Out of love

by Yakari Gabriel   Nov 5, 2011


It was a cold night,
the sky was star-less
as were my insides..

you and all your beauty
were somewhere
far from my arms..

It was the night,
I drank too much
red wine..

..not to get drunk..

but to poison all
the butterflies in
my stomach
'till they were too
life-less to ever flutter again

It was the night
I cried,just
to remove the sparkle
that had been living
my pupils for months..

the night,
I banged my head
against a wall
just to interrupt
its trip through the clouds..
and have it back
on my shoulders..

because not having
you near made
me realize,
that I liked myself
better without you..

that I looked more
beautiful without
that idiotic smile you
place on my face..

that I wrote deeper,
verses..predestined
to nestle anywhere
but in the love section..

It was the night
that I accepted

that I had
loved you enough,
that things had gotten
too tough..

and I simply
didn't want to
be young and in
love anymore.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Decayed

    Yaki.. your pieces are always mesmerizing and show great talent. I'm inspired now..

    Perfect way in the metaphors and in defining what you wanted to say.
    Simply, amazing.

  • 12 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    There's a few spots where I thought you could add a period, or perhaps an 'it' that should have been 'its' or something minor, but aside from that, I think this spoke volumes and is one of my favorite poems from you to date.

    Sometimes things happen for the best, & help you in realizing such things and discovering your feelings. I think you've penned something quite beautiful here and have showed us a new side of you. I will nominate this next week, because as you know I somehow nominated a different poem that I didn't mean to. Woops.

    Well done! You're evolving into an amazing poet more & more each day.

  • 12 years ago

    by Emily

    Wow. 5/5.

  • 12 years ago

    by Britt

    This reminds me of a lot of yhe poems you've been highlighting in MM, very raw, very truthful, very strong. Unless this was done on purpose, lifeless has no hyphen :)

    I like how you had repetition with a spin, a new idea each time, a new strong and thoughtful emotion. You've been writing lately with such honesty and vulnerability.. I absolutely love it!!

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