Submissions by gulac

Pretty little shiny things
Are stacked on my lobes and rings
Forming little hats for kings

The use of funds received from kin
expose the soul that lay within
just inches under the skin

Burdened with jewels from the sea
My chest glows in spite of me
now its light is all I see

reflections on the ice blind
all other addictions bind
form one insatiable mind

plastic comes and plastic goes
a small price for perfect toes
exactly how much is a nose?

Before I leave I stand and stare
At the color of my hair
I...

The razor; sharp against my skin.
A guillotine with pendulum force
Deliberately pushing back and forth.

Premeditated and calculating.
Gnawing and grinding
Melodic and mezmorizing.
 
The pain slithers from its nest
At the bottom of the pit
Squeezing life from the branch
And vines that support it

Cells catch on the scales leaving
A path, brightly glowing
Red from the reaping.

Marks that remain are worth
The serpent completing its course.
Finally find calm within

I had realized you knew the second I opened my mouth.
I suppose I should have known that you knew before now,
but clouds encased the space above my clavicle
and concluding that you knew is something my mind would not allow.

Awkwardness rushed in the space between us
Creating an icy void that pressed on my chest and crystallized my breath.
Magnanimous but strained, your expression told me everything.
Confronting you that way had to be worse than death

because I look like a liar and I know it.
Please believe me when I say I did not lie, though I...