The lives and loves of us

 

Are you talking to me?

Are you talking to me or my tits i thought as he offered to buy me a drink But now i am washing up naked and all he can see is the sink.

Bookshop

Was it your eyes?
Cherry

e - I want to be one of those people

I want to be one of those people; you know the ones, who hold hands in the street and sleep next to each other? I want to be one of them. A...

E - Shivering Home to Love

'There was a boy, 21 Soft baby skin, plump hard muscles Who I used to see every now and again Christ, you said, that's not Love darling some kind of...
Cherry

Free and Easy

I am free and easy But you're getting over sleazy And I think its time don't you? That we went home? Not in this cab together As I'm really unsure...

Friday Night

You grab my hand And pull out a sword As if from nowhere Expertly you carve A passage through the streets. I follow you because you Are holding my...

Game On

he's using you and you know he is, but you can't help but stay

Gaps

This inbred urban family Spreads its late night feelings Too easily Scatters seeds Of lust On fields Of open longing And waters them With desperate tears What grows between the Gaps

He had walked away

I wanted the lawn to absorb me into its velvet greenness, to become a blade of grass, insignificant, lost, nothing. I grabbed helplessly at his arm...
Cherry

Hunting

a little slice of magic

I am gone. I never was.

My crown of glass Slipped to my shoulder Tumbled to the ground And splintered into Sharp prisms of rainbow lights. In every fragment I saw a hope, a...

I Can’t

I can’t Do this to myself again I can’t be that girl The 6 week girl The ‘this’ll do fo now’ girl Pain upon pain I’m fine No honestly, it was just a...
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I'm no angel

I'm no angel after all I have no wings or halo But at least I'm not Anne Robinson, Ann Widdecombe or J-Lo.

incident

By the time the police arrive, Andrew is running naked through the town centre. We try to pretend that he isn't a part of us, but he insists on group...

J -Things

things are not as you left them...

Just Dust

Leaving today you have not won Your prize sits writing goodbye And as a consolation you tell yourself You are free And that it's over And if that's...

K - Blessed Scandal

What do you do? What can you say? You never meant To end this way You never meant To drink at all And now he's Never gonna call Things will never be...

Last Day

trying to eat my own head from the inside outwards
Gold cherry

Last Night

A numb feeling comes over me As he shouts in my face

Love

no one chooses who they fall for...

Lunatics

Shining moon Who squeezes through The gap in the curtains Of my lover's window And draws softly across His face in shimmering Crystal blue Don't wake...

Meaningless

What have I drawn?

Morning Sun

The morning after the night before
Cherry

N - I can't do this

unfinished story - still waiting myself to see what happens...

Non-Room

I sit on a tattered, black stool, Clinging to your voice, Encased within a clumsy Plastic earpiece Heavy with the smell of other People's sweat. I...

Nonsense

I'm not just telling you this because I love you
Cherry

O - I thought I was over you

I thought I was over you I haven't seen you for more than two weeks I told myself I had moved on It was all ok Things were finally becoming normal...

Piranha

As soon as you sleep with a man That's it. They loose respect for you. You are no longer magical, Mysterious, challenging. You are a shag. A cunt...

Promises

The end of love is very much like the end of school, full of promises to keep in touch and stay friends which you both know will never happen.
Cherry

q - cured of love

I'm twenty-three and I'm done with it.
Cherry

R - Birthday Story

Alex had started his twenty-first birthday party at six. He was by half past eight, drunkenly dancing to 'Come on Eileen' with a fat middle-aged aunt...

Rut

Like cancerous smoke You fill my lungs And sting my eyes The tar of you sticks To my insides Twist your way around the room Penetrate conversations...

Salt...Pass The Salt

You turn around to tell me Then you remember I am gone I'm where you left me In the past On the sole of your Well-worn shoe You can't scrape me off...

Singing

You sat next to me with practised easiness and i realised as i sang that you too were singing connected by the tune sharing lyrics, meanings I wanted...

Take Me Home

Take me home Take off my clothes That's what you want I suppose Then take a good look Look at me Look and tell me What you see You'll see I'm jaded,...

The Death of Love

He took a sword to love Smiled as he carved her like a Sunday roast Thin slices that were fed to the dogs of lust And then afterwards he felt hungry...

The Light is Dawning

I'm not happy But I say That I feel It's all ok. I lie and smile And feel upset I asked you if You love me yet. You said it took More time for you To...

u - Last Look

We keep drinking. We keep wishing things were different.

Unfinished - I Give In

I give in. I give up. I gave you everything you wanted; time, space, affection, and understanding. You have smeared them with your arrogance and...

v - moment

Moment There he was Ever the same As before But changed Because I am no longer A part of him And he is different Clean-shaven for once And slimmer...

v - Some Text Missing

*some text missing*

We Used To Come Here Once

This is the place we used to go to set our transient minds at ease and relieve our fidgety boredom brought on by insipid winter days. This is the...

x - Smug Married

I'm sure someone will come along soon

X - times new roman kisses

better than nothing

You can't give me what I want

You can't give me what I want And I know that I know that I can never be Anything more to you Than this I am nothing more than this feeling Of...

You Did

My hand in your hand, a forbidden act...

Z - I am troubled immeasurably by your eyes...

I love you for your love of life Your quirky take offs (promises, promises) impromptu songs in the club style the days after curry nights out how...