The Final Stretch

this/that - the story of me, with and without you

A few short poems that link somewhat together to piece together my life last year. It's a bit jumbled, some things don't flow, and the structure of the poems are all different. But in my eyes, that's what makes this piece so unique because it follows the thought and emotion of someone who's gone a little... well, nuts haha.  Enjoy as always! 

this/that by tingtamtam

© 2013

HEART/MIND

You’ve read enough books to fill 7 billion minds

But the moment you lost yourself to his eyes - 

Grey, blue, green, mixed and alone, 

7 billion minds became one fleeting heart.

MIND/MATTER

They say, mind over matter

But how could that work

When you were everything that 

ever mattered on my mind?

MATTER/INTANGIBLE

All that mattered, I could touch

Matter leaves and you become imaginary 

Hurt wraps and coils 

All that mattered, I cannot touch

INTANGIBLE/LOVE

Love is immeasurable, intangible. 

Lies, lies! 

It was as alive as my lips

when I traced your skin

Or your eyes

when you said my name.

LOVE/LOSE

Fighting a war neither side knew how to fight 

Feel the hand that loved you 

As it reaches out and takes your heart, 

Crushing it slowly

No battle has finished but the war is done.

LOSE/LOST

I woke up at 

0347

And I cried like

I had never cried before

Clawing at skin as though

It was diseased

For I was lost

And I had lost

And for the rest of of my life I knew I would 

Lose

LOST/RECOVERY

It's learning how to stand again

Then walk,

then run. 

But after you've lost, recovery doesn't always work 

Sometimes Fate sticks her leg out 

To watch you fall 

RECOVERY/GONE

And you never get up from that place again.