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molly-mccarthy
molly-mccarthy
American
Your hands are like ocean waves Often rough and unthinking Occasionally gentle and purposeful But always better than not existing at all I wanted to swim in them forever But no one can control the tides Just as I know you’ll be back when you go I know that you can never stay Too afraid to leave the safety of the shore When it gets too deep no one can stand So your hands will stay waves And my heart will stay watching Until I learn to swim or You decide to stop.
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Jul 8, 2012
Jul 8, 2012 at 11:34 PM UTC
Drown
A night in your bed leaves me two aches in the morning, Both on parts inside of me that only you can touch. One with your body and the other with your words But actions soaked in alcohol cant be trusted. If only bedsheets were made of paper I would write you promises and let them keep you warm at night But cotton can only keep secrets So we will sleep under them and no one will know. I’ve tried to make you see the difference between blood and an ****** Because The liquid between my legs cannot pump through my heart any longer. But your eyes were made for seduction not forever So why do I see my future in them? They say actions speak louder than words so the honesty in my bones cries out as I lay in your arms But This darkness cant hide in the light of morning So it’s time for me to go.
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Mar 14, 2012
Mar 14, 2012 at 2:07 AM UTC
The Truth
Dying of dehydration in a desert with only your tears to save me, I wouldn’t make you cry. I would let the sun evaporate my soul, just so I could rain down on you; Droplets of loyalty shower your face but you deflect me with an umbrella shield. So the sewer becomes me and I am a river. Flowing always in your direction. All metaphors and thoughts that you will never know And more importantly never understand. So next time I know to keep away from the desert sand.
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Jan 23, 2012
Jan 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM UTC
Deserted
Lucid Dreaming on a Tuesday, enveloping my consciousness like a letter you never meant to send. My window seat bed, toasted by the sun My body is frozen, in the depths of an ocean of synapses Firing, like a bullet from the civil war. Evacuate the south, I am suffocating in an oxygen of regret. A raven flying in a V of geese, Forced into migration by disorder of priorities. Living for today is tantalizing until you awake in the abyss of tomorrow, The story book of life, a chapter of yesterdays. Nostalgia encompasses the future, make sweet the heavy Like jelly on a biscuit. What have I been starving myself for anyway?
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Dec 16, 2011
Dec 16, 2011 at 1:38 AM UTC
College II
The stench of broken promises linger in the bottom of empty shot glasses High heels strewn across the floor, I have become small again. Black makeup running down my face like a runner in last place, Temporary maturity bought for seven dollars in a Maybelline bottle. If only the company we kept were as silent as the stars, a mistake would dissolve like alka seltzer in the room temperature water That I can’t stop chugging. Alcohol depriving me of life essentials like, h2o and the will to live.
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 9:27 PM UTC
Hang Over
A Child bearing the weight of generations He smiles, but innocence is a loose tooth Yanked from the grin of a progressive mind The promise of an under the pillow payment worth the hole in his happiness.
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Nov 9, 2011
Nov 9, 2011 at 10:32 PM UTC
Lonely Cash
A white striped dress hugging my body clinging to my empty belly, filled with nothing but too much of the cheapest liquor money can buy. My lips smiling, a heart the color of the 11:30 sky. The expectations of birthday hung stagnant in the room like a portrait of paradise hanging in a museum that no one, bothers to look at. Anything but perfection would be a tragedy. House music beating mercilessly on the drums in my ears, though I am far from home. Countless sets of eyeballs pleading with me to not let them leave alone. Cupid’s name should be overpriced shots because I fell in love that night.
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Nov 6, 2011
Nov 6, 2011 at 1:53 AM UTC
WooDie
Lucid Dreaming on a Tuesday, enveloping my consciousness like a letter you never meant to send. My window seat bed, toasted by the sun My body is frozen, in the depths of an ocean of synapses Firing, like a bullet from the civil war. Evacuate the south, I am suffocating in an oxygen of regret. A raven flying in a V of geese, Forced into migration by disorder of priorities. Living for today is tantalizing until you awake in the abyss of tomorrow, The story book of life, a chapter of yesterdays. Nostalgia encompasses the future, make sweet the heavy Like jelly on a biscuit. What have I been starving myself for anyway?
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Nov 6, 2011
Nov 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM UTC
College