[svdcvnt]

Do Not Disturb

[samuellouis]

I don't write anymore,

On the tops of valleys where the clouds can taste the ground.

Where the muscles in my fingers rip and repair.

I've let streetlights become my rivers at night,

I inhaled the idyllic.

--- countertops

[samuellouis]

I remember the coffee cups she gave me,

Placing parts of the sun in each one,

And I was privileged to collide with her lips.

--- longing favor

[notaestheticatall]

[samuellouis]

Maybe there's a pain that I can't see,

I feel like others can,

Maybe they see a mountain peak through my irises,

Somewhere along the horizon as they look deeper,

Maybe the throat rumbles,

Maybe the eyes erupt,

Even so,

I feel dormant.

--- Inundation

[samuellouis]

I dip my head in rivers,

To muffle the sound when I speak your name.

--- murmur

[glazedtwis-deactivated]

[samuellouis]

It wasn't said,

But behind the words,

It was.

Now the cigarettes are a little bit harsher,

And the hangovers hurt a little bit more.

--- wasting time

[samuellouis]

I didn't forget you,

I suppressed you,

Because if I didn't,

The memories will become too loud.

--- frequency and tear drops

[theopiumeater]

life (2009) by ellis scott on flickr

[samuellouis]

Folding dumplings in a weather worn kitchen,

Each dimple is a memory that relapse,

Thoughts travelling quicker than light,

A speech to savour the moment,

And let out this past.

--- Creases

[samuellouis]

Most nights,

I place shame in shot glasses,

And disinfect myself.

--- devoured

[loveisgame-deactivated20251211]

[samuellouis]

We sing songs,

In backyards and beer cups,

Whistling our lives away,

Like we never could have done better,

These stoic ways became ambiguous,

And we've conformed to our own betrayal.

--- lips and tongues

[samuellouis]

the sun light stretches the water,

I watch it separate,

And allowed it to bleed.

--- burn marks

[seabeck]

Up high

[samuellouis]

They cup their hands and hold onto these tears of contrition,

Something I wish they would force me to drown in,

Maybe something I should do,

The reflection can't remember the faces,

Just the familiarity,

A feeling that overflows inside of me,

And struggles to leak through.

--- Lament