Caffeine Withdrawals: An Unspoken Collaboration

In a Noisy World

Awhile Now

I have been away for awhile now

Like the first snow of Winter after an Indian Summer

I have been asleep for awhile now

Like peaceful fatality without the everlasting commitment

I have been out of sight for awhile now

Like the abandoned soul of a love long lost to years of age

I have been detached from myself for awhile now

Like the feeling of being out of body; a foreign concept

I have been emotionally departed for awhile now

Like a separate sphere, floating and gliding from its origins

I have been insignificant for awhile now

Like a miniscule speck of stardust drifting through the entire universe

For a long, long while now, I have been forgotten

As unseen as a ghost in a crowded room...

Bruise

I know the shaking of your hands

I feel the raggedness of your breaths

I see the sweat drip from your glands

You've burned to the end of your fuse

I'm still black from your last outburst

All you do to me is bruise

Black and blue tattoos of you

Purples and old yellows, too

Every part of me you bruise

I hear the offbeat rage in your heart,

And the murderous grit of your teeth

I cry for you to stop tearing me apart

I scream a beg and a plea

On my knees and at your feet

Your hands continue bruising me

When the day's done, the beating's due,

Twenty hits for me and none for you

I already see a new bruise...