I would like to be no one A nameless, faceless, Shapeless form To walk through life Unknown Lost in the norm
Everything I do will blend Into the scenery, The earth, unheard And I, no one, am but a wisp, My life Never occurred
When I have gone in whisper Give me an Unmarked stone Or better yet, nothing No one was here I, thankfully, was alone
I saw you when the sun went down There was a spark You saw me as the night came We saw each other in the dark
Maybe we hesitated for a moment For hands to hold Finally when they touched There was a jolt
You and me and an abandoned place An apartment high in the city In a blacked out world The roofs gray and gritty
But you laid your palm on mine And the current flowed Through our fingertips and wrists Our arms began to glow
In an older kind of world You and I were electric Before we were drawn together We never knew we kept it
As our hands lit up our faces I kissed you on the lips We shocked our hearts so hard The current slightly tripped
The people down below us murmured As our light grew and grew I think your eyes were just as bright As mine were for you
When you kissed me back We shook the floors Trembling in the building Rattling all the doors
The people started running Some yelling up the stairs But neither of us heard them We were both unaware
Surrounded in a shield of power Afraid we might explode You squeezed my hands as we burst Away on our currents we rode
I feel a kinship with birds and spiders One eats the other The smaller one is feared The larger one is adored
A bird is artistic and beautiful A spider creates beautiful art A spider catches its prey in the art A bird catches a spider for a little snack
I saw a small bone on the sidewalk The size of my pinkie finger I sat with it, wondering of the skeleton A truck drove by and honked loudly The bone rolled slightly on the pavement As the truck sped heavily forwards
Little bone from a little one I pictured you as a mouse, a chipmunk Maybe you were a vole or a bird I longed to touch your bone and know you But I was afraid of the reality That you lay there gentle and beautiful When the act upon your body was likely not
I thought I saw him walking by Out of the corner of my eye Just a trick of the light A trick of the mind It was just a little cloud Casting a fleeting shroud A phantom little lie He was not conjured from the sky But for a second I had hoped Which I have never since allowed
I am yours in hallways In empty bedrooms Behind the buildings at night I am yours in moonlight I am yours in dreams
I am yours when no one's looking But that is always Always you are on my mind Always I am craving you Your touch that is Both physical and Soul crushing
I cling to you at midnight I taste your mouth When the others sleep When we are truly alone When I am free to Call your name In all the ways I need to
I might beg you I might be on the floor To steal you away I might actually try I might actually keep you And I would not be sorry
Unleash your body on me I need all of you Your skin, your scent I need to feel you need me To feel you shiver On my body To sweat with me
I could never kiss anyone But you No lips have ever fit mine No breath has ever tasted so sweet I would never touch another's lips Just to have yours And you would never share me
The little spider Under my table Strung up a pebble To anchor its web And I am as curious As I am impressed By this mysterious Feat of engineering
For a moment My mind jumps to Another world A place more familiar To me than anywhere Here on earth
It is sunshine But brighter It is a meadow But softer It is a butterfly But shining It is a reality But fleeting
I try to hold on It lasts a second I try to keep it inside My flowing brain But as quickly as it Comes it is gone
I am remembering But forgetting I had belonged But briefly I was at peace Completely I am searching Come back
A girl I am dating is reading my palm Tracing her finger Over my life line She furrows her brow
"Do you like evergreen trees?" she asks She doesn't look up and I nod "But you are deciduous," she meets my eyes
I shrug, pulling my hand back But she holds my wrist Firmly and keeps tracing I'm staring at her curiously
"You are nineteen?" it's currently January I nod again, February on the horizon "You will be nineteen for a very long time"
I don't like her reading I don't like her mysticism I break up with her later Then I meet you And I am nineteen for the rest of my life
Owl music is playing on low tonight Predators, I think, are soft spoken I whistle back, it's not the right tone Owls don't whistle and I don't hoot They don't pay me any mind Don't acknowledge failed harmony Who are you speaking to? I am asking them via my chirping No fluttering, no rustling The owl music sounds further away Don't stop completely, don't stop Who is out there tonight? Who is calling me? I want to be called Like an owl, quietly and discreetly Invisible yet something to be feared
"I can be someone's and still be my own." -- Shel SilversteinSide blog: @a-sign-of-fire
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