People don’t look their best when they try to mimic the features and demeanors of others. Embrace the natural state of who you are. ~Sammicakes
Category: poems
anywhere
I am the ache in my own body
Reasons for Wanting
. . . . to accept every inch of me to love every part of me more than I do to understand me to listen to me to teach me to protect me to adore me ~Sammicakes
candle flame
You say all the words I’ve been wanting to hear for years but they ring hallow because you’re shallow with your love it flickers in and out like a candle then the flame grows so much that I can’t handle it ~Sammicakes
Do You Know What it Means? | World of Dreams
I dream of me almost sleeping, by your side while you speak, you call to the beautiful girls all around you, rubbing my legs, my feet– speaking in a voice that was not your own, while I look out into the distance of a vast world ~Sammicakes
a remembered dream
how strange a thought it is now to think it was once lost this loving reality-to-be that guides my every step once forgotten by me how horrible life would be (would be and was) to live (just barely) with forgotten dreams ~Sammicakes
nightache
Dying leaves of the lightest branches fall off the low-lying trees like veils and they slip over of my eyes, so that all I see is scattered nothing and blue blackness in quiet, lonely time I sink to the floor in fear and overwhelming feeling, laying my head in damp earth and shrunken flowers and…
Legacy of Briar Rose | poem
A thousand spindles A hundred wheels A dozen or so webs An entire century of slow hearts Tell me how does it feel… to be so beautiful and significant that you send your whole word into mournful sleep? Is your soul really so pure, so divine? Is it attainable– could your legacy be attained by…
the way you see me in your dreams you must love me
you’re more than a friend oh, it happened again and it’ll keep happening oh, baby you’re more than a friend the nights I don’t take to not think of you you creep into the later morning and then I dream of us two you want to tell me things that make me happy but it’s…
Sammicakes 