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 Feb 2014 Sabrina Smith
mary
I am a cigarette to you.

You lit me up,
and I burned slowly,
and you enjoyed my simple highs,
and got dizzy from my insides.

You began to crave me,
addicted to the sensations I gave your mind,
reliant on the comfort I gave you.

But your fingers began to slip,
and I would burn you,
and I had no choice,
I was on fire.

Then I was nothing but a filter,
and you stomped me into the ground.

But in the end, I was killing you all along.
 Dec 2013 Sabrina Smith
Misty
You know, you said one day, conversationally,
There's really no where else we need to be.
So on a cool fall day, amid leaves of red
You and I held hands as we kissed and were wed.
In some eyes,
i’ll always be
what they think they see

I can’t change their
image of me

I know who i am,
what i am
where i am
My cigarette tastes like uncertainty and now my plain croissant is seeping my black coffee onto my plate.

Was it too much to ask for something simple? Life isn't as complicated as people make it. Right?

Now I sit here, with coffee spilt on myself and my shirt.

Annoyed.

Or Annoying?

Is it my fault that **** is falling apart? Am I the problem that is ruining something so pure by pouring black liquid all over and complicating something I was so sure about?

Am so sure about.

My croissant was perfect until I spilt **** all over it. Now I have a soggy croissant and a crooked cigarette that still tastes like uncertainty.
Death has to be calling.
I feel everything falling.
Just burning
and crashing
and dying all around

A flower would wither
if I stared close enough.
And I knew life to be hard
but not this ******* tough...
I try not to
I try not to hurt
not to feel
not to love
I try to only be happy
because that's all you want
that's all you want of me
but I can't
I can't be only happy all the time
it's not human
and I'm human
I need to feel
I try not to cry
not to be selfish
not to be vain
but I am anyway
and so are you
and so is everyone else in the world
Born of a wealthy family,
A child pampered and needy,
He started making his own ,
Left him spoiled and very greedy,

He felt he wanted more,
A woman in his life,
Someone to call his own,
To someday call his wife,

He left in his flashy car,
Searched for the perfect score,
But I had no idea,
He'd begin to ring my door,

I answered in a flash,
As an instinct from my heart ,
Led me to the boy,
who would use me from the start,

He liked the way I'd smile,
I was the perfect pick,
Such an easy target,
As I answered far too quick,

Forgot that with his money,
I was the perfect toy,
Never to be enough,
For the needy wealthy boy,

Just let him count his dollars,
For someday he will see,
That even with all the green in the world,
He will never afford me.
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