i dip my head beneath bubbles
laced with smoke and magic,
swim within the obscure,
dive into puddles of darkness
i rise with a smile that hides
a chamber of loaded words
these lips are a loaded gun
…bang.
– ashley jane
Tag: darkness
the light.
you followed me home,
to the place
where shadows bloom darkest,
and let yourself in
dressed with the sun’s secrets
on your skin
all crystalline beauty
and pretty petals
and green-garden-glimmer
you looked like a heartbreaker
with a smile that sparkled
and those coffee and cocoa eyes
but you smelled
like lilies and larkspur
and l o v e
so i let you kiss me there,
in my forest of gray
and you’ve been lighting up
these woods
ever since
– ashley jane
daylight is for devils too.
your voice
is seared into my mind,
the shrill sound
like when angels scream
and devils dance
and it is one decibel away from
u n b e a r a b l e
it calls from within,
challenging my last stand
against you,
and every damn word
tastes like poison
i can still see your smirk
and that look you give,
your pitch black
soul-haunting stare
stealing my breath
every.single.time.
and I’m left gasping,
choking on a memory,
my tenuous grip on sanity
one slip away from broken
and with these flashbacks
you prove
that not all monsters
live in the shadows
you walked under the sun,
eyes gleaming
and a smile on your face
and yet
you’re far worse
than any demon
i’ve met
in the dark
– ashley jane
i’ve been here ever since.
i dipped my toes
in the promise of tomorrow,
its unexplored depths calling my name
i let its light filter in on shimmering strands
that swore to cleanse the dirt from my hands
but that ethereal glimmer
didn’t have the answers
so i let the dark speak,
its low hum whispering in the distance,
its smoky tone settling into my bones
i let its echoes guide me home
– ashley jane
we rise on haunted nights.
ghostly whispers move
under a voodoo blood moon,
a slow-shimmer-slink
of air over bone,
their dark love calling us home,
cosmic cadavers
with claws that sink deep,
burning nerves
and setting veins on fire
we stand on the cusp of shadows,
slowly disappearing into the ether,
our souls chained to a sinking sun
– ashley jane
garden of heartache.
wilted,
like funeral roses,
black and crumbling
from the weight of your ghost
they sit in stagnant denial,
thoughts swirling
and dreams drowning
in their desolation,
petals plucked
and seeds strewn
—
perhaps,
they’ll create
a garden of heartache
for all the lonely people
to water
– ashley jane
darkness lives there.
he wears shades
of brimstone and damnation,
never raven black,
all burnished gold, falu and feuillemort
his eyes are home to an hidden world
made of ancient shadows and sunlight
they welcome you into the fire,
but you will not survive their invitation
to explore new depths
(darkness lives within the flames)
– ashley jane
sickly sweet nothings.
they drip
down your chin,
rivulets so saccharine,
(we pretend to loathe the gore)
knives dressed up in velvet
but the blade still stings
love, lies, lullabies
all so crimson sweet
they stain the tongue
grasp-gasp-gone
—
clean up
when you’re done
– ashley jane
Love, Lies and Lullabies: a breath of poetry and prose
My first book of poetry – Love, Lies and Lullabies – is now available on Amazon:
http://a.co/i2G1GYs 💜
Love, Lies, and Lullabies is a collection of poetry about relationships and the emotions that come with them. It is written for the lovers and the liars, the broken and the mended, the hardened hearts and the soft souls who lie and tell everyone that they are fine. Each chapter is filled with poems that detail the ups and downs of life and love, of pain and joy, of losing and finding yourself again.
Please check it out, review it, let me know what you think.
Ashley Jane
New Poetry Book – Love, Lies and Lullabies
