(creative writing:: make a poem with these words: stop, hazard, slow, breath, deep, erase, wave, melt.)
This Is Not The Time There Is No Time.
I.wait -
there are things i
need to say to you but oh -
STOP this -
clock before you die because -
this is not
the time there is no
time but oh -
WE - must make
time before i
die.
II.
wait -
avoid this, hazard, of
leaving me
forever with my own
solitary voice on your
answering machine.
(god, let him
listen before he
dies.)
III.
wait -
god, let him wait -
go so -
slow just like your
hands through my hair oh my -
god just -
don't
crash----
IV.
wait -
i hope that
you have told steven,
everything - i
hope that i
have been on your
lips; that he
can understand that i -
am not "nothing" but
"something" and -
oh god i hope i
make you catch your
breath and - i hope
that i am the one
and not -
god! that
tractor trailer.
V.
wait -
couldn't we just go
back, so deep in
your memory when
we were small,
and in love?
wait.
stop fleeing the scene
of this crime.
VI.
wait----
can't you remember how -
oh -
god - your
fingers so exact traced
an outline of my
future at four in the
morning? i think
you must remember - dangerous,
baby boy, oh -
my god don't
erase those perfectly imperfect
fingertip brush strokes.
VII.
wait -
don't
look away from me.
don't.
don't turn your
back - you know
your ears are turing red; you
know you don't want to
look away; why
should you deny me the
chance to fall upon you like
one small wave from the
greatest ocean? crash oh -
crash, into me; but
do not crash - oh my
god don't - hit -
that--------
VIII.
wait -
there was no time.
and this was not the time.
your father will
whisper the words -
"he didn't make
it" - and oh, my god -
why did you
have to steal
him from me why -
and
i will cease to -
oh my god - breathe and -
oh -
melt to nothingness because that
is all
i ever was in your heart,
anyway.
Poetry by MiVidaDeEpílogos.
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Written on 2008-03-29 at 02:50
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