1. Broken Road

    Tarmac burns on this 
    broken road.
    Stones and glass slice, 
    my mood will shift -
    on the roll of a dice.
    I was a little girl with
    daisy-daydreams…
    He loves me, He loves me not.
    Now lies become the truth,
    and a single smile -
    can mean a lot.  

     
  2. A New Disaster

    My pen feels like a stranger,
    and you, a clear and present danger.
    We run on fumes,
    on resentment we fear to lose.
    Because then we would have to be friends,
    and act of social cues.
    Just like everyone else.  
    It is rich, this resentment,
    that will ooze.
    Greasy and sickly to the touch.
    Everyday, in your presence
    is a new disaster.
    A car crash on loop,
    always moving faster.
    I’m tired of this -
    my accelerated anger.
    Yet I never put my foot on the brake.
    Because when this is all over,
    what will remain when I wake?  

     
  3. The moon pours through the ceiling tonight,
    liquid love and flowing light.   

     
  4. Stephanie

    mobbleberry:

    In the winter, he became a wolf. One without fangs, or a coat of fur - just a living  hunger, a look of the feral about him. He had been deprived of red meat for too long and stalked the streets on the glass trodden edges of his paws; kicking beer bottles every chance he got - just to watch them explode. You could see his rib cage, poking out. He is the deadliest creature in this concrete jungle, for his madness knows no bounds. He. Will. Not. Listen. To. Reason. Even though every Little girl in a Red Hood thinks she will be able to change him…to make him better. That spittle of starvation collecting in the corners of his mouth, is self-inflicted. There is nothing he likes more than the hunt, and its no fun if the hunter isn’t gagging for it. 

    And when he speaks…it is a howl. An aria of fear made audible. The wavelength will surge through each knuckled bone in your back and make a cracking noise in your head.

    He loves alone, and not at all.

    He has a chip on his shoulder, where a tattoo whispers: ‘Stephanie’ once inked into his pores. That skin is ripped now, with his taloned paws…and lies on the pavement… leaking his blood, and wafting a scent to all us females: ‘Come save this Lost Cub, this Huntsman in Disguise.’

    He is a starving wolf, and those delicate fingers tangled in his hair, are sausages.   

     
  5. Solar

    I exist, within the fault lines of his thoughts. 
    I hop, from one shadow to the next,
    playing hop-scotch with his heart.
    On sunny days like these,
    he takes an ice-pick to my hard edges,
    and grips, grasps and grapples for dear life.
    A solar eclipse collapses into view,
    and whether it is cold, dark, or whether we
    are dancing on the surface of the sun,
    turning our feet to soot -
    nothing seems to be important.
    Not in the face of such desperation.  

     
  6. Birdsong

    He smelt of summer,
    the pollen in the air,
    got under his nails.
    I followed him, 
    buzzing around his 
    atmosphere
    like a bee to a flower.
    Attraction, made my nostrils 
    widening at the smell of
    his cut grass smile.
    I sunbathed in his embrace,
    like a lazy child
    waking up to birdsong. 

     
  7. Pair.

    Morning air,
    tempers his granite glare.
    We look at each other,
    we share a lingering stare.
    Contempt/tpmetnoC. 
    A mirror image,
    of a withered love.
    Like butterflies pinned,
    on being a spare.
    A collectors edition and no more.
    It is in the morning air,
    when a pair,
    no longer care…
    Two wings no longer thump
    in tandem.  

     
  8. Stone cold sober,
    dawn breaks.
    Like a wave on the shore.
    Trickster, lover, whore.  

     
  9. Make-it-up-baby.

    Mascara falls in great clumps,
    and lands at his feet in puddles.
    A sleeve turns orange,
    as her fake ‘for the world’ skin
    leaves tribal stripes down her cheeks.
    He only cared for a mask,
    not the girl beneath it.
                                   Her biggest statement,
                                   was the sight of her back.
                                   The sound of stiletto on her way out.  

     
  10. Car Crash

    Love doesn’t shatter. 
    Two people going separate ways
    is a collision.
    The time between them,
    is the crumple zone.
    The head lights crack with
    loneliness,
    and the bumper that protects their
    hearts?
    Splits in two.
    Oil leaks in black tears,
    and glass litters the pavement
    like words unsaid.
    Smoke billows,
    on that final goodbye.
    And sirens call out,
    when he turns his back on you.  

     
  11. Today

    New love, cuts deep.
    My cynicism makes
    his smiles cheap.  
    Its easy to believe
    the worst,
    when your mind
    recoils from the first.
    I’m afraid of change,
    to take a leap of trust,
    to move on,
    forget 
    and adjust. 
     

     
  12. The Difference

    He will cough,
    when I would kiss.
    He will ebb,
    when I would miss.  
    He will purr,
    when I would hiss.
    He is cross,
    and I am nought.
    Nothing,
    will change this. 

     
  13. Dreams, on the flip side.

    Some dreams…
    They shatter like
    tea cups falling
    from a china tree.
    Others, feel like an
    empty stomach…
    that is clenching
    onto some hope that
    it will be made whole.
    Some dreams, when
    broken, feel like a
    grinding numbness
    in your brain, for why
    did you ever dream to hope?
    And with how much heart
    ache, can one girl cope?