Sunday, August 8, 2010

you are such a fool to worry like you do

i'm exhaling cliches and forgetting to inhale, seeing diamonds sparkle in the night sky and eternity twinkle in your eye. but you think the stars look like scratches in the surface of every puddle and we can never see eye to eye when i'm looking up and you're looking down.

the poetry i paint down your spine and in the crook of your elbow and in the space between your fingers can never mean anything when you're illiterate and don't understand it anyway. you're finger-painting lollipop trees over the words and calling it art. you can't see the beauty in a slit wrist or the poetry in pooling blood and the glare of the tv you refuse to turn off is giving imagination a headache and making inspiration nauseous.

you're struggling to keep up and trying to dig your fingers into me to slow me down, but i slip from your grasp and laugh as you bend over panting for breath. i cut my teeth on the moon and swallowed the sun whole to feel it burning through my veins while you were busy coughing up your dreams and picking hopes out from between your teeth.

i'm grabbing your hand and jumping off buildings and not letting you gain the footing that you so desperately want. i'm pulling you under the ocean to look for the mermaids but you won't cut gills into the side of your neck and are trying to wipe the salt from your eyes. you're backpedaling and digging in your heels and pulling on the emergency break and talking about planting roots and calming down.

i'm letting the wind blow me over the horizon and not looking back to see you getting caught by time and measured for shackles.

*Stuck in a Moment - U2

2 comments:

  1. anonymous hippopotamusAugust 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    i like!

    its like both hopeful and depressing and i love it.

    i can relate to it, and feel like im the wild crazy one in the poem and hish is the boring one being measured for shackles.

    love love love it.. :)

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  2. except that you havent left him behind... yet lol.

    but thank you :)

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