They tell you it gets better
And I used to think that was true,
But that was before I met you.
You came to me like a moth to a flame,
Turned from the love that consumed my heart.
A dark figure clad in all black,
Nothing good to come from you.
You walked into my life
Without my consent,
Changed the way I was
And possibly who I will be;
I don't recognise myself
The way I used to.
You took parts of me
That meant a great deal
And you hole it up in a cage;
I can't find the key.
Sleep has become difficult
Since you found your way to me,
And though I beg and plea,
Hoping for you to leave,
You never truly do,
In fact, you always refuse to,
Following me like a shadow,
Clinging to my skin
Until we are one.
You took away
The most important parts of me
Yet anger does not appear,
For it was not you who took it away,
Nor had you snatched them,
You formed out of the love
Left behind
When they left me.
Still, I am unforgiving
For though I cannot
Begin to imagine
Befriending you, Grief,
I cannot accept
That they will never come back
Yet you will forever remain -
The darkest parts of me
Or as you know by name:
Grief.
Sleeping next to me,
holding hands, soft fingers interrupting my thoughts.
Legs intertwined, nowhere else I’d rather be.
A daring moment shared in dusk.
Honest, caring, elegant.
Pitch black hair wrapped in a beautiful bow.
Dancing under the moonlight,
I can’t look away.
Sacred, everlasting love.
Holding me, craving this bond.
Winter is here,
The blue moon harvest arrives.
Ascending like a moth to a flame.
Floating amongst stranger clouds.
If I can’t hear the sound of your heartbeat,
I know this place is not my home.
A star breaker, tearing the skies apart.
Our fireworks, trapped in time capsules.
How can we share love in your reality?
Floating in space with you,
We journey across scattered stars.
Though I do not know the way.
In your reality,
If I don’t know how to love you,
I’ll leave you be.
Have always known my limitations
it's a fact that can't be missed
I'll always go out on a limb
and you're an attraction I can't resist
am I being reckless to gamble on such a crazy game
am I overconfident and like a moth to a flame
will I melt my wings
these and a thousand other things
will I crash and burn will I ever learn
always had my uncertainties
if I speak my mind to you
there's a danger in the air
you'll take and break my poor heart in two
am I flying too close
when the day is done
if I say, "I'm in love with you,"
am I flying too close to the sun?
Mesmerizing beauty
like a moth to a flame.
Land of milk and honey,
how'd you know my name.
Hypnotizing motion,
spider in her web,
Treasure hunter’s bounty
as you lay on your bed.
Appetizing banquet,
lioness to gorge,
valleys, dunes and mountains,
an eternity to forge.
Tantalizing tremors,
an eagle soaring high,
supernova, ecstasy
forever ‘til we die.
Said I love you...
like a moth to a flame.
You're no good for me...
but I'm the one to blame!
Standing beside you...
cause I've never felt this way...
under the starlight...
where the moon knows my name!
I’ve been here before
Before the cruel reality reappeared
Shattering your warm embrace
War rages between us
Bloody secrets strewn through the night sky
“It’ll be okay”
But a white lie is still a lie
You shine
Bright as ever the center
Of my universe
My northern star,
I always find my way back to you.
Stars burn.
I ignite
Burn away into the starry night
A mortal and a star
Meant to be? We’re not
Fated like the stories
Yet I’m chained
The fate of a phoenix explained
An ever living cycle
Still I desire
Immersed in your fire
Like a moth to a flame
Siding back into place
Giving in to your deadly embrace
("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustics digitally collaged by Stephen Langer)
What Will You Do
When the aliens come
What will you do?
Will you go dragged kicking and screaming
Only to remember nothing,
Or will you go willingly
With the curiosity of a child?
What’s there after all
In the Great Mother ship,
A portal, a station, theatre of the mind
In multidimensional surround sound
Revealing a multiverse of limitless potential
Or a black hole of limited impossibility?
I don’t know, but it bears considering.
In my experience such things happen without choice,
Like a moth to a flame
Or sonambulator in the dark,
But why not be prepared
With your choice already made?
“Beam me up Scotty”
It’s gotten too crazy down here,
And what I took for an intelligent lifeform
Has turned out to be a mirage.
Ah, much better in multidimensional surround,
Thanks Ma.
(7/9/24)
We are at an impasse
There's nothing I can say
at this point I think you're
better off if I just go away
I tried to talk to you
Just to explain how I feel
I try my best to keep it real
But you don't hear me when
I tell you I'm sad and I miss you
You only see complaints being issued
I pour out my heart to you
but you say being depressed
Is something I choose to be
but I just miss you so much
can't you see??
So, I bite my tongue so hard
there's blood in my mouth
I don't know what to say anymore
But I need to let it out
I'm confused and I feel
like we're out of touch
Maybe I say I love you
way too ing much.
You accused me of being
like a broken record
on repeat
over and over
with no retreat.
At this point
I know I should
probably just go away
because I make you miserable
when I stay.
But like a moth to a flame
you just keep drawing me back
I want to be near you
without all this flack.
It's funny
all you really had to say
was "I miss you too"
but you never did which makes me
so ing blue.
©SamHarty
I feel lost, blinded by your soul shining so bright. I'm drawn towards the light radiating from you, like a moth to a flame. You consume me, overwhelming my senses. I strive to resist the temptation, but my heart and soul overpower my mind, giving in to the lust I crave. It's not physical; it's the connection between souls, an unspoken bond. The string the Norns weave into the web links us forever.
I'm a child inside, a flawed man. I struggle with how to handle this love. Trying to give unconditionally, I fall short. I can't break through, can't conquer or win this fight for your love. I mess everything up, my eyes searching in a dark room for you.
It feels like swimming against the current, and I am tired, yet I push forward. Slowly fading, sinking into the water, struggling and thrashing, I can't make it to shore. As I dip deeper, I picture your face, your smile, your laugh – bringing joy to a drowning heart.
A foolish heart on a merry- go- round
Can never see those up and downs
Turning sometimes under, over, out of sight
Soaring love makes you giddy, up on flight
Captivated floating above the ground !
A foolish heart never hears those warning signs
Those spaces between those whispers
that will never be mine
Still seeking with a vulnerable hope
A yearning for affection, or to catch that
averted gaze on a slope!
A foolish heart never hears nor sees rejection
For in time love is all but just a projection
Thrown into madness, the heart but comes alive
and brings
Confusion it was, but how can you run from such a captivating thing?
Attraction drawing you in, like a moth to a flame!
We can die for love, and that’s a crying shame
My heart tried to hide, but came back to seek
What could it do? It was a foolish heart
it became too weak!
3.3.22
Sponsor: L.Milton HANKINS
Contest: “My Foolish Heart”
Magical Perplexity
by M. Griswold
06192020
Your a magical mystery which draws me near.
Can't place my finger on it, yet it is perfectly clear.
That twinkling in your eye, the warmth of your smile.
The grace of your form with such a beautiful style.
An attractive force which I just can't resist.
I am helpless in heart as the currents persist.
Driving me endlessly like a moth to a flame.
Your spirit does entrance me, direct in it's aim.
Why so captive am I that I am a ponder to understand.
Never have I been under such a magical command.
Demanding my affections to which I voluntarily give.
For it seems now without you I surely wouldn't live.
Beautiful sorcery to which I haven't any self control.
Of primal surge passionate does it lustfully grow.
Your magical mystery of soulful, wrenching harmony.
Is wonderfully quizzical, mystical in it's perplexity.
I look for you
to quench my thirst.
You are like the finest wine
I most certainly deserve.
Your fragrance and soft serenity
surrounds you like a warm glow,
and like a moth to a flame.
I am drawn to you
like a husband coming home.
Falling into your arms,
I know I have found
my personal paradise.
I love the tenderness
of your embrace.
You are the sister of angels,
and I can see it in your face.
Your very beautiful eyes,
and those soft warm sweet lips,
and all the rest of you
that I have missed.
I have been waiting
my whole life,
for just your kiss.
And as we kiss
I’ll take a sip
to sample your essence...
Savoring the flavor
of pleasure and bliss
that drips from our lips
like falling dreams...
Satisfying my soul
you're always first,
quenching more than my thirst
like a warm cloud burst
in the middle of a quiet storm.
I am lost in the moment
Caught by your caress.
Celebrating the taste
of ecstasies success.
I do love you so…
Giving me a refreshing squeeze
you mean more to me
than the air I breathe.
Holding you in my arms
I inhale your scent.
Closing my eyes in this moment...
I am content...
Oh God I love you!
She is drawn to the sphere of light
Like a moth to a flame,
Tiny fireflies seem to take flight
As an eerie glow remains
She reaches out to touch this crystal ball
Mesmerized by its glow,
Her heartbeats rise and fall
As she feels the energy flow
She attempts to find its magic powers
But its powers she cannot tame,
Like a full moon in the midnight hour -
She is drawn to it, like a moth to a flame.
3-5-2020
Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brenda Chiri
I often sit and wonder what's on your mind. In fact that's what I do most of the time. I'm drawn to you like a moth to a flame. I've enjoyed pleasure but I've also endured pain. I've waited on you Everytime that you've left. Ive been the one Everytime you needed help. I've remained loyal even when you cheated. I fought to make sure you had what you needed. I've loved you when I didn't love myself. I put you first above everyone else. I held on when you let me go. I've hid my tears so no one would know. See I often wonder what's going on in your head. Like who your holding when your not in our bed. The times that you leave for days you stay gone. Not a call not a text as I sit all alone. Who's pillow you lay on as you lay down to sleep. The table you sit at when your ready to eat. What does she looks like is it anything like me. Does she love you better or can that even be. I've often wondered if I would be ok. If I could be strong enough to just walk away. To change my number and the locks on the doors. To realize I'm worth it and deserve so much more. To wake up tomorrow with no tears in my eyes. As I start loving me and tell you goodbye.
As the sting of betrayal pierced your heart;
your tears were exposed, for all to see.
And as reason raced through a gauntlet
of choices, you realized
each one devastated your heart.
You woke from a dream, composed of reality
coupled with imagination:
whereas love was tentative, at best.
And yet, so precious
as to awe you with its beauty,
and yet scare you with its fragility.
Walling off your heart, you cried
over the pain Hope had inflicted.
Love once felt passionate, and on fire;
yet that degree of heat left you vulnerable,
like a moth to a flame.
A moth cannot help being a moth;
with all its urges and desires;
while the flame cannot be anything but a flame.
And so, the meeting of the two,
although spectacular, is doomed to be short-lived.
Like a moth to Fire's flame, you were seduced
by the heat of deceitful words;
and you fell prey to their sway.
Only to realize love was but an illusion,
when, like a puff of smoke, it disappeared today.
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