Claire Bendig's Poetry
A Swiss Cheese Memory
Words are stuck to my tongue
Tangled and adhered with no care
They push and shove till’ they stung
My mouth is bloated by pointless air
My brain is hollowed out
I know because I get looks like I’m scary
by nameless people who I know without a doubt
Popping holes into my swiss cheese memory
I’m scared. I don’t know why.
I’m looking at familiar eyes
and I’m sure my memory is of a fly
I couldn’t connect Jimmy to Son and he starts to cry.
I’m patted on the head, like they are trying to pat the pieces back together
Because at moments I can’t see to remember where I have gone
My most precious belongings were slipping away forever.
I just needed to train myself to hold on
Apology accepted?
I’m jotting down these lines,
on a spotted napkin with a stub of a pencil
I’m not quite sure how you and I define
the eccentric world we’ve created. I’m sure it’s all mental
that I have made you and I my own heaven devine.
I wish that we could talk for hours,
and know the meaning behind every line.
Because misconceptions sometimes overpowers
and I admit they are usually mine.
So lets leave it at accepting words that are ours.
I feel as I sit alone contemplating,
that sometimes words can be useless
when we are mindlessly complicating.
So please accept my mindless
chatter because it hurts to be aggravating.
I love you to the moon a back
It’s cheesy I know but
I swear to you thats a fact.
So accept my hiccups even though they cut
Because I swear to try to have more tact.
A Swiss Cheese Memory
Words are stuck to my tongue
Tangled and adhered with no care
They push and shove till’ they stung
My mouth is bloated by pointless air
My brain is hollowed out
I know because I get looks like I’m scary
by nameless people who I know without a doubt
Popping holes into my swiss cheese memory
I’m scared. I don’t know why.
I’m looking at familiar eyes
and I’m sure my memory is of a fly
I couldn’t connect Jimmy to Son and he starts to cry.
I’m patted on the head, like they are trying to pat the pieces back together
Because at moments I can’t see to remember where I have gone
My most precious belongings were slipping away forever.
I just needed to train myself to hold on
Apology accepted?
I’m jotting down these lines,
on a spotted napkin with a stub of a pencil
I’m not quite sure how you and I define
the eccentric world we’ve created. I’m sure it’s all mental
that I have made you and I my own heaven devine.
I wish that we could talk for hours,
and know the meaning behind every line.
Because misconceptions sometimes overpowers
and I admit they are usually mine.
So lets leave it at accepting words that are ours.
I feel as I sit alone contemplating,
that sometimes words can be useless
when we are mindlessly complicating.
So please accept my mindless
chatter because it hurts to be aggravating.
I love you to the moon a back
It’s cheesy I know but
I swear to you thats a fact.
So accept my hiccups even though they cut
Because I swear to try to have more tact.