Jump Off the Roof
When your response is, "You're way too young,
you shouldn't be saying that.
You shouldn't know what that is."
Maybe I'm just saying something
you don't want to hear.
Some truth you missed, and you may be older
but none the wiser.
You Are Wrong.
Nice and safe in your box of brick and mortar and lies and "I Do"
but she Doesn't.
And your golf game is the same
and your kids don't talk to you
Because you forgot to jump
off the roof and into the deep end
to the bottom where it lies;
what I know and what you don't.
When you say you have it all figured out
and Happiness is what happens when your credit score is high.
You've never been high.
I'm Higher than the birds.
#realitycheck #livingfree #poetry #freepoetry #stickittotheman #love #jump
Giving Somebody Space
Let’s not let time pass
gently between us, a cast
for broken pieces.
Let’s glue this bitch together.
Get the safety pins and gum
and hate ourselves
and lay together touching nothing,
saying nothing,
and cry when we realize
our glue and gum didn’t hold
and the thing’s still all broken.
#poetry #breakingup #backslide #lostlove #broken #fixingthings
Unemployment
I decided to leave the dough a bit longer
For flavor, a more satisfying flavor.
But then it got pushed to the back
of the shelf behind some leftovers,
And now I’m almost afraid to bake it
Because what if I let it sit for too long?
#poetry #unemployment #waitingforsomething #jobless #baking #bread #breaddough #searching
I Never Told You How I Felt (but you knew anyway)
It’s a nonstop thrill ride
Toes clenched knees buckled nails out
claws in stomach tight hair pulled
lips bruised skin raw sweat drips
hands grab bodies melt bodies roar
secrets said Eyes On Me.
But that one thing I want to hear.
What are you thinking?
I know the answer.
That question puts torture
in your soul and I eat the pain,
words stuck in a funnel
poured in and channeled
filtered and weaker.
You’re hesitant, it’s not allowed.
They don’t abide
and so we hide
this in a box we can put in the closet
and dare one another to open it
while it gathers dust and this
fizzles to nothing
with no one to see it but us.
#poetry #secrets #secretlove #lovepoetry #lustpoetry #statusquo #forbiddenlove #keepingsecrets
The Morning After
Who the hell are you?
What part of town are we in?
...was it any good?
No I don’t want food,
Just call me a ride home please.
Think I lost my phone..
Don’t tell me your name,
I really don’t want to talk.
Where’s that fucking ride?
Here’s a fake number,
I’m sure we had a fine time,
I don’t need that shoe.
#haiku #themorningafter #comedy #poetry #youngadult
Envy
I only put that toy down
because I wanted to play with
some other things
for just a minute.
But that is my favorite toy, and
when I went back to pick it up
someone else had already found it,
gave it a story and a new name,
and sang songs to it until it was
their favorite toy.
And even though I still
love that toy,
I forgot why.
I just know it isn‘t mine now
and I wonder why I put it down
in the first place.