u/Obviouslybroken

At the bar I was kissed
by a woman with no name
No eyes, no voice
just a rhyme without a song

In the club I was kissed
by a woman known by fame
We drank from a bottle
of pain and champagne

In my garden I was kissed
by a woman without shame
The sunflowers were tempting
so the honeybee came

In my dreams I was kissed
by a woman in the rain
I woke beneath wet sheets
then fell asleep again

Forgive me, sweet stranger

but you all look the same

My sweet little
devil
Your dance of
desire
You stole heaven’s
thunder
And set my world on
fire
You melt the
truth
like morning
dew
I fall
and still I run to
you

I don't love you like the stars
Their dead eyes watching me from afar

I don't love you like the moon
A ghost following me above

I don't love you like a rose
Petals soft as lips
My blood beneath its thorns

I don't love you like the blue sea
Its dark depths dragging me below

I don't love you like the fog
creeping through a graveyard

I don't love you like the crow
staring at me with its tiny black eyes

I don't love you like the woods
something follows me after dark

I don't love you like the candle
Burning beside my empty bed

I don't love you like the winter frost
Chilling my bones beneath the earth

I don't love you like the darkness
patient, hungry, foreseeing my end

No

I love you less

Cheating bitch

Dance
Come on
dance with me
dance with me tonight

Take my hand
don’t let go
Turn me on
real slow...

Do the, do the, do the
Do the dance
one more move
one more chance

You say, “Faster.”
I say, “Alright.”
Pull you closer
hold you tight

Dance, dance, dance
like nobody's there

Dance, dance...
throw your clothes in the air

Dance, dance, dance
Like everyones there!

Chest to chest
slow and low
hands slide down
don't let go

Come dance with me...

No halo
No heaven
No gates below

Just two feral hearts
with nowhere to go

You had trouble in your eyes
love was there
in perfect disguise

We spoke in rhyme
like unfinished songs
two wrong notes
that somehow belonged

I said, “Where you going?”
You said, “Anywhere
that doesn’t know my name.”

You laughed like murder
I smiled just the same

No guns
No gods
No sunflower eyes

Just your hand in mine
your strange heart
beside mine

We took the wrong turn
and called it home

If tomorrow comes
with a hammer in its hand
let it find us dancing
on the edge of town

Tonight is enough
Let tomorrow wait

I’ve got your heart

Let’s call it fate

My path
My way

The road is ours alone

What I do
what I say
how I live
through the day

I'm not here for trouble
I'm not looking for a fight

Why does the way I live my life
Keep you up at night?

You don't have to like me
You don't need to understand
You don't have to hold
my life in your hands

Your path
Your way

What you do
what you say

If you don't hurt people
along the way
then you're alright with me

Who you love
Who you are
What you believe

You walk your road
I'll walk mine

No judgement
No chains
No permission required

I was never asking
for your approval

And you're not asking
for mine

I never asked
to be accepted
I only asked
to be left alone

So be you
I'll be me

And let us all
live free

So here I am
putting blood on the
page

Ten years
inside every line

Every promise
every lie
all the lips
I kissed goodbye

I could blame the wine
the cards
the drugs
the woman under my skin

I could blame the rules
Blame my heart
I broke them all
for them

I wasn't lost
I knew what I wanted
I took it

Then left it

I've loved them
in candlelight
in moonlight
in bloodlight

and in the dark

Queens
Witches
Lovers
Liars
Savages

Endless names
Ten thousand faces

You , oh damn, you

I still think of you
when the night runs long

I still hear your voice
your breath
even inside the silence

I could have loved you
until the stars went out

Instead
you're another ghost

And now I write
because there is nothing
left to do with you
but remember

You are the memory

Cobra slides by
Head up high
Tongue flicks
White cat sits

Cobra strikes
Cat says, “Nah.”

Hiss!
Swat!
Missed that bite
Snake comes back
Cat says, “Right.”

Hiss!
Strike!
Paw comes down
Cobra gets
Smacked around

Venom loaded
Fangs on show
But my little Nandor
Says, “Not today, bro.”

Strike again
Another miss
Nandor yawns
“Is that it?”

Swat left
Swat right
Snake's losing the fight

Nandor gets bored
Calls it a night
One last paw
Snake slides away
Nandor walks off

Food first
Then back to me
Curled up close
Purring peacefully

King cobra?
Outta sight

Nandor?
Sleeping tight

They’re not your person
Not your muse
Not your lost love
No need to be rude

No need to shout
No need to cry
Not your prize
Not the answer
To the lies in your eyes

Your longing is false
Your heart confused
So take your fantasy
Your fixation and doubt

This poems over
Now get the fuck out

Moonlight
Roses
Velvet
Wine

Silver
Satin
Your hand
In mine

Jasmine
Diamonds
Midnight
Lace

Your eyes
Your lips
Your ethereal
Face

You got a temper
Always so loud
starting arguments
starting fights

You’re jealous
You’re crazy
You’re trouble
You’re hard to tame

You’re a beautiful problem
a beautiful mess
You annoy me daily
but damn, you look the best

And maybe you’re psycho
maybe that’s true
Maybe that’s the problem
Maybe I’m just like you

Then sometimes you soften
When it’s just me and you
In that sweet moment
I see something true

So keep all your madness
your fuck-ups, your mess
I don’t love you despite them
I love you because

My perfect psycho
my beautiful flaw
I’d pick you tomorrow
as I did once before

Two white kittens sleep

A black and white cat watches

Moonlight fills the room

Black roses blooming

Crows feast beneath sunflowers

Her grave starts to bloom

I don’t love you
Nah, that’s a lie
I just keep smiling
to get by

Hear that crow
at my windowpane
tap, tap, tapping
your name again

I don’t think of you
Only half the truth
I think of you
when I do

I don’t miss you
I swear it’s true
at least I don’t
Until I do

When I was broken
lost in eternal rain
an angel fell down
and whispered my name

She shocked my soul
she made me fight
put a spark in my blood
and turned on the light

A live wire in me
a wild, electric fire
that won’t let me be

She keeps that spark
burning through the night
turns all my darkness
into white shining light

She’s got a lightning bolt
a stake in my heart

She's got electric love
you can’t get enough
the kind that feels holy
until it gets rough

She's a dark spark
an electric flame
she's the beautiful
face of my pain

And if loving her means
the world
burns
then let it
burn
let the black sky return

Because some kinds of love
were never meant to save
Some lights only shine
to lead you to the edge

Electric love
beautiful and cruel
she gave me the fire
then made me its fuel

Tangerine
my auburn queen
Your copper hair
your amber eyes
Still burn beneath
these orange skies

Tangerine
my flaming queen
Still the brightest thing
I've ever seen

Still my love
still my dream
If only time could turn again
I'd hold you close, as I did back then

I spent my days
with a Tangerine queen
Playing softly
on her twelve string dream
A fading love
a half heard song
A melody that lingers on

Forever lost
forever mine
Oh Tangerine
my myth, my queen
My fortune told
my might have been...

Fire mountain mane
Black cold lips
Blank stare
Erratic sparks
raising my hair

Black wings crack
Sunflowers droop
Caustic shroud
in the air

It walks
inside my dream
Inside my mind

Always moves just outta sight

Break the night
Outlive the flame
Molten queen
Call my name

Volatile smoke
Sulfur sky
Burning grass

A guttural groan
its voice drags me home
Its dark spell
crawls up the wall

Come too close
and lose your way
She'll eat your heart
then swallow you whole

And damn...

The world burned
after all the fire
after all the fear
after knowing what she is...

You'll stay

The sun drops down
an orange-red sky
Another night
Another fight

The same old rhyme
the same old song
You slam the door
I let you in

I throw you roses
you throw me rings
honey on your tongue
sting in your eyes

A last kiss
wrapped up in lies
You pull me close
then push me back

I swear I’m leaving
I swear that’s it
and there I am
back at your door

The fool who swore
he’d swear no more
It’s the oldest trap
But love’s a game
with uneven rules

You disappear
then reappear

A beautiful wreck
a flowering war
and I can’t remember
what we’re fighting for

We kiss like lovers
bleed like fools
When roses are weapons
we always lose

She knows I want her
Eternally so

She makes my obsession
Overflow

She kisses me, makes me
Whole

She turns my darkness
Into gold

She takes my hand
I lose control

She breaks my heart
And steals my soul

She makes me shake
Makes me see

She is my truth
My reason why

I am the key
She'll never see

The one who sets
Her heart free.

The forest is empty
Just the two of us

The heat and the slow drip of sweat
run down her back
The air is thick, sticky
tasting of pine
and the salt on her skin

She walks ahead of me
her skirt clinging
Every step makes it ride higher
along the backs of her thighs
I love the way her hips move

I catch her wrist
pull her back against me
I kiss the damp curve of her neck
while my hands slide beneath her shirt
palms flat against bare, hot skin

She pulls me closer
arches, soft and willing
as I push her top higher
exposing her to the warm air
and the press of my body

I turn her, back against the tree
lift one leg around my hip
I open her shorts
push them down just enough
The bark grazes her shoulders
as I pull her closer still

No one here to hear the low moan
she makes when I sink into her
slow and deep
No one to see the way her fingers
dig into my arms
or the way I make love to her against the tree

Maybe the forest itself is watching
while every leaf keeps singing
through the warm summer evening breeze