mrielrodriguez - Hello Poetry

I hide a river inside my heart And I bury that heart in the woods River flows to a waterfall The waterfall drops into the seas All the seas make up the great ocean The great oceans make up the whole world So no matter where my heart would rest Waters will flood all the continents Because my heart couldn't contain them I hide a river inside my heart And darling, you will be drowning

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Apr 14, 2017

Apr 14, 2017 at 1:54 AM UTC

I Have Drowned Here

I hide a river inside my heart And I bury that heart in the woods River flows to a waterfall The waterfall drops into the seas All the seas make up the great ocean The great oceans make up the whole world So no matter where my heart would rest Waters will flood all the continents Because my heart couldn't contain them I hide a river inside my heart And darling, you will be drowning

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Everyone swears I'm a tough girl but you don't know that. You've never seen it. I lose all the fight in me in your company and just crash into you easy. Muscles cease to tense up, relaxing. Alcohol tolerance, dropping. I am flirty. I am clingy. I am cheesy. I am jealous. In the safety of you, I allow myself to be comfortable and vulnerable. I find no need to watch myself. They say falling in love is a matter of chance. But I knew I decided on this. In your company, I am safe. In your safety, I chose you. And so I let myself.

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Mar 6, 2017

Mar 6, 2017 at 10:13 AM UTC

I Let Myself

Everyone swears I'm a tough girl but you don't know that. You've never seen it. I lose all the fight in me in your company and just crash into you easy. Muscles cease to tense up, relaxing. Alcohol tolerance, dropping. I am flirty. I am clingy. I am cheesy. I am jealous. In the safety of you, I allow myself to be comfortable and vulnerable. I find no need to watch myself. They say falling in love is a matter of chance. But I knew I decided on this. In your company, I am safe. In your safety, I chose you. And so I let myself.

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Because I look at you And my memory fails me I forgot other people's silhouettes Just to give space inside my brain For the stubble on your chin The lines around your intense eyes Where your cheek bones incline and decline The dews on your lips I like kissing And how everything adds up To the face I always miss seeing I look at old friends And in idle moments when my head is free I stare at them and it's like seeing them for the first time I realize I have not been looking hard enough Get too caught up with the mundane The casual talks and dates Inductive, I go beyond the entirety of the face And start with the features then zoom out I am taken aback at how foreign they seem to me suddenly How many lifetimes do I need to remember everyone else's faces? I just spent a night memorizing yours

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Nov 6, 2016

Nov 6, 2016 at 11:51 PM UTC

How many faces can we remember in a lifetime?

Because I look at you And my memory fails me I forgot other people's silhouettes Just to give space inside my brain For the stubble on your chin The lines around your intense eyes Where your cheek bones incline and decline The dews on your lips I like kissing And how everything adds up To the face I always miss seeing I look at old friends And in idle moments when my head is free I stare at them and it's like seeing them for the first time I realize I have not been looking hard enough Get too caught up with the mundane The casual talks and dates Inductive, I go beyond the entirety of the face And start with the features then zoom out I am taken aback at how foreign they seem to me suddenly How many lifetimes do I need to remember everyone else's faces? I just spent a night memorizing yours

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Nakakapaso Sementong kalsada Sa tanghaling tapat Bilad sa sikat ng araw Unang buhos ng ulan Pagkatapos ng tag-init Sisingaw ang init Makakahinga ang lupa

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Oct 9, 2016

Oct 9, 2016 at 1:19 PM UTC

Ang Nagagawa ng Pag-Iyak

Nakakapaso Sementong kalsada Sa tanghaling tapat Bilad sa sikat ng araw Unang buhos ng ulan Pagkatapos ng tag-init Sisingaw ang init Makakahinga ang lupa

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It's crazy to be this close to you And still be angry at the space in between. Maybe this is why people marry-- To be so close, there's only one of the two of us.

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Sep 23, 2016

Sep 23, 2016 at 11:58 AM UTC

Into one

It's crazy to be this close to you And still be angry at the space in between. Maybe this is why people marry-- To be so close, there's only one of the two of us.

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Everything our feet step into We try to turn into homes If it never quite feels like one We leave it earlier than The ones that do turn familiar Call it homesickness But we also leave new familiar shelters Seats warm, feet cold Sheets messy, faces comfortably ugly Call it growth and adventure TL;DR We always leave

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Aug 29, 2016

Aug 29, 2016 at 8:04 AM UTC

We want monopolies, not homes

Everything our feet step into We try to turn into homes If it never quite feels like one We leave it earlier than The ones that do turn familiar Call it homesickness But we also leave new familiar shelters Seats warm, feet cold Sheets messy, faces comfortably ugly Call it growth and adventure TL;DR We always leave

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When was the consensus made That I was to be every man's safety net For when they gamble on somebody Somebody else that isn't me He was an acrobat who felt his best midair She wasn't a safety net ready to catch, she is also falling She is a house of cards tumbling down for a game not worth all the rupees But a card game needing a gambler all the same

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Apr 9, 2016

Apr 9, 2016 at 3:29 AM UTC

Untitled

When was the consensus made That I was to be every man's safety net For when they gamble on somebody Somebody else that isn't me He was an acrobat who felt his best midair She wasn't a safety net ready to catch, she is also falling She is a house of cards tumbling down for a game not worth all the rupees But a card game needing a gambler all the same

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The problem is you assumed I was okay I kept saying I wasn't I couldn't do it I need to drop them But you insisted I was okay Now I'm showing doing saying Things you don't approve Finally you're convinced I really wasn't I couldn't do it I needed to drop them Because I'm still not okay And you go crazy With your feisty marching band No grasp of reality, my reality Pretending to be a friend Treating me like a glass about to break But I don't believe any of it You only do the things you do Because you don't approve of mine And I'm done I'm done done done

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Nov 28, 2015

Nov 28, 2015 at 11:02 PM UTC

Not okay

The problem is you assumed I was okay I kept saying I wasn't I couldn't do it I need to drop them But you insisted I was okay Now I'm showing doing saying Things you don't approve Finally you're convinced I really wasn't I couldn't do it I needed to drop them Because I'm still not okay And you go crazy With your feisty marching band No grasp of reality, my reality Pretending to be a friend Treating me like a glass about to break But I don't believe any of it You only do the things you do Because you don't approve of mine And I'm done I'm done done done

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Your sadness makes other people uncomfortable, and so you learn to hide it. You learn to cope with humor and ***** and a busy sched. Your body learns to smile even when you're crumbling down inside, to keep walking even when you wanna fall to the ground in the middle of the road. You've conditioned yourself to do all this so well that even when the right people come around who are willing to take in all your losses and watch every single tear fall from your eyes, you don't. You smile. You drink. You keep walking. But you can only do so for so long... how long

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Oct 30, 2015

Oct 30, 2015 at 3:14 AM UTC

I'm sad but I don't know how to be in front of other people

Your sadness makes other people uncomfortable, and so you learn to hide it. You learn to cope with humor and ***** and a busy sched. Your body learns to smile even when you're crumbling down inside, to keep walking even when you wanna fall to the ground in the middle of the road. You've conditioned yourself to do all this so well that even when the right people come around who are willing to take in all your losses and watch every single tear fall from your eyes, you don't. You smile. You drink. You keep walking. But you can only do so for so long... how long

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You seem like the type of guy who would accept me while my face is breaking out because you're that lonely yourself. That's all.

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Oct 4, 2015

Oct 4, 2015 at 1:04 PM UTC

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You seem like the type of guy who would accept me while my face is breaking out because you're that lonely yourself. That's all.

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