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  • Aug 23, 2014

    opposite the jester

    he strings his own tune, the one, he’s like the dark side of the moon
    they say life hurts and it’s awful, you just want to cry
    we move, hold the edge and realize it was beautiful all along
    the song shifts, the pits of hell close and all that you knew lost its melancholy tune

    i tap, pat and feel for what once was and hope it’s no longer gone
    but in my mind, i know we’re not fine and the waves we walked
    our lines have split and ours spirits are no longer aligned
    one day i’ll see your face, your life and death upon our days

    a frequent thought of yesterday where our faces radiated
    beyond was just a simple thought, i never knew how far gone
    the way a human could taste: the simple, sweet, the life
    i look in eyes, i see disguise, an occasional warm
    sometimes strong feeling of lies that always seem to compromise

    i’m wise, but that doesn’t stop a foolish thought of the lingering past
    tumble from feeling, the way you look at ceilings and wonder
    “is my life truly this,” he asked himself, but he knew the answer
    the question was only as superficial as the personality he claimed

    i always wondered if he spoke the names of the ones he hurt
    if the harm he dealt was just to covert his long-lost heart
    but life, for him, just a court where the jester plays lead
    he keeps them on their knees and laughs when in need
    yet what he doesn’t realize is eventually time eludes and he will, too

  • Aug 22, 2014

    understanding

    “and even if i miss you forever,” the words spoken in such a way
    don’t have time, the day, the control to stray away from the path
    i let it slide, i confide in my pillow at night and wonder why

    people ask if it actually happened, if i imagined, this was in my mind
    but i wouldn’t wish, speak or even try to feel something so immense
    the words break my neck and i feel dead
    car through a pole, mind through the deck and now i’m shipwrecked

    i’ve died plenty, yet never like this
    the past could never bask or even comprehend something so grand
    i ask my mind, i plead to bend time, i promise i’ll fix it
    but truthfully, i probably wouldn’t and in all likelihood, i still don’t understand

    face the eyes of something so bad
    as if he were a drug and i’m the dull dud junkie fixing for his heroin
    he’s heaven and i miss him, need him without question
    his arrogance, my injection, the touch, need and death behind it

    i know i’m broken, i know i’ve lost hope and it’s not important
    the past was a grand gesture where i never had a proper closure
    but it’s alright, we had our time, sat, dabbled in our past as he tried to mask
    yet it wasn’t a masquerade and i’ve had my day

    held my emotions while stroking his brain, skipping from vein to vein
    the questions were his vanity while he walked from humanity
    but those nine months, you can’t even understand agony or the insanity

    i don’t know where my future lies
    but franklin once said, “be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man”
    but i honestly don’t believe i’ll ever feel something like that again
    the connection, our intimate, the touch and feel of yesterday

    i don’t question the cemetery, the village and late nights
    nor do i ask for a benefit from your disappearance
    but one day i’d like you to understand and feel how i did
    not in revenge or a karma induced way, but so i know you’re human and that you can understand pain and how it feels to love a soulmate

  • Aug 21, 2014

    It was like that time on the phone, how I said I was scared you’d forget about me. The way you said that’s a chance you’ll have to take was said with such a deep repressed sadness.

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  • Aug 20, 2014

    tuesday

    you never knew what you got yourself into
    the way you spoke those words, how you asked if it was okay with my cat
    i’d love for you to spend the night tuesday, you asked
    the question, your devilish, those handsome eyes and how tomorrow sat in mine

    the crazy lust of the night, the musk and sweat
    how venice was never more perfect
    i storm in your eyes and wonder if there was ever any worry
    if maybe you knew your worries were mine

    they say your mind is off-centered and my clever was your never
    i hoped, i sat — i believe i even prayed that all would be fine
    essentially your games were a quiet game of monopoly
    but honestly, i loved you more than me and i always said everything

    i had worries, i had problems and issues that you could never comprehend
    regardless of this and that and those words you said
    how you said i’d never understand how sorry you felt
    but the cards were dealt and the game you played was yours

    a childish way, a twenty-seven year old stuck in his way
    but i found the needle and i’ve battled demons
    i know treason and i know my seasons, but i’d never leave you dry, dirty and dying for what i had promised

    i’m not evil and maybe, occasionally, i’m not a good guy
    but i’m wise and i’ve played in games the past has tried to frame
    not made for you or because of you, or even dead from your pause
    although the game, the day, the moment — that happy tuesday
    how i walked in your room and sat my bag next to your stand
    the way i lied awake next to you, basking in the memory that i’ll forever treasure in my memories

  • Aug 19, 2014

    I don’t need karma. I don’t need revenge. I know when you’re forty you’ll wish you had. I’ll linger in the night and my touch will be too far from you. But I figure what’s sad isn’t that I’ll have moved on, it’s that I might be dead and you’ll never know if you even had a chance.

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  • Aug 18, 2014

    How did you find those beautiful words in every of your poems? Im trying to be a good writer or poetry like you. Can you help me?

    You are sweet – thank you! 

    I use metaphors a lot. For example, Coffee Shop Window, which I just happened to post was written entirely based off me walking past a coffee shop last night. But in turn, I switch it around and base it off the outside looking in and that mistakes aren’t truly mistakes (with a touch of becoming content). 

    I always say that harsh life experiences equal better poetry as you can understand and grasp words in a variety of ways. Obviously that happens over a period of time, but my one thing is to look and understand words in more than what they were originally intended.

    I don’t necessarily write for people to understand what I’m saying, but to get it off my chest and figure out why it happened in the way that it did. Other people might not understand what you’re saying, but you do. If someone happens to understand in a way – that’s wonderful.

  • Aug 18, 2014

    coffee shop window

    rolling by, thinking of one
    they move twice, say third’s a charm
    we were never any harm but our own
    emotions too far overgrown with only an endless hope

    pen in hand, mind’s stuck in reverse
    past with present and worry of never
    move along, be afraid – the lonesome soaks, this i know
    no hope, just a dope stuck in a melancholy field

    rinse, let the anchor go
    gazing out of the coffee shop window
    the words, shots and cancer that brought never
    essentially a bother of my own with a cosigned love

    light, the fixture and the sadness that never brought a positive
    gone with a sense of past importance
    a whip stricken with our eternity, leaving marks and scars i never asked for

    moving slow, occasional blow here and there
    the wind and breeze, fear of yesterday and emotions held top-shelf
    smoking in hell while burning for you
    the fuel, the blue, there’s no water here

    but i promise i’m always here, regardless all the fears
    whether you have no hair, one leg, no limbs, a single tooth or toe
    i’m always here, the coffee shop window wondering whether or not you figured out this life and why i never gave up and said those words you always feared

  • Aug 17, 2014

    I could sit you down, fuck your mind for hours and I promise it would terrify you in ways you didn’t know existed.

    words by dominic riccitello
  • Aug 16, 2014

    Love is the intense feeling behind dying and killing for someone other than yourself.

    words by dominic riccitello
  • Aug 15, 2014

    going down

    “baby, i think i’m crazy and lately, everything’s hazy”
    i used to write about the one that got away
    as if he were the subject of the year, let alone day
    i roll in my mind and believe i’ve attained life through pain

    i see eyes and describe colors of the night
    live in black and sway with cool, think of you and others
    thoughts come quietly, i’m not a bother, it’s us and sadly, it’s quite solemnly
    our shades were of another, your glow couldn’t be described with color

    i love and it’s alright and i’ve said before, but it’s the truth
    i slip as you dip — you take the last bite but honestly, i don’t mind
    the fight isn’t with you, it’s with me and this life and the way i strive
    i skip, sway my hips and dance with thoughts that lead to love

    the kitchen, my mission and all the clues that led to you
    the writing on the wall said no different
    i’m not a magician, but i don’t need stitching
    the prison you reigned, i thought of you every day
    the vision, even the occasional pigeon

    my religion was you just like the chicken was you
    i’m not mad, i’m not sad and i’m not glad, but fuck – we were bad
    the thought of you will always linger, how i caressed every finger and held on knowing eventually we’d timber; but it was alright, because at the time, all i wanted was your face as it was the only thing that could light up my day

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