poetry of jesse wiles

To Put It In Dramatic Terms

To put it in dramatic terms, the hero has fallen the hero is dying but the hero is not going quietly

I fought to get here and now I'm not sure where I am the voice that said "There's more to life than this," might have been my own once while i could control me I was not exciting me alone with candles and cigarettes and the regret and the confusion but once again many friends and not exciting me not exciting me anymore

I thought I said it loud enough for you to hear me I said "Don't leave me. Please god, don't leave me." but you couldn't adhere to the air of us near and I sank slowly in my ocean of fear THRASH sink THRASH sink

and when did I get to be this fucking stupid just once to need a her like I needed that like I need the smokes like I need the drinks like I needed you it's like the hurricane on TV never happen to me never happen to me and everything I never wanted all came for free

and after vomitting and coughing and swearing "Never again Fuck you all Never again" I went to be alone I rule over pain The king on his throne

and so I said Please me Please me, to me

a heart content with nothing is a heart content with nothing

"Cut me another line O shit, I'm fucked up Load it, hit it, load it, hit it O shit, I'm fucked up"

I swear They never meant to hurt me I never meant to hurt them She never meant to kill me I never meant to get dead

So stay It's not the time If I leave Not enough time To say what makes me scream To say this Stay O Stay Don't leave me this way But please get out of my fucking head And lay yourself beneath me in bed We'll dance till we die I promise Never forget me Never forget me Say something Christ, why don't you just say something O God, make her stay Stay But not this way Your smile, a ghost Mind tenant A phantom Hauntingly Hauntingly Haunting me

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