Authorz: buttaflypixie

young woman you devour every cloud after trusting in my sky wild woman you smoke my air over free things like poetry when breathing the…

Jack and Jill went up the hill Because their mother told them To get some water for the hogs So papa wouldn’t scold them. So…

Why bother Holding hands If you Cannot escape The claws?? I only stabbed you In the forehead With my fork To vent my anger. Get…

Faces on the mantle Faces on the wall The mantlepiece has shattered The pictures start to fall… Faces on the doorstep Faces in the hall…

I Will no longer Apologize For Loving You.

I am still two years old. I am still at the beach Walking behind you Whoever you are– I am still leaping in the sand…

I sit back and watch you sleeping And I crawl into your mind- All the secrets you are keeping Starting slowly to unwind Do you…

He lit a candle next to the bed. Flicker, shadows! Darkness, fall! And all at once I turned my head; Our words were dancing on…

I see you were taught To fight anger with anger– And not talk to strangers Who offer their shoulders. I see that pain’s broken you…

A week ago I let the night Remind me of its presence The way you always said it would And there among the decadence I…

Hello again. It’s me The girl who always lacked significance; The girl who, now, in passing by, Deserves less than a sideways glance. I’m just…

So I am as the bitch, the jerk, the mean, Tending on the shadows in my heart. I would have looked if I had only…

The simple connections that you take for granted Are floating around inside of my head Like I’ve floated from place to place in my life…

Am I the skin You wrapped up in When the ice was thin From the heat of sin Now the water falls Through your thick…

You keep informing me That soon I’ll pay the price Of asking you once And telling you twice. Saying not much Sure says a lot.…

I say to you Broken Who’ve borrowed my smiles You’ve taken the last of my stock Please pay back your loans For now I have…

Achates, accept now, this auto-award For I cannot allow that you cannot afford To be armed with apology. Alert the afraid That we have the…

Some woman Who could have been my mother Or at least one of the many I’ve had in my life, Sat me on the kitchen…

A set of standards guides us all: He is too fat, she is too tall Columns under which to fall That leave us feeling awful…

Gasping for air under words never said My heart chokes on love that is hidden in here For you are convinced and concretely well-fed And…