Sunday 27 April 2014

i'm sorry i'm leaving and i'm not taking you with me

you've been waiting for this day for fifteen years, and now it's come, is it all you thought it would be, does it feel how you imagined it would feel. i guess not. hope is a dangerous thing, it should come with a big fucking warning attached. objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. objects may slam into you fast or they might creep up slow. i'm sorry you're family is gone, i'm sorry that you feel all alone. i'm sorry i'm to blame even though i did nothing wrong. i'm sorry i just can't be who you want. i'm sorry that this is how your life played out, cold, lonely and without. i'm sorry you're an inside out orphan, i'm sorry i'm one too. i'm sorry you stole my mother all those birthdays ago. i'm sorry you turned her into someone i will never know. i'm sorry i don't cry enough, i'm sorry i don't cry at all. i'm sorry that i can't forgive you however hard i try. i'm sorry you don't know how long my hair has got and i'm sorry you can't see all the love i've got. i'm sorry you don't know my favourite song or how i look at 2 in the morning. i'm sorry you can't place the sound of my voice, and you've forgotten my smell. i'm sorry you don't know me at all.
i'm sorry i'm leaving, and i can't see you before i go. please don't die whilst i'm on the road. when i get home i'll call you up, i'll invite you in. you'll have eighteen years to catch up on. i promise i'll write you, i'll let you know. i'm still not all together ready to let you go. and i love you, just so you know, no matter what you stole, no matter who you are. even though you can't count all your wrongs, i still love you, i loved you all along.

it's the worst at night
so i don't sleep anymore
i don't sleep
when you're breathing close to me
quiet and still, invisible in the dark
i run these plays, i watch these movies
they always end the same way
with me crippled, lay on the floor
and you, somewhere, away
i can't bear to think anymore
it picks at my chest, leaving little holes
it rips at my throat, swollen from tensing
i'm always the realist, i know of death
i wish i was ignorant to the worlds end
and i wouldn't know that my life ends with yours
that my light goes with yours
it will come as a surprise, a bullet, a rushed knife
one i've been waiting for, my whole life
if i had it my way, we'd live forever, we'd never die
i love this all too much to let it go
i love you too much to let you go




Tuesday 15 April 2014

this cream solstice
it's just an empty space
so bare and pale
nothing, built on a plot of earth
i'm hungry
the fridge is full
i'm cold
the heating's on
my eyes sting constantly
the neighbours look on, curious
they learn to keep their distance
it's too quiet, the outside world
just a low, intermittent, thud
the light outside barely touches the window
the light outside barely fills the room
i'm hungry
there's no food
i'm tired
there's no beds
curtain twitching
i'm sad
there's no one here