David Mac-

We Are Waiting to Burn

I only love you when you are burning,

When we are both on fire.

The way we spread, out of control,

The danger of our love.

But after,

When we smoulder,

Blackened, charred,

Smoking, and we

Shake ashen debris from ourselves,

There’s nothing left.                 

I told you I was bored from the start,

I told you not to put me out,

I told you not to save me.

I told you this.

I told you               this.

But now we’re soft and weak and harmless

Once more

And there is no love.

This is it,

The apathy has come.

You can’t stop,

Can’t comprehend,

Can’t ignore,

There is nothing worse.

What did we do?

You see, you have to wake

Up from time to time

In the world and know,

Yearn,

Dream,

That it’s only a matter of time

Before you catch fire,

Before you are set alight,

Before you will burn

So bright

Again.

Fist Full of Sleep

On a bed

she waits

with a fist full of sleeping pills.

My love

how to know

if I’ll ever wake up once more?

‘Just sleep’

she says.

She wants to rob me of my dreams

and replace

with some death.

I don’t know how long I want this to last.



Drunk At Last

your face numbs

to the world

your skull breathes

relief

you look out of your

hollow warm chamber

and you smile

for a long second

but you only think you smile

we see the rest