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born-of-fire
Pain is poetry
I miss the way your body molded around me under the covers and how your skin gently kissed mine. Your soft breathing rustling across my skin, singing me to sleep. I miss the gentle snores after you had floated into sleep, your arm tucked over and under me. I miss the way you would twitch in your sleep, notifying me of a night terror. I miss the way your snoring would ensue with a hand on your head and a kiss on the cheek. I miss the way your eyes would meet mine in the morning, with a faint smile as your hand rose to my face. How gingerly your lips met mine. How caring your handling was, as if I was porcelain and you were rock. I miss the way your hand found mine, almost as if by accident, as we walked side by side. I miss the way your body would find a spot in my arms so perfectly, and how you rested against me with repose. I miss how your voice would raise in pitch when you were excited, and your eyes would gleam brighter than normal. I miss the surprise visits and the way you looked at me. I miss seeing you every day. I miss the harshness of your words as they rolled across your tongue and spilled over the ridge of your lips. I miss all of your broken promises and somber apologies. I miss the rage. My heart has been mutilated by so many others, yet still beats the strongest when my eyes graze across your image.
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Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:34 PM UTC
Still
Masks is all I've ever known. All i thought i knew was camouflaged by the complacent world around me. I grew with a fool's sight and an idiot's judgement. I learned eventually, that everyone gets to make their own mask.  You knew how to pull mine away from my skin for moments that seemed to stand still, lacking oxygen. I got defensive at the fact that your mask was so thick, and seemed to be sewn into your cheeks. I never even got to see you remove the mask before the tides yanked me into the storm of insanity. My heart slows at the sight of the empty roads, they remind me of the look in your eyes the night you told me I wasn't worth the trouble. I'm galaxies away from a place to call home. The dark sky mocks me in a way I never thought so heart wrenching.  The lights don't comfort me like they did before your eyes grazed across my skin. It wasn't until you left I realized you were using bullets instead of kisses. And my shell shock still persists. I have gun shells lodged in my skin. Your subliminal phrases struck glass into my mouth like lightning, which runs like tornadoes through my lungs. When I breathe out, all that escapes is you. I thought I was tough using your words as armor, i was convinced that that is what tough was. I didn't let anyone remove the metal from my chest, and no one gained access to the tender parts of my body. I believed in my heart that I was protecting myself, building an imaginary shield. Encasing myself in fear and caution.  But now I can see the glass in my lungs was only smoke from the cigarettes I held onto late at night, a substitute for your hand in mine. The artillery living inside my skin was just purple scars and it wasn't shock, it was highly dilated pain. Heart stopping, ***** inducing pain. And it wasn't going to go away. Because if I'm using my pain as armor, when can happiness ever replace that?
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM UTC
Masquerade
Masks is all I've ever known. All i thought i knew was camouflaged by the complacent world around me. I grew with a fool's sight and an idiot's judgement. I learned eventually, that everyone gets to make their own mask.  You knew how to pull mine away from my skin for moments that seemed to stand still, lacking oxygen. I got defensive at the fact that your mask was so thick, and seemed to be sewn into your cheeks. I never even got to see you remove the mask before the tides yanked me into the storm of insanity. My heart slows at the sight of the empty roads, they remind me of the look in your eyes the night you told me I wasn't worth the trouble. I'm galaxies away from a place to call home. The dark sky mocks me in a way I never thought so heart wrenching.  The lights don't comfort me like they did before your eyes grazed across my skin. It wasn't until you left I realized you were using bullets instead of kisses. And my shell shock still persists. I have gun shells lodged in my skin. Your subliminal phrases struck glass into my mouth like lightning, which runs like tornadoes through my lungs. When I breathe out, all that escapes is you. I thought I was tough using your words as armor, i was convinced that that is what tough was. I didn't let anyone remove the metal from my chest, and no one gained access to the tender parts of my body. I believed in my heart that I was protecting myself, building an imaginary shield. Encasing myself in fear and caution.  But now I can see the glass in my lungs was only smoke from the cigarettes I held onto late at night, a substitute for your hand in mine. The artillery living inside my skin was just purple scars and it wasn't shock, it was highly dilated pain. Heart stopping, ***** inducing pain. And it wasn't going to go away. Because if I'm using my pain as armor, when can happiness ever replace that?
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**Dark Circles beneath her eyes The fire in those eyes now replaced by sadness of knowing too much Of trying too hard** . . *the more she saw, the less she knew the more she tried, the less things worked* She kept restlessly brooding why the world is so raNdom and what if the littlest thing that she did made it fall apart? . . tick-tock (Restless brooding) A girl of 17 never felt safe in her own skin She comes in all the shades of self-loathing (Restless brooding) Living a life of mediocrity Good, but never the best not worth the change in your pocket. (Restless brooding) Centre of the group, her smile was just that contagious Chased by many, understood by none Always loved mystery, maybe that's why she became one (Restless brooding) Red is the color of rust that calms her Jagged cut across her thighs She comes with a self-destruct button and hence pushes away the very thing she likes she wants to decrease the casualities (Restless brooding) Sleep won't come easily to her so she writes and reads that's pretty much her life by the window she cries for the characters whose brokeness resembles her life but if you ask her why she'll evade vaguely (Restless brooding) She increases the volume of her headphones to mute the voices in her head voices which try to drag her to the past a past she'll never get rid of (Restless brooding) with every second that passes by she pushes the world a little more far away but she always smiles so that must mean she's okay, right? Dark circle beaneath her eyes because *she spends her night talking to the stars and conspiring with the moon against the demons she herself has created trying to find the key to the lock she has chained around herself* And one day she will one day she will realise *her light can't be contained and those dim eyes will shine again One day she will not be afraid of being herself even if she does not know who she is yet*
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 3:14 PM UTC
**Have you seen this girl**?
**Dark Circles beneath her eyes The fire in those eyes now replaced by sadness of knowing too much Of trying too hard** . . *the more she saw, the less she knew the more she tried, the less things worked* She kept restlessly brooding why the world is so raNdom and what if the littlest thing that she did made it fall apart? . . tick-tock (Restless brooding) A girl of 17 never felt safe in her own skin She comes in all the shades of self-loathing (Restless brooding) Living a life of mediocrity Good, but never the best not worth the change in your pocket. (Restless brooding) Centre of the group, her smile was just that contagious Chased by many, understood by none Always loved mystery, maybe that's why she became one (Restless brooding) Red is the color of rust that calms her Jagged cut across her thighs She comes with a self-destruct button and hence pushes away the very thing she likes she wants to decrease the casualities (Restless brooding) Sleep won't come easily to her so she writes and reads that's pretty much her life by the window she cries for the characters whose brokeness resembles her life but if you ask her why she'll evade vaguely (Restless brooding) She increases the volume of her headphones to mute the voices in her head voices which try to drag her to the past a past she'll never get rid of (Restless brooding) with every second that passes by she pushes the world a little more far away but she always smiles so that must mean she's okay, right? Dark circle beaneath her eyes because *she spends her night talking to the stars and conspiring with the moon against the demons she herself has created trying to find the key to the lock she has chained around herself* And one day she will one day she will realise *her light can't be contained and those dim eyes will shine again One day she will not be afraid of being herself even if she does not know who she is yet*
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*I would rather suffocate and drown in my mind than ask for your help I would rather swallow shards of glass than keep up with this silence* I would rather spend my night counting stars than have a dream about you *I would rather cut my skin off than feel your touch burn them while you love someone else I would rather have my tongue forget how to speak than call for you every single night in my sleep I would rather bleach my brain with HCL than have it think about you always I would rather burn down this house and lose myself somewhere than try looking for you I would rather drown the butterflies in my stomach with alcohol than have them fluttering, dancing on your tone* (But truth be said, i would rather spend a second with you and a lifetime reminiscing that moment than be with someone else) I'll bleed till I've no more of you inside me I'll smoke you till I've exhaled all of your empty words that i was fed I'll cry till i don't know what i was crying for **I'll write till I give you something that weighs you down just like how your goodbye weighs my heart down**
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
You#3 (I'd rather)
I sit in here in my window seal half naked, with my window open and the smell of freshly soaked grass wafting in with the flashing lights of the sky. At this point in my life, i dont know what the hell is going on. Im trapped between the walls of my heart and the confines of my mind. I am the once solid foundation of your home, after the earthquake shook your house to tears. I am the once smiling face, after your lover left. My heart, once beating strongly and lightly, now pouts, cold and hardened, next to my once healthy lungs. No words can bring the soul back into my eyes, nor can any kiss bring the color back into my cheeks. My hands cant hold him anymore, for they seem to only shake and become numb. My mouth is no longer capable of forming soft gentle words, only harsh and savage, broken phrases pass over the cusp of my lips. My mind finds no comfort in the things once enjoyed by my being, accompanied by the music of my laughter echoing through the corridors of a once happy home. My legs no longer know where they are pushing me, my feet are unsure of where to step. People say that no one is lost. But could you tell me where i am?
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM UTC
In Absentia
And i miss you. You tore a rip clean around my heart. And after several months of ignoring me, the stitches i made could be taken out to reveal the nasty scars. The broken thing inside of me seemed to be breathing properly, and on your birthday you forgot who i was. A knife sliced through the scars, disrupting already damaged tissues. Never before had i remembered hate being a comfortable feeling. Hurt, ached inside of every cell. Birthdays seem to be a trap for us. You left me on mine. You forgot about me on yours. Another couple of months went by, you forgot about me even more. I tried to forget and move on. My hope failed me again. I stayed awake that night, until the sun rose on my sorrow. Funny how a sunrise can give you such a sinking feeling. I cried, hoping the tears would swell me to sleep, they just made the pain seep into my face and my collar bones. I thought about you that night, wondered if you were alone with your thoughts again, letting the back of your eyes rot with the white of the ceiling in your room. Or were you out in a darker place, getting high as your heart continued to suffocate? When they told me about what had really happened between you and them, everything connected. And unlike how i found out you had crawled back to her and she denied you made me happy, this only made things immensely worse. It was largely the fact that i gave you every part of me, salvaged all the small pieces and bundled them for you. You treated me like an object instead of human and i was too in love with you to realize it. But the thing is you can't walk around hurting people every chance you get. You asked her why she didn't care, well what about you? How could you dispose of me so quickly and in a rush as if you had committed a crime? For a time rage consumed me. Washed over me like running water. I wanted to tear you down and watch you disintegrate into a lake of sadness. Every other person in my life knew there was a million reasons for me to leave you. No one cared to save me. It showed me that no one is gonna be there when you're drowning in corrupted love. But i have always wanted to save you from the destruction coursing through your soul. I always wrote about burning the sentiments you gave me and collecting the ashes in a jar as a gift to you. And the twisted part of me figured that as much dust as i collect, equally would be your sorrow. I had only wished for you to stop breathing in so much dust. My mind seemed to go through a fluctuation between hate and misery. There was never an in between. I wished for you to stop cupping your hands to catch my tears so you could wash away your grief. When dejection turned into loathing you made me hurt other people. You lit matches for me to burn bridges and gave me a sledgehammer to destroy homes of happiness. Eventually the chaos got back to me and i ended up eroding myself. I convinced myself i was to put myself in danger to feel alive. Well the opposite occurred and i started dreaming about you. I dreamt of your smile, your laugh, your eyes, with an illuminating spark to them. Waking up was like realizing i had been buried alive in a small coffin, and I'm sure you don't remember how claustrophobic i am.  The fourth night dreaming about you, i turned into the living dead. I slowly melted into a shadow, still frames of you glued into the creases of my mind. Soon enough only wishes swept through my mind. I asked a god for some sort of baptism, and it never came and any form of faith diminished from my eyes. How could one person instill so much pain?
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 7:58 PM UTC
"Adventures That Will Change Your Life Forever"
And i miss you. You tore a rip clean around my heart. And after several months of ignoring me, the stitches i made could be taken out to reveal the nasty scars. The broken thing inside of me seemed to be breathing properly, and on your birthday you forgot who i was. A knife sliced through the scars, disrupting already damaged tissues. Never before had i remembered hate being a comfortable feeling. Hurt, ached inside of every cell. Birthdays seem to be a trap for us. You left me on mine. You forgot about me on yours. Another couple of months went by, you forgot about me even more. I tried to forget and move on. My hope failed me again. I stayed awake that night, until the sun rose on my sorrow. Funny how a sunrise can give you such a sinking feeling. I cried, hoping the tears would swell me to sleep, they just made the pain seep into my face and my collar bones. I thought about you that night, wondered if you were alone with your thoughts again, letting the back of your eyes rot with the white of the ceiling in your room. Or were you out in a darker place, getting high as your heart continued to suffocate? When they told me about what had really happened between you and them, everything connected. And unlike how i found out you had crawled back to her and she denied you made me happy, this only made things immensely worse. It was largely the fact that i gave you every part of me, salvaged all the small pieces and bundled them for you. You treated me like an object instead of human and i was too in love with you to realize it. But the thing is you can't walk around hurting people every chance you get. You asked her why she didn't care, well what about you? How could you dispose of me so quickly and in a rush as if you had committed a crime? For a time rage consumed me. Washed over me like running water. I wanted to tear you down and watch you disintegrate into a lake of sadness. Every other person in my life knew there was a million reasons for me to leave you. No one cared to save me. It showed me that no one is gonna be there when you're drowning in corrupted love. But i have always wanted to save you from the destruction coursing through your soul. I always wrote about burning the sentiments you gave me and collecting the ashes in a jar as a gift to you. And the twisted part of me figured that as much dust as i collect, equally would be your sorrow. I had only wished for you to stop breathing in so much dust. My mind seemed to go through a fluctuation between hate and misery. There was never an in between. I wished for you to stop cupping your hands to catch my tears so you could wash away your grief. When dejection turned into loathing you made me hurt other people. You lit matches for me to burn bridges and gave me a sledgehammer to destroy homes of happiness. Eventually the chaos got back to me and i ended up eroding myself. I convinced myself i was to put myself in danger to feel alive. Well the opposite occurred and i started dreaming about you. I dreamt of your smile, your laugh, your eyes, with an illuminating spark to them. Waking up was like realizing i had been buried alive in a small coffin, and I'm sure you don't remember how claustrophobic i am.  The fourth night dreaming about you, i turned into the living dead. I slowly melted into a shadow, still frames of you glued into the creases of my mind. Soon enough only wishes swept through my mind. I asked a god for some sort of baptism, and it never came and any form of faith diminished from my eyes. How could one person instill so much pain?
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The air was thick with rancid hate as we squared off in the mist of night. There was no words--no grunts nor groans--that oozed past sneering lips. It was a rustic sort of torture; the time slithering between you and I, as we each came to grips that only one could anticipate the dawn. Oil stained the rain-soaked way; the alley shimmered in the moon. I couldn't recall what had brought us there; what ill-will we shared. And though your eyes shone with scorn, I swear you felt the same. It was then the hatred started rolling like a current 'cross my back; as though the energy inside of me was fighting to break free. I watched with eyes uncaring as the glass began to break, and scattered bits of this and that began to whip about! You had never known me well enough to truly know what lurked within, and as your startled eyes betrayed your fear I knew that I'd already won. So much viscous agony--such a glorious defeat--a body left in ruin. I stared at what I had done, awash in a morbid optimism, and I saw the shards of glass twinkle under a cracked light. Consumed by the sight, I saw you sink into a sky of oil and filth and eternal blackness. Your own   urban starlight.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 12:55 AM UTC
Urban Starlight
Sofia clung tightly to the black tipped violet wings of the tenuous butterfly. She softly pleaded to the intricate friend. "Please stay," a tear caressing her cheek, "don't leave me." Her mother walked up behind her. "Oh honey, don't hang onto his wings, you will only **** him." Sofia turned to her mother's chocolate eyes and quietly muttered, "Let go of my wings mommy."
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
Wings (Let Go)
Come child, Wash those cobwebs from your eyes, let not that sadness clutter your vision. I know your mistakes and faults keep you up, wrap them away, your silk thoughts, and bury them within you. We all know misery thrives on sorrow, and infected hands handle peace. I see the black veins in your gaunt hands, and soon we will all know , the messenger of mercy, is the heart- becoming silent, only speaking with a language of tears. And not even you my dear, can escape from the sticky entanglement that murders beauty and passion.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 12:44 AM UTC
CobWebs
He was young and sad He tore my skin and swallowed me whole He took a part of me he didn't have in himself His daggers looked like tears He claimed me but did not want me He left hate on my heart and bruises on my bones He is a ghost living inside of me He is every negative thought inside of my blood He is the shadow i can not escape Destroyed my heart with three words "I don't care" and I guess I don't either
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 9:12 PM UTC
I Don't Care