Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Temporarily Temporary

I love to buy temporary tattoos
Not just because of who I fool,
but I like to step out of me
and pretend to be
what you might not see
by looking at me.
I do silly things and love to pretend.
Then I miss the messages you're trying to send.
Things become real
and I'm unsure how to feel
or how to heal.
I'm not electronic or made out of steel.
I scrub my skin trying to feel clean.
You can barely make out what it was supposed to mean.
I'll be okay
and you'll fade away.
But if I may,
perhaps it's good that you didn't stay.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Never Minds

You sing your song
while I listen with my good ear.
I'll write you the poem
that you've always wanted to hear.
The words aren't mine.
They aren't even real.
Stolen, mangled
and lacking all appeal.
Then they are just letters
that shift into lines.
Broken and scattered
leaving nothing behind.


 
You'll sing on,
but I can not be sweet.
My good ears are gone.
I'll glady give up my seat.
Now here I am.
Just as the words, the letters,
and the lines.
Fragmented deep down
like space and time.
This is where we are
and I know what I need to be.
Just the strange girl
that I never wanted you to see.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Goodness Me

I feel melancholy.
I also think that Melancholy would be a pretty name

for a dog.









I just want to go in a little hut
and be wrapped in a big comforter with a sweet boy
 while it rains outside.

That is a thought I have sometimes when I feel like this.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Not Much

One step foreward.
One step back.

I will run half way there.
I will stop and turn around.
I do need to go somewhere.
I do not need to get anywhere.

I just want to be still.
Still, I just want to be.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Haiku Skidoo

I'm always dancing.
The songs playing in my head
are held in my heart.