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  Jul 2017 Lauren
NV
i sometimes wonder why you still visit my mood swings,
left in abandoned playgrounds between my chest.
why you still visit even though the slides may only carry you down to somebody like me.
somebody difficult to love,
somebody who cannot tell the difference between crying and laughing anymore.
why you haven't left this soul,
who's bones can't seem to find enough strength to push my side of the sea saw,
who can't seem to move past three poles on the monkey bar,
simply because of the weight on top of my shoulders.
this flesh of complete brokeness that couldn't bare ringa ring rosie,
because at some point one gets tired of always falling.
i often wonder, why me.
why me, with all my chipped paint and countless dents.
why you still visit,
when this isn't the grass on other side that's greener.
because God knows,
i'd understand if you look for a park elsewhere.
a park worthy of you.
  Jul 2017 Lauren
NV
SHE HAD HEARD TOO MANY TIMES

OF HOW SHE SHOULD LIVE IN THE

MOMENT.

WHEN IN FACT,

NOBODY COULD TAKE ENOUGH STEPS

BACK TO SEE THAT SHE WAS DEAD

INSIDE.
  Jul 2017 Lauren
NV
and i have never really understood why i hate luggage.
why i barely own handbags,
and would much rather fit the necessities in my purse.
why school didn't seem so bad if i had less books on my back.

i had never really understood why i hated so much baggage.

until i realised that it was because i already had all of me,
to carry.
Lauren Jul 2017
Varieties of 365 opposite weaving through your hair like the snakes of later gorgon
Extracting pain from lesions cauterized,
The time has caught up with me but not with you,
I understand
Pushing further results in the win but you tied the white flag around your polar throat,
Waltzed into places I loved with high hopes;
Now knowledge feels like a house with the guts bled out,
Walls and veins a front yard masterpiece
You said I wasn't allowed,
So now I say you're not allowed,
And now You may never be fully in again
(That goes to show just what I know,
I seclude my thoughts by choice
And you look so alien, alien, alien)
Lauren Jul 2017
Two
The words I have for you don't quite match up to the expected doses:
I see the sickness on your cheeks and the paint peeling from your lungs..
One hundred thousand syllables scattered across one hundred thousand paths your own,
And no one could match that; you best be in the know of how I'm sorry for the lack of hours passed..
These crooked lines of sound spilling from my mouth never say quite enough..
Words can never measure up to the truths behind the 'thank yous' and the 'there will be one day's,
But a variety of years have sped on by, and awe lingers as I hope to never see your back
(It's not like you to crave this with longing slithering through the cracks of your ribcage,
I have hands already held, so just breathe)
I fulfill promises with expectations soaring,
But I've always been the one who steps off the roof...
AKA. "Dad"
Lauren Jul 2017
She had eyes like cracked walnuts and was destined for the split-in-two
She redefined 'figure' and made us second guess our white washed demands
Blood coated her esophagus like sand does to bare limbs, lying in erosion
This girl started out so flawless and I just wanted her to take the million thanks I have for her,
Though it's been oh so long since our last converse
With expert hands in contrive that shaped me into being
You fractured all appendages and made me into the rag doll Marionette the audience forgets in seconds.
Who knew I'd play the heroine?
Bathed in make-shift abuse
I walked out the door
To the rest of my life...
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