Listen Just Listen

Listen to
my heart
whisper

It's beating
alongside yous
in-sync

My fingers
fallow flow

 I want you
to hear me 
as I die for you
again and again

Cut the words
from my tongue
pin them to your lips

Confused by each sighed kiss
I don't know which me you need

Who am I
who are you
who are we

Are we not
something
more or less
or nothing
at all

I cradle you
in broken bones
against the scars
mapping my pale breast
will you listen to my heart
just to see if it's still beating

Beating just for you

When we're lying together
I trace invisible tattoo poetry
in foreign tongues
licking your
fragile
spine

Tasting your
broken mouth
as I try not to
choke on your
silence

Listen love

keep listening to my heart
as it still beats for you

I forget
I'm alive
most days

Most days I'm not

I don't want to be
nothing anyone
but me

All the while
wishing to be
wanting to be
the one you
finally open up to

Tell me how you
truly feel lying next to me
warmed by my breath
and unknown kisses
as my lips leave
trails of love
along your
strong
shoulders

I love your voice
when you say
I Love you
even with
the added fool
at the end

Say it again
I dare you
say it first
and mean it

Say it
spill your
heart
to me

Let me drown

As I die to explore
the depth of your soul

Don't mind
when I no longer speak 
I'm dangling in purgatory
on the edge of your hidden emotions

And today feels like a broken verse
in nameless need of your touch

In spellbinding pools of ink 
I drown gasp grasp 
at the inspiration found 
swimming in the hidden depths 
of your poet eyes

When I thought 
foolishly 
my bruises
were beauty

When in truth
beauty lies
within the scars

Whispering
internalized agony
fighting to illuminate
the darkness

Of your

SILENCE



By Samantha Pruitt

Reviews

[Stevo The POE-t]

He opens his mouth but the words won't come out
He's choking now...

You want me to listen? You want me to hear and understand what you're saying?
I do listen and I hear very loud and clear what the meaning is behind each word. I have a better understanding behind the metaphor than you do.

I hide myself in solitary confinment to keep myself from harm. One of two ways this could happen, I break you so bad you finally leave.

Then comes the wrist cutting, who knows what happens next? A man so broken, a man so lost, he has nothing to live for any longer...

So I hide behind silence and the walls it took me years to build to keep myself from ever being hurt again. In the past every woman I have ever loved stabbed me in the back. And cut me so deep as they laughed and licked the blood from the blade...

I can never be too sure that will never happen again...

Yes I do have the scars to prove that love is deadly. Love can make you do stupid s**t. Along with depression I fought and fought to get back to a normal life... Here I am today standing tall and can shout I beat that mother f****r.

Trust me when I say this I don't want to battle with it again. Because this time there is a good chance I could lose the battle.. But if there is anyone in the world worth battling it for is my son and you...

I love you guys more than life itself. I love you more than the air that gives me life... I love you guys almost as much as Skyline Chili... lol

But just because I don't give you the answer you seek, or the review on here you deserve doesn't mean I haven't read it... It doesn't mean that I do like it.. It simply means you have taken my words hostage... You've placed them in a bottle and threw them into the sea... It means you've locked them up like a prisoner... It means I have lost all ability to speak, I just simply can't find the words to justify what I had read... My words for a review would be unworthy...

Trust me when I say this I do listen... I wish I could speak the words to you that you deserve to hear.....

I wish I could hold you in my arms and tell you how much I love you... The day I do that is the day the walls collapse and is when the new battle begins...

So even if I give you the simple "Okay" or "Read it" you have to figure out the true words I am really say is, I read it and love it but I can't figure out how to put it exactly in words... Just know that I am trying...

I hope this clears things up a bit for you and lets you see things different. Lets you see where I am coming from... I love you

[Meraki]

This poem is beautifully morose.. it's deep and yearning and I believe it's amazing.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Dark, brooding, angry, cutting...great use of themes I think.

[Brook]

So intense, and deep. Very beautiful regardless! Amazing write.

[Chris]

The intensity and sheer FEEL of your words paused me here... thank you for being here for my today.

[NoelHC]

A very touching and deeply felt piece of writing, well done. I liked how this flowed. How is it we can be so certain of our love for another, and have so much doubt and uncertainty of its being reciprocated.
I noted in one of the comments to KL's review that you are thinking of deleting your page. I know I would be disappointed if you did, as I find your writing to be thought provoking, and from a place deep within.

[Jennie Baron]

What a lovely and delightful juxtaposition of powerful love and desire with uncertainty, all tying in with the writing metaphor. I truly like this one, Samantha; thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[Inda]

This is fantastic! Many creative people can relate to the state of mind portrayed here, love it!

[Carl Drake Barnard]

Wow I sensed the essence in your unbelievable poem and i know the feeling of pain struggle and desperation and most important acceptance but some people keep hurting cause of there mix emotions and there desires in the end all we want is to hold there hand and love them be with them and guide and protect a future we clung to... Only to be broken... Strong piece I love it very emotional indeed good work and thanks for sharing* :) Good luck out there :)

[Avinash]

Brilliant Duo are back to WC...what a pleasure and what a delight..