red silks and nicotine

Your style wears thin in silence drenched
Sugar coated words drip red
Before the spell broke I felt her lips, softly pressing against mine
His needles in my arms, and we were home

You didn’t exist

My eyes fluttered on beat
Red silks and nicotine
Your silhouette just a thin shadow behind the door
Your words just wind

I took her arms and pressed her against the bricks
My hands finding curves, bone under flesh
I led her through tunnels where you couldn’t find us
He drew his pretty pictures on my arms and hands
Your image fading quicker and quicker
And the farther we were the more I laughed
A smile in the corner of his lips
We were alone, we were home
Before the spell broke

When I knew you couldn’t find us I gently removed the silks from her soft skin
Sunk my fingers in her hair
And he created more pictures to remember us by
He leaned against the steel with his camera and cigarette
I tasted her
Worked my way around her curves with my tongue
We were alone
Before the spell broke
We were home

Now I sit inches from your face
Your style and pheromones wear strong
I turn my face, but your still there
I close my eyes, but my visions of her are blocked by your voice
Your sickly sweet words
I look at my arms and his pictures are gone
Inside I scream
Tears roll down my cheeks and you don’t say a thing
Before the spell broke you didn’t exist
We were alone
Before the spell broke
We were home
Before the spell broke

• On Monday, April 2, 2007, Bella Butchery (947) wrote:
  
  how did this slip past me? this stuck to me like a slapping wrist band... fuckin 80's style. you rock socks.
  
  
• On Saturday, November 11, 2006, urbanhumility (1350) wrote:
  
  deft in your stunning truth.......amazing......urban
  
  
• On Tuesday, November 7, 2006, Alanarchy (1483) wrote:
  
  Now this is something else. Very very nice. I think, what really drove the nail in for me was that last block. The end was desperate enough, and surreal enough for a Bava slasher film. So very cool. Write the hell on.
  
  
• A former member wrote: well fudge it all...you ripped me chunk by chunk and piece by piece, leaving just my beating heart in tatters large enough to see as testament of how strongly your words tore at me. Excellent imagery...you've floored me. ~*Beth*~
  
  
• On Monday, November 6, 2006, wicked flesh (27) wrote:
  
  That was mind blowing.
  
  
• On Monday, November 6, 2006, Six-Out (1604) wrote:
  
  holy. shit. You have managed to completely deconstruct my being with this. I'm left tattered, unable to stick back together what I've left by reading. I'm stunned.
  
  
• On Monday, November 6, 2006, mozarts cat (239) wrote:
  
  holy fuck . ! |
  
  
• On Monday, November 6, 2006, SamoneDrone (348) wrote:
  
  You got me with the first line. This poem has a way of sucking in the reader and refusing to let go. Your imagery awed me. ....-samone
  
  
• On Monday, November 6, 2006, dying angel (1076) wrote:
  
  the opening stanza floored me. "You didn't exist"...i was shivering near the end of this. it broke my heart with no remorse. there will always be a chip in my heart to honor this...this is my favorite of yours so far.