11-14-2017, 02:01 PM
Tints and Shades
I’m forgetting what you looked like
without pixels tied to color
but I always painted you a cherry hue
and I remember when I noticed
that your cheeks were more like thunderstorms
Puffing, pouting, always passing through.
I forget how my legs mixed with yours
atop my tired mattress
and if they’d clap along like waves
or melt like sun
But I remember how you’d stare
you’d smooth your lips and pat my hair
and laugh when I told you that I was scared
you’d run.
Yet here I lie in sheets that I have
piled mountains deep
In the hope their cotton bleeds into my skin.
Curves and caves lie low
nostalgic undertow, awaken
Crawling hunger howls within.
While sunlight sashays against my wall
and I breathe in patterns known
I know that time has welcomed change
Encrusting mossy stones.
Bringing to fruition the awareness
I have grown
but how you’d laugh and pat my hair
when I warned I would lie alone.
I’m forgetting what you looked like
without pixels tied to color
but I always painted you a cherry hue
and I remember when I noticed
that your cheeks were more like thunderstorms
Puffing, pouting, always passing through.
I forget how my legs mixed with yours
atop my tired mattress
and if they’d clap along like waves
or melt like sun
But I remember how you’d stare
you’d smooth your lips and pat my hair
and laugh when I told you that I was scared
you’d run.
Yet here I lie in sheets that I have
piled mountains deep
In the hope their cotton bleeds into my skin.
Curves and caves lie low
nostalgic undertow, awaken
Crawling hunger howls within.
While sunlight sashays against my wall
and I breathe in patterns known
I know that time has welcomed change
Encrusting mossy stones.
Bringing to fruition the awareness
I have grown
but how you’d laugh and pat my hair
when I warned I would lie alone.