
Symmetry"I missed your drawings"Symmetry4 years ago in General More Like This
I frown, pausing in my work. There's a lot to have missed, so much that I couldn't share with her, but I've shown her everything I've drawn while she was gone. I never stopped drawing, I'm not sure that I could.
It dawns on me that maybe she means this specific act of drawing. Me, pencil and paper, curled up in my favorite chair rather than sitting in front of my laptop. If she does, I'm not sure what it is she could possibly prefer about it. I'm out of practice, my fingers are stiff and my work is sloppy.
She is shifting on her feet and biting her lip. Realizing that she is waiting for a response, I hold the paper

Only MeI would give my body for strengthOnly Me5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Even now, do you see me so weak
So small and slow and helpless
I have no power, no strength of body or will
How can I help you
When Im only me?
I would give my voice to speak
My words are stolen as soon as I start
So small and frightened and hollow
Insufficient and insignificant as I try
To show you what I see
But how can I explain
When Im only me
I would destroy my mind to think
To plan and make it happen
Without fail, with brilliance
Have you here, near and mine
Or even to hold un-faded memories close
But nothing comes of the nothing
Through it all Im only me
I would s
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What is it?It's not that I love to loveWhat is it?5 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
I realize now that I had wanted to, not wanted to,
imaged and abandoned loving,
but I had never loved before
It's not that I wanted to need
I needed, in fact, to remained in tacked
And thought that meant living alone
But now here I am, needing and wanting and needing to want
And I never hoped to keep you
Never assumed my hands were
Strong enough to keep us together
But here we are, together despite ourselves, and pulled here by fate
You know I never cared to kiss
Too messy and too fleshy, I never wished to touch
I wanted no part of that forced normalcy
But here your breath breathes words to min

PlansPray for summers past and promisePlans6 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
If we break, and please be honest
That you will not just wait for me
That you will live and grow and be
If you may ask that I move on
And promise that I'll be that strong
It's logical you also plan
To move along as life demands
Oh, lover made of brightest dawn
It's in your arms that I belong
Not sketching out far off doomsday
Or plotting points in my decay
If you are gone, I want no other
My one, my only lovely lover

SheetsHere, under too few sheetsSheets6 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Your eyes keeps me warm
And in that instant you love me
Can do me no harm
Please, walk through the storm
With me, hand in hand
Make me strong until I belong
Be with me and take me where I am
Look how far we've come
And where we've been
You're more than a lover
Much more, dearest friend
Safe from the winter, we'll hide from the end
Safer together, we'll never give in
The unlikely pair, you, love, and me
With time, space and sheets to begin

Not Your HoneyWe can't be foreverNot Your Honey6 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
You yourself made that clear
From the very first day
When you warned what I feared
I'm not your escape
Your content one-way street
With no needy heart
And no tired feet
But I tried so hard
To hold us together
And thought I knew how
To never say never
I can't call you cute
You say that word is to precious
Then demand that I stay
With tender flourishes
But I'm not your 'honey'
I was never that sweet
And just further embittered
By my latest defeat
I'm not your fault
I chose to believe
That despite all your protest
You would never leave.
I wanted so blindly
To just make you stay
And simply to beg you
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My BelovedMy beloved, the poet,My Beloved5 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Speaks with knowing in her voice
She knows and she sighs and she says
Its okay for me to cry
Does she know its all I can do
Not to let the tears fall more
Not to ruin the moments before
We part
My lover, the artist
She paints my smile and calls it perfect
The best of both worlds and all she needs and I believe
That no one else matters
Does she know this is heaven
That I need this forever
That the world is not enough
Without her
My sweetheart, the girl
Grins up at me, her eyes inches from mine
It isnt that much farther to lean in and steal a shy kiss
A tentative touch that means so m

-Stupid answer-Hear the thunder, feel the rain-Stupid answer-6 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Feeling helps you dull the pain
The storm can't last, so hold on tight
And I'll hold on with all my might
I know it all seems big and bad
Feeling all we never had
Seeing how quickly it went wrong
That this is not where we belong
Good times and bad, far and near
Isn't that what "I love you" should mean?
Rain soaked tears and lightening fears
Don't erase everything that we've seen
Can I explain? Do you already know?
That I can hold on unless you let go
Why can't I be willing to self sacrifice
For the most perfect feeling I've had in my life??
I'd die just to hold you, to touch you, I long
To tel

Leaving III: Left _unbetaed_The only way I know that Im moving is the swirl of beige and white around me. I have nowhere to go, at least, not right now. Right now my legs wont not carry me back to our room and, even if they could have carried out the task, my heart wouldnt survive the familiar surroundings. No, I cant leave the building, not yet. Just give me one more hour here, in the crowd, where the noise of humanity kills my thoughts. Once I leave, it will become real. I will have to walk through rooms thick with her presence and collect what all I have left of her; The knickknacks we bought, her CD player, the jacket she left draped on the rLeaving III: Left _unbetaed_5 years ago in General Fiction More Like This

To the starsDarling, let me show you the starsTo the stars5 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
So lovely and bright
But not mine to give
My darling, theyre ours
My sweetness, never doubt
That the words from my lips
To your ears are both tender and true
My sweets, I dont want to be without you
Can you see youre strong and bright and true
I find joy and light in you
So take my hand and well show them what we can do
My lovely, let me take you away
Somewhere exotic and far
Where all that you are
You can show me, forever, and stay
My brave, strong love
After coming so far
Can you trust what we are
Love, to the sea and to the bright stars above?

I love youShe fixes the worldI love you5 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Wrapping her will around me
Protecting the protector
In an instant of understanding
I see that she will always
Find a way though
And melting away,
Fear and change
She looks into me
Beauty, ephemeral,
Her eyes so clear with
Anger and love
My goddess of hope
Who cleanses and burns
And warms my cares away
Around me
The horror burns away
So easily
For me
She ends this fight
For me
Stronger than me
She stands so brave
And bright and true
My friend and savior
My star and my lover
Heres my chance to know its true
Youve saved me and I love you
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The Concerned FriendPlease seal my mouth shut before I sayThe Concerned Friend5 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
She would do anything
The right words would flow
From her lips like
Light into a darkened room
Could I drive
The dagger deeper in
Remembering that
There was no wall between us
And she was never too tired for me
And now that shes gone
I sleep in her echo as
I hid in her voice
From the world
Latest in a long line of loss
You wont try to
And could never fill her shoes
So abandon me
Before I lose you too

Everything I Have LostThey can take your warmth from meEverything I Have Lost5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
You can be ripped from my side,
Your hand from mine,
But I can take that, as long as youre fine
And when they steal your voice from me
I will understand Im not the priority
That, not only do I not deserve that breath, that pulse
But I am unworthy of your sweet music
And so must dance a silent waltz
And then it is your words that must fly
No more I love yous to see me through
Gone with your lips, your breath, your voice
I am walking among echoes and buried in scraps
Of you, all I have to see me through are memories
If that is all I am allowed, it will be enough
And I wi

Best WishesWhere ever you areBest Wishes6 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
No matter how far
I hope there are rainbows
Enough for your sky
Where ever you go,
I need you to know
That all that we shared
Was never a lie
Hold out for the sun
My little plus-one
The girl I adore
Who is so much more
and deserves every star in the sky

Anatomy of a DaySo water, life and grace rain downAnatomy of a Day6 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Splash and grow upon the ground
So high above to reach the wheel
Do you know how alone it feels
To learn you're afraid of heights?
I called for her, you call me names
I called you friend, so we're the same
Screaming on the pavement
You in childish jubilation that
Has sparked this anger in me
Down by the sea you sleep in the sand
While building a key I politely demand
To dance in the waves like a sea foam fairy
Who, caught in fear and longing and weary,
Can swim naked in the clouds
So that makes me a trashy whore?
I'm old enough to endure
The ways in which your father tries
To explain as