(BONUS) Midnight Convos #4: Under Construction



It’s Midnight and My eyes burn,
Red with the truth I can only speak when everyone I know is asleep.
Because my demons have always listened better than people.
They are fed by my prayers.

My hands are soaked with the dreams that hurt too much to keep inside,
So I empty my tank;
The pipes of my brain stained and rusted-
Screaming as every drop falls from my mind.
Hopefully for the last time.

And as I sit in my room, I’ll cry.
I’ll cry to forget the things I’ll hide come morning.
My feelings like fine china, placed in the back of the cupboard.
Come morning all my guests would have left.

But til then I’ll shed tears in mixed company.
Remembering every word that broke my heart
For old time’s sake.
As if I owed the past any more of my time.
It has already taken too much.

And in the corner of my room I am a king, dethroned,
A human without a being.
For to be is what I wish to be no longer.
As my hands wet, cannot grasp new lies.
Lies not solid enough to hold with bare heart or bare hands,
and my red eyes cannot see new days without strain.

Have I not already wasted too many dead wishes on waning stars?
Squandered too much ‘self’ on failed selfhood?

It is midnight and I am tired.
But my bed holds no rest.
It is a reservoir of moments gone, a sea alive
So do I toss and turn among the waves?
The force of the crash as strong as unhappy memories.
As clear as shards of glass, broken in my spine.

All my scars are signed by my own hand.
As if I own this body just to destroy it.

It is midnight. The lights are off.
I confess:

I have always craved my own malfunctioning.

By WerepupJeremy

Midnight Convos #3: Night Four.


We’re sitting there. 
Just my head on his shoulders, 
just my voice in his ears. 
Sharing everything. Absolutely everything,
as if for the first time my truths can breathe their own air. 
As if for once my shadows don’t seem so dark.

In that instant everything is right, 
and it’s just me and him and our truths
because when we’re this close there is no space for our usual lies,
 no room for doubt between our fingertips. 

Clasped tight; secure

No time for despair because all we have is now,
and now is perfect and now is fleeting
And now will never be again, so it can’t be wasted. 
And it’s just me and it’s just him and it’s just us. 

Happy. 

Stupidly happy as if we know no sadness 
Because in his arms he can’t hold both, 
and he chooses me over his daily demons and I choose him over giving up. 
I choose him to be happy. 

And so with just my voice in his ears, I tell him everything and smile.
Because now it doesn't seem so bad. The world doesn't seem so angry. 
And for once it’s just the way I want it. 
And he smiles, so I smile and we smile and just this once I know the joy of being heard, 
in this perfect and fleeting time I know what it’s like to be free.
And with time both perfect and fleeting I accept that it will end.
But for now I can smile, as he smiles, because for now it is mine. And I choose it. 
I choose this now.

If I could, I would choose this now forever.

By: WerepupJeremy

Midnight Convos #2: Head to Feet


You just heard a sound.
 I can tell because the air is different.

More tense.

I can feel you panic; First a little, then a bit more.
I can feel your back straighten, your ears becoming alert
your mind racing, your body ready to spring to tired feet
 in case the imaginary footsteps grow louder. 
In case that invisible man who roams my empty staircase decides, just for tonight, to be seen.

You can never be too careful.

Not at night.
Not when sleepy eyes see more than what’s there. 
And noises in the bushes refuse to stay outside. 
Not when the creaks in the floorboards and cracks in the walls don’t need bodies to make sounds. 
And minds don’t need permission to wander.

Because it’s different for us.

What we are belongs in our shadows
:hidden hands, held tight. 
Secret kisses in stolen moments.
Love that can only be whispered
just loud enough to know that words were said. 
Never entirely sure that they were heard. 

Though we hope they were.

It’s important to remain quiet. 
To not be too loud. To not share too much.
Because they aren’t ready.
And ‘they’ have somehow become more than ‘us’.

So ‘we’ cater to ‘their’ whim. 

So every time you hear a sound, I know you’ll spring to your feet
your neck stiff, your head tilted slightly to the right,
your fists clenched. Your breath short.  
Your brows furrowed.  
Your focus…theirs.

I know this without opening my eyes. I don’t have to.

And after You pace, half awake, completely uncertain,
 I’ll tell you to come back to bed. 
And I’ll rub your tense back and kiss that stiff neck. 
I’ll grab your waist and I’ll draw you close.
 So close that our chests collide. 
Harder at first then softer.

 Just the way we like. 

Then I’ll look at you while you look at the door “just in case.” 
Just in case someone is coming. 
Just in case someone sees. 
Just in case someone hears, or knows, or cares.  
And I’ll just look at you while the night reclaims a moment we could have stolen.  
A kiss that could have been ours.


Then I’ll say goodnight, and we’ll go back to sleep. 

Your head to my feet.

By: WerepupJeremy.

Midnight Convos #1: 12:03 AM


I just want to hold him. 

To feel his breath on my neck,
To have his hands in my own. 
I just want to be the pillow that he chooses to hug, 
To be the thought in which he chooses to linger,
just long enough to be that force, great enough to keep him at home, 
In my arms. Just for me.
Just for my eyes and my hands and my warmth 
and just... my time.
I just want to keep him here in my sight, 
away from the lights that sing to his soul,
 that make him wander and lure him into the night. 
Sirens’ calls that sink my heart in seas I dare not know.

Cause if he leaves he won’t return.

I just want to be the flavour,
with which he chooses to drench his lips.
Instead of the bottles that ignite his rage, 
Those full cups that blur his eyes
and make him forget. 
That I’m here and I’m whole and I’m his. 
I just want to be enough. 
The old love that outranks the young night,
A flame that glows greater than any new promise. 
There should be no fight.


I just want to hold him.

But now is not my turn.

By: WerepupJeremy

Announcement!

Hey Pups, How are you all? Leave me a comment saying how your week has been so I can get to know you better! Also I just wanted to take the time out to say THANK YOU to any one who has read any one of my posts, and to those who keep coming back to check out new posts, it really means a lot to me! Also to anyone who has left me a nice message commenting on a piece or my writing in general thank you SO very much, I cannot even put in words how wonderful that makes me feel.

The pleasantries aside I just wanted to make a little announcement for this week. I've decided to do a poetry series for this week called 'Midnight Convos'. What this mean is that I will post 3 original poems that have been inspired by 3 different conversations with 3 different friends (there will be no names attached of course) over the course of the week. I've never really shared my poetry outside of tumblr so this is quite a new step for me but I hope you will all enjoy! I'm quite nervous as my poetry is a bit different, I preferto write in free verse and my subject matters often revolve around others, the thought of solely personal poetry scares me to death, so I often rely on empathy and my ability to listen to be inspired. So fingers crossed this is well received, and that the people who inspired it aren't pissed lol.

Thank you again for all the support!

And til next time, remember to : Live well. Chase dreams. And always howl at the moon.


-WerepupJeremy

-Artwork Done by my friend Melissa!



Popular Posts

Follow me on Twitter