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I’m dizzy under hot Street lights

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By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
I’m dizzy under hot Street lights
Photo by Rapha Wilde on Unsplash

I’m writing this poem like a chokehold,

A locked up throat,

A lump in my mouth that sunk slowly to my stomach, a hard day that lasted until the new season started

it’s so hot. It’s the kind of hot that feels like burning concrete, hot grilling stone and piercing rock

You hurt me

Did you want to hurt yourself?

I’m dizzy under the sun

I’m running down

down, down, into your arms

I’m

Fuzzy with the summer devil tongue that darkened my heart

With cold laughter that pierced my soul

You hurt me

Did you want to hurt yourself?

I’m not good, I’m not bad

I’m here, I’m here

It’s so hot

Yet here I sit, so cold

I’m so dizzy under the hot street lights

The lights that cast a shadow on my head

Judgement for bad choices

Judgement for …

You hurt me

Did you want to hurt yourself?

heartbreak

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

Fanfic account

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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    Written by Melissa Ingoldsby