The rush I feel is hyper-light travel
Any part of you is my chapel
I’d take you whole or as a sample
The lips on you make me gravel
And I’m hungry for the words you babel
© Delia Ross. 2019
Everything about him makes me superluminal, like BANG. I’ve never known hunger like this before.
He has heaven in his eyes but he will show you the abyss
You can call him by his name though he may not answer by it
For he is blind to his reflection and unaware of his own existence
But I would recognize him anywhere, in any mask, for he is hard to miss
He has iron in his touch and heavy is the one to hold the fist
Building foundations of regret from the lips of a poet
And softly does he roam all the roads of my heart and spirit
© Delia Ross. 2019
I pull fragments of my dreams out of my center
I carefully knead them with love until they are tender
I tie them with hope and a sign that spells ENTER
They are filled with sweet nothings to get you through winter
So off with the wind, I have to send you my love dear
And if you can imagine, it’s just like I’m whispering in your ear
I stand on my tippy-toes so I make sure you can hear me clear
Then I gently kiss your lips and remind you there’s nothing to fear
© Delia Ross. 2019
I sail through life on my own
It helps when feeling alone –
To remember we both see the same Moon
Then my loneliness fades to about a teaspoon
My loneliness clumps into bands of dark matter, my heart swelling like a balloon, my molecules ripping and stretching into oblivion, for her shadow is like dark energy, and selfish is the darkness she needs.
If not real, give me fake
Bleed me good, nest in my ache
How can I move on when my heart is where he is.
Untangle the worry
Braid the hope
Insert the key
Climb his rope
I know I’m not her and I know I’ll never be
It still makes me wonder if you ever think about me
The space between us
The distance to Venus
The orbits of loss
Our love was a near miss
I still feel the ripple
It hit me like triple
A vortex of riddle
But our love is simple
Her love comes with maggots
But still he’ll have it
He wants to own it all, without conquering
He doesn’t want me for himself, or anybody else
He doesn’t want me in the arms of another king
He wants to own my heart and not give me a thing
I don’t see how this plan is fair for me
You sit there feasting while I am starving
All the paths I take lead into a different darkness of you
And every skin you shed leaves a different kind of clue
Put on the blind, if you want to take the ride, he demanded
Into a field of doom, I glided
We are born into this world and given a number and if you’re lucky you’ll get a good mother
I’m sorry but life is just so tough and when it comes to love there isn’t enough
My love, my will is infinite
These roads were paved for the misfit
These hands were made to capture it
These feet march on and never quit
My soul for you is completely naked
Under your mirror I will submit
By your side I will commit
With your love I can exist
© Delia Ross. 2019
There’s more but I just can’t bear it…
Deeper deeper deeper, she said
Beware, there’s demons everywhere
In the underworld, keep your eyes ahead
Once you go, don’t look back, or I’m dead
And the pain will never stop circling
Your life will always be full of dread
Keep your eyes on the prize instead
Or Hades will keep me prisoner by his bed
Don’t look back, cuz you won’t find me there
© Delia Ross. 2019
I wrote this a while back but never thought it good enough to share…
I am a bit like a supernova when he looks at me
My mass becomes unstable and I start ejecting
My knees become weak while my soul brightly shining
Every particle is lit up for my king –
15 solar masses all at once firing
© Delia Ross. 2019
How do you awake someone to their destiny
I know I slip-up but he’ll always get the best of me
And when I foul, I’ll accept my penalty
And if you wonder how much I fuck up, well, that’s an endless sea
And it when it comes to loving me, the best I can hope for is, ‘eventually’
I trust that love and patience, is the right recipe
© Delia Ross. 2019
Always faithful to the departed
So much fear we have guarded
How do we stop it
Dearly discarded
I know you’re not heartless
Don’t come at me halfhearted
At least finish what you started –
And I’ll weaken you where you hardened
I’ll show you what’s awarded
Once everything gets sorted
© Delia Ross. 2019
He gnawed on my soul until all that was left was a core of longing. And the seeds within were filled with his haunting. And like an apple being pulled by his gravity, I kept falling. He will take bites without ever warning.
© Delia Ross. 2019
I wish it was this galaxy but his desire is far from me. Take my love and tie it to a tether, throw it in the eternal, because I’ll love you forever.
© Delia Ross. 2019
Ravage me with a hundred different kisses
Point your love at me so it never misses
Touch me, so I may grant your deepest wishes
Come on baby, give me all of your inches
© Delia Ross. 2019
I could run along the meadows where I’m wild and free
I could run into the ages until he’s tired of watching me
I can erase all the shadows where the light can never reach
I can remove all the lessons that he ever failed to teach
I should grow a tongue that has better speech
I would dance away the loneliness with every aching hour
I would step with hope and fill him with a love that gives him power
I will let him trample over me collecting each wildflower
I will let him pull the weeds from me that make me feel a coward
I am growing every second where I feel his light encounter
© Delia Ross. 2019
Oh dear gates of sorrow, pass me through!
I bow and give it all to you
My remorse is as full as the Moon
The way it shines, I shine for you too
Because your light still reaches truth
And when it comes to loving you
It can never be too soon
Oh my longing is as warm as the Sun!
And when it reaches me, I come undone
The way he teaches me, as if I’m the only one
And if ever facing regret, there isn’t none
And when it comes to life, you make me burn
And if I see your eyes, my own brighten
If you change your mind, I’m never done
© Delia Ross. 2019
Sometimes he’s like a bull, he can only see the red
And he cannot form a thought, when it’s her that’s in his head
And he cannot figure out, how to remove the friend that’s in his bed
And I swear she’s so devout, she won’t give him any space to tred
© Delia Ross. 2019
He says I’m just a game and poison with an anchor
He beats around the bush and never gives an answer
He claims I’m a fairytale or worse just a cancer
I never was his muse and I fill them both with laughter
So I do my best to ease the bruise and respond with some candor
© Delia Ross. 2019
He pushed me to lands that were unknown inside me
Mountains evolved from my limbs that were binding
Heart was renewed by the hand that was guiding
Tongue was replenished with warmth that was hiding
Vision was given to eyes that were unseen
Life had been missing since I was just a teen
Now as I stand with a purpose and a dream
Although just a peasant he treats me as a queen
© Delia Ross. 2019
Well there it is, the color of truth
It matches all the hues of you
You evoke in me the spirit of youth
And shadows dance amongst you too
Wherever you smile an enemy withdrew
Flower power any hour in your avenue
© Delia Ross. 2019
He speaks to me through his pen
He’s much better at it than I’ve ever been
I am so lost without him
Don’t wanna feel again
Don’t want love from other men
Just need answers of why and when
If I can’t be number 1, can I be ten?
Is there no place for me then?
© Delia Ross. 2019
Do you ever regret building my wall?
Do you ever feel anything at all?
Are you even aware of what you lost?
Can you feel the weight of its cost?
Are you proud of the pain you caused?
The red flags raised and lines you crossed?
The bridges burned, the lies you craft
Did you all, have a good laugh?
I gave you love, you fed me wrath
I still dwell in the aftermath
© Delia Ross. 2019
It looks like he picked her up from the bottom of the sea
Her flaming hair so course it could be used as a net
He says he’s free yet takes a knee
And kisses her like she’s Juliet
She sounds as though a broken record
And he licks her like a honeybee
Around her web he spins his chord
While she pretends that she is me
She acts as though she is reward
For someone less worthy
She’s not the only one adored
And she is far from holy
© Delia Ross. 2019
I love without consent
Real freedom as intent
True love as it’s meant
Never with resent
They see me without worth
Or maybe something worse
Yet still it’s love I birth
And free to all on Earth
I love without return
In peace and rarely scorn
A fire that will not burn
And every direction turned
© Delia Ross. 2019
Higher than the mountains he is
Taller than New York
Deeper than the ocean he brings
A light to pave the dark
Round and round a spiral he springs
Making love his watermark
The road he paves was left for kings
As the spirit of the patriarch
Galaxies form from the words he sings
It’s a journey I will embark
He has the power to spread my wings
And he did it from the start
© Delia Ross. 2019
I won’t be coming back from where I’ve been before
Walking over broken souls of the condemned
Offering forgiveness and guidance for all the things they did
Offering love and silence with an open door
But now my door is sealed
And my heart from you has shield
I removed the things you killed
And my love you will never wield
© Delia Ross. 2019
If you’re wondering where I went
Just look to where you are
Every hour spent
You can find me in your heart
The further you descent
The longer that I fall
But baby if we’re meant
I will answer when you call
© Delia Ross. 2019
I feel his smile like a dream I cannot recall
Or if I’ve ever even felt at all
For in his smile I am growing tall
In every instance I break down my wall
My step is softer and I touch with grace
And though I falter he still holds my place
And if I’m near he’ll slow down his pace
Months go by and he still knows my face
© Delia Ross. 2019
I did a reading of this on the app Tuners under my pen name POEETERNAL
Mountains of misery disappear
When he draws near
Happiness is a new frontier
Deserts are flooded into an ocean
There rising in the flood is my devotion
In every direction I feel emotion
Waves of joy as his magic potion
Softer now becomes the shore
A smile is always his best decor
He always leaves you wanting more
He fixes what is broken in your core
© Delia Ross. 2019
Every now and then I see him
Like an eclipse in the sky, so rare
His eyes are an endless ocean to swim
And I feel him everywhere
His darkness shines so bright
Never filling me with fright
My love crashed him like a meteorite
And now the stars are filled with light
I feel him like a volcano
His poetry gave me my halo
Inside me swirls a tornado
My desire and love his credo
© Delia Ross. 2019
Truth came hard like thunder, the sky opened her eyes, flush with rage, she whipped across the night, striking melodies of discord, a witness to betrayal, an immediate downpour of reason, she licks blood from the spear of doubt, her shout echoes into the distant memory of what was, what ever could be, lies dance in ballerina shoes into neverland, but truth comes hard like thunder. I open my gates to her fury, for she is my sister and cry together we did.
© Delia Ross. 2019
It creeps upon me like a thick fog surrounding every ache and agony with despair and fear covering me in a blanket of dirt twice as deep as my death.
© Delia Ross. 2019
You make me feel like all the black emptiness of space. Infinitely nothing. Gone, without a trace. Vanished into oblivion. Banished without face.
© Delia Ross. 2019
He smiles and my dark galaxy lights up like little fireflies glowing in the night sky
© Delia Ross. 2019
I feel him wash over me like a warm, sticky glue
The depths his magic can reach is unknown magnitude
Though my love for him continues to reach new altitude
His name in my soul now a permanent tattoo
And you can’t break what’s bulletproof
© Delia Ross. 2019
He wears flowers around his wrist
And flowing locks that are in a twist
With my attention in his grip
And rosy cheeks now in his mist
He has a touch of thunder in his fist
For what he touches turns out kissed
And it’s only love flowing from his lip
And every smile is an eclipse
© Delia Ross. 2019
You were my knight
And all I ever wanted
Not the words that you write
Which leave me feeling haunted
© Delia Ross. 2019
He laps her like a loyal dog chained by the guardian of hell, her purgatory – his territory
He kissed me and the Earth started to spin…
You could have just loved me the way that I deserved.
I shriveled up and died of unimportance, in case you hadn’t noticed…
Nothing I love ever makes it home.
Love. Love. What love?
It fits more like a tourniquet
I don’t want any part of it
My eyes met his eyes which awakened parts of my spirit unknowingly sleeping and even now my pulse dances anew…
He looked deeply into my eyes and said he wanted to make love to my sorrow –
So that the eyes looking back would look forward to tomorrow
She tied the anchor to my foot and pushed me off the plank while yelling, “at least you got some good poetry out of it…”
His smile made me whole. His love is a lighthouse in a dark galaxy.
© Delia Ross. 2019
You gave me the very best of you
But nothing changed the need
You saved the very worst of you
For another seed
The one hanging over you
Filled with so much greed
I just wanted you to know
Your absence makes me bleed
And no matter how far you go
Your love is still my creed
© Delia Ross. 2019
I need your approval
The same way a boat requires a shore
No other hand more crucial
Than the one that I adore
Your words a symphony of music
That hit my very core
Your love so very translucent
It makes me love you more
© Delia Ross. 2019
His smile, like a garden rises up in me, planting seeds of love and blooms of sweet joy thick as nectar for the goddess in a womb…
© Delia Ross. 2019
There it lies, my apologies
Floating in a sea of tears
They collide and form
Into giant colonies
Washing away pride
Without applause or cheers
His walls raise with authority
As I pound on his door
Hints of a new policy
For the heartless to join his corps
© Delia Ross. 2019
Claims he loves me but keeps punching in my heart
Says he knows me but leaves me in the dark
Says I’m only but gives her all his art
Holds her tightly as they watch me fall apart
© Delia Ross. 2019
I set sail for islands made of hope banded together by the echoes of his voice guiding me like starlight.
© Delia Ross. 2019
The cold, deep darkness of space still could not fill the void you make me feel. A vast expansion of nothing.
© Delia Ross. 2019
Like a sword, he draws his words with such aim and accuracy, I feel the cold blade of reason pierce my identity.
© Delia Ross. 2019
Her tears slip from heaven
Soft and smooth as satin
From a vacant cloud
With a silken shroud
Full of sorrow in its possession
Sunshine is now in recession
Cold winds of knowing
An angel upon sorrowing
The truth makes the rest a lie
Consequences rage and ramify
Tears as heavy as hail
As they fall, they impale
© Delia Ross. 2019
© Delia Ross. 2019
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He does not exist anywhere except for on this page
And in a downward spiral my sadness turns to rage
The crowd keeps applauding though we both have left the stage
And if I ever mattered is now difficult to gauge
Will my heart always remain behind a cage?
That’s a bet for losing and I haven’t any wage
I’d ask him for forgiveness but I never act my age
I’d ask him for a hand but I know he won’t engage
© Delia Ross. 2019
It’s not enough that I am sadly. I camp inside the thick blanket of sorrow watching joy trickle like a slow leaking faucet…
© Delia Ross. 2019
© Delia Ross. 2019
© Delia Ross. 2019
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