Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online Jan 3, 2017 & in the print collection Photographic Memories: Deux Mille Dix-Sept — available here

The Harmony of Symmetry by Melodie Yvonne

The harmony of symmetry alleviates anxiety
unlike the crooked pictures that need straightened
and here I sit without you drooping low and all askew
like a worthless piece of trash that you’ve degraded

I don’t know how to turn around your eyes so they will see
this perfect mirror image that is here for you in me
but know that I am with you in your heart where I will stay
until the day my heart has died and turns your soul away

I wanna know just what to do and how to make you see me too
but love is blind and blindingly it binds you
You shined a light into my dark and gave me just a little spark
that undid all the certainties that I knew

Now my mind is full of mazes bouncing round inside its cages
Walled reflections make my eyes see you in echoes
Beautiful reverberations making musical creations
matches my heart with your ever-changing tempos

I don’t know how to turn around your eyes so they will see
this perfect mirror image that is here for you inside me
but know that I am with you in your heart where I will stay
until the day your heart has died and turns my soul away

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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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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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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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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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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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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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