Desperate Creatures

i present to you my poems ;) "in all the wild world, there is no more desperate a creature, than a human being on the verge of losing love" (atticus.)

[desperatecreatures]

Action!

Here's my elevator pitch:

We kiss.

-desperatecreatures

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Cravingly Cliché

And I too

So desperately

Want to kiss you

On the river banks

Of la Seine

I discover new riddles

Everytime I watch you

For every wrinkle

Lies a new lie

I ask only for the moon

Not to give away your life

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Her, she, me

From getting up alone,

The tingling awoke

My text on your phone,

Wanting to call,

Our secret yet official

You long for, affairs

Nudges your hand

To the image of her

She, who you go

To sleep with

Does she have my hips?

My stomach and waist?

Does she have my eyes?

Slightly thinner thighs?

You long for that moment

When you can fantasies

Morph my body into

Someone else's

To correspond perfectly

To all of your senses

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The Day I Knew

You sitting,

Eyes bruised,

A shaft of light,

Its drapes of heat

Beam on your shoulders.

I follow the rays,

In extreme close ups

From afar,

The air's like pressurised

Words lie, untouched.

Our egos avoid each other

A repulsive magnetic force

Floats around, pauses the moment

If I could live in an image

It wouldn't take long

For that phrase to come out.

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The Cage

I want to curl in between your ribs

Below that silver chain of yours

Where time holds no power

Beneath all the lies I tell myself

I want to fossilise under your chest

My nails clawing your bones

The layer of redness of your skin

When the sun rises, turns gold

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BETWEEN THE LI(E)NES

I read a poem a while ago

About the possibility of an us

Only this time in a different life.

There you were right beside me

Thinking about some world

In which there was no we.

'What if

we were apart

What if

you had met someone

What if

I never had had the courage

What if

you never told me'

I can think of what you'll say

I have some questions too

Here, the thought of us

Was a reminiscing belief

Although it seems to me

You never wanted such

Yet again, I know the answers

For I have tried to imagine

However, tell me the tale again

The one of you and me.

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The Signs

I should have seen the signs

But it was so easy to neglect them

Drink your emotions

To stay high on some feeling

When I woke up the next day

Hungover from yesterday's love

I smoked your fantasies

And read to forget

On Wednesday I stayed up

Danced to that one song

Drove to your place

The effects slowly fading away

After a few thoughtless weeks

I don't dream anymore

My tastebuds have worn off

Sleep is the only way to avoid you

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The Search

Like most days

Today was mere play

Butterflies

Lie still in the cave

The pit in my stomach

Echoed like the void

Over both our heads.

I wait to feel love,

I have to give it back

This just can't end well

But I can't bring myself

To end the early suffering now

Too thrilled to see

Hell after this storm.

I want to watch everything

You have ever cherished,

Burn, fall and be devoured by flames

The warmness of it dying

Portrays what I haven't encountered

In the chaos of the end,

I'll finally touch the love

I so deeply cared to find.

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Excelling the Art

Here, the thought of you

Outdoes being there

Scared to actually be close

But when I am

It grows a little more

The anticipation of next time

How could I have wanted less

I dream of rembrandt lighting

And writing my name

Deep down in your skin

The moonlight was painted

On both our faces

Children of the sun

Parents of sins

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There's this christmas card I wrote

I haven't even started writing it

-I lied-

A thin layer of dust sits on top

Empty poem

I drained the words out

They flooded the paper

Restlessly lie on the floor

I bathe in them

To try to remember

What I had wished to say

-I lied-

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How it starts and how it ends.

Ha ! The irony

You're the one falling

While I dream of some place

With ravishing windows

And vanishing rooms

I've found a greater love

And stopped waiting for you.

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FALLING ASLEEP

My feet touch the ground

A silent thump is all I hear

My bed is warm

I'm trying to fall asleep.

Lifted in the air

My soul was being carried

Then dropped out of nowhere

I startled and tried to breathe.

A ditch was what I last saw

My heart races my thoughts

I have only just fallen

Awoken by some force.

I dream of flying away

Welcomed by friendly angels

My eyes squeezed shut look around,

A devilish smile welcomes me home.

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she's in someone's locket

You are sitting on that car

After we went on a ride,

I kept this photo in my pocket

And carved out the inside.

The hollow gap in the middle

Fits the one in my chest

I shall lock you in tight

So you can follow me around.

I lost the locket over a decade ago,

But the poetry in that holey picture

Reminds me of this love,

That holy heart I wish to find.

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(photo found on pinterest)

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my keyboard has been bringing you up

Chains of hollow words

Flood out from my mouth

To the tip of my fingers

To this text that I type out

The most facile of phrases

Fits perfectly to your name

A hurtful naïve suggestion

Revives your hurtful gaze

You'll stay in my mind

Forever and always

As the end of a sentence

The stranger on birthdays.

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I'm not apologising anytime soon. (this is the best you'll get)

It's the kind of young, stupid age

Which comes with the habit

Of fighting often and knowing

That no reconciliation,

Will be in sight anytime soon.

When I was somehow younger I said :

That I wouldn't make the same mistakes

That this wouldn't be us,

We would be too strong for it all

Too stupid to think like such.

-However-

Pride grew after some time,

Giving me the answer

To why we were blind

It wasn't the loss of your glasses

Just the effect of aging

I don't ever want to think about this again

Maybe I'll break my stubbornness

Say what you want to hear

Or maybe I won't, and it will be

just like the years before I knew you.

To us when we meet again,

With little less ego and little more sanity.

-desperatecreatures

Yes I'm dramatic ;)

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Moths and Butterflies

When I walk there's this funny noise

Like keys hitting against each other

I like to keep it in my back pocket

My pride and everything that I despise

Tiny white bottle, bus pass and credit card

I play games all day, drown it down

Mix them with feelings and they never work

Will only help you forget those humming words

But I still hear the plugged socket in the wall

Even after I've struggled to unplug it

Too loud for the pills in my trousers

I go to sleep with the tiny insect

Buzzing around, watching me from my window.

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Tipsy

Liquid streams down your arm,

from the top of your head,

to the bottom of your lungs,

quickly down to your feet,

reaches every dark corner,

heads where it needs to be.

I hope it was the reason why

You looked closer at my feelings,

Evaluated them, reached a conclusion

The ones I thought I had made up

Reflect in the touch of your hands

As well as in your questions

At once, your eyes abruptly open

Stars shoot across the dark

You don’t have your glasses

Still, you see right through mine

But I look past you and see a door

The water in between us heavily pours.

-desperatecreatures

Another one of these pouring words out type of poem ;)