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Speechless

December 24, 2014
By elisenicolle PLATINUM, Redwood City, California
elisenicolle PLATINUM, Redwood City, California
25 articles 8 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
stuck in the suburbs, eyes glued to this screen<br /> wake me up when the world is clean.


This poem is the breath i take
before I speak.
that air that gets
caught
in my lungs
and is released with an empty
absence of words.
your eyes on me
“what were you going to say?”
hangs in the air
silence so loud my ears ring
as i search for the words
in the forest of my mind.

this poem is the words i cannot find.
the letters that fail to
order correctly
that fail
Because sometimes my thoughts
just slip through the fingers
of my own voice

so just touch me,
you’ll hear them.
they’ll vibrate your eardrums
like you don’t know what hit you
and just hold me.
you’ll feel my words
with every inhale
every exhale
the beats of my heart
resonating through my fingertips to yours
and please
just kiss me.
you’ll taste the words on my lips
like sweet, sweet candy.

i like to think i’m a poet
but ironically
words taste funny in my mouth
ironically
they run away from me
when i try to translate
them from raw heart
to that raspy noise
i call a voice

i have a fear
of pure words.
words from somewhere as naked
as my soul
dropping one by one
into the still pool of silence
are what scare me most.
so don’t make me expose
that bare soul
under bright lights

just touch me
kiss me
listen to my body
until suddenly
we are as vulnerable as our words
and i forget my heart is naked
because i am so wrapped up in you
and my raw words pour into the silence
and the breath before i speak
is not a pause
but a note in the song
of my thoughts
and the cold wall
of that quick breath
melts away
like my insides do
when you touch me

so please,
just strip
the wall slowly.
eyes on my bare soul
are like headlights to a deer.
taste the words
feel them
melt into them
and maybe soon
that raspy noise i call a voice
will sing the song
that my heart does
when you kiss me.
But for now,
I'm speechless.



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Beila BRONZE said...
on Mar. 8 2015 at 7:21 pm
Beila BRONZE, Palo Alto, California
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.&quot; -Mark Twain

I agree, I'm left slightly speechless. I love your language, the way your words form into beautiful images and sensations and meld into my mind. My favorite lines: "and the breath before i speak/ is not a pause/ but a note in the song." Keep singing your song; it's raw and stunning and beautiful.

on Mar. 8 2015 at 4:34 pm
elisenicolle PLATINUM, Redwood City, California
25 articles 8 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
stuck in the suburbs, eyes glued to this screen<br /> wake me up when the world is clean.

@Ray--yo Thank you! You are such a kind soul :)

on Mar. 8 2015 at 6:07 am
Ray--yo PLATINUM, Kathmandu, Other
43 articles 2 photos 581 comments

Favorite Quote:
God Makes No Mistakes. (Gaga?)<br /> &quot;I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.&quot; -Liesel Meminger via Markus Zusac, &quot;The Book Thief&quot;

I, am speechless. So much talent you have, this is just beautiful!

on Dec. 31 2014 at 3:13 am
elisenicolle PLATINUM, Redwood City, California
25 articles 8 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
stuck in the suburbs, eyes glued to this screen<br /> wake me up when the world is clean.

Thank you so, so much :)

on Dec. 29 2014 at 9:46 am
British_American_Chick GOLD, Edison,
17 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If your going through hell, keep going&quot;<br /> -Winston Churchill

This was a stand down beautiful poem.