I'm not sure whether this would be classified as poetry; it's more so a collection of ideas. Thoughts. They're disjointed, alike the format - I thought they'd go hand in hand.
Sentimental.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't,
But I am.
Watching you with them kills me.
Why are you making this harder for me?
Because every time I look up, your gaze meets mine.
I close my eyes; open them to see you're leaning in towards her.
You whisper something in her ear and she blushes.
I; the voyeur.
I disregard my thoughts and redirect my focus.
I straighten up and continue writing, pretending not to notice
How my pen presses harder into paper, or
How your eyes follow me.
For some time, I'm convinced you're forgotten.
Temporarily, I'm rid of the pathetic little girl
Who waits for you to approach me
When you're bored.
And I do forget.
And I notice another man's interest.
We speak. The man laughs and sneaks secret glances.
I think I don't mind. Slowly, I laugh too.
The man puts his hand on my arm whilst I-
"Hey, are you busy?"
I don't need to turn around to know who it is.
Reponding, I still can't stop
The nine year old smile
That forms on my face.
And now you smile too.
My jaw clenches; my fists curl.
My anger soars, indignantly.
I shove at the little girl within; she is not welcome.
I press a pillow into her face and she screams.
I tie her to a tree, ignoring her pleas.
I cuff her hands, swallowing the key.
Yet nothing changes.
Why do you do this?
Because every time you turn away, you break my skin with your blade.
Because every time you return with a smile, you wrench it out; the wound unhealed.
Stop.
Stop plaguing my thoughts. Stop infesting my mind
With your half true promises and
Your half hearted love.
Ha, Love. Sometimes I believe.
Other times I do not.
Catching my eye; you dare me to keep your stare.
Your mouth upturns; your face softens.
But then you whisper into her ear,
Kiss her cheek.
Your eyes never leaving mine.
I close mine; re-opening them now.
Forgotten.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Advocate.
I wanted you.
But your bloody red lips opened.
I needed you.
But your pseudo emotions leaked and
Your words became dust.
Smiles became crooked and I was trapped
In your spider's web.
And now; I.
The master at deciphering your lies.
But still, I need you.
So languid; oh love.
Why are you so?
Twisted; distorted.
You snatched my soul.
My eyes hollowed, my heart a corpse.
And yet you stab me with your bullshit
word
after
word.
And yet you degrade me with your lies, as if I'm the devil's advocate.
With every syllable that spirals from your lips.
But your bloody red lips opened.
I needed you.
But your pseudo emotions leaked and
Your words became dust.
Smiles became crooked and I was trapped
In your spider's web.
And now; I.
The master at deciphering your lies.
But still, I need you.
So languid; oh love.
Why are you so?
Twisted; distorted.
You snatched my soul.
My eyes hollowed, my heart a corpse.
And yet you stab me with your bullshit
word
after
word.
And yet you degrade me with your lies, as if I'm the devil's advocate.
With every syllable that spirals from your lips.
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Seeing You.
Seeing you reminds me of
Lips
Pressing against my skin.
I feel your smile.
They drag, left to right,
Soft; firm.
A pink blush left in their wake.
I bite my own. You chuckle and reciprocate.
I blink. You're staring ahead.
Your gaze does not waver.
Do you know, I wonder?
That seeing you now
Wrenches at memories of
Kisses. Along my neck, down my collarbone.
Gently taking the skin of my earlobe
Between your teeth.
My eyes do not leave yours
Burning into mine. Seeing you
Makes me feel like a pathetic little girl with
A high school crush;
small and powerless.
You take a step towards me
But my feet have fixed themselves
To the rocky ground beneath them.
Another.
Inside I cry
For my limbs to obey.
They do not.
And now, you're only
A hand's length away.
Suddenly I can't bear to look at you.
Another step.
Closer, now.
So close
That your breath caresses
My cheeks. Close enough to smell wisps
Of the aftershave you're wearing.
I lean towards you instinctively
No.
I feel your hand reach out
And my mind screams at
My body to move.
I must go now.
I have to go now.
I walk away.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
I hate tragedies.
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
Oh she takes just like a woman
Oh and she makes love just like a woman
Oh and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
- Jeff Buckley, Just Like A Woman.
I absolutely loathe the cruelty of life sometimes.
I recently stumbled across Jeff Buckley, through several YouTube videos (as many of us do), and under the video, saw RIP JEFF. After a Wikipedia search, I found that he died in his early thirties when going for a recreational dive in a river - something he'd done before - only a tug boat came by this time. He wasn't on recreational drugs. He didn't feel suicidal or depressed.
He was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It makes my chest ache when people die, even more so when you think of how unique and talented they were, or could've been. To think of how their path has come to an end. I guess the fragility of life is something that I will probably learn to grasp over the next few years studying Medicine at university. But hearing about how doctors eventually learn to accept death, feeling nothing...I'm not sure how I feel about that. I suppose time will tell.
It's saddening to think that some people get up one day, leaving their homes, not knowing what will happen. Not knowing that what you said to a someone that morning would be your last conversation. I am angered at myself and at others, when we see the news on TV, when hundreds die in another part of the world, or someone goes missing, and we just accept it, before changing the channel over the watch a film. How we've become desensitised to what we see. Why, I wonder? A self defense mechanism? Or perhaps people have stopped caring.
I hope it is not the latter.
To anyone reading this, I ask you to spend a moment to think of those who are lost from the world every day and to be thankful for what you have - for the people in your lives. Or if you're sitting there, thinking of how you have nobody, I ask you to break from the monotony of life's routine. Live, to never regret.
After all, you have no excuse. Where are your shackles?
Additional note: here's the link to Jeff Buckley's - Just Like A Woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYhMK3tP0c. You won't be wasting your time.
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
Oh she takes just like a woman
Oh and she makes love just like a woman
Oh and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
- Jeff Buckley, Just Like A Woman.
I absolutely loathe the cruelty of life sometimes.
I recently stumbled across Jeff Buckley, through several YouTube videos (as many of us do), and under the video, saw RIP JEFF. After a Wikipedia search, I found that he died in his early thirties when going for a recreational dive in a river - something he'd done before - only a tug boat came by this time. He wasn't on recreational drugs. He didn't feel suicidal or depressed.
He was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
It makes my chest ache when people die, even more so when you think of how unique and talented they were, or could've been. To think of how their path has come to an end. I guess the fragility of life is something that I will probably learn to grasp over the next few years studying Medicine at university. But hearing about how doctors eventually learn to accept death, feeling nothing...I'm not sure how I feel about that. I suppose time will tell.
It's saddening to think that some people get up one day, leaving their homes, not knowing what will happen. Not knowing that what you said to a someone that morning would be your last conversation. I am angered at myself and at others, when we see the news on TV, when hundreds die in another part of the world, or someone goes missing, and we just accept it, before changing the channel over the watch a film. How we've become desensitised to what we see. Why, I wonder? A self defense mechanism? Or perhaps people have stopped caring.
I hope it is not the latter.
To anyone reading this, I ask you to spend a moment to think of those who are lost from the world every day and to be thankful for what you have - for the people in your lives. Or if you're sitting there, thinking of how you have nobody, I ask you to break from the monotony of life's routine. Live, to never regret.
After all, you have no excuse. Where are your shackles?
Additional note: here's the link to Jeff Buckley's - Just Like A Woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYhMK3tP0c. You won't be wasting your time.
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Sugarcoated.
Dust them in white,
tap your sieve again
and agian and again.
Until they're hidden. Masked.
What once was flour now seemingly sweet.
And you smile slightly.
And you speak softly, maintaining eye contact.
And you put your hand on my shoulder, being a friend.
And you tell me what has to be; you tell me you're sorry.
Walking away; you're as fooled as you think I am. Saying what you needed, without what you had to.
But you didn't realise one thing - your words tasted bittersweet.
Words
Sometimes
I can't help
these words that rush
into my mind,
into the tips of my fingers and onto
the keyboard
that they patter on.
And sometimes,
oh.
Sometimes I grow tired.
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Hurdles
I made it. Alive. I've actually gotten over a hurdle.
Holy mother of god. Things are about to get very real, very quickly.
Yet I can't quite quell my fear.
I can't fail now. Not now.
Monday, 26 August 2013
Unconventional.
Surrounded by walls of black. She shivers, he whispers. His words tease her tantalisingly.
Hot; cold. She gasps. He licks. The wind cuts at her neck. Then she touches, coaxing his tossing and turning and lip biting and oh, the torturous pleasure.
A cry,
a beg.
She sucks at his skin and delicately caresses him where he's senstive. He inhales sharply; his hand travelling lower...
"Oh God!" a religious sin. Lips part to steal air from air and then collide to kiss furiously. Why is this happening?
The question hangs above the writhing forms like a guillotine, glinting angrily as they possess one another. Consumed in lust, they toss all doubts aside, for this is all about the dark pleasure, the power, about who's stronger and who's weaker.
Lust; a facade or a necessity?
But it is hatred, pure unadultered hatred that is the driving force that pushes one body against another, that forces and wrenches the cries of sex and pleasure and pleading from them.
Pleading; the sinful pleasing. Surrendering; nobody is.
Their eyes burn into each other, their hips burning scaldingly hot as flesh grinds against flesh. They give their bodies and souls in release, holding up their hands in half-serious surrender.
Hot, white flash.
These two people dare to defy society's rules; to defy one another's expectations. They aren't meant to be together. They're poles apart. Why is this happening?
And they so pay for it. Because they spiral in, head first into the abyss.
Then reality hits.
Badly.
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
oh change, you make me sigh
This was something I'd written back in May, but I think it generally conveys the nature of change, in all of its weird fearsomeness.
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It's a strange thing - change. I'm sure I've heard that statement a dozen a dime times (mentally at least). Nevertheless - it's a component within life we have to adapt to. Change terrifies me; it makes my heart race with anxiety. Change, and the future, seems to loom overhead like an omnipresent guillotine. And by God, I'm scared. I don't want to commit to a career, to a university, nor to a choice. I want to live in the sunshine of youth (albeit the brightness is indefinitely variable). I guess that makes me a coward.
Time is slipping between my fingers. I wish I could capture the flyaway grains of sand and place them back into the leaking hourglass. Sometimes I ponder over terminal diseases; I briefly entertain the thought that I have one. In the sickest sense, it gives me relief. I won't live up to achieving my fears, my failures. To cut to the truth, I don't want to fail. Damn it, I don't want to come within an inch of failure. Hence, the prospect of death seems frighteningly relieving.
But then I come to my senses.
Putting death into perspective - I couldn't part with life - forever living in the minds of people as someone who quit. The girl who couldn't take it, the girl with the shiny flask. Forever anxious, always quiet. The prospective failure of a meek geek. Forgotten within a week. No. I need to try. I must strive. The question that constantly reaches my mind is; what for? What am I striving towards?
And bingo! There is the problem. What do I want?
...
What do I want?
Several things come up. Whilst some are trivial, others are more or less impossible. Dauntingly so. I read about an exercise to achieve almost a mental purge - to figure out what you want. So, I'm going to type what comes firstly into my head. One minute. Perhaps two.
What do I, Peta, in all of my pseudonymous truth, want?
I want to be happy. I want a relationship, with someone who loves me, for who I am. With a man that I can be myself with, someone who doesn't care about my imperfections. Someone who is satisfied by my broken mind and my fragmented esteem; someone who disregards vanity and appearances. Someone I wouldn't stutter or stammer at, somebody I can be at ease with.
Oh, sigh.
Sometimes I wonder whether the issue is with me, rather than with the world; with people who are picky.
MAY
It's strange how you long for something even more when it's being threatened to be wrenched away from you, forever. I never realised how much I truly want to become a doctor. After time, I have come to realise that economics is not my passion. In fact, economics - my former academic flame - has actually become somewhat monotonous, to my surprise. It is biology that has captured my interest, with the various components and biological processes and details and intricacies. It's actually fantastic.
What weirds me out next is the following. How something you adored goes to something you tolerate; how something you tolerated goes to something you adore. It's odd how we change with time.
May is both a month of beauty and horror, I think for obvious reasons. The proximity of exams is a constant nightmare to my frantic mind. There is not a second that I do not curse myself for being so damn tardy. But on the positive side, God has given me the strength to persevere - I believe that's what counts ultimately. Thus, I thank God, for giving me hope, and I thank God for giving me family. Despite their...exuberance, they're not that bad after all. I just pray that I'll get through the next month without any stupid mistakes, and by working to the max. I don't want to be the one shattering my own dreams. Being a doctor seems so real now. I just have to work for it. And I pray, and I promise that I will not give up. I will keep on. There is nothing else I can do. I cannot afford to get B's - I must achieve a minimum of three A's, or else I've failed by my own standards. Economics, if I work, should fulfill this - as should biology and maths, if I work and get everything done in due course. But chemistry is a constant worry. I guess.
Learn to love right? That's how I rolled at GCSE - learning to love.
d --> a* hmm. I'd say learning to love wouldn't be so bad after all.
So, how do I feel? I'm not quite sure. Every year I wonder whether I'll exceed my expectations. I always do, but that doesn't negate the subsisting and prevalent fear that clings to my chest. It's a physical feeling this fear - like nausea. Pumping through my veins, circulating through my body.
- - -
MAY
It's hard.
On the surface, things can be easily dealt with. But underneath, it's difficult. Sometimes I feel my anger soar above; indignantly.
- - -
---
It's a strange thing - change. I'm sure I've heard that statement a dozen a dime times (mentally at least). Nevertheless - it's a component within life we have to adapt to. Change terrifies me; it makes my heart race with anxiety. Change, and the future, seems to loom overhead like an omnipresent guillotine. And by God, I'm scared. I don't want to commit to a career, to a university, nor to a choice. I want to live in the sunshine of youth (albeit the brightness is indefinitely variable). I guess that makes me a coward.
Time is slipping between my fingers. I wish I could capture the flyaway grains of sand and place them back into the leaking hourglass. Sometimes I ponder over terminal diseases; I briefly entertain the thought that I have one. In the sickest sense, it gives me relief. I won't live up to achieving my fears, my failures. To cut to the truth, I don't want to fail. Damn it, I don't want to come within an inch of failure. Hence, the prospect of death seems frighteningly relieving.
But then I come to my senses.
Putting death into perspective - I couldn't part with life - forever living in the minds of people as someone who quit. The girl who couldn't take it, the girl with the shiny flask. Forever anxious, always quiet. The prospective failure of a meek geek. Forgotten within a week. No. I need to try. I must strive. The question that constantly reaches my mind is; what for? What am I striving towards?
And bingo! There is the problem. What do I want?
...
What do I want?
Several things come up. Whilst some are trivial, others are more or less impossible. Dauntingly so. I read about an exercise to achieve almost a mental purge - to figure out what you want. So, I'm going to type what comes firstly into my head. One minute. Perhaps two.
What do I, Peta, in all of my pseudonymous truth, want?
I want to be happy. I want a relationship, with someone who loves me, for who I am. With a man that I can be myself with, someone who doesn't care about my imperfections. Someone who is satisfied by my broken mind and my fragmented esteem; someone who disregards vanity and appearances. Someone I wouldn't stutter or stammer at, somebody I can be at ease with.
Oh, sigh.
Sometimes I wonder whether the issue is with me, rather than with the world; with people who are picky.
MAY
It's strange how you long for something even more when it's being threatened to be wrenched away from you, forever. I never realised how much I truly want to become a doctor. After time, I have come to realise that economics is not my passion. In fact, economics - my former academic flame - has actually become somewhat monotonous, to my surprise. It is biology that has captured my interest, with the various components and biological processes and details and intricacies. It's actually fantastic.
What weirds me out next is the following. How something you adored goes to something you tolerate; how something you tolerated goes to something you adore. It's odd how we change with time.
May is both a month of beauty and horror, I think for obvious reasons. The proximity of exams is a constant nightmare to my frantic mind. There is not a second that I do not curse myself for being so damn tardy. But on the positive side, God has given me the strength to persevere - I believe that's what counts ultimately. Thus, I thank God, for giving me hope, and I thank God for giving me family. Despite their...exuberance, they're not that bad after all. I just pray that I'll get through the next month without any stupid mistakes, and by working to the max. I don't want to be the one shattering my own dreams. Being a doctor seems so real now. I just have to work for it. And I pray, and I promise that I will not give up. I will keep on. There is nothing else I can do. I cannot afford to get B's - I must achieve a minimum of three A's, or else I've failed by my own standards. Economics, if I work, should fulfill this - as should biology and maths, if I work and get everything done in due course. But chemistry is a constant worry. I guess.
Learn to love right? That's how I rolled at GCSE - learning to love.
d --> a* hmm. I'd say learning to love wouldn't be so bad after all.
So, how do I feel? I'm not quite sure. Every year I wonder whether I'll exceed my expectations. I always do, but that doesn't negate the subsisting and prevalent fear that clings to my chest. It's a physical feeling this fear - like nausea. Pumping through my veins, circulating through my body.
- - -
MAY
It's hard.
On the surface, things can be easily dealt with. But underneath, it's difficult. Sometimes I feel my anger soar above; indignantly.
- - -
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