I heard three months of hollow words forming worthless lies, weak as her voice promising “wonderful”, “perfect”, “fine,” and while the spine of a myth is relative to fabrications attached for effect, too much is too far-fetched, so… she might launch a hurricane with every turn of her head and whisper artistic truths with every word said, but incoming calls are death to her; familiar faces are death to her. She’s behind the cosmetics counter, too skinny and too shy; trying to cut the tide by closing her eyes, trying to hide bitter black oceans. Customers come and go, the Christmas lights are lit, a woman is wishing a happy holiday lie while she wishes to die. And I’m no mountain of unmovable stone preserving icy veins for unfazed thought; her glycerin confession is agony, her buckling knees the death of me. Eyelids swollen, ulcer wrecking balance; I sympathize.
ouch.. this is very powerful in the way you almost ask to be rude yet info from the heart tells us more about this poem... i like the story of truths you open up with pictures of agony from a distance. ie the counter to stand behind the lack of conversation within this human you speak of...... why do you seek such love that hurts,maybe drives you deeper into the black oceans just wondering lovenpeacefrom saff..
hmmm... I've had a thing for this girl for years and years, most the Constellations poems I did are about her... anyways, I hadn't talked to her for a while cos my ex didn't like her (go figure), but we started talking again, she's engaged... but that ended and she's going through the breakup hell, trying to stay strong... that's the poem... I couldn't put the conversation and stuff in... too hard to execute... didn't fit well when I tried
Loved the poem, but as I reread it after reading what shes going through, it made it even better, gave me more emotional depth for a couple of stanzas and loved it even more, ty.
Ugh I can't figure out how to make it quote so I'll have to just say that the hurricane and mountain stanzas make me want to swear at the sheer loveliness.
