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joanna-grace
I am part of an existence comprised of life and death. I am part of an existence that I can’t wrap my head around. I am inside of a world no one wants to understand. I am using language as a tool to clear my head. I am living a life that could easily be a lie. But what really is a lie if each one of us will die. I am a recycled particle of everything that has been. This universe is a blender in God’s kitchen. Maps are dishonest. And I am honestly losing my mind.
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Jun 7, 2015
Jun 7, 2015 at 2:32 PM UTC
Shedding my Skin
Maybe the world is still Eden, but we assumed evil
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 11:12 PM UTC
Garden
in my garden there's a feeling of your fingers buried beneath the snow your hands as strong diamond blades but now we need to go in my living room the universe leaks in through open windows i try to dig you out of our suede couch but the cushions fall too low my old bedroom hums a cleaning tune of polka styled Sundays you never understood my floral sheets or any of my ways in my driveway bottle rockets lit shooting past our skulls you couldn't look at me or anything that screamed romance at all finally i see the bible green craft woven through the fields all i see is our lord savior lighting cigarettes revealed
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 11:56 PM UTC
linger on your green/ blue eyes
take my word for it we're both worth it in your hour of implosion our time keeps going midnight, the familiar smell of strange boys trying to hold you your mouth a cauldron of poison touching all the things you don't want to loosing yourself in dark skies won't bring the stars any closer old photographs fill your mind how can he change that quick i'm not so sure older boys don't know the things our silly schoolboys taught us like how to hold your words in to make other heads combust regret will hold your hair as you prepare to throw up flowers from the dances you went to in his green suit now April Showers I regret most of it looking deeply into his eyes closed next time you fall and scrape your knees know that the pain may be predisposed put down the drink come lay with me what can we build our strategy to use this pain and smear the blood across the sheets so tragically (i wish that you were here with me)
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 12:36 AM UTC
it all hurts
to me you speak proverbs and Hymns and Hallelujahs If God isn't real, i know there is still a deity in you a broken deity a light that lived many lives a cackling joker if you may i cry and listen to simple songs that remind me you may have kissed the most beautiful face in the world and then i cry more because to have felt true love in this world just makes you a sucker and we both fell victim to euphoria we both fell victim to big thoughts and small gestures and big smiles hiding small lies i like to believe nothing is little but i am sad i love that you remember calendar dates because you only keep track of the things that you care about but you can't put a date on the day we both let these men deteriorate us decay is gradual i love that you value repetition in clothes, routines, and words but we lost ourselves in the Nights We Can't Remake and we keep driving night highways in search of the past pieces of our friend group but they choose pride over fellowship so they can chain the ones they want to marriage bands and empty vows thank you for teaching me that you can not try for brilliance instead it gravitates toward you through honesty and observation you are the most interesting story my life will ever get the chance to read
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 2:28 AM UTC
Julia 2:28AM
Time heals all wounds, cuts, bruises, broken bones, organs (specifically hearts) Time heals all of these with a force called love (tolerance) Medicine (alcohol) Prescriptions from your loved ones ("just get over it already") Or ("Find someone else") Time pushes decisions on you Do we fight for the past? Do we fight in regret's slow growing army? Do we only go down fists clenched? Or Do we waste away? Do I sit along the shore ( bedrooms, basements, classrooms, places I spend most time) and overlook my pretty little shells ( the best people in my life) Waiting for the shell I threw back (you) To wash up once again After all there are so many shells in the sea And so many shores
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 2:32 AM UTC
Sally sells love at the shore instead
Writing hurts and it helps It hurts to pull your brain through time machines to relive your life in slow motion But it helps you find the truth about your sickening unconscious With a full page You can feel empty For at least one second Until burdening thoughts return To run the track of twisted reality Once again
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 2:09 AM UTC
everything plays on a loop in a different key
i hope to speak to you again but then what would i say that your current relationship makes me feel like an angel buried alive and forgotten that i drink then i call to hear your voice but there is nothing to say i am doomed to dead leaves and empty carousels i am stuck on one song the piano is tired of hearing it and the folds in my throat are tired of singing it Sundays call for routine Samson sings my rampant mind to sleep and David can play to please the Lord but i will never please you the way that her tiny hands and heart do you were everywhere including my lips and time will heal all wounds but instead you left a tattoo that reads *i ****** up* i still get high from the memories of our eye contact i know that we could have made it if we had tried but you're the balloon that flew away into a greedy breeze and you taught my childish heart that all things are temporary
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 1:31 AM UTC
to the boy i'm in love with:
kind hearted man why do you try so hard to be simple i loved you for your innocence but i know it's chosen ignorance because if you think too hard you might learn that everything you know is a lie your God is the easiest road to travel rather than tackle the real questions of the universe you are stuck in your own head i have dreams where i try to chisel you out but instead my pecking backfires and i'm the one left in pieces you want to do whats easiest so i'm left alone sprinting through the dark fields of the world on my birthday chasing down nineteen candles without you
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:35 PM UTC
to the boy i love:
Is your best potential love always unrequited?
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 3:15 AM UTC
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