His smile sets off in me like fireworks
Or church bells tolling
And his tongue is so diverse
He gets my blood fully boiling
© Delia Ross. 2019
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Braille
His lips are a boat, perhaps a sail
A perfect note, wind to inhale
A float of hope, love felt in braille
Words to evoke, dreams to unveil
© Delia Ross. 2019
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I See
You look
And what do you see but a man
I see iron and will
Miracle and moon
Heaven and wonder
© Delia Ross. 2019
The Reason
He’s the bloom that comes with the Sun
He’s the thread holding you from coming undone
Like satin slipping off the thumb
He’s the reason the war was won
© Delia Ross. 2019
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Undertow
I just want him to know
I’m trying to let go
Of a sinking boat
And avoid undertow
Drowning seems to be the only solution
Love doesn’t want to die though
So it tries a different form
It tries to love a different way
It gets lost in a storm
Still it loves another day
But like a shark missing its fin
Sinking down, it still can’t swim
When defeat becomes a win
Disillusionment becomes him
I tried to love you as a friend
I tried to love you as an enemy
I tried to love with eyes that couldn’t see
I tried to love the end
I still can’t pretend
That I can love you any other way
And so my heart I defend
The things you always fail to say
© Delia Ross. 2019
I’m trying to love him in a way that it won’t hurt… (just a freestyle from my heart to him)
Worthless
What am I but a dollar for his bank
What am I but nickel and copper
Spit on me and clean me up
A penny is not a dollar
What am I but quarter and migraine
Polished silver for the poor
Wish on me, then toss me over
The rich horde it all but still want more
© Delia Ross. 2019
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God’s Painting You
God’s drawing a painting and it’s you before my eyes
He brushes strokes of genius when he put gems as your eyes
Your lips are painted like crimson roses and blue are your skies
He paints your smile as if a cloud for an angel to reside
Your height reaches the steps to heaven and your feet are the guide
Hands created from a marble mountain to lift others to rise
Your body an instrument of love and truth is by your side
He painted you the voice of reason, like a tree of life, so wise
I crawl upon your teachings like a grape upon a vine
© Delia Ross. 2019
Okay, initially I freestyle wrote this as a non-rhyme, but then tweeked it into a rhyme because he’s worth it. I really couldn’t get around the double word in the first 2 lines, so they remained untouched and as is. They were the basis for the entire poem. He’s my muse so he is a prompt. Like, just the mere sight of him. But then you should listen to the things he will say, or how his body will move. And I’ve lived all over the world, seen all kinds of boys, but none like him. He’s a miracle. Anyhoo, it’s just a poem, don’t freak out, I’m just writing what I see. He’s a lighthouse in the dark. I wanna focus on the light. It’s now after 4 AM. Another “after midnight poetry series”, I should make that a thing.
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What It Takes
She’s part lightning and part thunder
She’s the muse to make you wonder
She’s the open field you wander
She’s the kiss to make you hunger
She’s the truth you seek but fear to face
And the purity you long to taste
She’s the hand that knows how to heal an ache
And she’d give it all if that’s what it takes
She’s the rainbow you see after a storm
The energy of a star to help you keep warm
She’s the honey and hive where the bees always swarm
Yet you are the reason her smile can take form
© Delia Ross. 2019
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Crucifixion
If given chance, I’d be the one to put the spear into her side
Make her feel the weight of everyone she crucified
Put poison from the sponge onto her tongue because she lied
Never trust someone who has a devil as her guide
© Delia Ross. 2019
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Mixed Up
Block unblock block unblock
I can’t figure it out
Got the devil controlling my right hand
And this angel is full of doubt
Follow leave follow leave
I have lost direction
The devil keeps pointing at you
And you’re the object of obsession
Today I care but tomorrow I won’t
But give it another day
Whatever it is my heart is thinking
The devil’s got something to say
Whatever this spell he has me under
I can’t go away
But if he really hated me
He would have blocked me yesterday
© Delia Ross. 2019
All this blocking and unblocking I do, follow and unfollow routine, but he’s never once done those things to me. CUZ HE LOVES ME AND IT DRIVES ME INSANE. THUS POEM ABOVE. I’m sure he’d like me to be on Mars already but he needs to fuck me first. Sorry not sorry. Still loves him.
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The Color Of Sad
She paints her face with sorrow
Showing worry lines for tomorrow
Her lips are the color of sad
Unkissed cheeks from love she never had
Her skin taste of salt
Where her joy came to a halt
And her hand is free from fault
And it’s love she’s never taught
Her hair is made of darkness
Her heart is now a carcass
Her voice has fell to silence
And her mind is full of violence
Trouble burrowed in her mind
And she’s running out of time
If it’s love she cannot find
Her soul will be an endless decline
© Delia Ross. 2019
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Christmas Mourning
All alone on another Eve
Does it matter if I’m well or sickly?
Loneliness is eating through my soul like a disease
I wash it down with eggnog and whiskey
I’ll be lucky if I make it to fifty
I feel so exposed yet empty
On and on my tears will stream
I feel it all yet feel nothing
My purpose is few and far between
Climbed through his window, it’s getting darker it seems
Fighting for more than jewellery for the queens
Lost somewhere between nightmare and a dream
Is this purgatory?
For the living?
Monsters keep following me
I feed them honey
It came, it saw, it went
All my energy is spent
And I’m drowning in debt
With the economic collapse, I slipped
I’m such a catch you bet
Haven’t met my enemy yet
His name is death
I’m sorry you feel I am not worthy
Of anything
A lesson of, “I too agree”
But please keep laughing….
Let me take a knee…
You are the king
Of the filthy
Let me kiss your ring
I’M BOWING
YOU ARE WINNING
Don’t visit me at the cemetery
Where I’m going…
I mean, you already killed me
His words hit like an EMP
A shock wave rushing over me
Unwrapping tears under the tree
Fears this Christmas eve
Rain and invisibility
The very essence of me
© Delia Ross. 2019
Web of Shadows
The light cast a web of shadows and doubt
Losing time trying to figure it out
Forging through worry with rarely a shout
Aging like oak and bitter like stout
Hardened inside with lines showing drought
Incomplete circles with no love about
Roots growing weaker with every new route
Clinging to hate though loving devout
Feeling so lonely while lost in a crowd
Busting down rules where I’m not allowed
Wishing for once I hadn’t figured it out
The trouble with eyes they come with a mouth
The problem with fate it comes with a vow
I’d gift forgiveness but I don’t know how
I’d run today but I am still bound
You’d look away but you’re still around
Looking in others what we already found
Feeling uneasy but knowing not what to do now
© Delia Ross. 2019
His Laughter
Hearing his laughter is like an avalanche of joy crashing into my soul
Boulders of despair crumble into the great wide unknown
And for a moment, if I dare, I call this broken rumble home
Wide open spaces on our faces made for places where sadness can atone
His laughter is like God ringing the dinner bell
Depression lifted like a veil
A voice from heaven reaching me in hell
The very reason for happiness as far as I can tell
© Delia Ross. 2019
Hearing him laugh is a great anti-depressant. His happiness is my throne. I’d climb the highest mountain to hear it, if only but for a moment. Is there anyone you love to hear laugh? I freestyle wrote this at 3 am while the world was sleeping cuz I heard a thing with him laugh & like poem erupted so. I love to hear him laugh if that was somehow unclear. 😄
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Numb
If you climb the mountain of despair
I will greet you there
For my home is made of sorrow
And it’s found everywhere
No purpose for tomorrow
Here there’s little air
Watch him praying to the sparrow
Well, I still don’t care
Top, bottom, or in between
It’s the still same routine
Kiss them now or never
Been numb since I was fifteen
Blinded or with sight
Still can’t feel anything
With cure or a poison
There is no vaccine
© Delia Ross. 2019
Sorrow
She hides her face
So the dark can’t see her pain
She needs embrace
But the tears come with the rain
She fell from grace
So they call her insane
Lost to a rigged race
Her heart was cheaply slain
By a monster who disappeared without a trace
And he’s not worth a name
© Delia Ross. 2019
Everything fucking hurts…
He Never Cared
Another year alone on this road I go
And why he never cared
I may never know
Eyes that often stared
No space for hearts to grow
Every moment shared
A price that I still owe
My soul forever impaired
Just want love to flow
© Delia Ross. 2019
You know, I still cry over the fact that he never even wished me a happy birthday this year and it was the only thing I even wanted. But I watch him tell other girls happy birthday. He makes me feel small and insignificant. He always does, he always has. As if he were born to make me regret ever being born. Crying now but whatever. As long as he sleeps at night, right?
Dead
If I appear to not have a heart
I guess it’s probably true
And if you stick around long enough
I’ll likely prove it to you
If you reach for my hand and it’s cold
There’s nothing you can do
I don’t want a connection with anyone
So find another to pursue
© Delia Ross. 2019
Ash
Whatever’s burning is ash
Smoldering versions of failure
Suits wearing a different behavior
But they all smell of traitor
Take a heart and stir it up
It never really mattered much
The bigger the fish, the bigger the bite
The brighter the truth, the lesser the sight
Whatever’s burning is trash
Lying, denying, the awful mistakes
The crying, the trying, the hope that it takes
Love was caught speeding, so I turned on the brakes
Take the flesh and deny it touch
Love was never here to adjudge
Free the sin, accuse the judge
Broken and shattered watch them begrudge
© Delia Ross. 2019
Y’all got to let shit go and stop chasing your tail and making the same mistakes over and over and over.
Delusional
He loves you as a friend but you want to go deeper
You know it is the end and you think he is a keeper
© Delia Ross. 2019
Awe y’all she blocked me on Instagram bless. I know truth hurts.
Addiction
He built me tall like a cathedral
I stuck his poetry in me like a needle
Never caring if it was lethal
One’s not enough, give me a prologue and a sequel
And though he took me high I felt like his equal
For a moment he made me feel like I was his people
But he ditched me for something more evil
© Delia Ross. 2019
He once made me feel I was his angel… now I feel no more
Traces
He traces over my body
Exploring every freckle like it’s a galaxy
He speaks in mountains of sighs
He travels through my valley’s
Through my depressions and my highs
He lingers near the alley of my thighs
He catches every heartbeat when he looks into my eye
And gentle is the hand that never says goodbye
© Delia Ross. 2019
He once traced me in poetry, now it is only in dream…
Emotional Blackmail
Emotional blackmail is what she has for sale
Trying to trap his love because she’s not feeling well
I warned him before she is a demon sent from hell
With flaming red hair and a soppy story to tell
© Delia Ross. 2019
Praying he makes future better choices, & she needs to let go. Trying to trap him because she is sick is EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL.
Red
Struggling to put words on the page
Trying to keep the ink from turning red
Difficult finding solitude while I age
Wishing he’d free me from this dread
Difficult finding strength just to engage
Pacing around in circles since he fled
Cannot find my freedom in a cage
Does he understand a word I said
Love is free, it shouldn’t cost a wage
But like a war it turned into bloodshed
As if a play he exited from the stage
And where he goes an angel cannot tread
He avoids the truth like it is a plague
And his thoughts of me he can never shed
Just a gust of wind is all I need to enrage
Already mending pieces where I lost my head
© Delia Ross. 2019
I did a soft reading of this on my Tuners account (free to listen, no download needed. Great app by Alex Ebert, free app to use too): https://tuners.io/tracks/13799
300 Days
I’ve never hurt like this before
And I have hurt a hundred different ways
Deserted near his open shore
And I have lost 300 days
Darkness now my only oar
And so I sail his hopeless maze
Hoping there is something more
And a chance to catch his rays
© Delia Ross. 2019
The Shape of You
The shape of you
Appears in a dream
Like a butterfly of hope
Encasing over me
Like the colors of a rainbow
Love flows in through a stream
And nightmares of us ending
Break away at the seam
Pictures of us together
Paint a different theme
© Delia Ross. 2019
The Way Forward
The way forward is forgiveness not revenge
The way to forgiveness takes walking on your feet
To stir stagnant waters growing underneath
You need truth in your amends
Stuck in the rut so now you build a trench
But nothing in your life you ever do enrich
What is behind the mask that you defend
A worthless man (whom none can depend)
An end to the suffering and all you demise
The pain you inflict with only blue eyes
So quick on the tongue to startle and avenge
There’s no safety in pretends
The love now cold where once was a furnace
A love so sure now not so certain
Just another sheeple behind a dirty curtain
Well, you’re just like the others who never grow from learning
Negative energy you build like a wall
Fire the gun but then you stall
Say you can love but you haven’t at all
Maybe you’re standing but you’re not very tall
The way forward is forgiveness not revenge
And maybe if you ask you’ll get it in the end
So stop building your defense
There are many you need to transcend
© Delia Ross. 2019
Veil
Go ahead and take what is remaining
Place a temple where the love is waning
Years go by but only pain is gaining
You’ll never find a love like mine remaining
Take her veil and throw it in a river
Loving her takes more than a mirror
Even blind you cannot see more clearer
Look away even though you need her
© Delia Ross. 2019
One Hundred Million Miles
There must be one hundred million miles of dreams inside him
There must be one hundred million miles of heaven beside him
Such depths are his oceans I beg to swim in
Both light and dark a great nebula still forming
There must be a hundred million reasons I can love him
© Delia Ross. 2019
Shadow
The wind blows through with piercing cold sorrow
The challenge is finding a purpose for tomorrow
His lies burrow deep into a heart now hollow
I once was his light but now I’m just his shadow
© Delia Ross. 2019
Tension
Out there on the horizon
A glimpse of redemption
While crawling over ice thinning
And tethers strained from the tension
As the distance slowly lengthens
Where the darkness comes to listen
Reflections rarely glisten
Just a sight of mostly deception
And fragile connections
No regrets for him I’m guessing
And I failed another lesson
Thinking love was a blessing
Not another interception
Not a secret obsession
Gifting only depression
His attention another direction
I get no affection
Not even a chance for selection
Just a ghost in another dimension
And my hate for him I’ll mention
Over and over in confession
With or without aggression
I’m at peace in this session
Writing bygones and rejection
What again was the question?
If shame were a crime, you reached perfection
Now go focus on another erection
And you better get tested for infection
Because you’ll stick it wherever there is exception
How much pussy is in your collection?
Disgusting vile worthless tool with zero potential
© Delia Ross. 2019
Rage
Reality came crashing down
And hit like a rogue wave
Promises like broken glass
Which sliver over rage
Life jackets unable to float
But still promising to save
Regret now a sinking ship
An apology is what I crave
Memories flood about
Like a visit to your grave
And earlier shall it now arrive
If you don’t learn to behave
Standing on his virtual plank
Tied and bound just like a slave
Recording every cry and slip
A down ending requires the brave
He might peek but never look
And your sorrow is an all-night rave
He may pretend that he is shook
But he’s the one that will deprave
Where clouds are as thick as doubt
And forgiveness you never gave
Where time is as thin as worry
And love it never came
© Delia Ross. 2019
Last
Ain’t no use standing on the ledge
Ain’t no use living on the edge
Ain’t no use deciding what went wrong
Ain’t no use crying all night long
Ain’t no use denying what was said
Ain’t no use pretending that we’re dead
Seven days, seven broken seals
Seven bottles, seven ways to feel
Seven hands but never any deals
So many hours, nothing helps to heal
Unanswered prayers left me where I kneel
So many arrows but none of them have the kill
Prayers just to get me through the pain
I’d give it all up for just another day
Darkness now engulfs my only view
I can’t accept that our time is through
Throw my troubles far into the past
Give myself a break from coming last
© Delia Ross. 2019
That Girl
Back to where I started
Love evacuates for the broken hearted
Now assembling all the shattered pieces
Fuck forgiveness, I have a grievance
Hopeful is the day I’m laying in a plot
Worry is the love now tangled in a knot
Forgiveness is a treat and I never have that much
Love is the answer but you’ve clearly lost your touch
Rewind, fast forward, start again
All I wanted was a friend
I found myself within your world
I guess I’ll always be that girl…
© Delia Ross. 2019
Cocoon
“Fall back! Retreat!”
My tongue is on repeat
My heart isn’t listening
It has burrowed in your sleep
“Take cover, find shelter!”
But I can handle most any weather
A simple dweller
Under a star so stellar
You can bury me but love you cannot remove
Is there anything else left to prove?
We all have lives we need to improve
My forgiveness is on the move
Clawing out of my silken cocoon
Growing over the words that you croon
Hoping for chance but loving too soon
I’ll never get over you…
© Delia Ross. 2019
Black Tongue
He’s got a black tongue
a fat thumb
a constant desire-
to fetch and come
but like all liars
and in between fires
your city he’ll crumble & burn
© Delia Ross. 2019
Valor
It takes alot of strength to be a good person
It takes alot of steel to not make it worsen
It takes alot of fuel to keep the flames burnin’
It takes alot of prayer to never feel a burden
So you shed another skin and you’re mending up your heart
It’s been patched so many times that it keeps falling apart
Make it up the hill before his love can depart
Climbing all this time, I guess it wasn’t very smart
Lay down my rifle, lay down my pen
Take a breath, count to ten
I’ll give forgiveness just don’t ask when
I still search for peace though I’ve lost all my zen
It takes a lot of dark to appreciate the day
But when you make it through there’s no reason left to stay
What does the hero do when he’s only come to pray
What does the writer write when there’s nothing left to say
© Delia Ross. 2019
Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak hotel
In the center of hell
Under sorrow I dwell
I am not feeling well
Part alive, part dead
Mostly full of dread
To sadness I am wed
In a world he will never tread
Spoken words, incantations, or curses
Only dead things here to worship
Above; heaven on the surface
But watch him draw the curtain
(So I just keep hurtin’)
Moments of magic like electricity
Flashes of hope set my soul free
The hand was one and not an army
Words sweetened just like candy
Skeletons, nightmares, and broken dreams
Are all that’s left for me
Your words like a symphony
Helped me grow so vividly
Mourning the loss of trust
Mourning the fate of us
Overwhelmed by the life you crushed
I thought you were made of stardust
Stranded in our garden
With nothing left to bargain
One heart simply starving
Crimson tears set to harden
© Delia Ross. 2019
I Still Remember
I didn’t think it could hurt any deeper
Or that he could become a colder creature
He’s got a taste for evil and that’s only a teaser
The devil says he was born a natural deceiver
Deep he draws blood from within my vein
A master of lies and pain is his reign
An unmanly thing with a tarnished name
A useless boy always inheriting blame
You can lead a demon to heaven but you can’t make him enter
You can stomp on a flame but it still needs an ember
I can say I hate you but there’s still love in the center
I can pretend you don’t exist but your words I still remember
© Delia Ross. 2019
Ought To Know
Now that the room is empty
And the coffin is nailed closed
Now that the guilt is plenty
Where few ever opposed
Now that less is trendy
And eyes have been sewed closed
Now that few is many
Where your masks have been exposed
Now that desert has found sea
And your words have decomposed
Now that stone is heavy
Was there more I ought to know?
© Delia Ross. 2019
I mean, all a man has is his word and honor so what does that make you!?! Your word is useless now. And honor? You’ll never know…
Spell
Look away from the boy lost in his cell
Look away from the monster creating his own hell
Look away from the blood pouring from where we fell
Look away from the moment his heart made your heart swell
Look away from the pimp who never cares to ask if you are well
Look away from the girls he has under his constant spell
© Delia Ross. 2019
Grey
She is cut from a different cloth…
It’s like she can see through his masks to read his thoughts
It’s like she can cut through sin at any cost
It’s like knowledge of her reminds you of all that you lost
It’s like you punish her even though it is always your fault
It’s like she’s sorry she didn’t mean to see through these doors
It’s like she tried to move on but she’s stuck on these floors
It’s like she’s picking up pieces and bandaging sores
It’s like she’s fighting for peace when you only want wars
It’s like the light goes in and comes out in a different way
It’s like a prism of color wrapped in the words you say
It’s like I’ve waited forever so what is another day
It’s like it may be raining but my hearts no longer grey
© Delia Ross. 2019
Yeps, still love you *sigh*
I dropped spoken word of this on my Tuners account the other day…
Seeds of Descent
Love is a lost art
Still I built a special ark
Made from words within my heart
To help you through your dark
(Does it mean anything?)
Sailing through crosses and curses
Sending prayers of ‘is it worth it’
Lingering in places God deserted
Standing stagnant near roads diverted
(Your words sting, they numb my wing)
Leaving hints and traces of echoes
Chained to someone I can’t let go
Drowning in cycles of these lows
Agony abundant where love grows
(I am sinking)
© Delia Ross. 2019
Silhouette
He is a masterpiece
My eyes do not deceive
In silhouette of starlight
He gets the best of me
A silver crescent moon above in his sky
Under careful watch of his truthful eye
He gives me courage so I have wings to fly
My heart will gladly testify
There’s never poison in the bait
Or written words that adulate
The path is narrow but always straight
His love leads me to his holy gate (a place I never ache)
© Delia Ross. 2019
I don’t know how your holiday went but I focused on growth and light. ✌
Hated
Every part of you is my favorite
Except the one where I am hated
© Delia Ross. 2019
Red Flags
I warned you, didn’t I?
I pointed out the red flags
But oh you still believe in words
Where mouths will always lie
You think I am crazy?
Truth is my only mask
Though you see it as trash
I wear integrity as we all cry
I warned you of this guy
But still you open wide
You stay by his side
When you know deep down he is mine
Stones like troops berating
Maybe queen was only saving
You from injury
That will keep you aching
© Delia Ross. 2019
Love You Forever
Teeth grinding
Mind rewinding
Truth is frightening
Fear like lightning
I cannot stop crying
As I drift into our never
I cut our tether
It was bad weather
For worse or for better
I will love you forever
© Delia Ross. 2019
Feckless
Bandage over cracks with sticky lies
Remove all color from open eyes
Stand by idle and listen to their cries
While crafting up more precious alibis
Feckless is the one who never tries
But others lick lies up with little sighs
He’s still got his eye on the wrong prize
Soon too late for even cold goodbyes
© Delia Ross. 2019
Money
Money won’t buy it all
My love is not for sale
And even if it was
You’d never get a pail
© Delia Ross. 2019
Summer
Why doesn’t he care about me I wonder
Why does he fill my heart with thunder
Why does he disappear and I step with blunder
Why can’t I ever be his favorite number
Where does the sun hide when it goes under
Would he be interested in me if I were younger
Will his disease always keep him a runner
Can he crawl from his dark and squeeze into my summer
© Delia Ross. 2019
