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I am so good at remembering
The pro of remembrance if you will
Which doesn’t mean I have a good memory
It means I’m bad at letting go
And sometimes our strengths are our weaknesses
in the crimson and gold,
you burn the brightest,
the stories you've told,
left me ignited.
the flame flickers and cracks,
don't leave at dawn.
i light the candle wax,
Hello, My name is....
you probly dont care.
I mean who am I?
A girl in a crowd...
I open up.
and you close.
My mind starts to wonder...
what couldve been if i said my name?
the stars we see each night
are only distant lights from the past
meaning that we see them
but they could be gone
i'm sort of like that
because you can still see me
but honey, i've been gone
Glass spiraling down, and everything seems slow motion. A high pitched crash as glass shatters is a perfect example of my emotions.
When your world freezes over like the tears from your eyes
Like a call from the doctor or when your mother cries
To feel your heart sink like a stone thrown in anger
To the depths of dark seas, as if tied to an anchor
One summer’s eve in Spain,
I fled through an open window,
Butterflies aflight
In the very pit of me,
And I tramped the streets,
My heart abrim
With such a love,
But a love now long gone.
My mind is a battlefield
It has trouble distinguishing danger from safety
It makes rain on a tin roof sound like gun fire
Makes fireworks on the Fourth of July into an air raid
You asked me to write for you,
So I wrote of a boy with stars in his eyes,
A bright soul, and his heart on his sleeve.
I wrote about how he died and how the light left his eyes
Days of youth containing cheerful screaming,
Hours of running and spreading laughter
Are jointly held through the room of dreaming
The place that we take care and look after
I sit in a cold dark room
Out of nowhere the sunflower appears
I can hear the song play in the back of my head
Tears slide down my frozen face
I walk up to the lonely flower
“Almost”
An adjective meaning very near or not quite.
What a terrible word that holds a painful truth.
I dread these six letters, as anyone would.
I am laughingThat I can be dummyBut I am still laughingAs the world looks badlyAnd the time passed quicklyI found myself lazyI am toughing that I am triflingAll are passed to me and runI look to the time in runI am searching ,searchingTo find myse
I saw you today.
You sat there and laughed.
I was near certain
That I was going mad.
I watched you sit there,
With a laugh and a smile.
I nearly started crying.
Haven't seen them in a while.
I remember your smile,
The way it would light up your face.
How your laugh would sound,
And sing throughout my body.
I remember your anger,
And how it would scare me.
The way you'd get sad
I'm drowning in a world
Where you are the air.
I'm starving in a land
Where you are the sustenance.
I'm dying of thirst
Where you are an oasis.
I'm left behind
From where you had to go.
Skin as white as snow
Veins the color of grass
Heart as broken as a flower,
Each and every petal plucked
Mind as broken as a record machine
Reliving memories of pain
repeat-reapeat-repeating
I wanted him to stay.
But Time would not allow it
For he does not trust me. Not anymore.
As I am a creature of hell.
I know no death nor life. Only pain.
We met in the wrong time
We connected in the wrong time,
We bonded in the wrong time,
We hugged in the wrong time,
My Sweet Peanut
love of mine
make me smile
all the time
My Small Raisin
on the floor
i giggle at you
you smile some more
My Perfect Balloon
always far from reach
You are gone , now there is nothing that i own
I miss you second after second , you were my treasure
Now no one's there to make me feel special , your memories gives me pleasure
Because i love you,
I let you walk all over me.
I forgave your infidelity.
I gave you my heart,
you replaced it with yours.
He loomed from the depths of hell
He swam from the ends of the earth
He screams,
He dies,
He trails me,
He is darkness
I was taken aback
By your sudden words
Your pause
As I watched the emotions
Fall into form onto your face
I knew it was true
I looked to comfort you
As the tears fell
In this dark and open public space,
My eyes meet the gaze of a warm, but ghostly face.
I felt alone until the face appeared across the way,
My loneliness would escape me and I could not look away.
Those we love don't go away
They walk beside us each and everyday.
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
So loved, so missed, so very dear.
Your life was a blessing Your memory a treasure,
such a simple time
with love in your eyes
it was but a rhyme
filled with sorrowed sighs
Ivory Skin
Satin Sheets
You were MY in
But you never released
I know you don't want to talk to me because you need to breathe
but I'm restless without you
they say the only ones up at 4am are the loved and the lonely
but I'm broken
You see
She sits on the swing right outside her window.
The window where she use to sneak out of every night.
It's 1 in the morning and her thoughts lead her back.
When tears slip down her bronze skin,
She seeks warmth from the fire.
So far away, she craves it with a
Burning desire.
The crisp winds shroud her in the cold.
What would it be like to just sleep?
To close my eyes and have no worries.
To just relax and not feel pain.
What would I dream about?
Would I dream about my past life and the people that I left behind?
In an instant,
I caught a moment,
That fell off from time,
But the instant was gone,
And with it, the moment,
Leaving me staring,
Into emptiness.
#free_verse
Echoes bouncing off the walls from your tongueWhispers dance across your teeth, you are youngThe muscles flex in your face, next to your lips, a smileA feeling grows deep within me, my heart beats wild
It never stopped hurting,
Every moment of every day,
the pain engulfed her;
It was hard for her to believe,
The one person who she loved,
Gone, never to return;
Her eyes searched for him,
You were my life and, my light.
Then came that cold, dark night
Now the only time i see your face is in the pictures of this old place
Without you, i dont know what to do
Why did this happen to you?
I should be sleeping,
Smiling at sweet and happy dreams,
But instead I lay here in bed,
Anxiously awaiting day break.
I fear closing my eyes,
And wandering into my head
Biten whole, broken sand and sole, shreds of something they
said
Love-and-loss: same breath, same bed.
Forget the good and its sunny smile
-
'Cause
-
you-and-me were all I had
Look at me. No, look at ME. What do you see? Do you see the me in me? Or do you see the me you only know?
The me outside of me? The me that everyone else sees? Look at me.
We met the other day,
All was fine one could say.
Let's face the truth: it was not.
We were strangers to one another,
Different from what we thought.
It was awkward,
Was it not?
Oh, the lovely corner,
a home and friend of mine.
Oh, the lovely corner,
your comfort is divine.
Oh, the lovely corner,
Ever wondered what it felt like to be loved by your crush?
Of course everyone does.
I have been down this road once.
It broke my heart multiple times.
He came, he went.
I stayed, and stayed.
Looking up I see you there;A star shining in the sky.Like a dimond hovering,There above the place I lie,
And as he waits on the spire of the human soul,
End watches.
A woman stands outside and stares
across the rugged buildings to the early sunset. It’s a lot of blue
covered over with whispy clouds,
JR Farrell is
the one person i absolutely
need
the one person
whom is everything
is three since months gone
to get him back i’d do
She's gone.
Nostalgia comforts as I'm consumed
by my thoughts
By her lingering aroma
Sage, sassafras, and cinnamon drifting
in the wind
As I sit by our favorite willow tree
I missed you again today
I've been doing this thing where I refrain from thinking about you until about the worst possible time in the day to break down
When I'm dipping in the pool for the beginning of practice
I dream of you.
Standing next to a car with leather seats that became too hot in the summer.
With eyes, golden as the embers in a fire
With arms, hugging me tightly
With lips. that kissedmy forehead when I was sick
Without you days drag on without any meaning
without you the bleak existence that I once used to cherish is now waisted wondering why
why me
why was I not good enough
and why did it all have to end
The dragons surround me
Their fire lashing out at me,
Their ceaseless destruction
Finally taking its toll.
The destruction I caused.
The fire I created.
The dragons I raised.
The days have grown longer following
your absence..
And i feel trapped in this skin
You left me in
We used to be close
Now, in my house
Your name is unknown
Like a skeleton to bone
When I read my old poetry
it's like I've stepped into a time machine.
Memories that used to haunt me,
feelings that tied me to the past.
I see scenes of hysteria, longing,
and abandonement.
my father
reduced
to a pile of belongings
"a seperate load"
on moving day
to be locked in a storage unti
abandonded
worn clothes donated to charity
Hold your breath
Make your peace
This radio has fallen silent
This newsreporter's caught speechless
I don't feel this pain
When I'm not breathing
We just fall apart
No one has time,
But there's always time
To complain.
No one sees,
But they do.
No one cares
In this world
We once called home.
I only know
What I've been told,
I stand in the valley of the shadow of death,
Don't understand why I'm here,
Everything seems deep, dark, and dangerous.
Anyone here?
I wanted to kiss my name off your lips,
Taking back my identity
The life of a young woman is boundless and untamed
There is no way of telling where she will go next or who she will become
The crazy twirl that destincts
Who she is
The girl I was years ago is gone
Dear sweet Philip
I am the one to blame.
A knife held close
next to my shame.
Had you kept quiet
So would’ve my blade...
Wait!
I see a man,
I remember watching him sleep,
his eyes fleeting back and forth under their lids.
I remember him drawing long breaths,
and his heartbeat wavering in his chest.
“You walk funny.”
These words have plagued my school experience.
No one knows the reason behind this walk,
They don’t know that my muscles don’t work and I’m slower than the rest
Remember that time,
When you said you would try
to come to my graduation
and you were unable to make
it and I began to cry a river of
tears.
The crying, something you have seldom seen.
I wait, stagnant like the water beside a dam,
wanting to move forward, but I can't.
Not yet.
I am stuck.
Restricted.
Where did my voice go?
It used to verberate so loudly through the mountain tops,
I wish i could write about nothing at all.
wouldnt it be interesting to describe nothing?
we couldnt say a color,
How would we know what color it would be?
We couldnt say a shape,
I'm so lost.
I'm so weak.
Everything I thought I once knew is now gone, its all down the drain.
I feel so alone.
I feel forgotten.
No one care for the way they make me feel anymore.
I'm still gone with dis beat
Still rolling dis mary jane
Still on the wong pad
Still can't find the light
Always on a great high
Always missing the signs
Never wane do the rite
Dear Missing Piece of Me,
As I'm looking out the window at the clear blue sky,
With the birds soaring on their tireless wings
Wy does the time always seem to fly?
On my mind are about a billion different things.
There was once a girl
who had given so much
of her heart away
that one day,
after giving her last piece,
she fell asleep listening to
Bon Iver,
and doed of a broken and
missing heart.
I found your pictures on my closet floor
The only way of knowing you were here before
And I no longer get waves of tears anymore
I am fifteen
And my hair is nice and long
I still have the curls
And my love is not so strong
These hands, that you once held
I gave away to the wind
because at least they know how to hold something
People walk into your life
And then vanish instantly
But they don’t see the price
Which happens consistently
They touch someone in a way
And become part of them
But then they just walk away
We were almost loverd a long time ago,
Two young minds entwined through intimate play,
thoughts waltzing together in endless flow,
They say most black teens don't live see to age twenty-one.
We live by the gun so we die by it.
These statistics I won't cosign with.
They basic labeling me a vindictive idiot.
It was that calm before a tempest blew through the town
It was that stillness before a crack of lighning pierces the sky
It was that silent bubble of air before you drown
My emotions are bursting out like a screech on a violin.
I miss you and it's this pain I can not hold within.
Sometimes I think you are here
It is in little, subtle movements and noises that force me to question if you are still on earth
I cannot see you, only in pictures
I once had a childhood; carefree, full of dreams.
I once had a family; happy, loving.
I once had my sight; to explore, to enjoy, to embrace the world around me.
Before the fourth of July. I never knew pain so severe. Expecting a few firework shows with enjoyable sound. The bright vivid colors seem to amaze us all and make the little kids go wild. Instead i ended up with the opposite.
I don't know what happened,
For everything just went black
Feels like the world just stopped
Now everything's just turning bad
I Cant dry the tears falling from my eyes
With my heart beating so fast
Just think happy thoughts.
Your day will go just fine until one person pisses you off.
They treat you like shit.
They make you feel like an outcast.
What is wrong with society today?
Blood drips above your lips
Your heart beats in hyper drive
We’ll reach the sky when it is dawn
You’ll never cry because I’m never gone
He moved, slowly, into the silence
And I haven’t seen him since.
Do I stay or do I part?
The decision will come from my heart.
You were gone
Gone for so long
You left me in the cold
You came back
Then you were gone again
Came back for good
You were down for a little while
You rose
Rose up and started to build again
Jimena hates living in this world
She comes to a point where sanity and insanity become whole
She struggles to understand the meaning of her existence
at the end of every today that passes
i lay able to rest
because i know that it means
i am yet another day closer
another day closer to my tomorrow
God save us: everyone
We're a band of sinners living life on the run
Responsibility and morality ride hot on our tail
For freedom and happiness, we set sail
I always wish I would one day wake up
Wishing the last 10 years was a dream
Wishing this pain away
All the tears and scars gone
All my pain and sorrow
My heart was real again and not just a black hole
she sheds tears for herself tonight
because she knows that when its over
no one else will cry for her
You were my bestfriend
I thought you'd stay til the end
but you left me just like the rest
I guess I couldn't pass your test
I wish I could talk to you today
Because I didn't have to pretend to be okay
and without notice she was gone…
gone never to look back at what once was a burden.
gone from all pain, hurt, and sorrow,
gone knowing that there was a brighter tomorrow.
Head held high, she is confident.
i am but a dream to you
And in this I am shattered
Something you can manipulate
Into pieces until i am tattered.
We have forces, you and i
separating dark from light
though i stand with open arms
I am a blink in history.
My life will be short.
I can choose:
Will I be someone remembered for my love,
or for my hatred?
Though I may not remembered for very long,
Dejection,
No affection.
Depression,
No expression.
Happiness?
No. Not anymore.
No more blessedness.
No more galore.
Why do I still love.
Why do I still trust.
It's not just one time.
I know because you've said that before
"It's just one drink."
"It's just one hit."
"I promise, I could quit."
It's not fine!
So wake up!
Hated, lost, rejected, abused;
Angry, hurt, broken, confused.
I wish that i could disappear
And find myself, away from here.
Stomping, slamming, pouting, rude;
Immature, stupid, juvelnile, crude.
She plunges into a world that was left unknown,
a kind of darkness that swallows her whole,
he tries to grab her,
but she is forever gone.
She releases her grasp on what is truly real,
this void, this emptyness inside.
what'd you expect of me?
i'm an empty vessel with out a soul.
Wind whips me
As I soar through
My breathing gets knocked out
Trying to Pull air back into my lungs
But all was silent
As I finally made it
I checked my back
With wings no more
Beating of heart
Growing ever faint
Your smile still strong
I try to smile back
You first came into this world
So very unique
I did not want to fall in love
I did not want to get hurt
Beating of heart
Growing ever faint
Your smile still strong
I try to smile back
You first came into this world
So very unique
I did not want to fall in love
I did not want to get hurt
A candle flickers in the darkThe only light in the worldThe world that has forgotten it.
Forgotten the small candle, not the light, not the fire.
No, definitely not the fire.
You're like the swaying of trees
Or a breath of fresh air
A feeling so lovely
He walks into my room
An old friend of mine.
He holds something shiny.
"Hello Rae."
He spit my name like something dirty.
Don't say you miss me, don't call me love, none of that would be enough.
I want your kiss, I want your hug. I want your joy, your laughter, your bliss.
Time has held a place in her mind
But it moves too quickly now
Love has found a place in her heart
But it's too painful to bear anymore
Happiness has linked with her soul
But it never lasts forever
Falling down, falling down
And then those words saved me.
When I was at home and all alone
I looked for an escape
So I'd hide and wait, I'd hide and wait
And then your voice saved me.
Light.
Now it's dark.
Knife.
In my heart.
Fight.
In my head.
Cry.
In my bed.
Shadows.
Closer.
Getting.
Older.
Falling.
Crawling.
Game.
Your scent just suffocates me,
bringing me down into a hole deep and dark.
Why would you do this?
Your warm body was once mine,
keeping me from freezing at night.
Why did you leave?
I would never refer to myself as a murderer
Silence, except for the thrust of fists
Nothing can calm either, not even a blissful kiss
Yesterday's promises have faded to black
My heart says I'm happy, my head says I'm not.With the stress I've been given, my brain has been shot.My head and my heart speak in two different ways.One's speaking in logic, one's lost in a daze.There's memories left that you had without me.Ones
As the bright lights slowly fade
And I am left out upon the stage
I frantically search out there for you
But it seems you have left me too
Now here I stand all alone
Quietly reaching for something to hold
My time is up,
There is no room,
The clock is stopped,
The sun is dead,
My time is gone,
The breath has fled,
There is no time,
Little Scarlet, little Scarlet, where have you been?
Prancing upon my garden, did you spend
the time that you were so generously given?
Little Scarlet, little Scarlet, where have you been?
Prancing upon my garden, did you spend
the time that you were so generously given?
If only we had just a little bit more time together,
If only we had some time to be free.
We wouldn't have to run away and hide and steal time together,
We could've made memories, fated to be.
My childhood is gone,
Snatched away before the hands of time deemed it to be,
I sit all alone in that crowd,
Slumped in a corner,
Blade to my wrist,
Wondering why I exist as anything other than a play toy,
The Wind shares her secrets
to summer's dying Leaves;
with Her promise of spring
they fall so hopefully.
One last burst of color-
they wither away;
calmly assured
that warmth returns someday.
Today is the end of the world
Everyone is gonna die
Get together with the ones you love
Be prepared to say goodbye
Shit, at least we die together
Sorrow sorrow brother is deadCremated into ashes put in a jar the new child tot tot topples it overWhat to do what can be doneScramble to scoop brother back into his homeSome ashes are missedLicked up by the cat
Are you watching me from afar?
Delightfully mocking my scars
Cackling with your lungs half packed
With sharp words and enough smoke for stacks?
I can hear you calling
Out into this space
you have etched into my heart
a walking path
lined with flowers
of every color;
i've walked it once or twice,
myself, and i've seen
bluejays and buttercups
HEY BOO!! GUESS WHAT?You’ve left me alone again, crying for what seems like forever. I’m surprised I haven’t run out of tears yet cause thats all I do all day long.Cry over you.. when you seem like you don’t even care.
Like a tidal wave,The memories hit me.
I’m drowning in,What used to be.
I gasp for air,But it’s not there.
I reach for you,But you’re gone too.
The way your eyes lit upThe way your mouth smiledThe way you used to laughWhat happened to all that
We were once inseparableWe were once capableNothing came in-between Now we're only once upon a time
When I die, my body will become the grass
When I’m gone, there will be a crack on the glass
My spirit will be an overwhelming mass
And my footsteps will cause an earthquake in class
What become of the Beauty gone astray?What happens to those who have no time to play?No one sees the Silent agony,and if they could,what would they really see?
I’m so in love I found you finallyYour words take me to the heavens aboveThe feelings can’t be taken too kindlySome people question if this is true love
I tend to get scared when I think about my life.
What happens when it just ends?
I've never really believed in a god or an after life.
All of that just seems silly and make believe.
Its the quiet ones who have the most to say.
Its the hidden pain that never truly goes away.
Its the quiet girl who sings her song,
But no one hears her til shes gone.
The deepest pain is the easiest to find,
Isn’t it funny, all these different feelings that come with different days?
No matter how far away you seem,
No matter how much you hurt me,
I will always love you.
I don’t need your approval, don’t worry,
Tears burn my gentle face
What hurts me the most
Is knowing there's nothing I can do
But look up at the midnight sky
And pray you know how much I miss you
My first heartbreak and you weren't there
With the world gone to the pits,
I wonder how much worse it gets.
Most people try to call it quits,
But others use their wits.
it's not a shootout
it's not a fight
it's not a rape
or a stabbing
someone thought was out of sight
that momentous night
it was robbery
it was a death of
a childhood friend
Remember that day he left you
When he left you and he flew
He said we will be together forever
That nothing can come between you ever
There he goes walking at his graceful pace,
says hello to his friends, decides to stay and talk.
Smiling and laughing there is is, but then his eyes land on me.
His smile has faded away, and my heart is beginning to cry,
You departed way to soon > Now you're up there with the moon, > The clouds, and stars while they shine bright > I hold back tears all through the night, > Can't help but think of all the memories > You truly meant a lot to me, >
The day he died is when you died too; Your heart, your smile, your kids died too. When he left us, your happiness did the same; Two kids and still felt no reason to remain.
I look in the mirror,
I see your face.
I look in your room,
I see your face.
I look in my room,
I see your face.
I look down the hall,
and I see your face.
I stand waiting,
My eyes gazing across the horizon,
The wind blowing my hair in the direction that you disappeared.
My heart aches,
The feelings within it rush up and down,
Like the sea I am watching.
Another day stuck in dismay
Rain clouds follow me everywhere
Just another bad day they say
I know they don't even care
I have a cat,
and then I had three,
four,
five.
Alonelyness.
Feeling the world caving in,
the door to a better life closing day by day.
Alonleyness.
You saw me there yelling for help
You didn't care
You saw the pain
You could have helped me up
You knocked me down instead
You kept hurting me
You didn't care
One day you will realize how much you hurt us physically and mentally
One day you will see the pain in our faces
One day you will noticed how many lives you ruined
I wake up, 5 am as usual
I get ready for the torture ahead
I arrive at school
I walk down the hall to my first class
I sit down
"GROSS!"
I miss you very much,
But you’re never coming back.
In this world of color,
Yours is solid black.
I don’t know what happened,
I just know you’re not here.
I remember all the good times
Ridiculed, the punch-line to every joke.
Do not tell me what to do,
I am not a part of you.
Don't you know it hurts?
The scars gather as well as the tears.
Deeper they dig into my skin.
Fears.
Feeling lost and so alone
No one to turn to
Somedays you just gotta hold your own
Empty heart and broken dreams
No one to turn to
All alone and ripping at the seams
Beaten down and can't get up
I will never understand why you died
Yes I know the reason why
Someone bullied you
And said mean things about you
But why did it affect you
You are beautiful
And you are smart
