Day 13, Word: Toxic
The allure itself is the poison.Not the fact that I drank it, but that I wanted to.Wanted there to never be another who loved me more than you.
Day 12, Word: Nonchalance
We trade in nonchalants and silent screams.The inner child and our inner demons.The ego and the id, say too much.But never enough for the both of us.
Day 11, Word: Harmony
I used to think we were one, you and I
That we loved with the light of the sun, you and I.
Well we certainly burned,
Day 10, Word: Copacetic
Day 9, Word: Cheat
It was all a game.
You asked me to show myself. I asked the same..
I am more than a substance
For you to intoxicate yourself on to the point of numbness.
Day 8, Word: Worth
Universe, do your worst.
I know exactly what I am worth.
I know all the broken pieces of my heart.
A love lost had no true start.
Laura Priscilla I love when I am reading your work and feel a rhyme happen but have no idea what it rhymed with before. Just my heart knows something clicked into rhymed resolution. It just flows. I hit “again” and had to think what it rhymed with.. So I read it again. “Orphaned” nice. So many surprising rhymes in your style. Cohesive but broken at the same time
Day 7, Word: Free
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,A body gently swinging with the breeze in the night…
Day 6, Word: Velvet
Oh, wrap me in your velvet wordsAnd drape the walls in silk.I have thirsted for a thousand livesTo drown in this buttermilk.