“There have been times love has made my human Instincts into animal ones. Once in a dark lit bar, my love said my poems were shit And I, in the light of the candles, Pushed a sword into myself and fell over a cliff Into a neverending ocean. Once a man 5 years my younger Loved me and then gave me up. I raged around him like a bear. I once cheated on a new boyfriend with an old boyfriend. I cheated on an old boyfriend with a new one. Love has the ability to make the world kind, The specifics of one man always blends into another And turns back into my mother’s kisses on my cheek. It is I who loves, but it is in turn The world that loves me back. The world loves And I love back, the specifics of it Once in tune. Once we kissed and I was Mesmerized by the blondness of his cheek With the light on it and the sweet smell of the earth. But still the light on the cheek is the desert lizards Who will eat us in the afterworld and in the light of the moon There is the exhaust of love falling over everything' — In Order to Penetrate Character One Must Have Great Piety”
Quote by Dorothea Lasky
Book:Awe
Work
Author
You May Also Like
Source: Rome: Poems
Source: Rome: Poems
“Because poetry reminds you That there is no dignity In living You just muddle through and for what”
Source: Rome: Poems
“They took the red string which bound me to you They sank it in the center of the ocean”
Source: Rome: Poems
Source: One Day
“Am I going to die and all I will have are these fucking poems”
Source: Rome: Poems
“But what if I don't like anything as much as I pretend to”
Source: Rome: Poems
“In the deepest part I still loved him Had gone with him To the blazing star lodge”
Source: Rome: Poems
“I will fill the poems with great pain”
Source: Rome: Poems
“Thought Moves you past these lines Into conversation With the undead”
Source: Rome: Poems
