But what I didn't do
Was show her my scars,
Identical to hers

And what I didn't say
Was "look, you're not alone."

What I did do
Was smile,
And say
"Have a good one."

Hopefully, a smile was what she needed...

Growing up
Too often a regret
Too often synonymous
        With morose days
                And nostalgia at every corner.

I cannot sleep without my teddy bear
      It makes me feel like a protector
               It makes me feel protected
                       And loved
                                 And not so alone.

I will grow up in due time.

For now
       I feel a strength
               A warmth.

I do not feel love for you

Long ago, I was consumed
by a diabolical
everlasting
flame
flaring out of control
I was defeated
like a house of sticks
blown away
by a wolf
Swept onto shore
like an abandoned
shell.

I do not feel love for you
I am love for you.
Your flames consume me
warm me
burning passionately
with everything I do
You rebuilt me
With our future
brick by brick
through the wind and rain
we built away
You collected my empty shell
You created something new
from my empty self.

It's that anything
You'd give
For something
To feel

Pure silence in an empty room
Broken breathing in a crowded skull
In the death of a thought
Another is brought to life
Another is brought to life

Conversation in a crowded room
Broken breathing in a crowded skull
In a moment of weakness
Another is brought to life
Pride is sentenced to death

It's that anything
You'd give
To feel
Nothing

Reincarnated
To be sentenced to death
Reincarnated
Incapable of comprehending
The relentlessness of perfection.

"I tried to die"
Just doesn't sound right

Just doesn't do anything justice.

I collapsed
I disintegrated
Into myself
Onto a floor

Knowing now,
It wouldn't have been fatal.

Feeling like a fraud
Because I would have failed anyways.

He blew me a sweet, good night kiss.

I clasped onto it
Mid air.

And suddenly
I felt as though
I could never let go.

Or maybe,
I would never let go.

I'm holding it now,
Hand still clutching onto the remnants of his warmth...

         Your entity,
         In the palm of my hand.

This trust
Put in me
And put in others
Will corrupt her
And change the way
       she will be looked at
By her mother
The constant worry
And forever holding fear in her eyes
That she'll wake up and hear
"I wish I could die"
That she will wake up
And hear nothing
But the silence that will end her cries
And one night
       with a deathly quiet
That she'll wake up and find
Her blood all over the floor
Is it more
than what she had inside her before?
Was the pain so much
That she had to share it
That she had to wear it
And give it to her parents
And rumors spread around the town
Like a wildfire
And everyone prayed that her spirit
Lifted her higher
To a heaven
Where she could watch
The whole town perish
      and suicide spread
And tears shed in their beds,
Never had she realized before
That her choice
Would open up a door
For teens everywhere
Spreading blood on their floors
And they all joined in the angelic world
Thanks to that girl
That couldn't stand her life
As it ****** and swirled
Her through a roller coaster
As scary as Satan’s hell,
Everyone thought she was doing quite well...