'12 Love's Facade

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2012

 

 

The love I'd given you was thick, though wearing thin
Thin enough to dispense from the pockets of my eyes
Yet too damn thick, my heart suffered harrowing cries
and not a word I said pierced your scaly dragon skin

 

In that very moment, you filed your nails like a violin
Your emery board scuffs the fatal tune as if to reprise
Gesturing your facial ways, reveling your pathetic lies
Refusing to mend errors and never to have loved within

 

No matter how much I tried to love every inch of you,
Your heart impulsively recoiled like a measuring tape
thoughtlessly saying, "It is not enough you big fat ape"
Never measuring up to your standards, only for a screw

 

Through that cold blood, something would always brew
Slowly would I notice that everything was a great debate
Lover's diversion failed to realize that, on our first date
Causing a contradiction from what I've known and knew

I had figured that there was only one thing you wanted
I gave you that and everything else without hesitation
After your needs were fulfilled, I became a manifestation
Days were empty like my mind and my heart well unwanted

 

There was nothing I could do and she knew it as well
As faithful as I was and as damaged I slowly became
Insane was the name of her malignant confidence game
Weakening, dispelling my soul with her whispers of hell

 

I loved once again, and yet I failed with the wrong person
I could not experience what I wanted so I decided to eject
I ran as fast as I could but my exit faded with every step
I felt a spell since my heart had visualized another version

 

I was trapped and I could no longer speak or scream pain
Imaginative and creative I was, I could not think of felicity
Her voice, for some reason, licked and lured me into toxicity
Drained I was, I searched for ways to avoid her complain

 

I was done pursuing what does not want me or to be nourished
"Now take your perfume from here and please, leave me alone!"
Unworthy, I splashed myself with her flammable gift cologne
Relieving affliction, lit up with a Warmth I've always cherished

 

©David Joel Rodriguez

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running_with_rabbits's picture

First, so much of this poem

First, so much of this poem is me right now it scares me..are you emotionally stalking me? jks

Second there are so many good lines that just break my brain:

“The love I'd given you was thick, though wearing thin
Thin enough to dispense from the pockets of my eyes”

Wow yea just wow!
And also:

“not a word I said pierced your scaly dragon skin”

My most recent ex is such a dragon, he burns his life down when it gets hard or difficult, he burnt my love down whenever it meant work, and yea that line just got me, like sank into my soul like titanic and is waiting for me to come discover it with submarine and reclaim artifacts!
Oh and

“No matter how much I tried to love every inch of you,
Your heart impulsively recoiled like a measuring tape”

those lines just bring to reality the fact that some people are so damaged that the more you love them the more they bite back
and

“Never measuring up to your standards, only for a screw”
“Lover's diversion failed to realize that, on our first date”

Our first date is one of the only happy times that keeps making me miss them. Such a good first date but looking back so many signs it would go badly!

“After your needs were fulfilled, I became a manifestation”

Brilliant line! Just brilliant!

“Insane was the name of her malignant confidence game
Weakening, dispelling my soul with her whispers of hell”

We should hook her and my ex up, they sound like twins

the poem in it's entirety was not my normal style of enjoyment but some of the words just hit home so deeply that I enjoyed the read.

this is one of my many dragon poems if you wanna read it, I cannot find the one i wanted to send you :(

http://www.postpoems.org/authors/running_with_rabbits/poem/912547

thanks for the share


Much Love

Ashley

Joel's picture

Wow Ashley! I must say Thank

Wow Ashley! I must say Thank you for the examination, and yes, I do believe the 'interchangeability' of our ex's should be quite fascinating to watch, together they are, undomesticated and in need of refinement.

But as I concluded...I guess I burned myself to death to feel 'a warmth"


--
"You think Einstein walked around thinking everyone was a bunch of dumb-shits?"

running_with_rabbits's picture

ditto I will not be loving

ditto
I will not be loving another dragon anytime soon :)


Much Love

Ashley

palewingedpoetess's picture

Amazing that even in heartache.............

your words of pain can read as so beautiful. Feels good doesn't it to be able to shed all that ugliness felt inside with the use of such beautifully selected language. Is like sweeping the porch of a run down shack with a diamond studded broom huh? Encore Joel unending encore..............Sincerely,Melissa Lundeen.