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I wonder if you wonder
how it goes,
how it was, how it should be
on Tuesday mornings
lost
in the reef
when the stars fade to blue.
Drifting into five AM,
half of myself
is listless--
for you, for him.
Ugly
and void
and landlocked.
Dear poetry:
for what it's worth
I am not your ocean girl.
I am just trying to sleep.
how it goes,
how it was, how it should be
on Tuesday mornings
lost
in the reef
when the stars fade to blue.
Drifting into five AM,
half of myself
is listless--
for you, for him.
Ugly
and void
and landlocked.
Dear poetry:
for what it's worth
I am not your ocean girl.
I am just trying to sleep.
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it's the little things that follow you to sleep
lately, i’ve been wasting every minute
choking on inevitabilities; wondering
how many times i’ll promise myself
this year i’ll be different until
i move on to something less
unattainable. truthfully, i’m just sorry
for the ones who still think
i’m trying
and i have been waiting an
ugly amount of years for my
prophetic completion-- a love like
i say you’re beautiful when really i mean
you make my heart stop, like
i was born to meet you or perhaps
i’m actually breaking some universal law
of equilibrium; loving something
so unnaturally
beautiful.
i want a love like that:
napkin poems, handwritten
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sleepy.
snow white:
fruit of my eye,
freezing blood in my veins.
poisoned, tachycardic; i fear
the end.
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An End, Once and For All
I
This is me listening for a ghost
with wildfire-wide eyes on a Tuesday at two a.m.
spiking eagerness with anxious osmosis;
I petition for an identity from a circuit court.
II
This is me listening for the ghost of Ariana Nicole David,
who existed solely in the womb and pride of my mother.
Mom says, with renewed vigorous rigor mortis,
she wanted Ariana enough for her to exist
without ultrasound proof.
Nicholas Aaron Swaner was born on April 17th, 1993
without a father's signature or surname;
Nicholas was born with a father's doubt.
There is a letter to write to Nicholas' father
and his father still hasn't written it yet.
There is someon
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