words by dominic riccitello

Jul 8, 2017

i wrote a thousand words
of you in night
light glimmering
upon your shoulders
frogs sing in our torture
the mist rotates our feet
running in false directions
with you without me
darkness consumes the everglades
shadows in the darkest of places
scattered voices scream the names
of loved ones we lost in error
i say your name
to speak the truth
but violence sways in our way
hypocrisy in the darkest of days
i rhymed in motion
leaving you hopeless
an unrequited love
was the hardest
but the night we danced in
turned men to frogs
witches in lost gardens
brewing you
casting lies
dividing time
forgetting why
i told you i never loved you

witches brew lies in the forest for men who need love
words by dominic riccitello
Jul 7, 2017

it snows in your eyes
i feel the ice on your heart
we slip and hold our edges
drinking bliss upon our lips
with red stained crevices
broken bottles on the table
champagne glasses shaking
i throw in your eyes
with your face against the wall
we’re drunk and dumb
falling for an idea of a happy ever after
i twirl in your eyes
how your heart feels
but your brain turns
the pages i swing from
mirrors on our house
we’re throwing rounds
of us through love we dreamed of

snowing
words by dominic riccitello
Jul 5, 2017

your edges swept against the willow way
eyes of men who speak the most divine
finding thoughts under street lights
a man in the softest day
breaking in acid rain
you feel a sign
i find your truth in words
from stutters to shattered thoughts
the way arms tense and lips flutter
pink of your skin
caressing the hairs on your head
i transcend with you
in the outer of sense
breaking trends to break space
touching our bodies in metaphors
i break into bits
kissing the lips of a dangerous bend
reminisce in the memories of sleepless nights
bodies grazing
men screaming crazy
dancing in the night
you and i
twirling in and out of consciousness
below the stop light

in the night
words by dominic riccitello
Jul 4, 2017

i used to die in your arms
against something i knew
a quiet rhythm
the beat of your heart
eyes like the dark side of the moon
a hidden glaze with depths
the white of your shirt
how it glistens beneath the dark light
strobes in the background
your hair flows in slow motion
have you ever felt a love
so divine
have you ever felt a moment
so strong
it strokes your spine with insanity
i wipe the sweat upon your forehead
with the touch of my lips
swaying in the moment
we gravitate towards this
a loss of time
lost in a ourselves
within each other

sensual
words by dominic riccitello
Jul 3, 2017

i lie on a coarse surface
with edges grazed with madness
to fall in love is to fall for a sadness
thriving in a moment
i panic
an essence breaks a poet
stolen in nostalgia
breaking and taking
fucking and craving
your brains in my face
an intelligent grace
running in fields never felt like this
your hands on my thighs
it tastes like wine
it feels like we’re on fire
drunk in you but drunk in me
feigning for a love
i never quite understood
the warm and dry
i used to wonder why
i used to hide
in the dark of your aura
finding myself in tears of a sullen man
broken by a muse
who lit his words with ice
throwing them with force
holding them
with no remorse

no deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed
words by dominic riccitello
Jul 1, 2017

i atone to the way you left it
in the dark void of our truth
a man turned monster
dancing with wolves of his past
i rake the leaves you left
thieves in our garden
jumping from stones
throwing rocks in our meadows
i take the fall
with frogs singing in the background
we twirl beneath the trees
fulfilling our shadows with a darkness
the devil sways in the night
a tango delight
with a dash of handsome
i held the hands of satan
grasping for a haven
a disguise in night
the dark twists my neck
yet it feels like
heaven again

dancing with masochism
words by dominic riccitello
Jun 29, 2017

belvedere on the mantle
two legs flowing insane against the fire
our loss of innocence
i entangle you in thoughts of blue
a dark grey afternoon under the desire of what was
i heard you in night calling forth for pain in our shadows
a couch of sin where i touched your lips
rage against the shallow
touch your knees to feel the gravel in your heart
love within a moment but our moment was frozen
in the eyes i see cherries
blood like a heathen
raging in thought
to die is to cost our hearts
yet i fell in love with a darkness
a wade for truth
winds in your rapids
holding on to you
where it was ever so wrong
the waters running
i feel you
it feels nothing

you felt right but right ends so wrong
words by dominic riccitello
Jun 27, 2017

I loved you on a technicality, but I found you on a technicality. We find our truths in people who don’t deserve it and find ourselves in people who wouldn’t necessarily understand it. But who’s to say we didn’t use them to find ourselves? Who’s to say we didn’t love them to expand our personal experience?

words by dominic riccitello
Jun 26, 2017

i broke for you
for you to break me
in pieces
without dignity
in tears of our sorrows
lights dimming down our road
street lights buckling
shadows thriving
i spoke your name
without shaking
before wine glasses broke me
your aroma took our doors
locks broke
whispers in the dark
i woke to the nightmares
you instilled in me
blood oak to black ashes
a man with passion
acid rain
which we danced in

i found you when gentlemen cried at night
words by dominic riccitello
Jun 25, 2017

The best love is the hardest love.

words by dominic riccitello