I watched you as you clipped words to your lips with torture devices I didn't know the names of, we lived in days of peace you loathed yet were hesitant to mess up. You slipped poison into drink and acid into your romance because you wanted to see who could survive you; yet never once have you noticed that I sit with your wilted roses and I drink and love you without being six feet under in less then an hour.
{You were never able to see the things right in front of you.}
You have tattoos and piercings and lots of quotes that cover your wall like paint, people wonder why you wear black all the time or why you dress the way you do. You simply tell them your two favorite words and head back home with your box of donuts and alcohol, leaving people to ponder if you are the anti-Christ.
{Fuck you.}
You scoff at my drawings while I can secretly see the admiration in your eyes, you were never able to lie to me. You push pencils into voodoo dolls and make wishes on pentagrams, yet when you think I'm not watching you push faith into your eyes, shove hope into your lungs, and carve love into your thighs.
{Baby, I see all your lies.}
Your personality is so confused its drunk, you drink wine at night and whiskey in the day, finding time to sleep only when you can't sit up straight. I catch you when you fall and hold up your long hair when you are trying to get rid of the liquid you consume; but my benevolence is wasted when you brush me off like a piece of dust.
{One day you might need me.}
We sit outside and you look up at the stars as I watch them explode in your eyes. You count them even if you count the same one multiple times and your voice carries promises and wishes to Heaven; and you don't want me to hear them, but I do anyway. The dark of your eyes is reflected between the stars and I brush away your insecurities.
{Sometimes you just have to let me in.}
We don't love each other but your skin taste good and the feel of your body close to mine -skinonskin- is cloud nine and then some. Your sounds and the way you move under me is the only thing that makes this relationship worth while. So I drink up your lust and turn it into my dreams while you call out other names and stab me in the back with long forgotten people.
{Why can't you remember that it is me?}
We reach for each other when nothing goes our way, but we claw and kick and yell as if it is each others fault. But when it is all over you curl up with your bottle and count stars and act as if nothing happened. I get a head rush from too many sleepless nights and my lucidity is suffering.
{This happened. Accept it.}
Author notes
Prompt(s):
1. Rose
2. Anti-Christ
3. Love
4. Bevolence
5. Dark
6. Lust
7. Lucidity
And the picture on the contest page. Artist: unknown.
This is probably not what you were looking for. But I did what I could and used what I could. I feel as if I haven't slept in three days right now. So I'm a little off. I tried my best either way.
A contest entry
- Deep, Dark and Lovely by Shantti.
400 points, ended October 6, 44 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Constructive critisizm please. I can't afford anything else; I'm too poor. ;)
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Loved it.
You have no idea how this peice made me feel. Its like you took everything i wanted to say but couldnt and wrote it down. I have been going through something like this for a while now. I have not been on allpoetry for well over a year, and this is the first peice I read. Your words are amazing and i can feel the depth of despair and aingts in each one.
"Your sounds and the way you move under me is the only thing that makes this relationship worth while. So I drink up your lust and turn it into my dreams while you call out other names and stab me in the back with long forgotten people."
This part is the part that got me the most. I can feel the meaning, not only because I am going through this, but the way in which you chose to word it. It is just an amazing peice. I can not tell you what it meant to me personally to be able to read this at the time in my life that I did. I hope I am not coming off as crazy, but I have been sitting here for the past 8 months trying to figure out how exactly i feel, and you managed to write it in two breif sentences. I wish I still had the talent to do such. I hope that you win, and thank you for having such a big impact on my day.
_April
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wow. thank-you very much. i assure you that you arent coming off as crazy-quite the opposite actually. (: if you ever need to talk please dont hesitate to message me! ^_^
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Oh this is beautiful. This is a sweet story and wonderfully penned. It had just enough dark, and alot of depth and lovliness.
Thank you for entering it in my contest, you did awesome
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Thank-you. (: ♥
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You mean Accept it at the end.
Loving the Anti- Christ.. Wow. I don't -know- what to say.
I like it a poetic value. You have enough story and enough -pretty-.
Nice job and good luck.
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Why did I put except? >.> Well. Like I said, I was out of it. xD
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Mhm. 'Story' and 'Pretty' ( My own terms) are like.. the two pieces of poetry.
The story means there is something there, the poem means something,
The pretty makes people want to read it. The metaphors, the pretty language.
You do well with both of those here. I just.. didn't connect on an emotional level. Probably because I'm still half asleep.
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Well I can't say this is my best. Mostly because I was more on the dead-side of bored and nothing would come to mind. I'm thinking about starting this over and changing a lot of it. Cause it sounds boring to me.
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Wow, Ivy, you've really out do e yourself with this one, no joke. This poem was absolutely astonishing. Definitely a favorite of mine. Of course, I'd expect nothing less from my Hope <3
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You should read some of the poems I consider my best. xD Then maybe we'll get somewhere, yes?
Thank-you Eddie. 
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Putting aside the feeling of 3 day lack of sleep, its a wonderful piece. There are a few spelling errors I might add(2nd line). My favorite part though is the 3rd stanza. It speaks close to my heart. I love it all together. Wonderfully written!
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I hope I fixed all my spelling errors. I hate spelling errors. xD
Thank-you very much!
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