5 Comments
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