words by dominic riccitello

Sep 20, 2014

It’s not that I love danger, it follows and lingers beneath. It feels for me when I’m asleep. I awake and it pulsates through my veins and gives me life to live another day.

words by dominic riccitello
Sep 19, 2014

dawn

we move like fluid, in and over, everywhere and scattered
our drops rekindle and spread like fire
yet we dissolve and condense sometimes without a need to advance
a dance through the garden of our own unholy sinful morality

i walk through, obtuse for two and progress just for you
the solemn and all the agony wasn’t a selfish tragedy
more than meets the eye, i thought with a smirk and smile
gazed you up and down and handed you the crown

a grown man with a mind that seemed ever so hell bent
emotions you never required and thoughts you could never
wine in hand, i wonder if you’ve encountered a wise endeavor
if something might’ve been someday rather than imaginary

the walk, the wake and the tears they’ll play
i imagine it to be a soft touch of reality while you hover near
how you’ll exist and suddenly your emotions will finally appear
i’m here, i’m there, i might disappear, but i always hear

the cries of night, the way trees shift with wind
sound of bats in the air and birds at dawn, vibrations in the eve till morning
i always feel, i always hear and your fears were nothing but suppressed tears
dawn will always be you, the dark with a peak of light
i’ll always see the blaze behind those eyes, the boy that could never quite find
Sep 18, 2014

When the sun meets the sky and you finally find what it is you’re looking for, I’ll no longer be here.

We’ll both be dead and that voice you hear inside your head, I hope it’s dead too. I hope you’ll be at peace and all those words I said meant something.

words by dominic riccitello
Sep 17, 2014

heaven

lying in mind, grasping the edge, touching myself while playing in revenge
they say it’s fate but sometimes you need to wait
i stand at the gate, yet heaven won’t allow
the sins i could only wish away
the day, our moment so frivolous in its notion
your potions so strong, i’m holding the rope and fuck, i’m so strung

you have the knife, i have the pain
in bed, fan in my face, the way i said your name
hold my body, hold my crazy
i’ve got my baby, but everything’s hazy
the dissolution in the air, the way you kissed my ears

i’ve got your fears and they’re all here
but i’m laid out, i promise there’s trust within my route
everything you heard, i’ll keep you grounded
that polo, your outfit – i’m at the top of the mountain
sprinkling every fear, the tears, wondering if one day, some day
before your teeth decay and the bugs play
that the passion will no longer be a question and the essence will be in your possession and you’ll finally understand the metaphor that is heaven
Sep 16, 2014

I only ever asked for the moment, but you seem to think I asked for more.

in the moment (an excerpt)
words by dominic riccitello
Sep 16, 2014

I looked you in the eye and said fuck you, walked down the stairs and just sat there.

I cried and realized I don’t have time. It’s taking over. It’s taking your soul and everything I used to know.

You can’t always beat the disease and it’s not like it’s cancer. I’m not going to dance for your conceited or please when needed. It’s all you and your endless blues. The way you demand and your heartless system of obtaining what you want. I’m not a clock that waits for time or strikes only when you need me at midnight.

could’ve (an excerpt)
words by dominic riccitello
Sep 15, 2014

the bee

lick your face, i can taste your pain and the utter disdain you have towards life
i can be your wife, i can be the guy, i can be the one that holds you tonight
your breath and air and how they coincide together
the inner-sweat that keeps you in the night, ceilings and how your life seems to be rather unappealing

the nerves and hors d’oeuvres, dancing in the street and how you meant everything to me
asleep to the tune, to be without you — a nightmare under the stars
to fight from the dark side of the moon
the blue, the cries of owls at night and strum within your hum
i can be the fool, i can be the tune, i can be the one for you

our song relays as dark summer days play within our waves
the sonic boom from death till regensis and this to that
reformation of our pours, but will the endless door still exist
will all of this happen for nothing but your own self-regard?

sweet nectar of your future where we’ll harmonize and be one with ourselves
no problems, no sunken boats submerged by shore
dancing of your whores leaving you bored and in charge
your torch and verge, opening and slamming the door
let me take you to church and feel the burn once more

kill and take, let you bake in the sun of your own morality
my innocence and the kiss, the sins of a past life
i’ll keep you up at night with ways of my knife, the invisible cloak
the clock that springs the alarm, how my harm is nothing more than the words i once said that linger from the past and occur within your future

i’m this and that, the tree in the distance, the fly in the night
the one that watches you cry and tremble in fire
i co-exist with your future and haunt with your fright
eventually you’ll see, but in the eve, the one that speaks truth
that’s me, the bee, the one that stings in your sleep as you fall so deep
Sep 14, 2014

It’s not that I think you’re a sad person in a sense of you being pathetic, it’s different. I look in your eyes and I see your soul and I know how it feels. The way you kneel and those feelings of despair. All I wanted you to know is that I’m here. Regardless of my presence, you know I can and I will always be there for you.

words by dominic riccitello
Sep 13, 2014

I want you to look at me the way I look at the ceiling in the night. The way three am knows my name.

words by dominic riccitello
Sep 12, 2014

Hell’s empty because all the demons are in my head.

words by dominic riccitello

dawn

heaven

the bee