Sign Your Name on My Skin

Sometimes I cannot keep part of me
from asking the stars
where comfort can be found
without weaving the desperation
I feel under my skin
into a rope
that wraps around my tears of sadness.
I am left watching hours
take in the days
and never quite understanding how laughter
can tell someone to call out to the sky
then break and run
on the legs
of sheer madness.

My skies shouldn't tell me to get lost
inside of all I know
when I long to create an ocean of language
we both can plainly speak
without ever feeling any pressure.  
When tomorrow rings in the beginning
of what lies under all that I know to be
held in a distant place,
draped in shimmering hope ,
shall I watch you
write your name on my skin
while I cry out in pleasure?

I never asked for you to bring me a garden full of lies
where one has to work
in the shadows of forgetfulness
inside of a life with a smile that fades
as I regain my sanity.
The truth can be grown in silence
then burn brightly
as part of nothing and still lie beyond
that which soothes our hands
when they tremble
because we can smell the crow
we have to eat so humbly.

Listen to the lines you missed
when you stepped
into the shoes of a man
who no longer relied
on all of his senses
when you began your journey of echoes
where stars once danced.
Do you remember empty promises
as they run through the days
silent..........
even though you sing?  
Take a chance and lose your mind
when you find there is no way out,
as you rush to remind your tears,
of how they sting.

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

We don't pick the ones we love and sometimes those we love are "mad". We have to learn to accept what is given to us and not change what can not be changed. Everyone has flaws and if we truly love someone we won't see them as flaw but as their own uniqueness.

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Poetic Beauty :)

[Kenneth The Poet]

Wow, I needed my Neva fix today. And you never fail to make my heart flutter.

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Ken :)

[Enid Blake]

This is a beautiful poem :)

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Enid :)

[Bobbie Coelho]

Very good poem. The way you write about not just sadness, but sheer longing for what once was. The lines about "Nor bringing me a garden of lies, where one has to work in the shadow of forgetfulness" is excellent. Thank you.

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Bobbie :)

[realmwriter]

Bravo! Absolutely Brilliant! I was held in suspence from the first word to the last and when I came across the last I gasp as my throat caught! At your very best in this one!!!

[afra]

absolutely beautiful ....good job

[VelvetRosetta]

An ocean of language...love this, makes me feel as if when I am listening to the waves they are whispering to me...You have such a way with words, Beautiful!

[harry]

Excellent write

[Dean]

I should love to write it there

[MOON]

Beautiful write a garden full of lies like growing betrayal take a chance and loose your mind , a fear of letting go loosing control an ocean of language you use words and expand them into a vastness of beauty and pain.

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you Moon :)

[quinfinn]

as always with your writing, i was completely and utterly consumed by your tactile use of the language...how you make every phrase come to life is amazing to me, like i told you before...yours is an ancient soul, forged from the fires of creation, Neva,
it is always a pure and emotional journey reading your work. thank you for being

[Neva Flores Smith - Changefulstorm]

Thank you so much quinfinn