WickedJasper

I saw you first from the shadows, but you didn’t notice me you were just past the passion flower eyes wide, taking in the scenery my heart must have skipped a beat my breath trapped in a choke words failed me in that moment so I merely stared as you spoke I draw cards every time I feel too close to admitting these feelings are true my heart so easily gives itself away, how could I say that I love you? we’ll be best friends forever I’ll stay as close as you’ll let me but I’d dare not ask for you and never allow you to forget me in these interim silences, I am reminded of a brilliant mind that left me blinded and

After the cats start crying every night, I stop blaming myself for being sad. Even these aloof and callous creatures have found their barriers crumbling here. No one smiles except nostalgically, the memory of a yellow sticker. No one holds you except narcotically, all the while, both getting sicker. They say, you really should be sleeping more and then I’ll wander through tomorrow missing people I’ve never met, places calling to me, a home I’ve never known. A house of sad lost women, all alone. Looking for a second of peace to be sober. I’d rather be alone, though. All alone. I’ll drink every second until it̵

In a distant future, I gently remind you, I've run out. You say, “of what?” I say, “Of what may I still have?” We’re barren like the land Cracked and worn like a carpenter’s hands Naked zombie moth men staring at a raincloud And we smile because it’ll be a while before anyone can interrupt our nothing with nonsense. You count dewdrops on my back in the morning and teardrops on my cheeks at night A couple billion people sleep while I make myself right Perhaps I’ve dreamt them and their opinions Perhaps I’m the culmination of their dreaming The world will turn again, someday Into another see