Okay below is something that i wrote about my junior year of high school, so i decided to completely overhall it for this class because it is one of my biggest life changing experiences. It was first tie that I was able to accept the feelings for another person. And I tryed to make sure that it conveys the story and that the language doesnt hide what i want to say...
Leaves were laid to rest under our feet
Cigarettes butts presided
As we conversed.
An exchange in words
Outside my element.
Cold air surrounded us
Like coffins sealing
The light which we wanted revealed.
Smoke indistinguishable from each given breath,
Drag by drag
It burned my skin
this meaningless manipulation of words to speak.
Only this differs from the usual
Shredding of English to contrive a lie.
Honesty through an inch filter.
We were weak
supported by nothing more
Than brick walls.
False smiles and fake fronts had all crumbled.
It burned the true question.
How do I ask? Why am I so afraid of action?
More than just moving my lips
Something to clench your fists for
Effort to gaze past the oceans in his eyes,
Into something more than the superficial.
Finally
True contact
Marlboros never smelled sweeter and
Cotton never had more life between my fingers.
Anatomy meant nothing. I felt his soul.
Battered and beaten it was more than I had ever had.
Like phantom limbs I felt us
But in reality he gone
Never to be seen again, only missed
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