Awaking in Silence

Original poetry, music, photos, random thoughts

Even now,

as the tips of my fingertips

numb

like the emotion has taken over their sensitivity

sudden changes, sudden motives

I shake.

I listen.

and I tune out any real sound

but illusion- I let enter.

I let it consume me

for what it is, I do not know

for what I’m worth, I still seek to find out.

Restless love

I soon to hate

Cloud my eyes

and rather I taste

the air- polluted in unkindness

in doubt & decay

lightening strikes

& rest night makes

every beat- synchronized

like the ticking of the clock

my gaze as eyelashes flutter

to the stars

Oh, how it aches

Purse my lips

and breathe the air

feel my lips and with one stroke

I fall asleep.

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Ingrid Michaelson

—Can't Help Falling In Love

lucasinwonderland:

Wise men say, only fools rush in
But I can’t help, falling in love with you
Shall I stay? Would it be a sin
If I can’t help, falling in love with you?

Like a river flows, surely to the sea,
Darling, so it goes somethings are meant to be.
Take my hand, take my whole life too.
For I can’t help, Falling in love with you

Like a river flows, surely to the sea
Darling so it goes, somethings are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too.
For I can’t help falling in love with you.

For I can’t help falling in love with you.


                                          Ingrid Michaelson - Can’t Help Falling In Love

Lost in Contemplation

written in the sound of the wind physical being of the orangeness of that grid seen beneath the stars, the stars half shown illuminating fireflies that swim against the current of breath. That warm, sweet, and lucid nothingness that emerges from the clench of my fist.

The black tar felt beneath the soles of my feet. I wear shoes that hope to stabilize me as I run and flee away from the stars shooting towards me- around, up and down, below.

hello, I say. I’m not here as they whisper my name. my name repeated against the reflection of the mirror. Hello, hello. and again, again. say it enough. Then it will finally lose meaning.

“Sing me to sleep”…reverberating across from the floating vinyl upon the cherry smoked wood. I lay fast asleep. My eyes are open and shift to visualize the length I have always hoped to see.

First Time

Secured by the touch of your palms-

the slow and fast rise of your breath

as you whisper to the back of my neck.

Our eyes- not connected nor able to be seen by one another

But I smile. I smile for the first time (I finally felt you).

Each time you held me closer as if you knew-

when to create warmth with our bodies, our hellos, our goodbyes

“more water”

just to see you move melodically and harmoniously in the rise and fall of your hair.

To feel that loud silence. When you look at me (I know)

There is something, yet I fear you.

When will it ever shake loose (it has) beneath the sounds of our breath

and the colors of our world. Our world. Our world. When we touch and when we speak.

Hello. Goodbye. This is Me. You.

love.

a thought. a moment.

and in just one breath

it’s over. just like that.

???

it’s simple..I think?

that when I look at you

or

you look at me

i feel different.

It isn’t the same. No. It isn’t.

but

i’m afraid…of you.

yet I long for you to scare me.

today, tomorrow

It’s harder now to just look back

when everything has faded, turning black

let go and move my fingertips away

don’t let me touch you, then i’ll be forced to stay

let’s just rewind to when our hearts intertwined

the beating that softly and would always align

repeating the sound as you lay close

my head on your chest listening to you rise and fall

Don’t turn away, don’t ask me why

just rest in my thoughts and hold my hand tonight