Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Words from a gonzoesque life in an oh so gonzoless world

  • The Dream Breakers

    The Dream Breakers

    Originally published online Dec 30, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    The Dream Breakers by Melodie Yvonne

    We are the dream makers fighting the dream breakers
    Hordes of depressed silent masses
    They seek out the others destroying their brothers
    Content to be lowly and fascist

    We’re fighting good people and sometimes our equals
    We’ll stand up to those who would harm us
    We’ll trust not a soul, nihilism’s our goal
    and we’ll fend off all those that would charm us

    We’ll safe guard our heart right from the start
    and pretend what they say doesn’t matter
    We’ll hide them away, let our feelings decay
    ‘til our minds are as mad as a hatter

    We’ll sit in the dark all alone with no spark
    ‘cause they might steal our light if we flash it
    and then we’ll blend in ‘cause it isn’t a sin
    to come out in the world if we match them

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  • Dreaming in Reverse

    Dreaming in Reverse

    Originally published online Dec 30, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Dreaming in Reverse by Melodie Yvonne

    Every time I’m dreaming my dream I’m back on that bus to Detroit
    With every tear drop that falls away goes a little bit more of that noise
    The rain turns to sleet, though, and freezing rain puts a nice sheet of ice round my heart
    And this soul grows weary I think it quite clearly can no longer get a cold start

    The roar of those tires found pavement on down
    These muffled old headphones don’t drown out the sound
    All of those things you said on that day saved my revenant soul
    What a lie you became

    Every time you knew I’d be there, and all of that time I guess you didn’t care
    You knew I loved blind and loved unaware, and now it’s your soul that’s the cross that I bare

    The roar of those tires found pavement on down
    These muffled old headphones don’t drown out your sound
    All of those things that you said on that day gave me unabashed hope
    What a lie you became

    The patience I lack is the patience for fate, I’m foolishly locked in a warp speed like wait
    I feel like I’m tip toeing right off this globe, I spin outta control and just hope I’m not thrown

    ‘Cause the roar of the tires found pavement on down
    My muffled old headphones don’t drown out the sounds
    All of those things you said on that day saved my revenant soul
    What a lie you became

    All of those things you said on that day put a noose round my throat
    What a lie you became

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    dreaming-in-reverse

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  • Bean Salad

    Bean Salad

    Originally published online Dec 28, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Bean Salad by Melodie Yvonne

    A hydro strung necklace and vicodin leash
    makes him follow me quiet like a good lil leech
    He follows his momma, still suckles her teets
    He’s just sweet as puddin’ as long as he feeds

    He’ll open my doors and hug me so tight
    then go through my purse like a thief in the night
    but junkies don’t care if it’s dark or it’s light
    He’ll snatch all my shit and then argue his rights

    Storms are a’ brewin’ and he best be a’ runnin’
    It all wraps around and his bad deeds are comin’

    Hidin’ by charms and a smile that melts ice
    My Jose gets warm, his heart chills it quite nice
    Knowing he’s wrong he’ll convince me he’s right
    and then all again he’s couch bound for the night

    Lock up the pills and lock up your wife
    That sting in our backs is the blade of his knife
    He’ll make me pity his make-believe strife
    He sucks me right in and then he steals my life

    Storms are a’ brewin’ and he best be a’ runnin’
    ’cause it all wraps ’round and his demons are comin’
    If I get lucky I’ll see where he stands
    and gets sucked right to hell for his crimes against man

    War’s are a’ brewin and he best be a’ runnin’
    ’cause it all wraps around and he knows they’re a’ comin’
    They’ll weigh his scales and they’ll look in his eyes
    and then they’ll save my soul with a snuff of his life

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    hydro-necklacelo

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  • Myself Being Me

    Myself Being Me

    Originally published online Dec 17, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Myself Being Me by Melodie Yvonne

    Being myself is myself being me
    Unfiltered absurdity’s what I set free
    I got all these skills and I got what you need
    But I’m not just the kind of girl you get to keep

    I’m just half a heartbeat away, and half what you want me to say
    I’m just a big ball of nothing, wrapped up too tight and all filled with stuffing
    But right now that’s all that I am, just pieces of chunks of my I give a damn

    One part of me’s tangled and that’s all I need
    I’m wrapped up in you and you’re wrapped up in me
    But the rise of the sun is my inkling to leave
    And I’ll love you tomorrow once you set me free

    And I’ll be half a heartbeat away, and half what you want me to say
    I’ll still be your big ball of nothing, wrapped up too tight and all filled with stuffing
    But right now that’s all that I am, just pieces of chunks of my I give a damn
    And that’s all that I’ve got left to give, this battered old heart just leaks like a sieve

    I’ll still be what you need me to be
    I’ve got all these skills, I can be what you need
    But I’m not the kind girl you can keep
    ‘Cause being myself is myself being free

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    myself-being-melo

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  • A Beautiful Mess Like Me

    A Beautiful Mess Like Me

    Originally published online Dec 14, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    A Beautiful Mess Like Me by Melodie Yvonne

    You are a beautiful mess just like me
    I see in your arms my safe place to be free
    but we are two fools that can’t get it together
    writhing in silence through furious weather

    Damaged and broken with rot in our cores
    How could we expect to be loved any more
    when most of our feelings come off of cold labels
    and real true romance only happens in fables

    Barely just found my heart’s torn apart pieces
    Scared of your mind and the lust it unleashes
    Blindingly juxtaposed and we’re in pieces
    Do I just wanna fuck or do I really need this?

    A peek in your heart made my soul want to dance
    so a look in your eyes is a glance I can’t chance
    Locking our soul windows might bring us near
    but this soul recognition’s now something I fear

    The cold in the dark sent me runnin’ away
    but it wasn’t the real reason I didn’t stay
    Scared that you’ll love me but scared you’ll reject me
    Fearing I’ll ruin you, afraid you’ll infect me

    Barely just met you and my mind’s in pieces
    Torn between running and riding your jesus
    Blindingly jaded we picked up our pieces
    We’re comfortably numb, let carnality feed us

    You are a beautiful mess just like me
    I see in your eyes my safe place to be free
    but we’re still two fools that can’t get it together
    and lost in our silence we’ll miss our forever

    We’re fools
    Star-crossed lovers fate haunts ‘til our end

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    beautiful-messlo

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  • Curvy Line

    Curvy Line

    Originally published online Dec 8, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Curvy Line by Melodie Yvonne

    Your silence speaks volumes, much louder than words
    In fact it’s the loudest noise I’ve ever heard
    I’m just a curve and I want your line near me
    but all you can do is stand straight and steer me

    You say you want more but not more of me
    You want what I got but not what I need
    Still just a low life I take what I get
    A truck stop lot lizard you pay just to sit

    Can’t see outside but you won’t let me in
    Comin’ unraveled from being your friend
    Sit close in space, but our souls never bend
    Cruel asymptotic fate taunts ‘til the end

    You talk of our fate and how it is written
    You talk so damn good my whole body is smitten
    But when I choose words you don’t wanna hear
    Your soul scoots on back and my fears reach up near

    What if I said too much, what if I’m ugly?!?
    What if I just don’t deserve you to love me?
    What if you leave me, but what if you stay?
    I am you, you are me, we run away

    Can’t see outside but you won’t let me in
    Comin’ unraveled from being your friend
    Sit close in space, but our souls never bend
    Cruel asymptotic fate taunts ‘til the end

    We’re fools
    Star-crossed lovers fate haunts ‘til our end

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    curvy-lineslo

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  • I’m Not Gonna Ever

    I’m Not Gonna Ever

    Originally published online Dec 6, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    I’m Not Gonna Ever by Melodie Yvonne

    Sometimes it’s hate that swallows me whole
    It permeates skin and wraps around bones
    and right now it seems like it’s one of those times
    Putrid thick anger weaves through my mind
    Leering at faces behind my red eyes
    Blinded by nightmares I breathe into life

    Dance with my devils and laugh I’m insane
    but I’m not gonna let you do this again

    Walk right on over, you walk right on me
    I just can’t see why you won’t let me be
    I ain’t got nothing, most nothing don’t phase me
    So why do you gotta be pushy and change me?
    This is my life, and I like how I live it
    My heart has run dry, there’s no blood left to give it

    Dance with my devils and laugh I’m insane
    but I’m not gonna let you change me again

    Now I’ll sink back, back into my brain
    ‘cause if I don’t I might go insane
    Hide my soul deep where you won’t be finding
    My scissors cut veins and strings that are binding
    and not long you’ll see that you just don’t need me
    I guess this depression’s a cage, but I’m free

    Dance with my devils and laugh I’m insane
    but I’m not gonna ever love you again

    Dance with my devils and laugh I’m insane
    but I’m not gonna ever love me again

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  • Treading Love

    Treading Love

    Originally published online Dec 5, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Treading Love by Melodie Yvonne

    My love for you it plunges down into the briny deep
    and if I follow it’ll drag me down beneath your reach
    So I just sit in shallow water treading ‘til the end
    too scared to stop, too scared to move, too scared to sink or swim

    My love for you it tumbles down a well of discontent
    Your words knock ’round inside my head, I’m wonderin’ what you meant
    So I’ll just sit inside my mind and overthink your nothings
    until my brain gets paranoid and overacts your somethings

    My love for you it crashes down and then rebuilds my walls
    to shut you out and shut you down before I start to fall
    So stay with me for just today and then I’ll have it made
    a concrete cage around my love for you until it fades

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  • Just Like You

    Just Like You

    Originally published online Nov 23, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    Just Like You by Melodie Yvonne

    You gave me your story just like the crow and
    behind my eyes it throbs and throws tantrums

    I wanna still die a bit every day and
    waking without you just makes me insane

    You built me so high, so high that I flew and
    I always wanted to be just like you
    The you that I know, though, not you that your lies hid
    The truth has a way to catch up and it’s frightening

    Now what I see is you wanna be me and
    tell you the truth I wanna be free and

    my runnin’ away is runnin’ inside but
    these walls that I built just won’t let me hide in

    You built me so high, so high that I flew and
    I always wanted to be just like you
    The you that I know, though, not you that your lies hid
    The truth has a way to catch up and it’s frightening

    Innocence killed when that monster killed you and
    we’re all undone by a tall tale that grew one

    Fifteen years gone now our lives fall away and
    I still wanna save you most every day

    You built me so high, so high that I flew and
    I always wanted to be just like you
    The you that I know, though, not you that your lies hid
    Your truth had a way with my heart and it’s frightened

    Your truth had its way with my heart and it’s frightened
    Your truth had its way with my soul and I’m frightened
    Your truth had its way now I’m frightened

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    hazieinsidelo

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  • My Girl Punkin

    My Girl Punkin

    Originally published online Nov 19, 2016 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: The Neverending Sequel — available here

    My Girl Punkin by Melodie Yvonne

    My heart is still aching without your fur face
    My smile is a frown without your fur embrace

    How will I ever be happy again
    without my girl Punkin she was my best friend

    I miss those wet kisses and head on my knee
    to tell me to pause life and set my child free

    I miss all your snoring and your silly faces
    I miss how your tail wagged when we’d go places

    Oh how will I ever be happy again
    without my dear Punkin she was my best friend

    It’s getting cold now soon snow on the ground
    It’ll be even harder without you around

    I don’t know how well I’ll survive this cold winter
    ‘Cause when I got sad I’d snuggle up with her

    How will I ever be happy again
    without my girl Punkin she was my best friend

    So suddenly everything’s all in upheaval
    I’m prayin’ and prayin’ that this all will end well

    But without my Punkin it just as well end
    ‘Cause my Punkin is gone and she was my best friend

    Oh how will I ever be happy again
    without my girl Punkin she was my best friend

    Oh how will, how will I ever again
    be without Punkin she was my best friend

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    Punkin Butt ❤ July 6, 2009 – October 30, 2016 ❤

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