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i used to think
dreams were
those strange
broken
images
that psychologists
hold up to the light,
pinning limbs down
with dull needles.
after i met you,
dreams became
the taste of your
breath
the moment it
passes between
your parted lips,
but not a second
before,
or after.
my eyes
blind with sudden
sight
searching the brilliance
of you
and a feeling
a feeling
of some thing
a feeling
i have never
before
dreamed.
dreams were
those strange
broken
images
that psychologists
hold up to the light,
pinning limbs down
with dull needles.
after i met you,
dreams became
the taste of your
breath
the moment it
passes between
your parted lips,
but not a second
before,
or after.
my eyes
blind with sudden
sight
searching the brilliance
of you
and a feeling
a feeling
of some thing
a feeling
i have never
before
dreamed.
Literature
the things we'll never say.
1.
snakes crawl out of my mouth,
hands like sleep waiting silently
for me to give into them.
i toss words like rocks
across my tongue, skipping
across the lake, and we reach,
hands outstretched, for the sun
but it's a shame it's all empty.
2.
listen, if you loved me, you
wouldn't try to fix me.
if you loved me, you'd paint
butterflies across the wall
to make me smile. listen,
if you loved me, you'd give
me handrails to hold onto
on the way down. you'd tell me
that right now, i'm a caterpillar
(but that caterpillars become
butterflies.) listen,
if you loved me,
you'd love me broken, too.
3.
don't speak.
sure, you cou
Literature
PTSD
- - -
every night you scream at someone. i try to tell you they're not there; they don't exist. but you can't hear me. your body writhes like a tornado and the covers are bathed with sweat.
it must feel like blood to you. that must be why you howl yourself hoarse. why i sleep with earmuffs gripped tight and dream of you dying.
(it used to be a nightmare, but now it's more of a wish.)
- - -
you mumble to the same someone while you eat those crumbly cornflakes. something about something that i don't think you entirely understand.
i don't know why i still make you a bowl every day. you think i would learn after the thirteenth time of broom
Literature
this probably isn't about you
this probably is about how the sun was on the opposite side of the sky when i woke up this morning. and how my name looks wrong every time i write it until it's gotten to the point that i'm not even sure how to spell it. it's about how everything has been flying out of my control so that i can't remember how to walk without making a sound. or how to hold on to the edges when my vision gets too blurry. this is almost certainly about how you live one and three fourth miles to the north of me, but i forgot and slept facing the south last night so now i just feel like i turned my back on you.
but really, this isn't about you.
it's about how i'v
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