Kate (Grazing the Purple Skies version)

[Laura]

a/n: you may want to read the original "Kate" first

Kate (Grazing the Purple Skies version)

I see you
huddled underneath a shady umbrella
in the stormiest of weather
crowding your mind with words
that never seem to make sense

take all your frustration out on your fingernails
bite them until they cannot form any more
and until they stop bleeding from too much blood

I see you
being pretty underneath all that mascara
streaming down a gorgeous face
with laugh lines in the making
that have come to a stop

I know you're in a rush to cry
I know you're in a rush to end it all

and gather it all up
break the face you once smiled to
inside a mirror that laughs at you.

you know I know
it never has.

haven't you had enough -
of your own tears?
staining the wool sweater
you only wear to keep warm
in the coldest of rain.

and I'm sorry I didn't see you leave
without your coat.

and I'm sorry you still run to no one
when it should be me.

just wish you would open your arms
up like a crossroad
to that purple sky

"take me
take my life" you shout

"I'll never be mine again"

and when you soak it all in
you will be at the end of the bridge
and I can smile with you
one last time.

[thecrazybeautiful]

"crowding your mind with words
that never seem to make sense"

I'm really liking that.

"bite them until they cannot form any more
and until they stop bleeding from too much blood"

That reminded me of the movie The Jerk where he would donate blood everyday just to get free cookies, then he said he stopped when he cut himself shaving and nothing came out... That's a comedy though, and this is a sad poem, but the image just came to mind.

I think this one's a little more emotional than the original one... And it doesn't give me the picture of the beach that the last one did... Which I still can't explain... Anyway, this is really good.