Long Ago When Mercury Descended High On The Moon (OPTIONS!!!!) :P!

I have been very uninspired as of late! I'm going through a lot of crap right now and I could really use some inspiration. Everytime I post a contest, the results are incredible. You guys never cease to amaze me which I've told you countless times and I'm expecting nothing less this time around...I'm expecting more. I want to, when I read your work, have no other choice but to surrender my pen to your talent! I know you can do it, and I'm anxious to see the results.

***Requirements- (atleast) 2 poems each. At least one of them has to be from or related to one of the listed prompts. If you choose to not use a prompt for one poem, simply put "Darren Hayes" in your authors notes, to show me that you read this and are serious about my contest.***** Please label them poem 1/2/3/ etc. So I know you've followed directions.


~Rules~

1.No TyPiNg LiKe ThIs...No shift key molesting!!! >.<
It's stupid, annoying, and shows your lack of intelligence.
2. No DiRtY PrEtTy. The style is repulsing and can hardly be called an artform.
3. Have Fun!!!

~Options/Prompts~

1. When moonlight crawls along the street
Chasing away the summer heat
Footsteps outside somewhere below
The world revolves I let it go
We build our church above this street
We practice love between these sheets
The candy sweetness scent of you
It bathes my skin I'm stained by you
And all I have to do is hold you
There's a racing in my heart
I am barely touching you

2. Doubts of our conviction
follow where we go
and when the worlds compassion
sees us still i know
For your every touch i
Thank you so much
And for your every kiss i
I wish you love i wish you heaven i wish you heaven
If I see eleven
well you can say its seven
but still I'd wish you heaven
I wish you love I wish you heaven I wish you heaven


3. Long ago when mercury descended high on the moon
Far below when little hands are making shapes in the room
The shadows they dance and they cheer up this place

4. Take a loaded gun
Take a shot of rum
Take a poison rat
There's a lesson in that
No more pulls and fist
No more face to hit
No more bloody nose
Or apologetic roads




5.Are my lips unkissable?
Are my eyes unlookable?
Is my sex undoable?
Am I unlovable?
Are my words unlistenable?
Are my hands untouchable?
Am I undesirable?
Am I unlovable?
You make me feel like my father never loved me
You make me feel like the act of love is empty
Am I so unlovable?
Is my skin untouchable?
Do I remind you of a part of you that you despise?

6.You teach me how to love
Parts of myself
I hated for so long
Loving myself
Through loving you


7.
All I can say is you showed me how to live, but living a lie is the reason my heart doesn't want to give.

8. So how can you say those words to me, and act like I don't mean anything, I gave you my heart and everything, but you threw it away so easily.

9.[When you Hold me tonight don't close your eyes]..Don't close your eyes..let it be me.......don't pretend it's him in some fantasy..darling just once that yesterday go and you'll love than you've ever known...Just hold me tight, when you love me tonight...and don't close your eyes.

10.Do I turn you on at all when I kiss you baby? Does the sight of me wanting you drive you crazy? Do I have your love? Am I still enough? Tell me don't I or tell me do I baby, give you everything that you ever wanted, would you rather just turn away and leave me lonely..Do I just need to give up and get on with my life? Baby...Do I?? [I could lean in to hold you or act like I don't even know you, seems like you could care less either way]

11. I'm holding on for you, I'm fighting for your life and when you're blinded by this jaded eyes I'll be your eyes. Even if you fall, I wont let you break. When all the noise is telling you to run away, run to me.

12. Beautiful things never last, that's why fireflies flash.


13. Watching you watching me, what a fine way to fall asleep.

14. If you don't love me, just pretend, but don't seek what you don't need from me.

15.And if the world should ever fall apart around you,
And if you're lost and barely breathing,
I will find you,
And carry you back home.
I won't forsake the only love I ever known,
When you're out there on your own.

16. The face, then staring through a tiny crack in the door
Eyes so wide he's never seen a woman fall on the floor
I swear Daddy's killed her this time
Should I make a rocket?
Should I try to fly away?
Should I make a hammer?
Should I try to smash his face?
Should I make a bullet?
Should I try to shoot the gun?
I'm sure the judge will let me off real soon.


17. For all the anguish,
And degradation
For every time I needed truth
And you were faithless
But disappointment, self-deprecation
But living a lie for fantasize and you could save me

I need my cross like a blanket
And misery is comfort
I can hardly stand to blame my self-fulfilling prophecy on you
And in the end I decided
I guess I felt I deserved it
I should kiss your dirty lips for bringing me my clarity

And how did you just make me see?
How your lies have buried me
But I forgive you
Lord I must forgive you
So I

I feel so high
Just let it go we would
I forgive you
Lord I must forgive you



18.So pour yourself over me
Until there's nothing left to see, Because I like the way you move in the dark I like the tension, the tension and the spark


19. Ever wonder why I never really truly connect, although my eyes are open? I can hold your gaze, but I'm never connecting...never connecting.

20. I do not want anyone, anyone who really wants me,
Every one that I desire, wants to be with someone else. . .

21. Love and attraction.
It's like sex and passion.
It's two ends of a spectrum.
Are you a friend or a lover?
Now pick one or the other.

22.Everybody wants someone to hold.
Everybody wants to choose a role.
Ain't nobody willing to break the mold.
No hint of bravery.

23.Everybody is chasin' some ideal.
None of it obtainable, none of it real.
Everything falls between the cracks of
Love and attraction.

24. If you can chase them forever, are they ever together? [love & attraction]

25.If only you'd run to me
If only you'd come to me
If only you'd relax upon your rules
And dare to be love's fool

26.I have censored my eyes, I hear drums in my ears
Redirected desire now
It comes out as tears

27.For all the torment
Loss of independence
For disrespect, carelessness with my emotions
For all the screams I swallow
How a soul is hollow
For giving into temptation
For making me feel like a cheap replacement

28.I've seen so many faces
These hands have lied before
I've kissed so many lips it's blocked my mind
I've whispered bullshit, nothings
I've cried alone in night
I thought I'd found the one a million times

But doesn't anyone fill the void?
Doesn't anyone kill the joy?
Doesn't anyone take the place of you in my heart?
And doesn't anyone fill the void?
Doesn't anyone kill the joy?
Doesn't anyone take the place of you?

29.I let a stranger love me
I gave away my pride
I bit my lips, so I could block my mind
I've called your name to others
Just like a spinal chord
Severed and broken but the spark still tries

30.There is this picture frozen in my mind
Of a life I never knew full of Wasted moments,
Trying to be someone I,
Never wanted to be for you.

31. Is my heart unbreakable?

32. Inside feel the rising tide
And the revolutions deafening
I was trying to hide my opposing side
Trying to reconcile my Jekyll and Hyde

33.Sometimes you put all of your desires in an object of affection
But in time because you idolise there is only disappointment
I was flying so high in your perfect sky
But I needed to fall cannot have it all

34.I remember laughing on that river's edge
Trying to get you to jump with me
Trying to get you to fall for me
And your trembling heart it beat so fast
Holdings hands you promised me
Holding hands we counted to three
And I felt your slipping fingers
And I saw you change your mind
If I hadn't dragged you in with me
You would have let me dive without you
Without you

35. How many days am I going to regret you?
How many nights till I forget you?
Have I been wasting all those years?
Held down by these tears?
How many dreams have I left deserted?
How many hopes have been diverted?
Have I been buried in the dirt?
Held down by this hurt?


36.I have been changed, I have become
I have flamed under the sun
I'm the reflection of you

For something ordinary
It's so extraordinary
I trust, I put my faith in you
In you

37.Somewhere inside my evolution
Karmically I seek retribution
Looking for love in physical beauty
Desire is the drug of the bourgeoisie
And now I try to intellectualize
Like a glimmer of good in a bad man's eyes
I am consumed by the flesh haunting me
I know temptation taunts the empty


38.The decadence of giving into desire
Creates such entrophy within
Looking for love in spiritual faces
Blind to the art of fabrication
I'm like a baby sucking mama's milk
Want to drink my fill and then some
Leave me alone
I always thought I was better than this
But temptation tempts the temptee

39. There's just one thing missing,One thing missing here is
Love

40.Gimme that strange relationship
Never felt pleasure and pain like this
Something so right but it feels so terribly wrong
I keep holding on
Gimme that strange relationship
One of us gotta let go of this
I keep pushing and you keep holding on
I'm already gone

41.I want
you to burn.
I want you to steal.
I want you to bleed,
And see how it feels.
I want you to beg,
I want you to crawl.
Give more than you take,
And smile through it all.
And know that everything you do,
I do it for you.
.....I do it for you.

42.Turn the lights down low
Take it off
Let me show
My love for you
Insatiable
Turn me on
Never stop
Wanna taste every drop
My love for you
Insatiable

43.The moonlight plays upon your skin
A kiss that lingers takes me in
I fall asleep inside of you
There are no words
There's only truth
Breathe in Breathe out
There is no sound
We move together up and down
We levitate our bodies soar
Our feet don't even touch the floor
And nobody knows you like I do
The world doesn't understand
But I grow stronger in your hands

44.We never sleep we're always holdin' hands
Kissin' for hours talkin' makin' plans
I feel like a better man
Just being in the same room
We never sleep there's just so much to do
Too much to say
Can't close my eyes when I'm with you
Insatiable the way I'm loving you

45.Fade to black commercial break this is where the censor kicks in

46.Now I'm standing at a terminal waiting to connect to another plane
If I told you I just cancelled my flight to America
Would you call me insane?
Everything I am has been neatly contained into
the contents of a Samsonite bag
Me, a laptop, 2 suitcases and I'm coming to see you
whether you like it or not

47.I've been put down, picked up and put off
I've been held up, pushed and shoved around
You got me falling over and over
I've been drifting this side and upside down
I do it all for you
You know I’ll be a fool for you
I keep thinking I've lost something
I look down and it's only you

48.How many forms can indecision take?
When does the warning light appear before a man breaks?
Mine is a restless heart don't try to fix it
You know sometimes, sometimes I want it to ache

49.Please tell me what you like
Does that feel nice
Give me a sign
If you love it I can do it again
We've got the rest of our lives to
Get it right

50.Lookin' back on lonely nights
Searching for love again
I never knew my journey began
And ended with you my friend
Softer than your butterfly kisses
And stronger than my desire
I wanna thank you my friend
For making me feel alive

51.I'll never mess it up again
Won't let it slip like grains of sand
Through careless fingertips because
I'm a man who understands
Though burned by the fire
I can learn to feel the light again and listen
I can hear your demands
I know I can do it give me one more chance

52. Got a fear of falling under
Underneath the dream
A fear of diving too deep
Deep beneath the seams
A fear of falling under
Underneath the spell
A fear of what the truth sees
Secrets I will tell

53.What came first
Love or hurt?

54. I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

55.I have turned away from you
And I am godless
A wasteland of poison
A hidden fortress
I have blackened out the stars
And hidden frequencies
I have silenced all the waves
And forbidden secrecies

56.There is nothing of you now
No ghost, no not a trace
No flower, not a seed
Nor perfume in your place
I have searched amidst
A barren plane of emptiness
I am worthless, It is futile
You're invisible, I am infantile

57.I have murdered the divine in me
Set the goodness free
I have squandered it all
I am less than the sum
I am parts of the whole
There is something missing
There is something I stole

58.Why have you forsaken me?
Where do you hide?
I feel the betrayal
Simmers, it blisters
It digs down and burrows
When all I want to do is be your friend, your friend, you know I've never been in love before...

59. Gimme a taste of what's to come
Give me a medicine
Teach me a lesson, maybe I deserve to know
Cut me down to size and paralyze me
With the contents of your pretty little head

60. Gimme somewhere else to go
Give me one thing
Tell me something I don't really need to know
I am so afraid of breaking what we made
It is delicate and lovely
But it's a weight above me

61. And your words are like weapons
But you'll keep them inside
They cut like a knife
And you keep it together
Those feelings inside
There's nowhere to hide but away from me
And I just wanna listen to your words

62. I'd like to step into your world
Show me a secret
I promise to keep it safe and sheltered from the storm
I would cross the great divide that keeps me swimming
Treading water from your shore

63.Now I wanna coax you from your hell
Into an alley, the hidden valley
Where the truth can surely spill
I wanna take the weight that drags you to the ground
Spare this treasure that I found

64.There's a lock, someone's stolen the key
They took it away from me
Somewhere that noone can read ya
I see a bible
I see a bible in your eyes
All those codes and hidden meanings
Full of metaphor
and something for the faithless in me

65.Don't confuse your beauty
With the insolence of youth.
You can move through time in one direction.
Sad but it's the truth.

66. So wonderfully good looking
With fine and delicate lines
If I place this face in carbon freeze
It will never be affected by time

67. Our memories makes you immortalized
You end when you're beginning.

68. You smiled at me, like Jesus to a Child.

69. You'll get no answer from me
About what I want or what I get
Brave enough to speak afraid to see
Confuse the issue til you forget
And I've tried
To finally decide
Why
I'm in your face

70.And if you can't already tell
I am unable to let things go
I'm told I do it very well
But more important you should know
That all the same
You've got no one to blame
But yourself
If you call that a waste

71.Cause it ain't me
That's been hurting you inside
And if you've learned
You'll know much more than I
That you're gonna have to go and find it
You'll have to dig beneath the ground
You'll have to unearth every ugly stone
That kept you on your own
And simply put them down
You're gonna have to look around

72.PATHETIC SEDUCER
DISTORTION SUFFICIENT

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Requirements- (atleast) 2 poems each. At least one of them has to be from or related to one of the listed prompts. If you choose to not use a prompt for one poem, simply put "Darren Hayes" in your authors notes, to show me that you read this and are serious about my contest.****Please label them poem 1/2/3/ etc. So I know you've followed directions.