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It is a pity I had to leave,
without your consent.
How else could I grieve?
Everything I saw in you to conceive
stripped my development.
It is myself I must deceive
I wish I’d told you how good you looked in your suit when you picked me up for Homecoming.
I wish I’d told you how much I think about the time we went to the corn maze.
we've been laying in my bed
for hours now, neither of us sleeping
nor talking, just holding each other.
from the moment he walked in the front door
i knew that he had something on his mind,
Come here
They whisper of a re-entry
When all that has plagued you is left behind
and you are living in bliss tenfold than the sorrow you endured
In this mystical place
far from the World and her terrors
I‘m holding the keys, I'm driving this car.
Played games, pushed me way too far.
I’m setting higher standards, and raising the bar.
New beginning for me, mind my business from afar.
I will weep for you
as a willow kisses the ground
I will hold your hand
as I lift the weight of your shoulder
Hear my shallow breath
count to 10
leave your bags
Plant a kiss
On whoever’s forehead you can
Without awakening
The more goodbyes the better,
But too many
On those who care too much
Divorce is a sinking ship.
The sea parts with crashing waves.
A tsunami of destruction that floods over every part of your life.
Dad..
You left me drowning.
something about you is so familiar
no matter how long we drift apart
I can't help but love you when you're near
maybe how you were the first
the first person to stick to look into my heart
"REBMEMER."
Those are the 8 black letters tatooed on his chest.
The eight letters that are actually "REMEMBER" backwards,
So that every morning, when he wakes up on base,
A rose by any other name
Has thorns that are just as sharp.
An ocean in any other day
Will drown you if you try to run.
I remember the day you left like it was yesterday.
It played in my mind on repeat
Like some malfunctioning CD
And it was after you I realized why the lord made angels in heaven far away from humans.
I fell to my knees aching to touch those fluttering wings on your back
we are flocking togetherthere's no-one to leave
be the aim and the arrow
VVVis for Victory
that's a lucky escape
Grace be that flower and how she glistens.
Your eyes sift along and you don't see truth,
It's not about the grace but who listens.
She will need you to see through to the youth;
A Light dusting of snow
I know the snow can be frightening
I see your eyes as the snow turns to ice
I see the the frostbite crawl up your walls
crawl up my hand
I don't care
Mom
You gave me life, nourished my body to grow strong
Over the years, by your side is where I belong
Watching what you do and your moves
When i was bad you told me you disapproved
Strive for science yet live for art
Mother teach me through practical and passionate experience
Help me allow them to bend and morph with my soul
You guide my choices and I follow through
Having a broken heart makes it so hard to breathe
I begged you to stay, but I ended up having to watch you leave
Best friends? Best friends till the end?
I guess with time my broken heart will mend
Home is where I rest
My head at night
Such a fickle word
It seems to change all the time
I’ve gotten used to
The shifting
Like warfare and religion go hand in hand,
you and I could bring out the best
or the worst
in each other.
Passion and righteousness clouding all judgement
but we were just wanting to do the right thing.
I hope the thought of me hurts you and tears you to shreds,
And makes you never want to see me again.
I hope you fight yourself back from calling me,
every time you look at a picture that reminds you,
I stood there in the quiet
accompanied by the swirling Zephyros
A still voice piercing, emanating, delving
And my brows furrowed, face contorting
Dear Dad,
Sometimes I wish I never met you.
1,000 miles used to be the only distance,
But now we're quite through.
And yet, I still think about your existence.
Dear Sister,
When you were born
I remember receiving
A bright red camera
I remember
Clutching it close
dear lover,
there are pieces of myself that simply belong to you. when you leave, you take, & you fill me up with lies in exchange for what you drained of me. this is the best way manipulative men will get me to stay.
I find it
Fascinating
The tiny
Futures we
Envision
With one
Another
Despite
Knowing in
Dear The People I Once Knew,
I remember the first day I saw you,
getting off a bus on the last day of sixth grade
You were ectatic
but I was...
I’ve been staring up at the moon
wondering why it has gone so soon.
Yet to know, that life is moving on
even though it is long and gone.
Every day you tell me I'm worthless.
Every day you make me focus on you.
Can you not sense this sadness?
A sadness that is new.
Every day you try to change me.
Every day you ask for money.
Because I love you
When I was crumbling, the world morphing
Spinning around me like a top in Wonderland
I still came to you, and pulled myself together
I stitched you up,
Put you together,
Becasue at one time I love you: I let you touch my soul
you had the magic touch two mend my torn heart
At three you kept my bed warm like a burning piece of coal
when no one else was there four me
You left me,
yes it hurts,
your the only one who really did love me?
yes I'm still in love.
you gave me your all,
you choice the drugs.
yet, your still in my thoughts.
Please be safe.
Darling a life without you
is a life I don't even want to try to live.
But I will for a little while.
At least untill you retern.
My heart cries,
The Broken Hinged Door
By Zoe Pierson
It’s seen the good, the battered,
the blessings, and scorn.
The late nights of sneaking out,
the arrivals of long gone people,
the past, the present,
I want to love you
I really do
But I am scared
Please understand why I hesitate
It is not because of you
It is because of me
Something like this is not easy
I stay when they go
I swallowed my pride, remembered that Patroclusdidn't have to die and that Enochleft no bloody body to mourn. I knew the tragedy of mourning.
I cannot write if it's not about you.
I cannot think of anything but you.
I cannot sleep without dreaming of you.
I miss you.
The black void
yawns before me.
I go to it, arms open
For me it was gold
But for them its dirt
The way they treat
The way they speak
But whatever it is
I doesnt really fit
They came along
That wasnt too long
Both singing a song
When you're here it's never for long enough.
I always forget the little things
Like how amazing you are, how much you mean to me, and how you make me feel
But also,
How you're always late.
Why is it so hard to realize
when someone has perished,
that she is gone?
I know that she is gone but it doesn't feel real.
I can feel her all around me.
In every room I feel her prescence,
The smell of the fresh April air
Reminds me of this time, last year
The day seemed fair
But suddenly became my worst fear
I never meant what was said
A week before this
If you weren't an ocean away, would that be the difference to make you stay?
If you got on one knee and put a ring on my fourth finger, would that be enough to make you linger?
The early morning found us
sitting on your
tattered, burgundy, mattress cover.
Me, focused and writing.
You, scatterbrained and distracted.
You reminded me of our lives at seven.
My only enemy is my own front door
Wont let me in since Im not the same as before
Ive taken a thousand steps away from my greatest fears
Cried like a desert rain until I ran out of tears
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
And bids her eyes hereafter still be blind.
And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses;
She bears the load of lust he left behind,
Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,
Sakura, color me pink,
Sakura, color me white.
Above all colors, don't hold red.
A delicate figure among the snow,
Such jealousy and respect cannot compare
Your Wisdom and you Pride.
What made her leave?
Was it the broken bottles
that collided with the broken bodies?
Was it the river that poured
not only pain,
but anger?
Or maybe it was the
faceless child
I suppose I just knew,
You never told me what to do
There were no "directions"
For the heat of my affections,
My heart just beat
While your lips tasted sweet
On my own.
I am in so much pain right now
Im am sitting here with your smile on the top of my head and
it feels like the weight of ten months of love
is crushing my shoulders
I really miss you
Hey, I was just wondering
if you know you have your elbow in my heart
Like, I know it's comfortable and all but really
Is it that you like the way it bleeds when you lean
like that?
You stand beside me and try to hold my hand
The warmth of you sets my mind wandering
The way your whole face smiles before your mouth does
cracks a glow-stick in my belly and the outside world fades like
Everyone run, the monster is coming.
With hair of fiery orange, eyes of dark, cold blue, souls laid upon her skin like trophies.
Your sweet lips touch mine...
I hope for that solitary moment where I will actually treasure you being here.
I already miss you....
I miss anything and everything about you...everything
At this time, 2 months ago exactly, you kissed me for the first time.
And kissing someone never felt so right or so real.
I thought we were meant to be, meant to last.
I used to be happy and joyful and free
Now life has put its shackles on me
And all this stuff’s built up inside
But I have no more tears to cry
I’d say I thought what we had was real
I know I should leave
I know I’ve got to get out of here
How many times do you think I’ve packed my bags?
it’s been so many I’ve lost count
Here is a different world
where I’m ignored, unloved, forgotten
Every relationship has its ups and downs right?
Right?
And the ups can match the downs hell,
the downs can outnumber the ups
as long as one truth remains, that we exist better
Together.
Whisps of ashy gray smoke occasionally drift over the walls. Sometimes, when the wind blows just the right way, I can smell the charred, silent world outside of my fortress.
Why can't I talk to you?
the question is
whos at fault,
you or me?
can't i stand the pain?
the look in your eyes
of oblivion-
deep swirling galaxies
legendary clouds
Someday she'll be gone, she'll have left all alone.
They'll catch on eventually, without having known
The puzzle pieced burden of her created norm,
How she sobbed through the nights, braving the storm.
I don't understand
What do your words mean?
I'd like to think I know you better than to believe that it's what it sounds like
You've been irresponsible for some time now
Bleeding because it paints the pictures
so heavily spilled
in my mind.
And seeing the crimson upon my skin
Gives me pain that makes me real.
Crying because
It makes me view
There is no way to communicate
or describe
The heart-wrenching pain
the feeling of loss and being lost
and the fear that comes
rushing back
every time
You told me once
That your name means
"To intoxicate"
First love can be very heady
I was just a stumbling alcoholic in your wake
That's a start - in the room of my heart.
My thoughts do not contain certitude,
For there stands before me a physical facsimile
Of you.
Except lacking your attitude.
Your timorous tone,
You threw,
To leave everything you have known
Is simply the continuation of Life.
We live like everything is for sure,
When everything comes as a fight.
I have seen the stars
At night, you see.
But it was far away from here.
I would like to go see them again
one day
But my freedom has been replaced
by fear.
Oneida says she's out of timefor mining lies from crooked mindsand spending nights beneath strange blanketsstreet-to-street, tab at a time.
I don’t understand why you can’t see
Sometimes I need to do things for me
Not for you or for your family
Just me me me me!
It’s not selfish to work on myself
I have to admit, that sometimes I need some help
Sometimes I want to cry
but there's no more pain
to be felt.
I breathe in deeply
to let it all out,
but all that I am
is hollow
Where is the you who wanted me so badly
Where is the you who needed to have me
What I'm trying to say, is that I'm tired of feeling this way
I've been thinking all day, that you let your pride get in the way
I want to believe that everything you've said is true,
but I just can't trust myself to trust in you.
You've told me lies, you've made me cry.
I'd stay up all night trying to figure out why.
I miss you so much it hurts or maybe i miss what we use to have, I use to think the phrase "i love you to much it hurts" wasnt true, but as I can see thats the definition of how im feeling.
You left me a Kiss of Love
Like a dove
You lips were smooth
Fresh and clean
Coming onto me
As senior year draws to an end
I look at each and every friend
some moving away
some planning to stay
we will all move on
to start our lives on our on
to break some family ties
Is it really that hard to respect that I have my limits too?
I do not choose to live my life to please a man like you.
Feel free to continue to shout and yell, I think I’ll take my leave.
You look familiar
Like a boy I used to know
But he’s not here anymore.
You are a shredded kite
Searching for a reason to stay tethered to solid ground
You haven’t found one.
This is see you later, not goodbye.
Back then I believed my own lie.
Words of comfort, words of hope.
Then life came in and was all like, nope.
Senior year is magical
Filled with memories and radical
Ideas on who we are supposed to be
Alive and free
We say is what matters most
Life's too short
To be wondering why I'm stuck with you.
Life's too short
To hold on though I can't break through.
You ego is a barrier thicker than any wall.
I guess you'll never hear me call
To the Boy Who Lost His Shadow,
you told me you had to find it so you could feel whole again
I tried to give you a chance.
All you wanted to do was play games.
My love out in the open; obvious at first glance.
I fell for the charm; the way you said my name.
The way you held yourself. I was blinded.
With time none a knowledge,
The other side blotches red.
Of what a dictatorship I observe
Grows a seed of harsh rule.
I watch tree branches die withered bark
As you’re attacked upon which I only hear.
The beginning of the end of our childhood.
The first semester of the last year.
So many endings.
like reading the last book of a series
after each chapter, wanting to reread it
so the story never ends.
I walk the halls that grow increasingly familiar
Yet at the same time, recognition becomes harder
These faces? These people? Strangers.
As the years go by, the ones I know
Disappear.
What can I tell you about my school?
It’s okay, nothing special
Been with the same kids year after year
Been with the same teachers year after year
It tends to get monotonous
Hearing the same drama
Everyone leaves,
for what reason I have no clue.
I always think it's because of
something I do.
Maybe I try too hard
or don't try hard enough.
I can be so close or so cold
Your eyes are like a setting sun on silk green grass flowing to the wind
I have nt slept since the last I saw of them
I long for them, I long for their master
Long for the soft cherry red lips of sweet sugar on mine
This day was coming
We saw it from the horizon
And how akward it is
Now that we can hold it in our hands
But It'll pass us by
This is just a new beginning
Because we know somewhere deep down
I see a light.
A bright light.
But im not dying.
Or am i?
With all that i think and all that i do.
Did it ever mean anything to me?
Or even you?
No.
It couldnt have.
It shouldnt.
For better or for worse,
Lovers pass.
In sickness and in health,
Lovers pass.
The seasons seem to change with the people,
Not the other way around.
We’re all just floating along in this mistaken world,
I wrote a hundred poems
About you, for you, to you,
But you never realized
Did you?
Those words were not just words
They were physical pieces
Of a priceless heart
A paper and ink home
There was a place and timeDon't ever go back to thenIt is just filled of memoriesAnd sadnessOf people who don'tRemember you, andPeople whom you wish to forgetYou've visited your past
I wanted to write a poem about leaving,
the feeling of dragging feet
and twisting stomach fighting up your throat
as you walk towards your car.
I wanted to write a poem about missing,
Spring rain makes puddles of my love
upon the grass.
We tumble and roll
and let go of any fucks given
about ideas of dry, huddled
in clumps under awnings and umbrellas.
As the wind blows harder and harder the stem begins to break.
Just seconds away from giving out.
Three-hundred eighty-four miles apart.
Love knows no distance,
right?
I'm leaving soon.
You promise me your heart and I promise you mine.
I promise:
I think I want to stay forever
And be leaving all the time.
I want to keep changing in this familiar place
Until I run to the edge and falter.
I want to leave at midnight
She cried black tears , she can feel the blood in her heart freeze over
As her breathing gets slower the cuts get deeper, scared with memories
Of his hands striking her face, helpless no escape , even though shes a
Friday, the seventh day of June, two thousand and thirteen;
The day I graduated high school.
Everyone says that a chapter is closing as the next opens,
And they are all telling the truth.
I will change, you say
But do you know what that means?
Are you really a man?
Go ahead, hit her again.
Maybe she will stay.
Maybe she will forgive you.
No no, not this time!
At such a young age, I just couldn’t understand.
Why in the world would he leave?
Of course I blamed myself.
My father was my hero, my one and only guy.
To me, his leaving only forced us apart.
Hello beautiful girl,
That's all I can say to you,
Cause tonight is our last night together,
Unfortunately it'll have to do.
Pretty soon you have to go,
As yet again I fall for you.
Unspoken words of discomfort and regret fill this home.
Twenty-two years of going through the motions:
"Hello" "See you later" "Check in" "I love you too"
The last one to arrive.
If I left yesterday
Would you miss me
Today
And forget me tomorrow?
If I started running
Would you chase me
Bring me back
To the lie of your arms
To get far away
Till I can't even see home
Alone on my own
This place is to small
Suffocating me slowly
My dreams are bigger
Something is out there
Endless opportunities
Why can't I just go
You had me beside you
We laughed
We talked
We were perfection…
Up until the point where I was charmed into your words
You came up with the idea
And I had found a spot
And together we dug
Beast of the drum.
Songs to hum.
Songs to last,
memories that pass.
Sunny skies,
waves passing by.
Blistering heat brings a tear to my eye.
Sorry I cannot stay,
Stray,
Runaway.
The most cowardly crime one can commit is leaving.
I remain fixed in this trance that one day, maybe one day, you'll come back for me.
Days fade on, years go by...
Slow in reality, quickly in reflection.
I feel no pity.
Not even a little bit
To leave the city
In which I
With my existence
Didn't bring the light,
Didn't love the stranger,
therefore, this place has nothing
I would consider mine.
Buried deep within our souls,
there's so much left to say.
You were there for me, then gone.
You let me down, you never came.
I’m honest with you,
My loyalty is gold.
I stand up for you,
I was yours to have and hold.
But now, it’s different,
Now, I’m hurting ten-fold.
The day I committed,
The real you showed.
The Blue Door shut
Keeping me from the one thing I wanted behind it
I raise my hand intending to pull back the heavy doorknocker once more
I stopped, turned my back to the door and began to walk away
I would like to know,
How you could handle in my shoes.
Their soles are worn down to my own heel,
And the sides have been torn apart.
Some what like silence shatters in a whisper.
Its all been great fun,
I have loved the company.
The food, the drink
And the entertainment
Have all been the best
I've ever had.
But I have been here
For quite a while.
The time is late,
you have no
reason to stay
yet here i am
begging you
not to
leave me
here just yet
i have no
self-control
i'm losing it
losing you
selfishly
feeling what
i can't
