I know a young painter
Talented indeed
She spends hours in her room
Painting when the world is asleep
It seems a pretty story
But wait for the twist
Cause her paintbrush is a razor
And her canvas is her wrist
The sky
A glorious blue, dappled by white puffy clouds.
It is endless,
Guarding us from the terrors of the unknown terrain of space.
Smoke
An ugly scar in the beautiful blue sky.
It is the result,
Of wasteful humans polluting the earth.
Must the two interact?
Must the imperfection hang so heavily in my head?
Why can't I remember the majestic blue
Of the afternoon sky?
you tell me there’s beauty
painted over my skin
that good things live within
my shell,
the ribbons that hold me together
but sometimes I just can’t
have faith in mortal things
it’s like
you only love me because
I found it in myself to
love the way you snap at me
and narrow your eyes
pull away just to make me stay
I like you best when
you’re asleep and things
are in rest.
drunk off sadness and coffee by inkstaineddove, literature
Literature
drunk off sadness and coffee
there was a coffee shop
i once went to with a
woman i once knew.
she wore freedom in
her hair and anger
as her armor.
her only love was
the grande mocha stuck
permanently to her palm.
her love was addictive.
she would sit in her chair,
drinking for infinities.
she would get drunk
off the emptiness
she breathed.
occasionally, she would
sing to me about how
she fucked it all up
about the time she
loved, the time she lost.
the time she died.
her life was miserable
and yet she loved it
as much as her cup.
i do not believe
that her story ends
in happily ever after.
i do believe that's
the way she
would've wrote it.
ariel stole your breath more than i ever did -
when my heart was thudding between your lungs,
because that was the only safe place, or so i was told
i can't remember when my heart caught the fever
for you had guarded it with your own ribcage for so long
my memories melded between your synapses and
we became one