The heart is just a muscle tied in knots
you took one look
it petrified into a piece of knotted wood
Unlock my chest and knock on it
How much luck would you get if you stomped on it?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm empty
Because I don't have you.

responsabilidad y preocupación
dos cosas con su origen amor
no pueden encontrar un lugar
el cielo, la tierra pide atención
pero cada vez está rechazado

if i sit in the dark and stare into the nothingness
sometimes I can pretend I am not me
and the world is not as it is

when I look into the dark
does it look back?

i pretend I feel the world around me fall away
I am nowhere
I am everywhere
i am nothing
i am everything

I am not here anymore

when you look into me
will I look back?

what is the blurry
between the joy and the blues,
we are daffodils flying in the wind
one moment
butterflies falling in the rain
another?

I miss the way my hands clutch your face
Like it was mine in the first place.

Own self interests
owning everything they can
don't let them own you

                      Kelly McManus

Let's eat good food together,
Forget about getting fat.
You actually look a thousand times cuter,
If you stretch your chubby cheeks like that.

You know it doesn't matter to me
If you are not skinny like the others
All I want is to see you happy
Even if you are now having your 4th burger.

the void,
you

missing from my day

all of my distractions
have run away

a sad calm
albeit a reprieve

i just hope
you didn't really leave

I was already
falling
  when the rain
came down

like checkered
streams of
   tinsel
that make
us into
ornaments - a hook,
an eye

I always fall
  come
wintertime.

you remind me of a winter moon,
a beacon of light, a gentle hum;
a constant reminder that they’ll never be other one
for me.
i could stare at you all day and it would take the pain away. i could talk to you all night; easily and fluidly.
why wouldn’t i want to keep that forever?

you remind me of autumn leaves. a change in pattern and growth. you don’t know how much you mean to me.

Please don’t forget
even the idea of perfection is flawed.

Nothing will ever get solved if you TALK LIKE THIS

remember to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
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compare yourself

Once upon a time
Everything was fine,
Once upon a time,
Once upon a time.

She had all that she could take.
Her boyfriend was so fake.
It was time to tell him goodbye.
And stop listening to all his lies.
So away his little bird flew.
Looking for someone who would be loving and true.

the problem is
i care
too much
about
not caring

Just tuned up enough
to tune in.

Pain is strong
But I am stronger
It's been too long
But I'll last longer

there's a world inside your mind
and it wants you to find
a place for others,
without changing
the bookshelves
the music
or the way that you walk through the door.
It might be the means of replacing
the fear which stops you from living
and giving
and laughing
as yourself.

99 percent of all living creatures
Die by being eaten alive

This predatory terror
Is the way predators survive

I am a vegetarian
My parents named me Todd

Yesterday at St. Thomas More
I ate the Lamb of God

Replace all of the pain
with this Novocain
Reasons we broke up
It is me who we blame
and it drives me insane.  
All of the pain that you have caused
i can not withstand

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--------------------------dady------------------
                   Laid in a pool of blood

I showed you the scratches on my arms.
¨This was because of you!¨ I screamed, years of fear and anger washing back in waves.

You slowly undo your button-up shirt.
Then you turn around.
I trace the scars on your back.

¨This was for you.¨

ever so agonizingly,
i whisper to the void
to ****** a single wish—
that is, to submit to being full...