My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.
I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream
♥ dylan thomas
I live in the brain you created
and I drink from the leaves you once hated
the sun dries my tears and then turns them to gold
I am cold in the rain and my feet hurt
you push me too far I don’t bend well
my head hurts like june bugs alone in some jar
trapped for amusement, forgotten we are
I cried and you kissed me then you walked away
this ring on my finger is broken today.
notice me notice me fading to gray.
watch me now watch me now driving away.
-sm
Oh the blackness is murderous
and the milk tip is brimming
and each machine is working
and I will kiss you when
I cut up one dozen new men
and you will die somewhat,
again and again.
-Anne Sexton
whispers, they find me
they sing me a song
I dance in the barn
with the owls
all alone
it’s wrong how you love me
a sin that I let you
a dream that we die here
with kisses and bones
I’m pale like a moondrop
you’re lost like a bird
flying north for the winter
through rainbows gone wrong
-sm
To be a leaf today
into the wind, upon the hay
crumbling into dust and dreams
like you and both your broken wings
Time bleeds into the promises
we’ve thrown into the yonder
why can’t you send the stars to me
before Fate steals my thunder?
Run quickly now, before the moon
spills secrets to the Devil
she’ll feed the wolves and wake the dead
she’ll tell them everything I said
They’ll lock me up and hold me down
they’ll make me wear a blue-green gown
and then I’ll whisper, like the wind
into the phone where we have sinned
And you will hear me, like a cloud
“Shake the walls down, let me out.”
You’ll poison them, and make them sleep
as time stands still and you shall kiss me.
serena matthews
