Moonlighter

Inspiration found at a tree off the cliffs of Palos Verdes.

I open my heart to the world, feeling every emotion in the dictionary

Those adjectives seem to be my only subject turn into sentences

I've written more about the tears, lies in love that I would make excuses for.

I've become part of lists, more comparisons than a few who call themselves men

searching for God in all the wrong places

Calling the Devil temptations and twisted ways the work of good?

I've undone my necklace, watched it fall in the midst of a mistake.

Prayed for an escape as lust sucks the sweet fresh air from my lungs.

Opened my eyes to the lies, but the words fall deaf off my tongue. 

There's something horrible about losing yourself the lost being found in the sheets.

Bars become normal scenes, games are what passes the time, excuses are the call.

Trades gone wrong, contracts cut short, you'd be amazed how fast things play.

I've sobered myself but want to escape the high you're putting on me.

Pressing against me, two different emotions, lust and broken.

Intoxicated, blinded, so wrong what is happening.

I open my heart to the world, to the emotion of love.

I wish we can part and never meet around again,

but the most precious words in my soul come out at the tree we first fell.

The heart is faint and there's nothing of we, 

but I feel the calm and pain at once.

Background peace in the song of buzzing,

the waves are close but stretch to lead my eyes off the horizon.

The many goodbyes we would say, each time finding a different way.

My brain is at its capacity filled with endless fights,

names with no meaning, places that no longer exist.

Enticed it, bombarded it, and left ravaged.

My knowledge has no where to go but in the clouds of smoke

My sentences make no sense, feelings of mine running to yours.

Put together the escape route, flames guiding the soul 

burning letters of love and photos with strangers smiling.

Author's Note

There's one more verse that is still in the works, might publish that separate.

Reviews

[alifeacoustic]

Very powerful end. Love the line "burning letters of love and photos with strangers smiling."
That so sums up what the remnants of relationships are all about and how we change within, at every goodbye. beautiful write. Thank you for sharing.

[Ms. Twitch]

Thank you very much for the positive comments! Hope you enjoy how the next part of it begins, currently working on it. Will enjoy hearing your feedback on that as well.

[MadalaJose]

A very rich poem. I can see issues of regret in the persona and wanting to move forward. Nice work

[Ms. Twitch]

Thank you, I appreciate your comment!