Quick Death

That moment

Slipped like rain down my skin

Washed me in late February change

Mangled more than just my hair

And you, were standing there

Such an odd thing

Like I had plucked you from a dream

And planted you here in front of me

There was no script for that scene

Line, please

Line, please

LINE, PLEASE!

I had to check— more than once— the pace of my heart

To ensure it would not speed out of my chest

Like a reckless teenager

One who crashes cars 

And left these scars upon me

I needed desperately to make the moment real

Needed some proof of it 

Something to feel so I could be sure

But I was too afraid to pause 

Too afraid the claws of it would rip me apart

So when it cornered me

With clenched teeth, I waited timidly

But that moment simply passed

Like a long breath,

A quick death

Ash

Uncensored emotion runs wildly through me
Lights me on fire from the inside

I burn quietly in this house alone
Beg like a child for the walls to swallow me up
To roll me like a river
So I can drown instead of quiver in this newfound nothingness

I can't seem to keep the truth down
Each time I digest a new piece of it
My weak stomach gets the best of me

Heartache and his wretched, wicked thievery
Takes most of the familiar scenery
Like pictures from walls
Steals all but these memories

That taunt and haunt me
I burn quietly like a smoldering fire
I have but one aching desire—
to be ash.

Breath of a Dragon

The breath of a dragon

Is the kind of thing you do not believe in

Until it is breathing down your neck

In that moment

I was quite sure of what the fire meant

Still I could not turn to face it

I ran

Over, under and almost through

But monsters have a way of catching up to you

And just before I woke from it all

The floor began to fall

The nightmare marched on like unanswered call

Scolding spit and a roar from its pit

I sat again at the start of this

Racing heart and bloody too

I bled from the very thought of you

And thought till there was nothing left

And death

Is the kind of thing you do not believe in

Until it is breathing down your neck