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Nov 2019 · 204
the come down
Kwanele Nov 2019
I fear coming down from my high
because you broke my heart

I fear coming down from my high
because thoughts of you
and
the silence threaten to pull me apart

I fear coming down from my high
because the silence threatens to open up the floodgates to my broken heart

I fear coming down from my high
because all I remember is you

I fear coming down from my high
because all I remember is you

I fear coming down from my high
because all I remember are your lies

I fear coming down from my high
because you lie at the heart of my sober mind

I fear coming down from my high
so I stay high
the aftermath
Mar 2018 · 839
tired of writing poetry
Kwanele Mar 2018
tired of writing,
You're not mine, poetry
I shouldn't think about you, poetry
You're missing from me, poetry
I miss you, poetry
I shouldn't miss you, poetry
I should let you go, poetry
I've let you go, poetry
I could never let you go, poetry
Come back to me, poetry
Poetry, I am tired of you           
but I will always write you, poetry
i cant seem to write anything else about anyone else.
Mar 2018 · 479
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2018
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
I am hopeless when it comes to you
THIS IS POETRY
I have always been, hopeless without you.
Hi
Mar 2018 · 128
Do you wish for me ?
Kwanele Mar 2018
the sudden need to be held by you is overwhelming
the sudden need to be held by you will not let me rest.
the sudden need to be held by you could bring me to tears if I allowed it to.
i wish to someday know what it feels like to be held by you
i wish to someday know how it feels to be held by you
i wish to someday know what you feel like.
Hold me
Mar 2018 · 295
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2018
I have no desire to be rid of you
I have no desire to feel without you
I have no desire to throw away all your beautiful
I have no desire to try.
I have no desire to court you like I could, I have no desire to court you like you are worth it,
worth it? you are,
very much so
but you don't love me, atleast not like the days you finally said it to me.
Perpetual
Sep 2017 · 341
I'd like control
Kwanele Sep 2017
I am attached to completely submitting to my desires
I want control.
maybe control  comes with less heartbreak, the will to live for something more than the way you smile when you speak to me, when you question it, my answer will always be " because you're beautiful " and you tell me to stop and I tell you that I'm not doing anything, so anything you're feeling is there because you feel more for me than what you'll ever let the world see.
Sep 2017 · 330
Will you?
Kwanele Sep 2017
would you self destruct, with me?
would you self destruct, for me?
would you. let me self destruct, for you?
would you. let me self destruct, with you?
would you ?
would you allow me the pleasure of unravelling
would you allow me the pleasure of seeing you unravel?
would you unravel with me?
Will you?
consent.
Kwanele Sep 2017
Imagine seeing me wake up from a comatose state
and seeing me see you,
there's nothing wrong with that.

There's a whole lot wrong with me seeing you when you're not there,

There's a whole lot wrong with my mind having the ability of creating the illusion on your much wanted presence

There's a whole lot wrong in seeing my mind break my heart in the name of You,

There's a whole lot wrong in seeing my mind break my heart over and over again.
Kwanele Jul 2017
tremors beneath my skin, make me feel alive.
the pain that comes from feeling my inner most parts cry out for help is the same as what I feel when I tell you I love you and you tell me I don't and still all of this is equivalent to the calmness your presence makes me feel.
She's all i think about. Probably close to losing my mind again
Jul 2017 · 279
I just need to know
Kwanele Jul 2017
Someday I will wither away.
I wish it tugs at your heartstrings
I mean no harm,
but if I was to ever say I feel secure,
that I believe you,
when you say you love me
I'd be lying.
Jun 2017 · 289
infinite definitions
Kwanele Jun 2017
i burn through bridges that won't allow me to jump
Jun 2017 · 419
December 22nd
Kwanele Jun 2017
" I'd rather be with you but I can't  "

She said this to me,
this was when everything was okay between us,
I miss these moments,
I miss her and these moments,
I miss her in these moments.
I miss her and the monents she was true to herself.
I miss her and the moments where she told me what I needed to hear.
I miss her.
I miss her so much.
I miss her and the moments when she would picks fights with me because she knew I would fight for her.
I miss her and the moments where she would pick fights with me because in those moments she was standing up for herself.
I miss her.
I miss her.
I just wish she missed me.
I miss her.
I just wish she'd let this be.
I miss her so much.
I miss her because this hurts
Jun 2017 · 322
Untitled
Kwanele Jun 2017
My hands shake and the thought of you. I don't think about him with you or you with him.
I think about me without you.
I think about me without that warm feeling.
I think about me without that warm feeling I get when I feel like you are mine.
I think about me and how I'm losing my ****.
I think about the voices that wake me up at night asking about you.
I think about you
I always think about you.
Jun 2017 · 196
When i think of you
Kwanele Jun 2017
When i think of you i think of the silenced voices in my head
When i think of you i think of the silenced tremors underneath my skin
When i think of you i think of steady hands my steady hands
When i think of you i am okay
But right now i can't
When i think of you the voices ask about you
When i think of you the tremors become a little too much
When i think of you my hands shake
When i think of you i really fuckung think of you
When i think of you i hurt myself
When I think of you i don't know how to be strong for me
When i think of you i lose all sense of me
When i think of you i think of you
When i think of you i think of you
When i think of you i only think of you
When i think of you i forget about me
When i think of you i forget that I am in control of me
When i think of you i forget everything
When i think of you i forget
May 2017 · 390
You make me so mad
Kwanele May 2017
I think of you more than a lot
I think of you so much
I think of how you're not mine.
I think about how this is something i should be over
I think about how much i still love you
I think about how i shouldn't
I think you're beautiful
I think you're the worst ever
I think you're my pink cloud
I think of you
I think I'm sick and tired of it all.
May 2017 · 201
Untitled
Kwanele May 2017
where do i begin
where do you end
when will i feel okay
i'm reaching out to you
all i need you to do is tell me that i'll be okay
May 2017 · 177
Untitled
Kwanele May 2017
another one of these.
i think about you a lot
believe me when i say it hurts
-because
you are no longer her(e)
May 2017 · 218
you
Kwanele May 2017
you
you
all i ever do is miss you
all i ever do is think of you
all i ever do is think of you
but all i can do about you
is stop myself
missing you from afuckingfar
Apr 2017 · 279
Untitled
Kwanele Apr 2017
I am flawed
I admit this but that was never the issue
...you were once able to kiss my scars and look at me like i was still perfect  and I could do the same, I would still do the same
...but the realness was just that, too ******* real for you and forever is now too much for you.
Mar 2017 · 645
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2017
I think too much
And you stay on my mind
So you know,
i think of you
-the plan was to stargaze the nights away, with you
now, i dont know, im proud, so very proud but shook because it's too soon to fallback and I'm writing this hesistantly because we're different people, i am who i am and this may not be the same to you.
Kwanele Mar 2017
i don't know what it is about me
as i said: I don't quite understand me yet
it's odd, everyone sees something
I see nothing.
I see,
I am looking into this mirror
..an abyss
...empty, cold, untouched
:in a perfect world, I just described myself perfectly.
It is ******* painful
Mar 2017 · 193
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2017
There's nothing prettier than this high I'm feeling.
-catharsis
Mar 2017 · 230
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2017
as i grow wiser
as i grow with this life, as a person, as everything that makes me, me.
i realise that there's no one that makes me happier and so ******* sad but me.
Mar 2017 · 324
ghost
Kwanele Mar 2017
i am only a Ghost because she did not love me hard enough
She loved me
Mar 2017 · 296
Untitled
Kwanele Mar 2017
I am growing old without you
I hate this
I love you
You're still in my heart and it makes me sad
Kwanele Feb 2017
For the life of me i cannot understand why you cannot let this happen.
I'm only trying to be here for you.
That's all.
I'm way past pretty forevers although I'd die for them.
I'm only asking you to keep in mind that i am here.
I just want you to know that.
Going through old messages with her and i came across this. I think it's beautiful
Feb 2017 · 444
Untitled
Kwanele Feb 2017
I'd give all i have
I'd give all i am, all my life and another and then more to be
Where i want to be
Whether it be with her
Whether it be where my mind is sound enough to silence the offbeat of my heart
Whether it be right here
Where i want to be is where i appreciate the moment with all i am
where i want to be is not where i am
I'm in a good place.


NB:terrible realisation, because everything was a lie.
Kwanele Jan 2017
I will love you till the end
this is a poem.
Jan 2017 · 396
Untitled
Kwanele Jan 2017
she told me:
        God is a black woman
   i was not thinking about you but i agreed.
she said:
      
She lives in North Africa,
     she doesn't age
       light reflects off of her skin.

i started thinking of you
AND now i miss you
I DO NOT THINK I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THINKING OF YOU
Jan 2017 · 498
Untitled
Kwanele Jan 2017
You make me want to hurt myself and crossover to the other side
For you
And whatever is left of us
         WHATEVER IS LEFT OF MY HEART
you know I'm hurt right now because this poem is a mess
Dec 2016 · 353
she said :
Kwanele Dec 2016
" If I could give myself to you I would "
...
Is this not love?
Maybe I want to believe that it is?
Is this not love?
What the hell is this?
Is this not love?
Should it be this difficult
Is this no...it's been three years
Is this no...walk away
It's lov...no walk...it's love
No!
Kwanele Dec 2016
I can see the situation I'm in SNOWBALL
..to hell
but I cannot stop it, I absolutely wont
because I am a shitmagnet
I want all that hurt on me, I want to feel the pain, I could go also say that I want to punish myself for killing her

I don't know, it could be a pretty sight.

sidebar: I honestly live ten aeons to your one
MANIC
Dec 2016 · 230
this unrequited love
Kwanele Dec 2016
she only ever calls me pretty when she's inebriated
i think it's love
she doesn't
it's been three years
she doesn't think it's love
it's only ever been toxic
but still
she called me pretty
and I'll take it.
A thousand times, Yes
If she ever asks.
it's only ever been
Dec 2016 · 232
Her.
Kwanele Dec 2016
I don't know what hurts more
: you don't love me
: you don't want to remember me
: you don't try to understand...like I want to understand you
: or that you're really not here with me and the scenery is so close to your beauty
Maybe I'm just a little too sad, I don't know
Kwanele Nov 2016
I am craving you bravely with this pain in my heart
I am craving you bravely, with all this love I am feeling, these feelings I keep ignoring
I am craving you bravely, I'd like to embrace you, taste you..
I am craving you bravely, I love you, come back to me..
I am craving you bravely, mami, princess, come back to me
This took a turn
Kwanele Nov 2016
like baby,baby,baby,baby....
I miss you and your gone like this razor to my skin,
like this knife to my stomach,
like this rope around my neck, like these blurry stairs, like your true love lost, like I love you, like come back to me, like baby I need you
I am hurting #tears #pain #everythingthathurts
Oct 2016 · 247
6:54pm .. October 22nd
Kwanele Oct 2016
I still miss you like May 31st
It still hurts like the first time
Oct 2016 · 556
1:56am
Kwanele Oct 2016
Still awake.
Thinking about how everything is supposed to be good for me right now.
Realizing how everything isn't
Realizing how everything means nothing because of you
I have a month left and then I'm free.
Free to think of you , cry for you , in another city
Life is beautful
Off my meds poetry.
Just need Somebody ask me if I'm ok sometimes
Oct 2016 · 242
1:24am
Kwanele Oct 2016
Awake and overly emotional.
This is a poem
Oct 2016 · 229
Untitled
Kwanele Oct 2016
Sext: she said an ****** like/her soul being ****** /a gaping hole : /like ...more
It's been a while, must seem so ****** up teen. I feel a lot , that's all. I feel a lot of pure things.
Oct 2016 · 806
I am not the one for you
Kwanele Oct 2016
Don't put me on a pedestal, I think of jumping off bridges because she did not love me hard enough.
Oct 2016 · 477
Stockholm Syndrome
Kwanele Oct 2016
you know how much you hurt me, how much you broke me.
whenever i say I love you, that's all you think of.
It's all I can think off and still I cannot stop myself
Oct 2016 · 245
don't
Kwanele Oct 2016
don't love too hard
don't do too much
don't love too hard
don't make her your world, Stupid
don't you ever get comfortable like you did
don't,
just don't. it does not ever get better for you.
I berate myself way too much on this subject.
Kwanele Sep 2016
it's sad that you are no longer her
I don't cry anymore I wish I did because when you were alive and in my heart crying was the only way I could reach you
but now I don't and it's sad that you're no longer her, my angel
James Blake - Points ... And Reane.
Sep 2016 · 458
Untitled
Kwanele Sep 2016
11:24pm, not 11:11
because I just realized how much I love you,
How much I think of you,
How much you
And your abscence
Have taken so much of me.
If you knew what that meant you would come back to life and actually kiss me.
prettybaked and I still cry for you. I'm sorry
Sep 2016 · 469
Untitled
Kwanele Sep 2016
I still feel you pushing away.
Say it to my face, because everything is lonely without a voice
I loved you to your face
Disrespect me and love me close
You have way too many names and I keep piling them on because I see you in everything.
#KevinGarrett-PushingAway
Aug 2016 · 422
Untitled
Kwanele Aug 2016
You're the loudest memory.
I was wrong 
Thinking I could easily forget the love 
I feel for you 
I was wrong. 
You've always had a way with making me see truth.
The love of my life
The love I never got to feel
You are it and I am done trying.
Another one of these. Words are real but I can't shake her.
Aug 2016 · 553
letter to the girl
Kwanele Aug 2016
" it's the eyes chico, they never lie " how I wish you could see mine. Tear stained, tired and then again not because I cannot lie and say that just seeing yours light up doesn't make my heart smile. I told her that, I love you, I also told her a whole lot more. One thing that stuck was " I know what being without her feels like and God loving her  from a far, from a careful distance, is better than anything else, is better than having to go on as if, you arent  "
- scarface.  
- it hurts a little less
- mind numbing
Aug 2016 · 590
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Kwanele Aug 2016
I don't cry myself to sleep anymore
I wish I still did .
You were once my everything
I don't know how to deal with you being,
a distant memory,
someone that is no longer her.
I wish all this was true
Aug 2016 · 296
Untitled
Kwanele Aug 2016
The silent whispers of the night
they remind me of who I was to you
they remind me of who you are to me.
I may be weak but it is no longer for you
I'm sorry for losing you
I'm sorry for losing myself
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