Twitter Writing Challenge: CI’s submission

"Use only 280 characters to turn people on."

Nestled in the wave cresting between your trembling thighs, your passion’s nearly a whine in your throat.  My desire is discovered, lost, desperate, and found in your flesh.  Parched lips tremble and reluctance disassembles tantalizingly, surprisingly… before you beg, “Fuck...

Shadows haunt my senses into a space I can’t obtainThe darkness cripples me with blinding images I can’t containThis was when chaos dared, and sanity faltersFrom where I lay, no sense, no reason… nothing else mattersDoomed in this lonely world...

My soul floated on an ocean of tearsAs my heart drowned of bloodFrom all the pain I gathered trough the yearsI was killed, my senses were brought numbI’ve lost the people that I cared forDeath took two, my immaturity engulfed...

To oblivion, my soul did succumbAs a heartache made my senses numbMy mind was prevaricated, whirled, and was lostI was taken away from the one I love the mostTo him, I bestowed my fidelityYet he knows he is just a...

He spoke of love in dismal silenceHeld his pen and wrote the wordsUsed his wits on promises devoid of meaningHeld his truthful lies inscribed in scrollsHe the poetWhose heart was killed by a lost loveWhose soul bled from a morbid...

The sun shall never compare,to the warmth soaking in her skin.His probing eyes gently staring at her,drowning all her fears within.His touch, his sweet smile,telling her everything will be okay;Like it has always been,an eternity ago.His hand perfectly fitting hers,clasping...

This alley cradles my soul in the solace of its darknessTossing my knife, playing with it, with no mark of kindness.My eyes reflect the devil’s own, full of wrath and lies;As soon as I release my grip from this, I...

A lament for Kathleen

"I died a little when I realized she really had gone... but if only these walls could talk."

The sun barely rose on that day I let go. I had, in my misery, banished myself from anything that reminded me of you. Gone out to the old field for solitude. A small house between two tufts of trees...