lyra-brown
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no name #29
want, need / heal, bleed / skim it over, pretend to understand
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Sep 11, 2014
sixth of september
last week i got myself a day-planner, / willingly buying into the illusion that i could somehow / better manage my time if i could open a book
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Sep 6, 2014
moons of devotion
maybe i’ll never be able to pin down why / this feels so different from all the others / but there isn’t such a sense of doom
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Aug 22, 2014
pale magnet
i don’t know why or how or when / the exact moment was when i was too far gone / to pull myself out of the quicksand of love with you
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Jul 12, 2014
7
what were you expecting, / for me to put on some grand production of hysteria / to display the hurt that you have caused me
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Jul 8, 2014
all yours
i wish for you to be all yours / before i can ever call you mine / but i'm afraid you've gotten so used
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Jul 6, 2014
the beauty of decay
Sometimes love comes in like a storm without warning, / veiled as a vast ruin with good intentions / entering your heart as an army with no ammunition;
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Jun 17, 2014
self to note;
1. Just because you don’t have the love and support from that one person who should, in a perfect world, always be loving and supporting you, does not mean you don’t deserve to be loved. Read this again. And again. / 2. It’s both tragic and funny that whenever a good thing happens to you, a bad thing always comes up and tries to interrupt your joy. Just because you’ve always felt like a bad driver in a thunderstorm with no windshield wipers doesn’t mean the sky chooses to torment you. The sky is just being the sky. You have weathered these storms before, and you will weather them again. One day you will see how strong the tempest has made you. / 3. You are unconditionally loved by more than one person. Not many people have that. Don’t be afraid to throw that love back out into the world with your helium balloon of a wild heart. And no more late night pity parties with that sappy “I don’t deserve love” refrain.
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Jun 4, 2014
the illusion of permission
i scold myself for getting too attached; / i hate myself for loving too much; / i want to hurt myself when i get to the point
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May 29, 2014
every thought, a ricochet
the worst things will happen / and the best things will happen / both at the same time
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May 27, 2014
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