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message 1: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
What what's this it's a poem oh my. Warning for explicit language.

They hold hands wherever they go,
In crowds (and on those cold nights where it's about to rain and you can feel the charge in the darkest sky, the pavements are dull grey and cars sluice water into the gutter and up onto the pavement, soaking her feet but barely spattering against his jeans.)

They always say that they're in love,
But she is a pragmatist (she feels really fucking evil but when she's in bed on one of those cold nights sometimes she wants to feel his weight and warmth next to her, and other times she wouldn't care if it was him or not.)

She always says she'll be there for him,
And he believes it because no one else has ever said it, there's never any question that she loves him but he avoids thinking about it so much it's become a permanent fixture in the back room of his mind marked [DO NOT OPEN], but to be honest he knows exactly what's in that room. He's read it backwards and forwards and he's read himself inside out on those cold nights when it's about to rain, when they're holding hands and she doesn't care if it's him as long as she's warm to keep away the rain-soaked chill that's inevitable. Because they wanted to walk.
Outside on a cold night.
So they could hold hands.

Maybe she doesn't see him.


message 2: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
Tee hee, thank you x)


message 3: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (last edited Jul 31, 2013 09:32AM) (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
Remember: this is eternal;
This low bass heart rate on this forever date,
The moment might be always,
But right now is incomprehensible.
Empathy is futile and sympathy is unrecognised.

The stars drip from my eyes.
I breathe out the sugar and dirt.
That bit
That bit
That bit
That bit
That bit.
Dirty sweet nostalgia.
The legendary ineffable [[THEN!!!]] not so sacred,
Dusty clouds dry the new developments,
It only gets better when now stops and then starts
Playing the hook on your out-of-tune heartstrings
Tug forward the past and drown in life.


message 4: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
Ugh that was total self-indulgence and not even good idk why I posted that, bear in mind I am idiot and I try and write then post things that make no sense and don't accomplish what I intend to accomplish.


message 5: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
First draft of a poem coming in next post but I really dig this right now (after I've just written it - I'll probably pick faults in it and hate it tomorrow.) Warning for explicit language. It's called Palate Cleanser (neutralise)


message 6: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
Palate Cleanser (neutralise)

'Flames burning bright' is the worst cliche for love,
It's hot and fast and sweaty and over so fucking quickly.
The chimney-top damper is closed and you'll suffocate on the smoke.
Happy Valentine's Day, dead girl.
(Haunt the feeling of ash on skin)

Acoustic heartbreak, nothing worse than wasted opportunity,
Sickening and hardening and tugging downwards.
'All things come to an end' possibilities forgotten
(We could've been amazing together)
Press play and listen to your goodbye song - you know I won't listen to mine.
Make it end enough for both of us - you know I won't make it end for me,
I'm not hanging on for anything.

Sometimes I choke on the fumes of people in love.
There's a bitter taste just beyond the rainbow,
That sticks in the back of my throat until it's not love or lust or like
And barely even tolerance - the sweet syrup of indifference.
(So much sour from so much sweet, be gentle, forget and rewind)


message 7: by Camille, Our Resident Valkyrie (new)

Camille (camillebob) | 10 comments Mod
Paha, thank you :) That would be fun.


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