The thing about rage is that it can't fix you,
can't make the things you need any closer to your horizon.
Tired is the truth,
exhausted
by forces that push against us without names,
without faces, without tangible force
so that we collapse under the weight of ourselves
without ever knowing what was heavy.
I hate that others have power over me,
that a man who lives 60 miles away can make me basement low
and in the next breath lift me higher
than I could ever float myself.
I hate that men make me worse
make me ache for what my father never gave me,
absence of a daddy as strong a force
as the absence of him.
How unwilling we are to choke
In the dark of things I cannot know
I will keep having dreams of walking into traffic;
of crashing my car, of
pulling the trigger of a firearm I don't know how to use
pointed at the roof of my mouth.
If I die, my love, it is your fault.
If I end my life--
If I end it--
it is a choice you made for me.
Not my responsibility.
Never my own.
You could call me back, you know.
You could reach for me.
You could love me openly,
apologetically,
the way I know you do.
But there is no peace for truths you won't acknowledge.
If I'm dead, it's your fault, and I did it.
If I die, it's your fault.
This Poem Isn't About You. by xxDearOblivionxx, literature
Literature
This Poem Isn't About You.
I turned my heart inside out looking for you,
shifting jagged shale
sifting cloudy water
for the man I fell in love with.
You buried yourself in futures,
in "if I can just --"
and "one day I'll --"
while we crumbled into a troubled ocean,
eyes stinging
with salty spray.
I waited for you to meet me there,
half way, as you said,
but anxiety kept us rooted on different islands,
tectonic plates shifting,
edges making turbulent earthquakes
you "decided" not to acknowledge.
And when the cracks appeared I marked them,
but you kissed me and told me they didn't exist
and because I love(d) you I believed you
until we were surrounded
and the ledg
I need you to understand that what I want is so much worse than what I have.
That truths spilled forth from drunk mouths should not be discounted
by the vices of their honesty.
I know that twenty-one years is a formidable gap,
that the life you've lived in the interval is more meaningful than the silence;
that I can never reconcile what is missing
from what exists.
And yet the distance stretches between us like a disappointed bridge,
the truth of the things we feel growing teeth in every moment,
like we can forget that love yields to predatory instinct.
Will you forget
that everything I've ever loved
could have belonged to someone else?
Wh
And I am giving more than I get.
I am used to the paradigm of the unsuccessful,
the incessant beating of the beast in the cage,
the way he clenches his hand
around the member I will never grasp,
not with His blessing, not
with His forgiveness.
I have never wanted anything worse than you,
never dreamed
of the opposite of you,
knowing what I know about my body and
knowing what I know
about who You are
and what we want.
There are futures i could seize,
truths more real than the one we're living.
He loves more than my body; he treats --
he cares --
about my mind, the curve of my work,
my second body,
the one the others know,
the one you u
Love is a thing I don't understand any more.
The way we make meaning out of empty space,
the touch that isn't touch but words
accentuated
by pixels bent at the will of desire.
I've wanted more than emptiness from you,
more than truth and less than sacrifice,
because that's what she wanted and I
let her have you then, because waiting
was better
than complacent pain.
There are no myths when truth is the bottom of the barrel.
I drink
to forget
how much space sits between us.
It is easier to admit to the way that I am
than to hide behind promises I feel like I can't make,
and the promise I break every time I admit
I want more of you than you'