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THE RIFT
You do realize that we passed each other in the store today,
As "hello" rolled off my tongue, you looked the other way,
How is it years ago the two of us once shared a name?
Now days you despise it, as if it only brought you shame,
It's sad really, this rift between us that widens over time,
I've come to grips with the guilt cast upon me for my crime,
I know this might sound absurd but I self-destructed for you,
With love missing, I did what I had to do though I didn't want to,
It could have been found again, but I wasn't exactly how sure,
This damned disease had such a clench on me and I saw no cure,
Nothing about me resembled the man you had once married,
Foolish fondness for all things toxic had that man dead and buried,
I walked the line, teetering between living and a suicidal tendency,
How is it you couldn't see or were you enabling my dependency?
What sucked you in, was it my deviance or the nature of my game?
I know you knew, but on deaf ears fell cries that called your name,
There's wisdom you gain when privileged with hindsight's view,
I get it now you turned your head because you're just as guilty too…
-brad
You do realize that we passed each other in the store today,
As "hello" rolled off my tongue, you looked the other way,
How is it years ago the two of us once shared a name?
Now days you despise it, as if it only brought you shame,
It's sad really, this rift between us that widens over time,
I've come to grips with the guilt cast upon me for my crime,
I know this might sound absurd but I self-destructed for you,
With love missing, I did what I had to do though I didn't want to,
It could have been found again, but I wasn't exactly how sure,
This damned disease had such a clench on me and I saw no cure,
Nothing about me resembled the man you had once married,
Foolish fondness for all things toxic had that man dead and buried,
I walked the line, teetering between living and a suicidal tendency,
How is it you couldn't see or were you enabling my dependency?
What sucked you in, was it my deviance or the nature of my game?
I know you knew, but on deaf ears fell cries that called your name,
There's wisdom you gain when privileged with hindsight's view,
I get it now you turned your head because you're just as guilty too…
-brad
Literature
grief
praying mantis,
you hold my heart tattered at half-mast,
a mantra to the sanctuary
the solace your voice once provided
I hear it screaming in the chasms of silence
left between breath strokes
and withered stars--
haikus of misunderstanding,
a poetry all its own
there's a breaking to the madness,
a confusion of who I was and who I am;
there's a madness to the breathing,
a reckless nonchalance
tempting the web I've woven around my wounds
bandages can't fix this,
stitches are bound to rip in the sunrise,
and your claws are too clean
to be strangling me so quickly
so pull me close and tear me open
I'll figure out the rest
under a differ
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Map of Horizons
When all the horizons have been gathered the tall gray blocks of cities will become ships ready to undock, and coast away - (ships to hold all ships). The clouds will welcome them into their arms. The soldier, and his helmet will balloon into the Rorschach of the sky like a stratus cloud The concrete of the ground is gray seed, is wish transferable -- loosing and bifurcating in the low fog, is where people came to from everywhere else.
Literature
11.19.20
my heart is not made for waves and it is no easy thing to sink without drowning
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"I get it now you turned your head becaue you're just as guilty too..."
That line is amazing. I dont know what it was, but while the rest of the poem was good, that last line made it amazing.
That line is amazing. I dont know what it was, but while the rest of the poem was good, that last line made it amazing.