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naebaegreen
19/F
You were like my Evangeline so far unattainable something that I couldn’t quite reach my grasp never close enough I longed for you, but couldn’t quite reach. You were my Evangeline.
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May 24
May 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM UTC
Evangeline
You’ve ruined my name for me I always thought it was this beautiful thing so unique that not many have ever heard or seen but one day you heard it and then one day you said it in a way that no one has ever said it in a tone so unfamiliar in a tone so captivating that I never wanted another person to say it with so much passion ever again it’s almost like on the first day you said it you claimed a part of me but that passion was soon lust that faded on your end but never mine and you left me with only the memory of the first time you said my name and now it doesn’t feel special like you’ve stripped all the meaning now when people ask I’m quick to correct I’m nae because you’ve ruined my name
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May 24
May 24, 2026 at 3:42 AM UTC
My Name
what I’m standing in is the grief of losing you... and losing us. i thought I would be more mad, but I couldn’t be farther from the truth. it’s almost as though I’m happy, because we were too quiet and that broke us. there’s a part of me that loves the loud I love the toxic, I love the mess, I love the stress. blocking your number just to wait for a “no caller ID” call. the screaming, the name-calling, the pride just to come back and say “I love you” in the night. there’s something about that feeling of distress… and I can’t quite pinpoint when it started... when it felt like we needed to yell just to get by, when the only thing we could do was fight to prove we still cared. you got tired of that same toxic song and dance... but I wasn’t tired of it. I wasn’t tired of us. I wasn’t tired of you. and maybe it’s all my fault I didn’t see the signs before our love got lost somewhere in the mess. I’ve never known how to love something without breaking it.
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Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM UTC
This Is Why
Cocoa butter. Hot combs. Wash your face. Don’t get your church clothes ***** And Stay in a child’s place. Make sure you have all A’s — we don’t want stupid little girls. Don’t walk with a switch, you’re trying to be fast in the tail. Don’t be around those boys — I’m not raising no babies. Do you think it’s cute to not act like a lady? And when we go out in public, you better not show your *** Comb that nappy-ass head. Don’t forget the kitchen. These are the things I had to learn. Now it’s your time to listen.
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Mar 4
Mar 4, 2026 at 10:19 AM UTC
Cocoa Butter & Hot Combs
Why do you do the things you do? Why do you come back? Why do I let you? Am I really so weak that when you return I fall to my knees? Why do I give you this control over me? I’m usually smart— calculated and precise. But when you come back around, I’m somebody I don’t recognize. I’m so love sick. I’m sick in love. It’s just like a drug and I can’t get enough. But maybe this is my last time getting high. Because after a while, even addicts flatline.
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Feb 14
Feb 14, 2026 at 6:29 AM UTC
Chasing the high
As the hours come close and this year ends, I promised myself these will be the last tears shed. I promised myself next year I’ll pour my heart into things that pour back. I’ll take time and work on my art, and learn new love— soft love, true love. Love that won’t leave me burnt, burnt out, or lost going into the new year. No matter how much I love you I have to love myself more
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Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM UTC
My promise
And it’s so crazy, cause I thought I’d never love again. Then you came into my life, and I didn’t really try — but somehow I was forced to give love another chance. It was like a faucet that wouldn’t stop dripping, no matter how hard I tried to cut it off. Love came so effortlessly, and it consumed every part of me in the best way possible — not suffocating, but like a warm blanket made just for me… no — just for us. The blanket I needed after being dumped in the cold — and I’d choose that warmth, that blanket made just for us, again and again and again.
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Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM UTC
Blanket
You called, and I didn’t answer. Lord knows I wanted to— but He also knows how hard it was on me when I had to find myself again after feeling lost without you.
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Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM UTC
No Caller ID
I miss how you say my name. It sounds sweet— like honey I never used to like my name, but it was different coming from you. Our names together sounded so sweet, so pure. I miss how you’d say my name as I jotted all my thoughts down just to get my attention, or how you’d say it after one of my many corny jokes, or when you were mad— even then, it still sounded soft. I don’t think I ever thought there’d be a day you wouldn’t say my name. I guess I thought wrong. And oh— I would give anything to hear you say my name again. Because when you said it, it wasn’t just a word. It was the spirit, the love, the peace that came with it.
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Oct 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM UTC
Say My Name
I operate in chaos— and I’m not talking messy room, I’m talking messy life. Calm stresses me out, probably because anytime peace showed up, the storm soon followed. I was doomed from the start, basically roaming in the dark. And at the end of the day, I let you break my already broken heart. But you’re not the first, and probably won’t be the last. Because I’m still picking up pieces that were shattered by my dad. But I can’t blame him for letting you in— that was all me. I loved you because I thought you could see me. But you didn’t. You saw me as a form of revenge, like you were getting back at all the girls who hurt you. And every day with you was a new lesson. You were my chaos. You came when I was at peace, and you took a piece of me. But I don’t want chaos. I want love. And I want to see a version of me who isn’t scared of peace.
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Sep 8, 2025
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM UTC
The Chaos