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EP Mason May 2014
blue jeans
white shirt
walked into the room you know
you made my eyes burn

so kiss me hard before you go
EP Mason Apr 2014
Your name
like my teeth grew feet and danced across my lips
swirled and spun like your cigarette smoke
grasps my throat and cuts me up
and sews me back so gently
never has it caressed my mind
only stormed through it
but it floats through my breath
and chatters on my teeth
and growls and moans and
melts away into the air
and my sleepy eyes will search for yours
behind smoke and stupid words
my favourite of these being
your name
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Apr 2014
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The flame to my heart is held by a girl
but she doth burn too lowly
her fire flickers slowly
and she trembles like aspen
if only-

she knew that her smile
could birth worlds anew
and her colours in her eyes
could shatter an opal's abounding hue
the way she shatters her wrists
against a china sink
and watches the blood run away with the water

She is so beautiful
all fallow and fawn
and coffee breath and unfriendly scorn
and chapped lips that I would kiss
I would

I tell her the stars will implode in their final hour
and they will all cry out her name
but she cannot notice the star riddled skies
under dark clouds and thunderous rain
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Apr 2014
And now we're back here again
after 5 months
light hair and
green eyes
never really left my mind
a whole weekend spent
repairing what was lost before
what we can't get back but
we can try

And you're not James Dean
no matter how many times
you try to get me to admit it.
But at midnight
you held me like Jim Stark anyway.

I'm glad I went to see you
so I know
you can still kiss me in the same way
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Apr 2014
I don't give enough to take back what I own
my stories are told out of broken homes
I could be a bit better if I **** off this ghost
I'm alone.

I bleed from the inside,
and I won't tell anyone
I'm nowhere to find,
but I couldn't care it all.
Live like a ghost to keep me from talking, til' you notice where I'm at,
'cause I couldn't care at all.

Nowhere to hide, and nowhere to run to when nobody listens.
I'm just a liar that's tired of trying
I'll pick myself apart cause I couldn't care at all.

I'm sick, I'm sick of waiting.
EP Mason Mar 2014
You're like that song I love
but it's in the wrong pitch for me to sing

The way of painting I could
never quite grasp

The prettiest word that won't
roll off my tongue coherently

The ring I always lose

All the things I want to bask in
but just can't understand

The sun I can't stare into.
© Erin Mason 2014
EP Mason Mar 2014
There is a map in my room on the wall of my room and I’ve got big, big plans.
and I can see them slipping through almost feel them slipping through the palms of my sweaty hands.
and I move slow, just slow enough to make you uncomfortable.

you say ''I hate you'', you mean it and ''I love you'' sounds fake
it's taken me so long to figure that out.
I used to love the taste I would do anything for it.
now I would do anything to get the taste out of my mouth.
and you're so confident but I hear you crying in your sleeping bag.

but you were broken bad yourself
you were mad as hell you felt
if you had done anything with anyone else it would have worked out so well.

But you are an artist and your mind don’t work the way you want it to.
one day you’ll be washing yourself with hand soap in a public bathroom.
and you’ll be thinking ''how did I get here?''
''where the hell am I?''
if the roles were reversed you could have seen me sneaking up, sneaking up from behind.

She sees these visions, she feels emotion.
she says that I cannot go she sees my plane in the ocean.
and what about your friends? don’t you love them enough to stay?
and I say if I don’t leave now then I will never get away.
let me be a blue raft on a blue sea I’ll blend right in.
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