From my notebook...(1)

Here's another poem from my old notebook. At this point in time, I'm not ready to explain what's behind my poems that I'll be posting. That's for another time. Enjoy!

Stuck here in a tangled mess
Not sure what to do
I feel myself being eaten alive
By the love I knew as you.
Strip me away
Piece by piece
And when you're finally done
You'll watch me bleed drop by drop
As if watching the fading sun.
And in my own stupidity or insecurity
Still I linger a moment longer
Convinced it all will change
Stranded here I remain
Watching him pass by.
My only chance to start again
And make the sun begin to rise.

No wonder my family thinks I'm strange...

The following poem that I'm posting was the first one I saw when I opened my old notebook. I completely forgot about it and can't remember why I wrote it. I just can't imagine what would cause me to write about roadkill, but clearly I did.

A pungent smell rises
And hangs in the air.
Out of the split
Seeps that which normally cannot be seen.

The pink intertwines with the red
And soaks into the blacktop.
Scraps of fur, and maybe bones,
Litter the line dividing the cars.

Lifeless limbs once again
Are recklessly manipulated by the passing tires
As drivers unaware pass over
Only to hear a disheartening thud.

Breaking their speed for only a second
Realizing that was flesh they just hit
The drivers continue on thinking nothing of it
Already dead by nothing they did.