Violent Love

Lay down 

Next to me 

I feel your warmth 

Your body close

I see my heart 

Thumping 

I see my life 

Up and down 

As it's supposed to go

My head sings

Of the violent love we share

It's so good for me

It wakes me  

From the deepest slumber

I didn't want to leave

Fought hard against it

I needed someone 

To fight passionately for me

As I wasn't going 

To be easy

It wasn't supposed to 

It never is

We all want easy

Easy is boring

Easy is work

Commute

Sit

Type

Easy is soul diffusing 

It's easy to forget 

Who you really are

What you really want 

I don't ever forget 

I just make myself 

Look away

And stay

Like he made me learn

I was just too young 

To understand why 

Or understand it

Or change it

Or stop the monster inside

To afraid to love 

Or be touched 

It's confusing 

Hard

And one only wants life to stop

So it can be easy 

Easy that I won't have to deal 

Or feel

Or live

But it's not real

I never wanted easy

I wanted soul crushing

Heart ripping

Passionately slapped 

It's all been a big bore since 

But I tell myself it's what I need now

I believe it

Keep going 

Maybe soon 

I might let someone in

Someone I don't know

It sounds so much work 

I just don't want

To always be alone

Even though I'm not

Not really 

I lay down

You're already there 

You snuggle up next to me

I feel your heartbeat 

I count my heart beats

I know I am where I need to be

I see it's all so confusing 

As I am alive 

You lean in

Kiss my ear

I flinch 

It tickles

It's not real

You vanish 

Once I point it out

It doesn't matter

I am fine

I don't need anyone 

As when I do

It only occurs in my head

And I realize 

I have nothing to give 

Nothing to say

On any matter

I haven't really lived 

Not enough to get it

The intimacies

Between two 

Still scare me

Makes me flee inside 

Still believing the lies 

I don't get it

I have tried

But it's too hard for me

I wanted to understand 

I wanted to be apart

It's an awful feeling 

To look through a window 

And not being able to do

Anything you want to do

It's how I am

My eyes are like steel bars 

Barriers I can't deal

I don't feel 

I needed violent passion

But I also needed tenderness and pleasure

I just couldn't let it in

Or admit I wanted it

A good fight 

Is good for the soul

Facing hard truths

Are good for the body

Someone forcing you 

Against all desire 

Is often necessary 

As sleeping is too tempting 

To just sleep 

And be 

Alone

Is mostly what I want

I have to remind myself 

And fight to remember 

Who I am 

And what I am after

And I give up

So someone reminds me 

I remember 

Ah yes, I did want that 

It's too hard

I am sure I'll never arrive

As life is too full 

Of unwanted things

They suck up 

The whole damn thing

I wish it weren't that way

I wish I could change it

It feels confining and suffocating 

Will it always be?

Will the truly beautiful stuff 

Always be out of reach?

August 21, 2016 1:50 am

Finished August 22, 2016 2:08 am

37

Standing Still

It's not that I am waiting 

For things to finally change 

It's that it still creeps 

Inside the crevices I used to call home 

I don't exist in spite 

I bend and face the will inside 

I don't let go

Only because it's still alive 

Thinking it all for not

Unsure of what is actually real 

How do you tell 

A ghost from a dream 

How do you live with the incomplete 

Like part of you still breathes 

But not in anyway satisfying 

Like it didn't actually happen 

Like it was all meant for something 

More than you actually are 

Something big and grand

But you forget all of that 

As you convince yourself 

You're so much better off than

You weren't living before 

Now you can have it all

It's ripe 

Yours for the taking 

Like handed down from another life 

Given and gotten 

But it's not for free 

You have to release 

What ails you to stay

You have to complete 

Wrap it up

Like it wasn't real

Make yourself steal the lie

So you can survive it 

It's not actually too late 

It all completes something 

But won't be exhumed

It's meant to stay buried

It might seem 

Like bringing up

Facing it head on

Will make it better

But it's just a mirage

One that's easily side stepped

To move along

Not keeping you down 

Confusing as it is 

It's only a step to take 

Something towards life 

Forgetting all that other stuff 

Anything that meant anyone 

I understand 

What it is I have to do

And I am grateful I know where to start 

It's not about them 

Or them 

Or me even 

It's about where I am supposed to be 

Headed there now 

Even though I carry it all

Letting it go 

Changes nothing

Naked 

Stripped of all my excuses 

Life has been chewing on me too damn long

I have ignorantly let it be 

I don't ignore me now 

I don't even fix me now 

I let me be 

As it will all right its self

Like there was nothing do to anyhow 

So don't feel pity

Or fear 

Or complacency 

It's already been walked 

And towed 

And carried 

And known

It actually changes 

Not what I want 

But it will change 

Everything else it's supposed to

And that will be enough 

As the little part of me 

That often speaks 

The absolute truth 

Still is persistent in the telling 

Still makes me turn and face what is 

Strong enough to see it now 

And still tow what's left behind 

Life is not just mere moments 

Or some other cliché 

It's all of it 

Encompassing and fulfilling 

But it's not often clear 

But it doesn't have to be

And running away or towards 

Is often running standing still

April 21, 2016 1:15-1:27 pm at Judy's