I used to be quenched by your warm pretenses
Dripping in stolen heated moments
While half truth poured forth, rushing to fill the displacement in my heart.
Once I swam with sharp toothed insecurities
Dodging the shedding jaws in my own shallow tide
Fighting liquid pain that you always forgot easily.
I used to float along the rocky streams of Almost
Soaked in nightly temptations devised of my own aching,
Sinking towards bottom of Hope by your constant inconsistency.
Once, your sought after smile rained pleasure down on me
Your embraces drenched my inner turmoil, quieting it-
While splashing my thighs and eyes in need.
But since your arid goodbyes
I’ve withered, brittle in the absence of you;
Shriveling, shrinking away from the world.
Thirsting for an echo of our falsehoods
I strain to the burning mass of emptiness
Blighted by unrequited love, left emotionally dehydrated.
A contest entry
- "Anything Goes!...Well almost...kinda....sorta....uh...." by islekine.
600 points, ended August 12, 2007, 31 entries
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• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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this has the emotions that I did have
but I have shut the door on that chapter of my life
the time for me to move on is here and now -
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I wish I had the time to move one- glad you could see something familar in the words.
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it takes time,
as I know,
not long ago I did some
mean things to two I care for
and regret it now
and I thought he loved me like
his words said he did
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Oh wow this is so powerful and so full of emotion!..Hazel
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Great entry...
I love the way you used words....
Constant inconsistency is my favorite!
Thanks for entering!!
*PEACE*
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thanks Islekine
I had a lot of fun with this! And yeah, that line pulls the eye huh!? Reminds me of a lot of men in my life!
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