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
In Place
Couldn't cripple you with fists
so they did it with their words
Decades old
loud as an hour ago
So distracted by voices past
you can't see the joy
in a future waiting
for you to create it
You'll never find yourself
never be yourself
in the darkness
or the light
until recognize
face
and go through
the fear
of what you didn't do
and
what you could've done
to stop the voices
mid-sentence
April 9, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
When You Hear Your Name
Finding each other in this chaos
like strangers among stars
that somehow touch each other's gravity
You'll know them
by the sound of their voice
when they say your name
Hold on to passion
when it comes to you
It's so rare a thing
Don't walk away
when it calls your name
April 8, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Bane Of Existence
Off all things
and all people
that have caused
me to change who I am
in an attempt to
never allow it to happen again
the worst
and the strongest
was me
I am the bane of my own existence
April 7, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Take It
Of all the things available
to deal
with pain
and the reasons thereof
Mantras
Movements
Arts
and
Diets
The most powerful
and most forgotten
is responsibility
Take it
April 6, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Spiritual Asylum
So many with
a path
a way
a secret
to sell
that will show you how to rediscover dreams
when the world has stolen them from you
Building self esteem back up
with the chants of charlatans
or sadder yet
the good intentions of ignorance
No one can hear their own message
when they've gone deaf
from the barrage of blessings
from best selling gurus
April 5, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
The Universe Is Just A Word
Your moving muscles that have calcified
and your healing crystals have petrified
Violently blending words
like you're ashamed of your brain
Attempting to launch yourself into the stars
on a paper plane
while trying to deconstruct a falling star
with your pen
Recreating a dead universe
with ink made from its dust
Spiraling galaxies going down
down
down
and out
through the tips of your fingers
April 4, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Everyone's Got Their Starry Night
All the ideas are out there
All that were
are
and can ever be
What we have to offer
each other
ourselves
the future
is
how we see them
how we hear them
how we create them
and
how we act on them
for their never was
is
or will be
anyone else
who can do
what we can
Will you?
April 3, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Surrealist Questions
What is an owl?
A stranger you will never meet
What is a generator?
All the inspiration you will ever feel
What is fog?
Lost memories
What is a gutter?
A wasted life
What is lightning?
The beginning of an idea
What is thunder?
An idea
What is a cyclops?
A narrow mind with even narrower vision
What is seaweed?
The strands of a broken heart washed away in tears
What is artillery?
Verbal violence that destroys a soul
What is charm?
The pretty, painful lies of love
April 2, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
Pulling Ideas Out Of Babylon
Worlds that do not exist
scenarios impossible to live
families created
by people never born
alien to one another
aliens all
lives dark
lives light
lives nuanced
the heartbeats can be heard
the tears can be shed
from eyes that do not see
and hearts that do not beat
the spark from someone else's fire
ignites your burning
April 1, 2023
Tressa Lee Breen
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