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How harsh does it get you say?
oh, nothing much.
Just have to find the correct person



**haha.. correct person
11 hrs outside of house debating does this to my mind and makes me sadder
Your soul is like your fingers
Such calloused hands
How rough you are
How abrasive you can be
Doesn't measure up
To the toughness of your heart
I admire your resiliency
My only wish is that
You would soften up to me
Know it's okay to get cuts and scratches
And even to show off your scars
Show me your sensitive underbelly
Trust me enough to fall asleep next to me
Like how animals sleep tummy side up
When they feel safe
Shed your hard layers
Feel my gentle interior
Know that it will always be
Okay.
Did this happen last time?
I'm not really sure, our last
encounters seem entirely
imagined, as if I wrote them
in a book and fabricated them
elsewhere. Those memories of
you don't feel real, not even
that one last love note, where
I called you at the Rihanna
concert and held up my
phone when she sang



Stay.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
he kidnapped my heart
like it was a scared little child
but soon returned it without ransom,
battered and bruised,
with a tone of disgust in his voice
and a distant look on his face.
I guess his greedy mind
got very bored,
very fast
with my broken little heart in his hands.
She walks between both worlds
She is life and she is death
She shines with a radiance that blinds
She is dark and she is light
She is our savior as the blood we taint
runs through her veins.

She is the moon and the sun
that rains it's benevolence upon our rusted souls
and she is the prayer that countless may whisper
to arrange us into wholes.

She speaks of wisdom,
as the crown placed upon her head,
which spills of silken spirals,
declares her our leader
and we will follow her through the evil.

She is our hope,
for we have lost it all
along the bloodied battle field.

And if my flesh may bleed
I dare bleed for her,
and if my life is stolen,
I dare grant it to her.

For every breath I draw
is a promise of my loyalty.

I will walk these plains
with open eyes
and walk this Earth
in silence

For I will never speak her name,
and she will never ask that I do.
there are a couple things I remember in particular;

at the beach when I clumsily tangled my fingers
with yours and you told me to  
get off the freaking train tracks
because you could hear the
speed cars whistling a ways
back, I took one of those
sun-soaked pictures of
you and you said,
can't you feel it?
what's still between
us?
I shuffled beneath
the question and told
you to stand out in
front of me so I could
get yet another photograph
of you in front of the sunset.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
Sometimes listening to the ceiling fan
Will get me calm enough to see
That the sun didn't set any faster today.
But there are bruises I get quite frequently
From words strangers whisper to each other
Halfway across the country.
Their names are engraved in my lungs,
Their names will never be mine to see.
Bliss,fleeting
and frail like a twitch
of the eyelids.
Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence
And leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage
For what resembles rage again


So if you love me let me go
And run away before I know
My heart is just too dark to care
I can't destroy what isn't there
Deliver me unto my fate
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you


Oh,
My smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know.


I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me
That savour every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your lights
But all of that was ripped apart
When you refused to fight


So save your breath I will not care
I think I've made it pretty clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that suppose to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend
So I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint


Oh,
My home was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go.


So break yourself against my stones!
And spit your pity in my soul!
You never needed any help

You sold me out to save yourself!


And I won't listen to your shame

You ran away
you're all the same


Angels lie
to keep control


My love was punished long ago
If you still care
Don't ever let me know.

If you still care
**Don't
Ever
Let
Me
Know
One of my favourite songs.
Slipknot- off of their album All Hope Is Gone
(thanks james!!)
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