DESCRIPTION Frenetic Thoughts - About selfish love. Love that only exists because either or both of the couple 'need' it. I guess its about how couples who are together on a casual basis use each other and cause all sorts of damage without realising it. I was attracted to this particular guy because he could handle my "frenetic thoughts" I guess theres always got to be a reason for being with someone. Anyway, you can interpret it as you like! Have You Ever - About wondering what another person thinks and trying to convince them you're okay. About all those feelings you start to feel when you get upset. Delerium - Couldn't, Wouldn't, Can't - My friend committed suicide, after promising he wouldn't. I guess thats just it. I will never understand suicide, and for me that makes dealing with it that much harder. It tends to bother me in the middle of the night more than anything, the more I think about it the harder to grasp it gets. Grievous Bodily Harm - About one of those relationships that manages to "rip you to shreads" when you're not looking. How there is a difference of loving for the sake of being loved rather than loving purely and simply because you want to. Lament - For Aaron - One of those teenage things!!! Says alot about my life and sometime I spent with a guy I now know I shoudn't have! But it was a learning experience, and although the poem may seem vindictive and cold it helped me!! The Music Plays So Loud - Written for my ex bf, cos all he gave me was utter confusion!!! We decided it was over, but somehow he held on, and I suffered all the pain. There were days when I felt like this was how he felt, then days when it was how I felt. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my confusion! The Definition Of Supposed Regret - A poem about life which hides in it a safe sex awareness message. Inspired by pictures that were painted in my mind by Bob Dylans "Tangled Up In Blue". How We Drowned In Denial - Poem about love and how it gets confusing.Trying to deny each other pain when it only really makes the pain more intense eventually. The Silent World - A poem about how much time we waste worrying and thinking about trivialities. I woke up one day and realised that I don't have that much time left, and the time I do have I was wasting worrying about things that I really couldn't change, rather than endevouring to make the most of my life and change the things I could change. Ode To How A Guy Picks Up! - I guess its a male thing! Sunday Morning - How it is to be a female night clubber! [1039 words]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (6) A Million... (Poetry) - [178 words] Feelings (Short Stories) Kind of came from a dream I had one night. [500 words] [Mind] I Believe (Love) (Poetry) I wrote this for one of my best friends in all the world. I believe it was totally and 100% fate that we met. Its my philosophy on life and love and and all that is inbetween! [393 words] [Motivational] Mabel (Short Stories) You see all sorts of things when you work behind a bar, this isn't so much what I see, but its what I'd dread to see, and I guess if it was really there I would deny seeing it! [238 words] Naked (Short Stories) - [356 words] [Mind] Private Contemplation (Poetry) - [157 words]
Frenetic Thoughts, A Collection ~Blythe~
Skin thin love; Rock hard desire; The type that takes your blind hand In a room full of strangers.
Cold and broken bones, Tangled muscles Monochrome reflections As your vision seems to fail.
Who are you? To yourself When no one knows your name? But everyone knows your body?
Love, like roll on deodorant Re-applied when needed Tears, like bourbon shots Once started never stop
It's my mistake- And they're crystal tears And empty glasses- Incase you forgot.
Like that hourglass That sits lazily before you Measuring time, You measured my love By tasting my saliva
Now I make you feel Like you ruined me Fibrous minutes Woven hours- My survival net?
What happened? To our frigid words? Discovery through Extemporaneous exotica
My frenetic thoughts Are attracted to you Because you de-construct them With your teeth.
Delerium- Couldn't, Wouldn't, Can't ~Blythe~
It's 3am And I'm not sleeping The walls are creeping closer All I have is silence To take away this fear
When I close my eyes I see you through my eyelids Eyes like shattered stones And tears like crystal
I hear you breathe I see your heart beat I feel your cold hand I taste your hurt
I don't cry And I don't frown I won't forget you And I won't hurt
Why'd you go and leave me? And you promised you wouldn't And you loved me like you couldn't And I convinced myself you wouldn't
How could anyone get that sad?
Grievous Bodily Harm ~Blythe~
We lay voiceless, Your hands Full of intuition Rest heavily on the bone Of my hip
You stroke my skin As if to smooth out the bumps Your fingers are grieving In a way not even Your intuitive hands can help
Your breath on my back Compliments the sting of your kiss The way it peels back my skin And rips me to shreds
So my veins ache And burst as you squeeze Leaving blood stains On your intuition And bruises all over my heart
You cough up denial Like phlegm It's stopping you breathing Time knows nothing The pulse of our love subsides
Have You Ever ~Blythe~
Have you ever searched For words to express Just what it is you feel Knowing you have to share it?
Laid beside someone But felt lonely And prayed for company And warmth?
Felt an unbareable emptiness That no matter how hard You try it doesn't fill And nothing seems right?
Felt unworthy and troubled As you struggle? And decide you're too smart To feel this bad?
Have you cried? For absolutely no reason Suddenly realising You're an emotional wreck?
Has someone scared you? So much The sound of their name Makes you shake?
Have you ever felt? Sky-high then Valley low In a matter of minutes?
Has anyone ever told you? You've lost the plot And its scared you Because you really haven't?
Have you ever Prayed they'll understand That it's not your fault Someone infected fear in you?
Have you ever Had absolutely no idea What they think of you And hoped they know you're okay?
Have you ever… Wondered?
Have you ever… Hoped?
Do you ever… Doubt?
Did you ever… Smile?
Have you felt… Life?
How We Drowned In Denial ~Blythe~
He called last night As if to remind me Of his existence His voice flippantly deep His tone reminiscent (Just who were we?)
We punctuated our sentences With formalities Words we'd never used before Formed bridges Between hearts Stained by desperate confusion (Was it love?)
Pregnant pauses As he questioned me My answers, one by one Tearing him apart Beneath a manly blanket Of courage (Weren't we ever honest?)
I was inclined to wrap up The answers he wanted to hear In gold paper And some pretty ribbon To distract him from reality (How could it get this way?)
I pretended I felt sad Just so he wouldn't think I had moved on And found happy Who'd been running beside me All along (I can't hurt him)
He'll need some time To realise, there's no use pretending Although he only has Scheduled moments, for thought (one thing he denied me)
We'll drink each others tears Getting drunk on the idea That love is supposed to last And its supposed to make you Smile (what we had they call denial and it filled up our lungs, slowly overtaking and drowning us)
Lament- For Aaron ~Blythe~
Can't stop thinking About the fast lament I created in my mind Last night, on the cold Wet bathroom floor.
An alcoholic delirium Helped purge me of my fear I was so afraid, clinging To a steady, cleansing stream Down my back, past my ribs I help my body fade The one thing I own I hate the most But desperately struggle To protect.
How do you repossess? What you never owned before? I realise my minds Own strength And the illusion It longs to recreate.
I hear your every word To the beat of my lament 'It's nothing, it's so normal, I feel less lonely now.'
In the same irrational state Of mind; you'd held A razor to your wrist My senses think of you About the smoke The lonely stinging The bourbon immersion Mostly the pumping pills.
My bones and flesh remember All the bruising and Unsustained highs and Irrational lows.
Remorse reminds me of you The amount for me you show I wear it, as a burden It's something I'd rather not know.
Now I only hate you And find it impossible To explain a hurt That runs so far And deep inside.
I wish we'd kept The anonymity I wish, I never Knew your name.
The Definition Of Supposed Regret ~Blythe~
We live in a one-bedroom apartment A sink and a toilet The daily paper delivered And a tiny barred window
We sleep on the floor, The rent is cheap And the floor is cold The fridge is empty Besides a tub of eyecream
We smoke tobacco Kept with lemon rind Because it keeps fresher that way Or so you say (We always roll our own)
At night we lay Flattening drinks with swizzle sticks Choosing names for our children Mourning death notices in the paper
There's a cupboard below the sink Housing our medication And an unopened box of condoms (Our biggest mistake)
We don't own a mirror No place for narcissism Or so you say It hurts me I wonder how I look
Alone, I shaved my armpits With your razor And left a short note Beneath our door (Everyone gets cold feet)
I find work, in a topless bar Surviving of five dollar tips During the days And slightly more for the nights When I use condoms (Deny my clients our mistake)
You sat down for a beer Familiar face in the spotlight It's been five years Of standing on the avenue We're feeding our disease
Studying the lines on your face I lean over you staring into familiarity And sing "Lover let me take you home."
It's cold and damp On our apartment floor And we screw without condoms Because this disease It's beating both of us.
The Music Plays So Loud ~Blythe~
The walls crumble Then close in around us I hate the silence I can't stand the silence The music plays so loud
I have blind hands Unfeeling eyes Holes in the roof of my mouth All your thoughts inside my head Still…the music plays so loud
You have a thousand words Tattooed across your arm And a million purple people Running through your head Its confusing…the music plays so loud
I have needles in my fingers Butterflies in my stomach Narrowing corridors Chains around my arms It hurts…the music plays so loud
You have blinding eyes Ocean blue Paranoid laughter Emotional tears It's scary…the music plays so loud
The Silent World ~Blythe~
I don't remember belonging to a silent world, laying inside my mothers womb, and breathing only because she did, unaware of the importance of my tiny heartbeat.
I am now aware of the importance of that heartbeat, The sobering effect it has on loved ones, The frailty of something so significant, and the grief that can occur.
At this our last embrace- I wonder why we can't live forever? And learn to adore all that we hated, Without all our dreams left shattered.
For those days when I felt like I sat on your top shelf, And those days when I learned not to talk to my self, Times when I couldn’t look myself in the eye, And my body made me cry-
I wonder why? Why did I waste so much time? And I was never self indulgent But I wasted so much time.
I wondered why I was here- And often ventured into realms, Where I wasn't myself, And I was contented with that.
At night I dream like its an obsession, Of the days and nights, I took for granted, Knowing now, they may be few.
I wasted time, That I now long for. I wasted life. That I now want back. Why'd I waste so much time? Why?
Ode To How A Guy Picks Up! ~Blythe~
Ode to how a guy picks up!
Dialouge (Him to her)
"I like the way you dance" (Sideways glance) "It's funky" (Smile) "Your hair looks great" (Laugh) "What's your name?" (Answer) "That's unreal" (Compliment accepted) "Come here often?" (Shake of head.) "I know I've seen you here before" (Caught out) "The usual is straight bourbon?" (Nod of head) "shot per hour?" (amazed) "ahhh, shot per song!" (enthused reply) "oh, I'm sorry." (unimpressed look) "I'll pay for your drycleaning." (doubtful stare) "whats' your number?" (hasty depart)
Last night we danced, Oblivious, To the blisters on our feet And the eyes That intently watched us Move.
With beer stained satin, Broken, strappy shoes, Bitten mouths and Spinning heads, We laughed.
They offer us beer, But we like champagne. They try sleazy lines, Sometimes they work.
In the toilets, We stand infront of the mirror, "About an eight out of ten." And we laugh, "He's pretty cute."
We drink, We dance, Until we fall to the floor Not feeling a thing.
We woke this morning To throbbing heads, Missing pieces And tired legs.
Next week We'll do it all again And we'll suffer, Sunday morning.
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