Red Lips, Blue Lips by Emerald-Alexandria, literature
Literature
Red Lips, Blue Lips
Crimson lips of sultry nights
Lush and smooth and kissable
Seductress tools to tease and temper
Caressing, irresistible
Blue and purple lips, like death
Your eyes are closing off the day
Grim claws are closing on your throat
Until you feel life slip away
Pink and pretty lips, so young
Fresh and elastic with honeyed youth
Lips not afraid, yet, of this world
With no fear to speak the truth
Busted lips of hopeless nights
And screams of feeling weak and small
Terror of being hurt again
When he towers over you, so tall
Black lips painted with the times
A metal ring pierced on the lower
Misunderstood, not yet a woman
Make-up caking, until you'r
Disappointment as a Season by tiajones, literature
Literature
Disappointment as a Season
1.25.13
I am always disappointed by the fall.
It is such a spineless lover.
It warms my insides like coffee
with sweet promises of new starts,
then falters and lets its fickle
self die to make way for the winter
that haunts me like ghosts.
This season does not love me,
or at the least its affections
are quick to fade, and each time
it comes knocking on my door
I tell myself, “I will not fall
in love this time,” but
I am the biggest liar I know.
I Wrote this For You in the Dead of Winter by tiajones, literature
Literature
I Wrote this For You in the Dead of Winter
1.8.13
I do not love you
yet,
I hardly love myself,
but I feel my heart
swelling with
unspoken things
that my mouth hasn't
learned to say-
I want to take away
your coldest and
loneliest winters
and shine for you
like the summer sun,
kissing each freckle
on your shoulders
like they're ripples
on the shoulders
of the sea.
I want to be your
something good.
I want to stand
barefoot in the
dirt and dust of
disappointment and
offer you flowers
with calloused hands,
because no matter
what may come,
I want to be your
reminder that
life is still beautiful.
I do not love you
yet,
I hardly love myself,
but in the sprin
[Imagine a broken figure selling fake pain killers for unbuilt lives. Imagine that picture roughly translated into bittersweet static; sharp and flashing on and off.]
I'll weaken to self-created tricks
Ticked to pay triggered sounds;
Down to take off.
I'll tremble with the rental winds
That brush up against my skin.
For when I'll lie down at mental, sterile lands -
I'll bury myself here.
[Just give me some sleep; sedate me. I can dream that the effect will wear off like a storm of smoke that's fading.]
The dirt tastes like over powered thoughts.
Locked up on the story that became news
Used to affect something within me.
My anger'