I will make better mistakes tomorrow

 

My words have escaped me all day

While you’re carrying my wrongs

 I’m creating bad memories faster than they're getting erased


Your arms are getting tired from my weight

From carrying me over every single hill we encountered

 

My memory has escaped me all day

Searching for clues buried in my headache

To understand what you might think of below yours

 

If I could make my wrongs right

If I could carry you instead

I will make better mistakes tomorrow

 

There are three words to be repeated in infinity

And it’s not even enough then

But one must start somewhere, so

I

Am

Sorry


The Last Chapter: Hurricane Season

 

The last chapter: Hurricane Season

 

I: Winter

They never talk about the calm after the storm

That’s because there is none

Only chaos

 

The storm that wrecked it all

Broke down foundations

Of what I once knew

Changed the path which I walk upon

 

Self medicating with;

Tounges

Throats

Fingers

Cereals

Tequila

Late nights; sometimes alone

Traces you left in my room

;To find shelter from your wind

 

On the state line between loneliness and cheap heart games

Still waiting for hurricane season  (I always check the forecast in the morning)

 

 

II: Spring

 I wrote you a novel

A poem or two

Perhaps they are all about you

But they will never measure up to

The music you created in my name

 

Late at night

I pretend that I hate you (false)

 

I’ll cuddle up with insanity

A fragile breath

And my own touch

 

Floating in

Our favourite wine

Thank God these streets are dry

 

Hit me, hurt me, kick me, punch me, push me;

Yours will still be the most gentle hands

 I’ve ever let myself fall into

 

Maniac

A title I proudly wear

You were a reason worthy

My insanity

 

(The answer is always simple, but never easy)

 

III: Autumn

Delete

And forget every word I ever wrote

For I bet not a single one was spoken about me

I have to stop whispering about you

And I’m ready to change my language

Your chemicals are wearing off

And I’m confident that’s what it was

My wrongs, and yours

I’m letting them go

 

Fall brings a new wind through my garden

You can rest


An Angel at the end of a dirty road

 A dirty road leading up to everything

Beautiful

What once took place on sandy concrete

A shaky conversation under desert stars that hold you now

Your hospital bracelet speaking of carelessness

Intoxicating eyes and a silky touch

Painting hearts in the dark, spinning lights

And an illegal high

I was high off you

 

Your footsteps erased from the sand

But in print within

An Angel at the end of a dirty road 


The purest dirt in my heart

 
You keep searching for a cure
But I was already there
Don’t know why you find me so toxic
I’m not just another drug
To get you high
I was your calm
 
You’ll always be the purest
Dirt in my heart
Keep popping doses of your
Substance, tingling in my nerves
The streets are empty
But memories hold unlimited supply
 
You keep searching for a new drug
But I was already there
 
 

en intern moralpredikan

En fullkomligt onödig och ofullständig text som skrevs i huvudet

en vilsen, vacker, brutal & varm natt. 

 

Basgång och skratt tränger genom badrumsdörr. Vår firas, gemenskapen och kommande värme; där ute.

Här inne; våta ögon, röda ögon, svullna ögon, berusade ögon. Knä mot hårt, nerver skriker. Byxor spänner, fingrar bits. Skvätter; tvättar hårslinga i handfat, frottéhandduk. Möter spegelbild, intern moralpredikan, vad är det här för jävla liv? Fuktigt finger på sminkad kind, lämnar inget märke. Knackning på dörr, jag kommer snart. Bara en omgång till.

Tröja fläckad, jävla skit, säkert ingen som märker. Är du klar?

Andas in, inandning. Andas ut, utandning. Finger avlägsnar vilse smink under öga.

Le, testing testing, rutin, lås olåst, nu kör vi, ta en klunk, ta tre, skål!, fuck it. Kontrollera väskans innehåll: bankkort, körkort, smink, telefon, kondom. Vi är sena, nattens gator, fyll lungor. Skrattande skratt, tryck play, uppspelning av; skrattande skratt. Vingla mot natt på ständigt instabila ben. Hitta någon som ännu inte hatas, famla efter händer som rör vid det som inte får röras. Med tillåtelse; varma händer, mjuka händer, kåta händer. Händer som inte får röra, men som rör ändå. 


Tystanden fakturerades hem några dagar senare


Inledningen på en novell som aldrig blev mer än så.

Tystanden fakturerades hem några dagar senare

 

-       Vill du ha det såhär?

Det är frågan jag helst av allt vill undvika. Den lämnar hennes läppar och skjuts rakt mot mig. Jag försöker att ducka mentalt, hoppas att den ska passera mig och krossas mot den vita, sterila väggen bakom mig. Men istället träffar den mig rakt mellan mina två barnsligt blåa, och lämnar mig lamslagen. Frågan som alltid förväntas besvaras med ett ”nej”.

Istället är jag tyst.

 

Vi låter tystnaden etablera sig som så många gånger förr. Den snirklar sig in i alla vrår, smeker den opersonliga IKEA-tavlan på väggen, låter de blekta gardinerna fladdra till, och klättrar sedan upp längs benen på Landstingsstolen där ergonomi inte prioriterats.

 

Det är på den jag sitter. Utanför fönstret sprudlar Göteborg. Ungdomar letar nya gömställen i Slottsskogen och kärleksparen upptar sluttningarna ner mot kanalen.

Men i lägenhetslokalen på Magasinsgatan hörs inte fågelkvittret. Och solstrålarnas skimmer slutar en halvmeter framför mig.

 

Tystnaden har pågått i minuter och har för länge sedan passerat stadiet av att vara pinsam. Den bara är. Ibland avbryts den av ljudet av hennes skrivande blyertspenna mot protokollet. Hon är uppjagad idag. Frenetiskt rör sig pennan över arket. Frustrationen vibrerar i luften. Hon skriver fort, som om hon är rädd att glömma detaljerna av mina misslyckanden. Allt måste med. Tydligen har hon och min tystnad en konversation jag inte är delaktig eller medveten om. 

 

Hon ställer alltid samma frågor, men får aldrig några svar. Det här är mitt spel, mina regler. Och hon märker inte att jag fuskar.

 

Spetsen på pennan bryts och avbryter henne. Jag småler och hennes blick bränner. Eftermiddagskrig.

Jag tror att jag vinner idag.

 

Tystnaden fakturerades hem några dagar senare. 


An Old Story

 

These walls once knew our story

But their memory is growing weak

I miss

Not missing you

There are so many feelings

It’s easier to not feel at all

 

You erase me so easily, I wonder if I were ever even a part of you

Always an option, but

Nothing more 


Your absence is more present than your presence ever was

Your absence is more present

Than your presence ever was

You reminded me of my worth

And now I have to remind myself

For it seems I lost all value in your

Eyes

 

I’m granting your wish by my silence

You have no idea of the lengths

I would have gone for you

 

Teach me to forget

The essence of your tornado

A blur of notes, wine and beats

But in the crystal clear daylight

Seems pointless 


Go find yourself a heart

 

I’d never let anyone break me

You caught me off guard

Letting go is somehow harder than holding on

An enemy in my bed

 

I’ll walk over the loneliness tonight

Bare feet

In the meantime, I think you should

Go find yourself a heart

 

Call me insane

Probably

I am


Suburbs of my heart

In the suburbs of my heart

Stealing someone’s first impression

So they’ll never forget me

 

Didn’t read the book of rules

Of this game, but

I’m betting all of my good intentions

We could move into this clearance box

Reach out and touch

What’s left of my heart

Come morning,

Relinquish 


How I’ve always adored your bullshit

 

The only thing you provide:

[Blank],

 

And I still find it amazing how

I’ve always adored your bullshit

 

You never read the fine print

Along my spine

Don’t act like you know the ending of

The book that is I

 

Your chemicals are wearing off

It was a sweet illusion 

Treasure the fact

 

Your gun to my head

;Unloaded


Words that only make sense to me

 

It’s all coming back to me

The road I swore to never walk down again

Are leading me safely home

Kid, don’t fool yourself   

 

Control

Is what I can’t control

I swore to change

But I’m wearing the same mask

 

I fool myself

 

I thought it was years ago since we last met

But now I realize

You never really left 


my quiet heart

 

This is what's left:

No matching socks

A broken music box

Raindrops, making love on my window

 

You fit perfectly in my kitchen

Your words eating up at my spine

 

This is what I wanted:

Mute conversations

Neck branded by lipstick

Empty milk cartons in the refrigerator

 

Lately

You’ve been hurting someone else than me

And that’s what’s been hurting me

 

You always did me wrong

But that was alright with me

I tried to paint you my heart

But the pen was dry

I’ve fallen for you too many times now

Without losing my balance


Untitled

 

You stare at the skies

But I know I belong to the below

 

Looking for reasons for years

To move back into the bad neighborhood

Where twisted things doesn’t wait ‘til nightfall

 

Substance-free high

I’m soaring

 

I’ll never blame you

But you’ll be mentioned on my stone


Intoxicated children on hazardous roads

 

Intoxicated children on hazardous roads

 

Promises you never knew how to keep

And these waves pierce through my evenings

With messages and codes

Of my delusional haven

 

This is a chapter you thought

No words could spell

A book we closed long ago

But I still kept sketching the cover

 

A haunting fairytale of

Intoxicated children on hazardous roads

And as I stumble

I am, again

A child in your eyes

But I know

I’m much younger than that


Winter child

Even though you too

Are a

Winter child

You left me in a

Snowdrift of confusion

 

I could draw you a map of

The things I never told you

But that’s a treasure

You wouldn’t benefit from finding

 

I prefer your words

But I know

I have to write my own book

But the lines are crooked and my handwriting is off

No, I do prefer your words

Even though I don’t understand them anymore


Feathers with sharp edges

Feathers with sharp edges

 

Five years has passed

And I know I’ve been foolish

Missing you

But how you pour emptiness inside me

A sensation you master alone

 

When you knock on the heavy walls of my mind

I relieve you from your spot on my doorstep

Once more, we share this bed and you can’t resist

But to pull my hair

When you braid it

You stroke my fragile skin

Feathers with sharp edges

Old friend

 

They add so many letters to my name

I’m not sure what to call myself

Anymore

 

 


Microwaved flowers

 

Buckets of your words

Next to my bed

Your heartbeats on cassette

Like you’re still around

 

All that’s left (is)

Microwaved flowers

 

Technology conserved the last of our blooming

I can’t bring you back

 

Nothing but microwaved flowers

Wither

In the corner of my eye


A Sunday Ballad.

A Sunday Ballad

 

A taste of coffee

Sounds of silence

Making up words

 

This would seem like nothing

Looking in through my window

But these minutes

Are what matters now

 

You slipped away from

The corner of my eye

But I sense your weight on my floor

These walls know you by now

And this story should be told

 

Nothing is happening

But everything is

Changing

You’re throwing blessings on my bed

And I think it’s about time

That I wrote

A Sunday ballad for you


It Is a Tuesday Morning.

It Is A Tuesday Morning

 

The distance between us cannot be measured

It is not in the miles

It is not in the inches

In the space between my fingers

Where yours used to fit

 

It is a Tuesday morning

Waking up alone

Only my footprints in the snow

 

But when I’m not aware

When my eyes are closed and my breathing slow

You hold me and I make you smile

We share a cup of coffee and drink kisses

A step higher than reality

Absorbed in your presence

Not knowing it’s only an illusion

 

It is waking up

And you’re not there

That’s what gets me


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