Babes, mom. I gotta look cool.
Here I am, stranded
I float down from a loose string
That once used to be a tether
A pull that only you could bring
I search for walls around me
To steady my spiraling emotions
My feet tap the air as I drop
No floor to ground this motion
The darkness seeps on in
You’ve disappeared all over again
This well is not a free space
But my skull confines me in
I walked along
The roots
Of life
Dandy and slow and whimsical too
I tripped over them all
On my very last step
And fell on down
Down
down
down
There I go
I’m falling and cannot stop
I’m flailing and drowning
Where are my wings
I am no longer flying
You can take me alive
But no one can suffocate forever
My fingers
slip
from
yours.
There I go
I’ll see you later, my friend
In my next
life.
i think
i am
falling
apart
They waved me on over
But we hadn’t looked in months
Not with our eyes connected
But I still lunged at once
We talked and talked
And we laughed and smiled
I was floating the whole day long
Feeling like a little child
–
Here is your daily reminder
Your smile is beautiful
And my fingers ache for your hair
Will you stay a while?
I don’t mean to stare
Or at least for you to catch me
And I get so nervous talking
But I wonder about a ‘we’
I listen to music
And my mind plugs you in
Everything reminds me of you
Where have you been?
you elate me up and up/ i hit the clouds and float on through/ pass the atmosphere’s last layer/ where the stars meet the blue
i’m dancing on the moon, my darling/ skipping over each and every crater/ spinning up and around saturn’s rings/ and continuing on to jupiter later
the galaxy spins round and round/ and the cosmos try to match my pace/ but i’m on top of the world, baby/ it’s our own space race
is this redemption?/ am i free again?/ i can love him without worry/ it’s been a while since then
can we be us once more?/ is this my last chance?/ i thought i had lost him/ until he gave me another glance
i can really smile now?/ it’s that simple?/ i don’t deserve this/ but to trade, would be sinful
i know you’re reading this/ because you told me so/ i hope you get my letter soon/ and things will not be so cold
i like sitting in your car/ even though it can be hard/ i like sitting next to you/ even when our relationship is in shards
you make me happy/ and i know we aren’t holding hands/ but i like that too/ though you may not understand
Stagnant we remain throughout the summer/ we blush and lean together/ yet it’s not our old solid connection/ New ties ensure we remember
We sound like a taylor swift song/ the ones that end sans another/ a broken record that begins each call/ every night and one more note stutters
Until we update our outdated machine/ still missing the worn, loved dents and scratches/ but grants us a tune-up/ to create our new song with patches
the summer is here/ the summer of a thousand things/ the summer of love/ the summer of tethers and strings
the rain doesn’t skip a beat/ the thunder rolls on in/ the skies fill with grey/ and lets the sun go for a swim
the gap between the clouds come/ and it breaks apart the storms/ the floods all halt/ and towards the ground, bugs swarm
the summer is here/ and i step outside/ the smell of grass and rain greet me/ the season where all senses collide
he blinks up, bleary eyes/ just to slowly close them again/ and open his arms in a stretch/ as he claims my bed as his den
i lay down next to him/ and pull over a fluffy blanket/ he cuddles in its warmth/ and we soon take it for granted
alas, he extends once again/ and he allows his belly a rub/ his fur is soft and he yawns/ as my plans for the day are scrubbed
His whiskers twitch as he awakens/ his paws knead my bed/ the dough he prepares my sheets into/ are wrinkled from our nap in our bread
Cosmo Susie 