samuellouis

[samuellouis]

A concrete barrier,

A riverbed,

Something to speed up,

And dip into.

--- streetlights

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[samuellouis]

You're a loop that constantly rotates in my mind,

Memories I wish didn't linger and stay,

Hoping that these corners of photographs embers,

In a projector burning itself away.

--- Captured

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[samuellouis]

[samuellouis]

Sometimes I engulf parts of you,

And I start to cough and spit,

Try to keep this feeling out of my throat,

But my guilt wants to drink the ocean,

And keep the memory of you,

Whole.

--- La Douleur Exquise

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[samuellouis]

Ashes that flow through the midnight,

The moon that colour in the bruises,

I don't want you to leave,

But like the hills,

You will depart into the sea.

--- guilt

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[samuellouis]

[samuellouis]

And in the end,

The love I planted,

Only hate subdued.

--- Wilt

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[samuellouis]

Tying balloons to skipping stones,

Hoping to find you one day,

But like your fear,

I'm afraid of the sound,

And this heart will ache.

--- Ripple

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[samuellouis]

[samuellouis]

I use play on words when I speak of you,

Because your name drags down my chest,

Overused like a hiking trail path,

A scenery worth the deep breaths,

And I'm left speechless.

- I miss her

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[samuellouis]

I always found myself diving in suicide.

In a ocean so vast, I feel myself drifting.

Confused, because I've never learnt to swim.

I realized I was sinking.

I'm not sure which way is up, there's no light to guide me.

There's just a few minutes of peace as I lie.

Watching the bubbles go up and become engulfed in such darkness.

I guess the air on the surface felt insane on my mind.

I just wanted this last drink to swallow me.

--- Absquatulate

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[samuellouis]

[samuellouis]

I paint you with the moonlight,

Finding our words on the pallet,

All these nicknames made my fingers cramp,

And my wrist sore,

Maybe it was the pronunciations that kept me going,

A syllable at a time.

And I always say your name to others,

Because I miss saying it to you.

--- portrait

[samuellouis]

I held your hair back,

Clenched a neck so fragile,

Like so many others,

But I held yours harder,

I wanted you harder,

Pressed against walls,

Pushing and sweat,

Legs trembling,

Stop,

Sit,

And let me suffocate in this,

--- maroon

[samuellouis]

[samuellouis]

My eyes are not brown,

They're the colour of tragedy,

Branded with sin,

And dessicate within bodies.

You told me you could see a tinge of green,

And reminded me of what I've planted,

Who I have been.

--- no man's land

[samuellouis]

I paint my hands with the embers of every apology,

Chopping wood to build more fire pits,

Staring in old flames,

Try to cauterize my fingers from the skin I've touched,

This mind can't recognise the placebo,

I know their fingerprints.

It's traced into my pain.

--- Solar flares