to live and die by a lovers side
to be kept like an oath
if broken, uncap my cyanide
to have a never faltering faith for honesty
when staring back into one anothers eyes
to worship and to keep
like a lords prayer each night
to make promises in our sleep
and wake up to breathe
brand new life into dark skies
to say “i do“ everyday
in all the little ways
to hold a hand that never shakes
to never fear who may stray
to kiss lips that never tell a lie
to share love in such a way
could even have been yours and mine.
if we hadn’t ruined it all
before it had its time in the sunlight.
and i don’t know why i bought that second hand wedding band
knowing i’ll never be able to give it to any man
-g.m.t.
About the Creator
g.m.t
bare bones,
here are rests the things ive wrote,
to purge, to mend whats broke.
read, or dont. <3
A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
By Rob Angeli4 days ago in Poets
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