A crack in the page
and the dark cream seeps in
between the lines
Soft truths drip down
to punish both
peasant and royal
with understanding
wanted or not
1-June-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Thinkers
They close the distance
between dream and goal
shaping the world with the beauty of reality
and filling gaps along the way
31-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Closers
Blindingly focused
By their actions
they show us how to build the world
By leaving nothing undone
they show us how to keep it running
30-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Healers
Those that carry our burdens
of fire and blood
and those that watch over our health
Those that heal our ignorance
and guide our maturity
We fall
They lift
We are crying
They bring laughter
We cut ourselves on our own edges
They show the softness
and strength
of compassion
29-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Dreamers
Not those that sleep
but those that are awake
and create fictions
to teach us facts
and keep the works of those before us alive
They make joy brighter
sorrow lighter
with their words
their sound
with their vision played out before us
they sing us to sleep
to our own ideas
and our own dreams
28-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Enchanted Dungeon
Castles are enchanted
Dungeons are haunted
But what if dungeons are not
where judgement leaves you
but where you leave judgements outside
Where blood does not run
but boils
burns
corporeal seduction
Torture of the most exquisite kind
Where the past
does not tempt us
and the future
does not beckon
A bedroom of being
and the only thing that will end up haunted
is your dreams
27-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
The Sounds Shadows Make
An old keyboard used for the story of my life
the keys so worn the letters are long gone
but still the tapping and the clicking
not just for the chapters coming
but tales past
Perhaps if I could see the letters
I could stop whatever brings the old back
rereading
reliving
the pages behind never stay turned
they flip with a cut
drawing fresh ink onto clean pages
these memories
these shades
bring emotions back
stopping new stories
Old feelings are just the sounds shadows make
when they kill your present
and stunt your future
with your past
Turn the page
26-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
While Death Waits
While Death waits
let's appreciate the rawness
let us shape one another
teaching each other how to behave
bringing out
the gentleman and the gigolo
the lady and the tramp
between us
for us
Death can wait
for we are busy
drowning in each other's silence
25-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
The Salt Of A Sentence
"You're just too weird or something"
That sentence laid waste to her fragile self-worth
the devastation was deep
unforgiving
and set the tone
for all those she saw
all those she let in
salt of the earth
doing what salt does in the earth
until she's nothing but dry cracks
in dead sand
24-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Who Needs Desire
Every fear is a desire
Does this make her a slut
sleeping with every monster in her mind
Missionary with the modern Prometheus
all the building blocks of her life strewn about
nothing created
fear of heights
Hairy entanglements avoided
as she's already in bed with the wolf man
Who needs desire
when she can be a whore
in this exquisite loneliness
23-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Empty Chairs
Her love
loosely used
never gets past longing
so there is never a risk of loss
She can't imagine her kisses would taste of anything other than
stupidity
fear
laziness
Her hands
the wreck of a never formed idea
If life is the music of experience
her time is a silent song
with an orchestra of empty chairs
22-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Invisible Damage
Half a lifetime ago her father made a pass at her
In all fairness, he was her step-father
In all fairness
Keep fat so no one will find her attractive
(overweight is overlooked)
Side effect
only those desperate, cruel, worthless
will see her
Be seen by her
Never totally in the now
she goes to places
creates places
where she felt
feels
alive
even when those memories
fantasies
are filled with fear and sadness
She's disconnected
causes no problems
unseen
She's left to lose her future
moment by moment
21-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Wild Card
Fears are born from our lack of kindness
to ourselves
and that bleeds onto the cards life has dealt us
which move between us
as we change hands
Kindness is a wild card
not every deck has
and those in play
often get lost in life's shuffle
20-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Black Moon Calling
Your soul is black as night
yet you are still bright enough
to be the moonlight to my midnight
on a moonless night
so I can always find my way
back to us
19-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Beautiful Blur
While I am burning
my unquiet bones
hear the song in my marrow
a black rainbow in me
While we are burning
we won't go to the light
we'll go to where the music is
18-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Mantras, Motivations, Pillows, And Plaques
"Trust yourself"
"Deep down you know who you are"
"You know what you want"
Cliche after cliche
Motivational posters, throw pillows, and plaques
all espouse self-knowledge
"Remove the world's bullshit and you will find who you are"
"Who you were meant to be"
What if everything that's you
who you are
is who leads you astray
What if
deep down
you are a broken compass
that points everywhere
but north
17-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Favorite Clothes To Wear
I swell
engorged with the knowledge of you
all of yourself you submit to me
I throb
its every word of yours I breathe in
I want
most of all
for you to be the favorite outfit I put on
both over my skin
and inside my body
16-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Write Something Out
Write something write something write something
instead of getting caught up in creating
a life I didn't bother building
a woman I might've been
couldn't be
just doesn't exist
with my latest impossible boy
that never would've met up
with my would've could've should've been girl
If my brain won't keep me bound in the present
let my pen pull me to places past
where I felt alive
even if those places are full
of terror, pain, and regret
and I'll try
with a path of ink
to write my way out
to the possible
15-May-2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Let Reason Burn
Before tradition
there was lust
Reused ritual
has taken desire
and stripped it
of its spark
leaving only smoke
Let
what's always been done
die
and let
the reason why
burn
May 14, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Need For Understanding
I have an alternate need
it runs parallel to my desire
I lack the skill to explore it
Shut the door behind you
be my safety
and I'll make you understand
May 13, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Beautiful Plague
We are each the astronaut of our own life
attempting to navigate space that does not yet exist
no maps
just eerie stories
from those who have flown
between their own stars
We tend to favor the known solar system
even though the way to fulfillment
is to gouge out a new trajectory
What we have in common
is we are all infected with life
and at the journey's end
we all die from this beautiful plague
May 12, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Create A Moment
Not every advance is advantageous
and a barricade is usually boring
Who wants to think
about the next move
the next brick
when there is
ecstasy to exhibit
and experiences to exchange
May 11, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
From Desire To Deed
His dirtiest dream
exposed in accident by ecstasy
drew out her darkest dominant
who made his nocturnal fantasy
his most daring deed
May 10, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Second Hand Magic
It's not funny
the noise I hear
when I scan my brain
dark and dirty
bloody but brave
With a borrowed wand
made of second-hand books
I must cast the magic
to mute the murmurs
and become the mage of my mind
May 9, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
The Power And The Beauty
An emperor must study
events past
to deal with the present
and avoid perils in the future
A magician must learn
they create the magic
they do not reveal it
And he must study
the beauty
of please
as she must learn
the power
of no
May 8, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Free Space
He asked her to cast the circle
and call the corners of their bed
need and naughty
eroticism and ecstasy
safe and sexy
want and wanton
leaving them the freedom
to accelerate and arouse
around
and
around
and
around
May 7, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Rage
A spell becomes a plot
and a ritual becomes premeditation
when a novice's green goes dark
An evocation for justice
draws out revenge
An invocation for peace
draws in vengeance
and the only thing this circle can bring up
from this uncontrolled cauldron
is a demon
May 6, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Mind Cluster
She tried having a word with herself
a kick to jump start her power
but the truth was in the know
and the jumble that was her mind
wasn't the only cluster that was fucked
May 5, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Obsolete
When the hardware starts getting worn
and software loads so slow
there's a noticeable quake in the motherboard
and service becomes harder to find
it's time to acknowledge the unutterable
there are no longer any upgrades available for you
May 4, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Illogical Peach
She got all she wanted
and it was sickly sweet
like an over-ripe peach
She discovered the illogic of nature
having was not so pleasing as wanting
and dreams very often
don't come true
May 3, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
No More
The smell of memories
drilling through
the altar of my time
gaining speed
with less ahead
close to the end
not much left to fight for anymore
easier to fade away
May 2, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Naughty Talk With No Words
She's the tongue of lightning
in a mouth of thunder
Her every strike
will make you pant
with beautiful want
May 1, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Paid On Time And In Full
30 days
30 bills
30 payments due
Sometimes a pull
Sometimes a shuffle
Sometimes something old found
Sometimes something unknown
Often tardy
Often late
Often in debt
30 days
30 bills
30 payments due
30 paid in full
April 30, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
It's not "Yes, Dear", it's "Yes, Master"
Start with Rose
the stereotype
but make it heady shadows
not a bouquet
but a bedroom
Next is Amber
the gold from trees
spicy, warm, soft
the way your skin smells when you shiver
Follow up with Leather
natural, soft, tough, strong
binds you to dark deeds worth doing
Finish with Smoke
organic, woody, lost then found in a forest
comes from the fire you've just burned
April 29, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
I Can Do What I Need
I don't need you to hold the door
when I can click the cuffs
I don't need you to stand when I arrive
when I can tie you down when you come
I don't need you to pay the bill
when I can buy your silence with a silk scarf
I don't need you to compliment my looks
when I can see beauty in your eyes when I blindfold you
I want you to need
all that I can do
to you
April 28, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Frequencies Closing
Like fire trying to converse with water
we hear but do not understand one another
unless terror is a form of communication
as we fear
the loss of us
if we cannot find a way
to speak to one another
we may not drop immediately
but drop we shall
April 27, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Crossover
"What beautiful lipstick,
just love to smear it up!"
An embrace and kiss
between two strangers
at intermission
A different kind of song and dance
then came before
and what is yet to come
The memory
of a girl
who for a moment
behind the boards
became a gentleman's
fair lady
April 26, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Guess Memory
Ultimately we all end up a memory for someone
A memory wistful
A memory discarded
rubbish
Spoiler:
Guess which one you are?
April 25, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Progress
Don't live like you're at the bottom of a heartbeat
and don't try to balance at the top of a spike
One difficult to climb up from
the other too easy to fall down from
Keep high with inspiration
Keep fast with enthusiasm
Keep level with discipline
With that
passions become fantasies
fantasies become dreams
dreams become goals
goals become life
Yours
April 24, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Skyfall
Changing the sky
swapping out the sky
with a heart balloon
full and only stopped by a ceiling
slowly loses air
loses life
goes around the room
getting lower and lower
until there's nothing left
of the sky
April 23, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Diamond Master
I didn't kill anyone
I didn't murder anyone
I defended myself and they died
For once I was the calm before the storm
and during
And I saw them
all facets of them
like I had diamond dust in my eyes
and every refraction of them
was clear
They thought to manifest a quake of tears
and instead manifested a monster
they begged to call master
before they ceased to be
April 22, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
No Ghosts
Mother and father were a ghost town
and the silence that inhabits it
I was just a vine of marrow
Growing...
Growing what?
A tumor made of soul seizures?
Just a cog in the genetic wheel
addicted to oxygen
Now just a collection of monsters
never having learned
the generative power
of no
April 21, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Would've Been Worse
I wish I had hurt you
I wish I had destroyed you
I wish I had taken your apathy for myself
and you slowly faded away
That would've been the illusion of feeling good
the mirage of strength
I would've become empty
I would've become you
April, 20, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
No Bet
You wanted to become my king
slowly chipping me away
filling the cracks with you
until I was more you than me
your bounce in my step
your throbbing in my heart
your stamina in my bed
But I'm looking to worship
and be worshipped
and I know a knave
with delusions of royalty
when I see one
Fold and walk away
for I do not just have the better hand
I am my own deck
and no one gets away with cheating
when playing with me
April 19, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Self Sabotage In The Stars
Knocking the moon from its stand
and watching roll down to earth
wreaking havoc on the tides
throwing gravity off its center
oceans of water being drawn to you
coming to drown you
April 18, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Moments Of Want
Moments above the sun
moments below the moon
in a pristine backyard
in a filthy alleyway
one brings the power
one brings the pain
both surrender
April 17, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 55 of 100
Day 17 of 30
He Wanted
He wanted to give the pain
He wanted to consume and be consumed
He wanted never to stop wanting
He wanted to create new scenes of possession
He wanted her to say yes
He wanted nothing but her and had nothing left at all
April 16, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 54 of 100
Day 16 of 30
She Wanted
She wanted it to never have happened
She wanted to have been the one to end it
She wanted to stop wanting
She wanted to stop recreating the scene
She wanted a man to say no
She wanted to relive it just one more time
April 15, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 53 of 100
Day 15 of 30
He's Wanting
He's wanting to forget he has a past
He's wanting to forget he has a present
He's wanting the world to forget he exists
He's wanting to be asked for nothing by anyone but her
He's wanting to give nothing to anyone but her
He's wanting to destroy them both for her
April 14, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 52 of 100
Day 14 of 30
She's Wanting
She's wanting the now she didn't have then
She's wanting to punish now because she couldn't punish then
She's wanting to be hurt for enjoying it then and now
She's wanting to know these men will be the last
She's wanting to know there will never be enough
She's wanting to destroy and be destroyed again
April 13, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 51 of 100
Day 13 of 30
He Wants
He wants to see a girl
He wants her to be a woman
He wants her any way he can
Who is taking who
He wants her in ways yet unthought of
He wants to be her pain
He wants her to want
Who is pushing who
He wants to be the only one on her tongue
He wants to be the only one she sees when the blindfold comes off
He wants to be the only answer to all her questions
Who is hurting who
Who is leading
Who is following
He wants to know it all
April 12, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 50 of 100
Day 12 of 30
She Wants
She wants to see a man
She wants to see him undress for her
She wants to be fully clothed beneath him
Who is taking who
She wants to be touched by a man
She wants to be tied up and tied down
She wants to ride him off a cliff
Who is pushing who
She wants to surrender to him
She wants to give him her power
She wants to make the rules and watch him break them
Who is hurting who
Who is asking
Who is doing
She doesn't want to know
April 11, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 49 of 100
Day 11 of 30
Cloak
Cloak of light coming upon the world
deep into the bones the warmth will go
exploding life
all the earth has to give
nervous humans watch the sun
wondering if this season will burn
April 10, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Day 48 of 100
Day 10 of 30
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