mourning

[spinkle]

mourning

after years of caring
the distance between hot and cold
intersecting the arc
from light beige to black
sweetness bowing
subtly to taste
where perfect sits

then awake one day
to notice no one
cares how the coffee is
all days and dresses are gray
songs and speeches muted
not secret but unsaid

restless arms
hold nothing tight
so the ash at the edge
engulfs the corner slowly
disarray spreads
entropy its own beauty
leaving one question
with thousands of answers
all imagined and none
that I could bear to hear

so ashing in the coffee
and throw the cup away
sheets torn and pulled
for why should beds be made
and resin from the errors
gathers deeply in the joints

till motion is a memory
all thought barbed words
bitterly repeated
until the poison is cold
and invectives lose their points.

 

[bisKi]

songs and speeches muted
not secret but unsaid

xoxoxo //j

 

[cherub]

wonderfully written, spinks
sad though but we all take it one day at a time luv
hugs!

 

[Mind-Melt]

fuck... so good. excellent job, and wonderfully arranged in verse.

simply beautiful. has made me cry many times.

 

[brainslookfunny]

restless arms
hold nothing tight

till motion is a memory
all thought barbed words

do I ever know how you feel

your writing is great

 

[katmeow]

You are one of the people who I really wish was still posting.

Your work always managed to touch me.

 

[up all night]

and resin from the errors
gathers deeply in the joints

There were many things about this I loved but for personal reasons those particular lines stood out to me.

spinkle, I'm not sure if you're still around (lord knows I'm not), but you have one of the best voices in Words. This is painful and beautiful. Solid and whimsical.

 

[New]

This was awesome to mull over and really get into.:D

 

[spinkle]

@upallnight: I just stopped in to see what condition my condition was in...strange to see one of my pieces at the top of the front page after so long.

Thanks all for the bump and the comments, will post something new soon as thanks =)

(oddly...i don't remember writing this piece...)

 

[Mind-Melt]

glad to bump your poem, spinkle. i am a HUGE fan.