we watch too much internet porn by 0hgravity, literature
Literature
we watch too much internet porn
blank, online eyes
staring through each others
sighs
that mean everything
and say everything
at near imperceptible
decibels
because
he's a claustrophobic,
chainsmoking cityboy
who whispers with rustled
restless dysphonia,
hushing her
to restful bradycardia
on secret wishes like
all i want
is for the land
to stretch like the
sands of time
under my feet
but most days
she is too busy listening
for the train rattling the tracks
where his mind races
child-like along
alive
(though
the only train she's heard
was faint steel static
on a youtube video)
and her eyes are looking for
his eyes full of all kinds
of natural, youthful stars
she ai
we are lurking too close to jesus,
on the empty edge of a lightless stage,
curved nails digging into the skin of our pale palms.
he asks as an afterthought
do you believe in something holy? and i think yes,
i think this is what i believe in.
you see that self respect you have?
all those thoughts and feelings that made you feel beautiful, unique, interesting , worth anyones time?
Disgard them.
Take every single one, and extract them from your mind, your brain, your soul, and throw them away.
You see the gaping pit left over in that pathetic bland thing you call a personality?
It needs to be filled.
Fill it with hatred, if not for the one who broke your heart, then for your feelings for them.
Even hatred for yourself will do.
Now, deep within the poison you have poured into your soul in sickening treacle thick waves, bury your heart.
Coat it in the hardening slime, and tak
Loved For A Night. by iwasneverreallyyours, literature
Literature
Loved For A Night.
Each kiss,
Sweet, gentle
Promising?
Or is that too much to hope for.
Dipping your face gently to mine,
A little kiss,
another.
Slowly becoming more fierce,
dancing within the passion we hold
for one another.
This 'love',
Is it real?
In our hearts,
is it something we truly feel?
Do you mean the sweet words,
you say,
or are they laced
with a dark, slow coursing poison,
looping through my veins.
Sugared sweetness of your words,
they clap against me,
flow through me..
They send shivers rippling through my body.
Do we spend a pure & intimate evening,
to be known as strangers,
the next morning?
One short, savored embrac