Sorrow & Glory

I exhale, giving you forever 

Yet you have never penned a word to keep 

Adolescent child that chokes on gullibility 

Swallowing the wine of sincerity 

Stepping into the sanctuary with eyes closed 

Falling from the height of Heaven's hold 

Pulling up against the stairwell wall 

The barren life of unending circles 

I don't know how to tell you I love you

The pandemonium of sorrow and glory 

Smudged ink stains of a home grown story 

Proses of a daunting end 

#redcoatewritings #originalpoetry

Goodbye's

Goodbye to svelte swooned lovers   

And the soft palms of deliverance 

The sweet succulent seduction of a trusted friend 

Swaying to and fro upon superstitions 

Goodbye dear youthful bliss of rouged lips 

Reveling the freedom aglow the cheek of a babe 

Naivety tightly swaddled in the breast of innocence 

Goodbye to endless possibilities that promise a world kept  

Besieged under humanities ruin of reckless abandon 

Goodbye to treasured heartbeats and the blood of purity 

Jaded by the harsh hand of a calloused generation 

Blinded by the ambitions of selfish lusts 

Goodbyes, always goodbye's that deny the dreamer of a place to lay his head

#myoriginalpoetry #redcoatewritings #keilacoatewomack #paintedpoetry 

Sacrificial Lamb

Crushed beyond words

 Looking out the doorway as the ashes hit the floor

It seems no matter how many times you recklessly rip my heart from my chest, I still love you 

I still adore the inmost parts of you

I want to hate you, even forget you, But it is impossible

You defeat my will, you steal my strength

I have been thrown out again,

The person I have trusted most 

I will be the sacrificial lamb to keep your kin from suffering 

I will silently mourn and hold my head above death 

I will raise my shoulders upright in dignity and ignore the pain

I will bring strength and security to my loved ones

Knowing you will soon forget me

Riptide

In a dress 

...full of flesh

.... a life of stormy weather 

A love bound heart 

...the hand of art 

....a map of tattered leather  

Feet on flight 

...a journey of night 

....adrift on the fate of a feather 

A smile made of cloud 

...passion screaming loud 

....adventure revised in every letter 

Eyes alight with fire 

...tears upon empathy's door 

....inside lions paws tight together 

Enslaved in the riptide 

...possessed by the Oceanside 

....restless emotions tether

#redcoate #original poetry 

Rearview Mirror

The rain begins to fall upon the memory I keep of you

Eyes fixed on a drizzled rearview mirror as the images of us fade in the distance 

Holding on to the edge of the aged photograph that captures your irresistible smile 

The days keep passing into night 

Stretched over the sunrise of the house of pain 

Our bodies create the perfect poetry 

Every line of you in impeccable symmetry colliding into my flesh

Eyes locked and lost in each other's souls

Drift between the sheets until my hand finds yours 

Fragile heart in my chest is breaking 

Thinking of the silent miles that separate our lives 

I sit idle upon the desert grains and take refuge in the mountains 

But hope remains for the day I soak in wave after wave 

#redcoatewritings #originalPoetry

Soul Keeper

You are my soul keeper 

The hollow my mind sinks into

Every fibrous core stirs awake sleeping hope 

Delighted dahlia spring in esteem Finger tips brush over your brow

Magnificence dances upon your prominent cheek 

My ear lay upon the chiseled perfection of your chest 

Thumps drumming of a heartbeat serenade 

Overcome by the heat of you 

Safety in the walls of your embrace 

The secrets kept hidden in the basin of your eyes 

Inviting me to wander the depths of you  

Keep wide the door to your heart 

I'll find your light, I'll carry the weight 

The war I must wane for your love 

In time I will make you mine

Even if it only exists in lines of paper,  

Folded into the confinement of leathered locks 

#originalpoetry #redcoatewritings 

Pilgrim's Kiss

I'll bring you the stars cut out from my name

Place them in your palm as a pilgrim's kiss 

Pick every weed from where your dreaming eyes journey 

Heal you of every false fear that penetrates your skin 

I will rebuild the ruins that seize  victory under the soles of your feet 

If I have to lay myself down on the lowly ground, 

To catch your weary mind from crumbling, no hesitation will restrain 

There's nothing that can separate my heart from where you are  

Over the wilted flowers of time and the shadows in the darkened sea

In all the distance and want I will wait wrapped in linens of mercy 

#redcoatepoetry