Candle In Moonlight

A Boy With Roses

Cold breaths whimper and ache, spine bending                                                              

When I say your name and it's another mistake                                                 

And it tastes like vinegar in this endless ocean                                                                        

I am nothing but a stubborn wave blowing                                                            

Tasting my blood and my sweat and realising                                                                    

I am forever alone, forever beating and conscious                                                                  

I had to wake myself up just to say ayudame                                                                        

These ice cream walls have ears and they're listening                                                  

Eavesdropping children with no mouths                                                                        

Falling in and out of sanity and bleeding thoughts                                                                    

I see colours in everything                                                                                          

Colours in dreams of freedom, those pale blues                                                                    

Vermillion, echo-white, rosy pinks and dreamy lilacs                                                              

Apricot and lemon, sea foam and cyan and lavender                                                                

Silvers and golds and sapphire, pea-green leaves falling              

Light-grey, light blue, black blue, mousy brown hair                                                                      

Life breaking me down into a fine, powdery nothingness                                                                  

I've never been much of a masochist, but tonight I'm looking                                                    

For a deadly kiss, and the weight of this anchor on my chest is tedious                                

I'm drowning in you, drowning in thoughts of you                                                                

Oh, the things I would do to you                                                                                            

How I would love you, and how I would kiss you                        

Such a perfect man, a gloating example of perfection                                                                  

Feral admiration, in between your hairy legs                                                                            

I am a candle in moonlight                                                                                        

Drunk on late nights, idle and wasting time                                                                

I pray to those lights, the flickering light of my cigarette burning down                            

Missing your touch when it's gone                                                           

Soft pillow, angel song                                                                     

Wrapped  in the silk of nostalgia unwinding                          

You see me tied up and watch me helplessly grieve                                                                    

Those days when I'd sleep and I didn't know much about love              

But now I feel too much, I can't possibly bare the ache much longer                                              

You're a flowing river though my soul, my corrupted innocence                  

Longing for the softness of your touch                                                                                        

When you're gone I'm silent and dark                                                                                

Pouring from my brooding heart                                                                                              

Unbearable and unhinged in daisy fields of madness                                                  

Sweating and it won't stop, I hear your voice guiding me towards              

Some kind of fruit treasure, some kind of life wagering                                                            

Neurotic hedonist in blue silence, hermit pilgrim in rose gardens                                        

Infected with your plague, I am the host of your disease                        

Shrinking with every burgeoning emotion                                                                    

Fuck me until it hurts, until my tears bury into your skin                                                

Watch me fade like a jaded offering                                                                        

Shutting myself off from the world, melodramatic                  

In my cocoon of wisdom, this plastic bubble of insatiable lust                                        

This plastic bubble of faith                            

Every time I break and have to put myself together                        

I bare seeds, plushy red berry bulbs, mossy slime in weeds                  

Drops of blood perfectly in place like the last ship to sail                          

Like loot and fossils and stories of forgotten legends                

I dream of throwing myself off of a cliff into chopping waves            

And I see my body there on those cold blue rocks                                      

Bending into funny death shapes                                                                                

Lost in great mountains of broken things                                                                

Compass towards success, every moment of bliss                                                    

Every suitcase of mental baggage                                                                                

Such a noob in love, but I'm learning to love fast                                                                

Learning to love and learning to let go of the hurting                                                      

Every blessing is a curse, every night is a stone's throw away                                  

Every breath is a saint and every shadow is a door                                                            

Every time you deprive me I always come back for more                                              

And every river leads me back to you, just us like precious gold                                            

Little bottles of happiness, little pills of emptiness                                              

Lethargic in trenches and pits filled with secrets of youth                                      

Falling into your arms, suicide in a hotel room. 
 

 

  • Author: Jordan Cash (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: October 4th, 2021 17:27
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