- New Poetry- the poem I cannot give, but have to write
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athenabrowneyed wrote in
freewriters
- January 5th, 2:08
The hallow of my ankles were encased in skin. Softest of skin which transferred the ridges of your fingerprints into erratic ripples, hardened nipples. I’m such an emotional cripple. Leaning my face against the island in the kitchen, trying to will the dawn to keep your girlfriend asleep. Inhaling the smell of you deep. Deeper.
I wanted to knock you down, take you down. Down onto the dirty kitchen floor. Down with the crumbles of our late night drunken feast. The bits only college students could miss. Rip off this purple dress, too tight, too short, swallow you in flames of pain, pushed on by passion, lust, and longing. And Love.
Will is measured in ounces. Ounces of drink. Ounces of anger. Ounce of our souls we give up in the night, we sacrifice to others, we believe we were ever capable of possessing. Giving more than we ever knew we had. Measured in ounces. Not inches or bra sizes. Not even in miles or in age. Thrown up to the moon in wailing howls sharper than love making by shooting star lights and cramped dorm beds.
I have spent so many nights reliving your fingers slipping into the space between mine, rocking with the sheen of an unspeakable surrender, dying and reborn each time. Each time, held high and fast. Close and safe.
The safety, nestled within the pack of friends. Safety, with you nestled between my thighs, arms over either side of my kneecaps, wicked words of wild west stories rejoicing the pack into content camaraderie. And later your wild tongue turned to an audience of one, rampaging wickedly my lips in a sexual act akin to the deepest prayers of Nuns and Zen Buddhists. Yea. I remember it being so good.
But the world falls fast into dawn, finding our wills stronger than bodies and hearts beating so painfully. I loved you best this night. I loved you fully. I did not pull you down to the filth of the floor, a mirror to the cravings in my mind. I surrendered the strong hold, sir, and held up the shining idea I had dreamed into existence. A dream of fairy tale endings and wild romances. Here is that dream, lover. Sir. Here it is. Share it with the world. For I cannot share it with anyone, blinded as I am, by its deafening creation.
I curl up in bed now, readying for sleep. It is in dreams now that I know you, your touch, best. Reliving the tactile recreation of the idea you cup in your palms. My palms, the same one which gripped your hair, the edges of your bed, and border of ecstasy, find only digital copies now.
Offer my dream, this idea, up into the skies lover, my sir, my friend. It is the only pure thing left to give to the merciful creators. Let that part of me be my redemption song you sing bravado. May I sleep a lasting sleep, of cryogenic legends and myths, so perfect humanity begs for them to be true.