elisacinelli - Hello Poetry

It’s sad to think of you alone when you entered this world in an embracing cacophony backseats overloaded with backward-facing long-legged laughs and beds snug with warm bodies and late-night mumbles from father’s house to husband’s and evenings spent looking, talking, eating, smiling I remember how you told me you’d be alright I hadn’t yet learned that it was time to change places I didn’t fill in the gaps where there had been color and music and sweet-smelling coffee You told me you’d be alright.

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Jan 27, 2025

Jan 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM UTC

alone

It’s sad to think of you alone when you entered this world in an embracing cacophony backseats overloaded with backward-facing long-legged laughs and beds snug with warm bodies and late-night mumbles from father’s house to husband’s and evenings spent looking, talking, eating, smiling I remember how you told me you’d be alright I hadn’t yet learned that it was time to change places I didn’t fill in the gaps where there had been color and music and sweet-smelling coffee You told me you’d be alright.

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You’re the neighbor I don’t want to know Keeping mostly quiet but always on the other side of my wall You’re the great teacher who pierces me in places I didn’t know could break You’re the dark side of a bargain You bring us in and take us out Give us breath and blood Shepherd us back into an unknown I don’t want to know All we can do is pretend we are stronger than you That you didn’t ****** us unwilling into once upon a time That you won’t ever drag us out

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Apr 14, 2024

Apr 14, 2024 at 12:33 AM UTC

dark angel

You’re the neighbor I don’t want to know Keeping mostly quiet but always on the other side of my wall You’re the great teacher who pierces me in places I didn’t know could break You’re the dark side of a bargain You bring us in and take us out Give us breath and blood Shepherd us back into an unknown I don’t want to know All we can do is pretend we are stronger than you That you didn’t ****** us unwilling into once upon a time That you won’t ever drag us out

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I could lose all of my possessions and it wouldn't matter I'm rich because you fed me meals and words of encouragement

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Jan 29, 2023

Jan 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM UTC

unbreakable

I could lose all of my possessions and it wouldn't matter I'm rich because you fed me meals and words of encouragement

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Inside my heart there is a a dark place a bitter place where a doll-sized me lives and she is sad and mad and curses her God She is broken to the core her wounds run deep and purple red she is utterly unworthy of love she didn’t win the race You can’t see her because she lives inside the dark place in my heart you see only my courage and my loving heart but I feel her not when she screams when she cries

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Oct 26, 2022

Oct 26, 2022 at 2:07 AM UTC

my depression

Inside my heart there is a a dark place a bitter place where a doll-sized me lives and she is sad and mad and curses her God She is broken to the core her wounds run deep and purple red she is utterly unworthy of love she didn’t win the race You can’t see her because she lives inside the dark place in my heart you see only my courage and my loving heart but I feel her not when she screams when she cries

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ancient wounds still break suddenly and without warning an earthquake whose epicenter is your heart

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Mar 21, 2022

Mar 21, 2022 at 1:20 AM UTC

ancient wounds

ancient wounds still break suddenly and without warning an earthquake whose epicenter is your heart

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silver tarnishes in the rain I almost won I had one foot over the line but when they took you I could not stop them.

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Nov 28, 2021

Nov 28, 2021 at 8:12 PM UTC

when it breaks

silver tarnishes in the rain I almost won I had one foot over the line but when they took you I could not stop them.

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I am never sure if the language barrier made the details of our affair easier to stomach or so much more painful part of me high on the thrill while hopeless love bubbled like magma at the base of an inactive volcano your matter of fact words and that thick roll of duct tape you carried ensuring no possibility of eruption

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Aug 6, 2021

Aug 6, 2021 at 3:09 AM UTC

language barrier

I am never sure if the language barrier made the details of our affair easier to stomach or so much more painful part of me high on the thrill while hopeless love bubbled like magma at the base of an inactive volcano your matter of fact words and that thick roll of duct tape you carried ensuring no possibility of eruption

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Candle flickers frustrated, I try to keep reading flame smaller and smaller why can’t I light this wick? I could not see that the string had burnt down to nearly nothing buried in a soft and lumpy ball of wax Again I strike a match and burn my fingers upside down but I scald them again it took so long for me to realize you were melting, charred And then I was sorry and lost blind without your light

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Jul 20, 2021

Jul 20, 2021 at 12:56 AM UTC

slow goodbye

Candle flickers frustrated, I try to keep reading flame smaller and smaller why can’t I light this wick? I could not see that the string had burnt down to nearly nothing buried in a soft and lumpy ball of wax Again I strike a match and burn my fingers upside down but I scald them again it took so long for me to realize you were melting, charred And then I was sorry and lost blind without your light

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writing you letters with my soul instead of my pen life is poetry loss I’ll never be able to reconcile here in this human form always broken and not sure if I’m mad about it every single guitar string broken now dancing anyway

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Jun 7, 2021

Jun 7, 2021 at 2:10 AM UTC

broken strings

writing you letters with my soul instead of my pen life is poetry loss I’ll never be able to reconcile here in this human form always broken and not sure if I’m mad about it every single guitar string broken now dancing anyway

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