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Give me another -
one part Jack, six parts truth.
Make mine a double,
'cause I'm still standing.
I measure my day in moments of you.
Clutching talismans of unacknowledged import.
My skin nags its ache for you -
nothing quite so sordid, I promise -
just your hand in mine.
Your Self occupying that
so conspicuously empty space
next to mine.
Oh, it's such a cliche...
I cast us as Romantic period lovers
forbidden ever to touch -
Romeo and Romeo,
sans suicide.
I'll use words to immortalise you-me-us
so Someday When
university students can pour over my lines
with apathetic glances
and giggle-whisper over hidden references
I never meant to put.
How many adjectives will it take to contain you
in rhyme and meter?
Vespertilian.
Ethereal.
Magnetic.
Addictive.
(My personal favourite.)
I'll pen epics in your honour.
Become that quintessential knight
questing for his lady's -
sorry. lord's
affection.
Will I ever win his hand?
This poor Pinocchio with naught but dreams and hope on offer.
And his heart.
His heart not once wholly given to any other.
Is that sacred enough to sway your favour?
They've killed all the dragons, love,
but there are monsters still to find.
Just name your price, I'll pay it.
I admit:
all those soppy sentiments and angst-ridden poets
waxing on love lost and not quite grasped,
I looked on with contempt and derision because
how could I -
that ever changing and unchained creature that is me -
how could I ever need another for completion?
But you.
With your quiet looks and unassuming ways.
You with your strength, your honesty,
your untamed muchness bucking to be free.
Have captivated every part of me
and pushed me toward the ranks of all those desperate
to personify and dignify and legitimise their love's desire.
So drown me.
Consume me.
Absorb me.
Transform me into that thing I crave.
Let me join the queue
of tricked out boys all saying:
oh, baby
let me fuck u hard
let me make u cum
let me swallow u
possess u
but just for tonite
but just if u can get me off
Okay.
I'd say those things, too,
given half a chance.
But it wouldn't sound right;
I'm working with higher ideals.
And proper grammar.
Usually.
So let's give this a whirl:
Oh, baby,
let me slip inside your soul,
that tricksy, shining thing you are.
Let me have all those dreams
you're too afraid to wish for,
and hold them still for you to see.
Sink sink sink into me.
But just if it's forever.
But just if you get off on that.
Let me keep you safe every tonight.
But damn, boy.
It's hard work trying to differentiate
from all those faceless names
spouting off all those selfsame words
until I love you is just code for
Hey, babe, I wanna fuck you.
And I won't deny - I can't compete.
But what I lack I make up in sincerity.
And damn, boy.
I spend so much time
trying to be pure and true,
for fear of you just hit-and-running
while denying all the ways
I want you
until all my atoms are just chanting your name.
Okay. Okay.
Just one more round,
and then we'll go.
I promise.
Same again?
I know the shape size weight of your fear
and all it's holding back.
But I'm wondering how many more times
I'm going to make jack o'lanterns in my chest
before you believe
I won't leave you damaged and lost.
I'm in it for the long haul,
and I'll carve up yet another toothy smile
if that's what you need.
Because the shape size weight of my heart -
as ever -
is you.
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I am lonely.
Nobody tells me in pretty.
Nobody laughs at my jokes.
Nobody talks to me morning,noon or night.
I am so empty.
It is so dark.
I cannot stand it.
Look at you.
You smile.
You laugh.
Your eyes have a wildness I cannot explain.
Look at the way you move.
So proud,so free.
I cannot take my eyes off you.
I cannot get you out of my mind.
What was that?
You looked my way?
Was that a smile?
My heart is racing.
You shouldn't be allowed to affect me.
You do.
Do I affect you?
You kiss me.
You tell me,Yes I do.
You are warmth,both emotional and tangible.
It is oh so nice to have another heart oh so close to mine.
Never let me go.
Dear God I
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The beginning of the our end.
So there we stood, surrounded by a silence that had deafened our souls yet we choose to continue to let it consume us,as we avoided eye contact.I felt my skin burning. My heart pounded as I spoke weakly,freeing us that screaming silence that had frozen us in time.
"I break everything I touch. Did I not tell you so?"
He replied with wrath and dispair," Do not give me your cheap phrases,stop bull-shitting with me."
I looked up at him,his eyes burning in anger that suddenly transformed into sadness, and then he said to me, " I know you, you know me. You don't have to recite all your frustrated poetry, you don't
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God likes Red Hair
The fish are still
In the shallows of your soul
But you get what you pay for
I think I’ll open a vein and call for a nurse
She’ll bring a needle the size of your heart
You would wonder what
I’m talking about if
You had a stick so long
It’s a contest to see who really ruined everything
And I’m gonna make a play. Who knows?
It hasn’t crossed my mind
In two pages of quelling rages
No more will I see you
I seem to do everything in five stanzas
It’s a pattern in a Universe where random is a pattern
And nothing gets done if it doesn’t break the mold
You did so long
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I haven't really been writing much. Posting anything even less.
But there's this. It's different from my usual style, and much more honest, and possibly influenced by a slight amount of alcohol, so my perspective on it is a little skewed. I can't decide if it's different in a good way or not. I'll either put some more effort into it or I'll leave it as it is. I haven't decided yet.
Either way, I'd like to know what sort of effect this leaves you with, and any other opinions/feedback you might have.
But there's this. It's different from my usual style, and much more honest, and possibly influenced by a slight amount of alcohol, so my perspective on it is a little skewed. I can't decide if it's different in a good way or not. I'll either put some more effort into it or I'll leave it as it is. I haven't decided yet.
Either way, I'd like to know what sort of effect this leaves you with, and any other opinions/feedback you might have.
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This is beautiful, and I think the honesty really comes across really well, which just makes it even more beautiful. I don't know, it's hard to explain, but this just goes straight to my heart, and I suppose in many ways I can't ever relate, but in so many other ways, I can. And I love how versatile it is. From the longer sentences to the parts with just the words, the adjective part for example, to the beautiful imagery that at times is just really sad, to the parts in italics about what others would say, and then to the parts about the poets and university students reading it (which actually made me wish I could have when I studied at the university, because damn...) It just contains so much. Sorry if I'm making no sense, I'm a bit dazed/dazzled (or something, can't find a good word), I suppose But I really love your poem, it's very captivating!