The Ways

[groove]

Some of you used to be pretty
way back in the day
and her fingers used to graze the skin
before you took them
and flung them

and wrapped the bones too tight
for them to feel
like they could touch your world
or plaster the hair
from your face
to her head

We'll be gone to be beautiful
we'll be gone to be dead
I'll be holding your hand
you'll be holding

my heart in your fingers and
you will smoke your cigarettes
trying hard not to forget

that I am the one
you came for.

See,
I am reading all his poetry
those words you never spoke
to me, it didn't matter anyway
I hate to hear this guitar
play the songs that you wrote

for her
on the back of napkins
paper things, the photographs,
the history of human beings and

milkshakes, left to run
dry on the table, when you left
my side to hold the door
for someone else

they'll be gone to be perfect
they'll be gone off to bed
he will be holding her heart
she will be holding

her head in her hands
and the voice from the victrola
tattooed on her skin screams

"I never know just where to begin."

[andr70]

That sounds a bit unusual to me,many feelings and emotions involved...
i liked that, thanks

[henrinaiara]

great poem there groove.. i really like your writing skill... you've got talent there bro... keep it up

[lagym888]

This is great.! You could be a song writer you know.??

[alyssamerwin]

Very unique and different, that takes a lot of talent!

[louisgeorge]

Your words written here ring true in so many ways we cannot count ..just fabulous ..

[gedeon]

Great piece of poetry! That might sound funny for the author, but it definately has the groove)