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It only hurts when I remember that I'm falling for words you wrote for someone else.. - rs.darko

She's mastered the art of turning heads Craning necks Vexed by imaginings of her strewn about her bed Lips red Smeared with last night's mistakes They burn her at the stake For their own guilt in double takes Fake recompense for mild indiscretions And perverse insolence

I write these words in hopeful thoughts That they may touch you in ways that my hands cannot The way the stars unveil our desires for the forbidden, Casting a mystic glow Upon the faces we've tried to keep hidden Beneath the cloak of our own shadows Dancing in moonlit reveries Sparking lightning between neurons, The touchless Kiss of flesh As the nerves ignite Like two galaxies Cascading into a horizon Of endless starry nights - rs.darko

I picked up the feathers from the wings you clipped Armed myself with inkwell confessions And leather bound solace

Potential sacred vessel Reduced to broken relic Too bad your parents Didn't keep that part protected Doesn't seem you had any value instilled Acting like Sundays wake you up to God's will When your hangover lingers still Just stay there princess where you belong Face down, ass up like that one song Don't even have any shape in a g-string thong It's okay though cause it's not like your hips are in any way wide Not enough to distract from your wandering lazy eye Sad cause you really are just the type People only can appreciate for one night Cause you can't see the ugly inside by dim motel light Can't believe I tried to let you love me You're fucking disgusting And I'm a fool for trusting But thanks for taking out my basura If only you'd come just a few years sooner But it's okay cause I was lucky enough to have my beautiful son Too bad you'll never know what it's like to have one But that's what happens whe

Pestilence in the folds of your heart Rotting flesh in not so private parts Keep letting them tear you apart Crawling in your skin with your own self disgust Covered in hungry men like locust Infested with betrayal of your own self respect So what do you expect Cause I don't see anything but an insect Waiting to be swatted lying for someone to dissect With no treasure inside to speak of Nothing but bug guts and dark blood No need to be apologetic The universe can't apologize for something so pathetic

You kept me so high That crashing and burning Was the only way I could start to feel grounded again.

You make me crave intimacy in the littlest of things Like a quietly shared gaze from across a crowded room Interlaced fingers exploring the ridges and grooves Unique to you A long drive to nowhere in particular, A short drive just a bit down the way, As long as it is filled with your conversation Cause I could listen to your voice for days Hanging onto everything you say Heartbeat reflections in your inflection I love your word play I crave how you see me In ways to which I've been living blindly But you touch me in braille And show me in silence where words may fail I crave the way you crave me Where others fall easily Into their desires of physicality You penetrate my mind Thumbing through emotions I'm too scared to not confine I crave your time Every precious second I can spend in your presence Makes me realize That I don't want to make you mine Cause you are far too special to possess You make me crave the

I wish I could speak to you in double orgasms, so every word after "hello" left you writhing in ecstasy.

Eyelids hanging over eyeballs Cracking to meet the garish sun Stomach hanging over guts Hanging over clothes left partially undone Time is loud, Minute hand hanging over number one My lashes fan away the sight of responsibility Hanging over my head As I lay crippled in my bed Half dead Hanging over all the slurred truths I left unsaid Last night I might have been Hung up on the one who never made it, Strung up on the crucifix I created So martyr me! So long as I never see another drink again Sickening nights reveal your true friends Startling To see the intentions of hungry men Hanging over me like a loosely draped kimono Risque from one shoulder Unintentional invitation was a no, no But still they see yes And the expectations clung to me like a little black dress Hanging over me in their judgements As if the bottom of this cup was a vortex Leading to unwarranted advancements for sex Let them assume what they want I guess, But I find these hungo

I feel myself transforming into something I've never seen before, both radiant and resilient.. Like bioluminescence, a spectrum of light evolved to exist in the depths of complete darkness. - @rs.darko

A dandelion is just a weed until it sprouts a wish. 🌼 - rs.darko

A table for four set for seven people Leaving vacancies Like empty pews under broken steeples With not enough seats for us to sit and eat We abandon these spaces and sit in front of the TV While Mom is still cleaning I save her a plate And I promise to say grace Without actually believing That He was the one to bring us this food Instead of her and my step dad working a full-time job or two Just to feed all these kids and their best friends too Thinking God is the one to hold us together like glue But that glue is messy and doesn't always stick And instead peels away several layers of dead skin Revealing the fractures of our faults and sins I think to myself I'll never be worth shit Never live up to the kind heart she thought I was born with Now deteriorated by years of bitter resentment I look them in their eyes and I see disappointment I offer my help to clean up a bit She reassures me she's got it Sweat dripping from her brow I wonder what stress i