http://slow.writerscafe.org/Echo086 The original writings of author Echo086 en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776093410 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Love meLove me as a tree loves the EarthIn which it grows tall and strong.I will love you as the river loves its bankWithout which it would have no form.Let's love not as two parts of a whole,But as two separate entitiesMerely choosing to love and to be lovedAs equals.That we both may become more th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1408100/ Sometimes I feel like someone's idea of a jokeA mid 20's assholeI write songs that are too stupid to singI write poetry- That's all you need to hear -I write poetryI think the world owes me its ear,That by virtue of existence, I deserve a voiceBut what do I doWhen no one wants to listen?Obviously, I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1408094/ I am a rat in a maze.My hubris leads meDown paths I think I've solved before.With each step my fear grows.I am only halfway,The anxiety bubbles up,I am only halfway.I twist and turn through the labyrinth.The researcher has placed thornsAll throughout my path.Somehow I step on a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1366050/ I am in loveA most repellant, repulsive loveI crave a person who may as well be dead.I haven't heard her voice in what seems like a lifetime.I am no longer the person she loved,And I can sure as hell say the same of her.And yet...Cruel love reminds me"You've never been happy since her""You were neve.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1318627/ Today is too beautifulFor you to die.I wish you had left usOn a rainy day.Our tears should blend in with the rain,Not glisten in the sunThey should freeze to our faces,not be dried by the wind.They should mingle with the sky's tearsAnd fall to nourish the Earth.Today, as our cold bodies begin to tha.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1318549/ Cold,So cold...The world hasGrown so cold itFreezes my insides, my heart.So cold it has frozen you.You look at me now with pity.I look at you now with longing, confusion.We are further, love, than we have ever been -Further than before I knew you, before I'd heard your name -You showed me Eden, para.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1303471/ I am an animalThat's what I learnThey tell me what I am, show me what I do.Who am I to say they are wrong?I can see itI can see it allWe are a vicious, violent sexWe desire vicious, violent sexAnd I am one of themInextricableLust and powerWe have been put on this Earth for .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1301881/ Love budsButterflies emergedFrom their years long gestation,And took their new homeIn my stomach.Because of herI was myself againFor the first time in years.I was terrified of her,Yet I was unafraid.If she would know me,She would know me.No need to hide,We understood one another.It felt good.It felt.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1299142/ I tried writing you a love songMake it big and make it brightTried to tell you I would be thereI could hold you through the nightBut darling as I sang itThe whole thing left me coldSo I'll just ask to hold your handIf I could be so boldI've never been the rich manOther guys could give you moreNever .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297653/ Pen in hand, I try to write a masterpieceAn object of undying beautyTo make people weepTo make them question their existenceTo somehow yell to the world:"I am here.I was here.I will be damned if you forget me."What irony if no one listens?Why do I need to be remembered?What gives me the gall?Who gav.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297651/ I am thinking of you again.As my eyes,My mind,My heartScream for rest -For sleep -There is only you.You dominate my thoughts,Consume me.In my stead you leave a shell,A corpse shambling through the world.You have emptied my brain of sense.You have wrest my free will from me.You control my every thoug.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297650/ Verse I:Caffeine and RomanceFrayed nerves slow danceY'know you've got no chanceSnap out of that tranceDon't try to fight itYou'll just reignite itTry to rewrite it,and move on despite itPre-Chorus:Coffee and love songs Make a sad damn pairBoth make you feel wrong,A little too awareI gotta quit .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297649/ Been a while since I felt this way 'bout anyone.What about you made me change?Should it be such a simple thing to feel again?Just a switch flipping on in my brain.How 'bout you, do you feel it to, or do you not?Don't answer, you might break my heart.I don't know if we'll end up somewhere meaningfulB.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297647/ How do I love thee?Rather poorly.I hide from you(Because you scare me.)Nevermind sense,Nevermind courage.I'd rather cower.I shouldn't speak to you anymoreI always come out painedYou burn my insides(Well, I burn my insides.But... It's your fault.)What if I want my insides to burn?What if you're worth.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297646/ A stone in my throat,A pit in my stomach,A slow, gnawing burn.Reminding me:"I said something stupid, didn't I?""I always say something stupid, don't I?""I should just give up, shouldn't I?"You're driving me insaneBut, I don't think you know it.To you, I'm just another face, right?Maybe I could chang.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297645/ Fizziness.You make me feel fizziness.I laugh, but I don't know whyI smile like an idiot.I talk like someone took my thoughts and pressed fast forward.You make me lose time.The world becomes a blur.Am I smiling at you? I can't tell anymore,The nerves are directed elsewhere.They're desperately trying .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297643/ Your eyes stab meAs you glance my wayAnd my brain plays tricks on me."She knows, you fool, she knows."The look you give me,Innocent enough.Still, my mind screams at me."She knows, you fool! She knows!"I wish I could ask youTo prove him wrong,But that would be stupid, wouldn't it?Then, he'd be right .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297641/ Gather round, friends and I'll tell you a taleA story of blood and of goreAbout a strange figure, unearthly and paleThe Beast of the Somerset Moor.Everything started one dreary, cold nightAn evening, friends, much like this hereA woman ran into town screaming with fright"The fell Beast of Somerset's.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297640/ People in my life become artOne way or another.Some become pop songs,Others art music.You've become poetry,Poetry and clumsiness.Game attempts at human communicationCome out as strangled gruntsOr strange head movements.The words that do come out string together To form sentences said by people .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297639/ One of the biggest arguments I've had with myselfIs whether God exists.Well, that's not true. I've always believed.It would be more correct to say I've been...Unsure...Of God's role in the worldSomedays I know that God is everywhereWorking like a tinkererFine tuning Her greatest, most terrible .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297637/ Music bares the soulBeyond all mere words can say.For that, it's vital. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297634/ Moon shine and moonshine.No better combinationI drink with the stars. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297631/ I hide myselfEvery minute,Every hour,Every day.It's become a habit, A reflexAn involuntary reactionFrom a ghost whose name I don't know.Maybe if I did, I wouldn't always want to be so small.Someone asks how I am.I immediately reply: Doing good!Proper grammar is pretentious, right?"We can't have.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297630/ I feel it again.The knot in my stomachWhenever I might see her.Whenever I might be near her.It's the worst feeling in the worldAnd yet, it's the best.It's a reminder that I can hope,That I can want another person so desperately to be close to me,Even if nothing in the world scares me more.Conversati.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297629/ Words cannot describe The frustration you feelWhen sleep eludes you.Thoughts fly through the mind.They buzz like angry waspsStinging you when you begin to drift off.Making sure you pay attention."Listen to me! You can't afford to rest."So, your thoughts drive sleep awayWhich makes you think,Whi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297627/ Could you love her?Is she real?Are you?The time has come to decideThat spark flashes.One you've not feltIn a very long time.You think.Could you love her?Is she real?Are you?These forces conspireTo shake your resolveAnd to question your motives.Fair skepticism.Could you love her?Is she real?Are you?B.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297626/ Poems are the distillation of the soulTake a person,Their fears, their loves, their happinesses,Throw them under a microscope.Their molecules tell stories, too.Poems tell those stories.So much is said in so few linesSo much beauty is found in so few wordsSo much truth in so little text.Poems can be .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297624/ I.More than 2 yearsMore than 800 daysMore than we were together.When will it end?I am in love.Not with you,But with us.How I felt.What it meant.What I thought I could do.If you needed me to fly, I swear I could have.Then, like a car into a brick wall, it slammed to a halt.I, the crash test dummy, wa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297621/ My love burns white hotScorching me from inside outDemanding releaseThreatening to leave ashWhere once I stood.The thorn twists, drivesNever relenting,Never granting relief.My bed is empty,Yet my heart is overfullYou leave your imprintMy heart branded forever:"This heart once belongedTo her and her .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297619/ Love's pain is unfathomableUntil one feels it.From then on, it is unmistakableAn unwanted companionA constant interloperA dull sting, a permanent twingeYou'd give anything�"Anything�"To stop feeling it.But it doesn't work, does it?You smell her hair, hear her laughIt is unend.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297617/ Dawn is breaking.But is it a welcomed day?Or is it one long dreaded?Dawn is complex.It beckons as a siren or an angel.It is one or the other, never both.Dawn is unavoidableEach day becomes night,Night, day againIt is unbreakable, unwavering, uncompromisingDawn is cruel.It arrives swift for those who.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297610/ A man once talked of a light that never went outIt stays lit, no matter how unwantedThe knife twists, rips, leaving a gash long after it is gone.A painful reminder, a chilling, foreboding omenChallenging me to leave my shell open to another assault.And yet, that light will extinguish for no one.Ever.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297608/ SomehowI still miss youThe fights don't matter.The pain doesn't matter.The neglect doesn't matter.Nothing matters.Well, you matter.You're all that mattersI think of the nightsPassion running thick as a cloud of smoke,Choking until all we could muster were moans and whimpers of ecstasy.My name, whisp.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Echo086/1297604/