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15.0k · Oct 2018
Five second poems
Alexander Oct 2018
I ripped my heart out
then put it on your silver platter
and all you can say is
“ I’ll text you later .”
I guess this is how heartbreak goes for some people.
4.9k · Sep 2018
Reasoning with doubt
Alexander Sep 2018
Everything in place,
A single book out
Made my world cave.
I tried to reason with my mind
But it always struggled to be right.
So I pushed my finger nails
Into the bed of my palms
And ten,
little,
****** half- moons
Lighted my way home.
I wrote this about the fear of not being perfect.
2.6k · Jan 2019
Overpopulation of my heart.
Alexander Jan 2019
I erased you from my mind
So my heart could beat another time.
I need to do what’s healthy for me, not you.
1.9k · Sep 2019
I’m happy
Alexander Sep 2019
I woke up happy today,
The clouds weren’t blue
The sun wasn’t out.
There was no sight of you.
But that’s not the point.
I woke up happy today.
1.7k · Feb 2022
Make it make sense
Alexander Feb 2022
we can look past his lies,
but not the ugly truth?
1.6k · Sep 2018
Wolves/Woman
Alexander Sep 2018
A wolf in the wild,
A woman in a concrete jungle
put a mirror
in front of one,
And the reflection will show the other.
1.4k · Feb 2021
Maybe
Alexander Feb 2021
Things will be different,

  Once I change.
1.4k · Oct 2021
My life
Alexander Oct 2021
“You’re in line.”

I fall asleep on the suicide hotline
1.3k · Aug 2020
*
Alexander Aug 2020
*
slip away
These hands can’t hold onto you

Like sand you give away,
through these cracks you sink
1.1k · Jul 2021
.
Alexander Jul 2021
.
“I love her

  like you love me”
Alexander Sep 2018
you said you didn’t want to lose me
I was all you ever had
And while this is all very flattering
You really can’t lose what you never had.
Nothing to add to this.
877 · Jan 2022
the moon in his eyes
Alexander Jan 2022
the crescent brown that rests in his blue eyes,
holds a special kind of light;
This knowledge he holds,
from the struggles he has overcome,
he sees all the darkness the light has to offer,
The possibility that love can cut you open,
yet sees the good every time
those blue eyes have a darkness, specks,
you can hardly notice
only if you are able to look close enough;
The brown around your iris,
I will always admire,
Always and forever proud to call you mine
✨refurbished poem✨
864 · Jul 2021
hearts//bones
Alexander Jul 2021
It hurts we were so close,
but got caught on the what ifs.
What hurts the most though,
is we were so ******* in each other arms
We forgot to break our fall
787 · Oct 2021
Bird Cage
Alexander Oct 2021
Out of the ordinary
A canary with clipped wings,
Destined for greatness,
While being bound to her cage

Out of the ordinary
Clinging to her daily routine
Paralyzed by the fears,  
That she’ll never succeed

Out of the ordinary
Maybe she’ll fly after all
Though she was made for the sky,
We all have to learn to crawl
784 · Sep 2021
9/1/21
Alexander Sep 2021
I want the type of happiness that feels like liquor
but looks like love.
779 · Dec 2021
love
Alexander Dec 2021
love is a strange thing,
It seems to always be defined
by the things we do
and the words we don’t say
765 · Nov 2021
Time
Alexander Nov 2021
Wrong place, wrong time,
It didn’t matter what he meant
These words were written in stone,
Before they ever were said.
649 · Feb 2022
water the gardens
Alexander Feb 2022
cry alone,
for no one understands the tears that make their flowers grow
634 · Jul 2021
Mirrors
Alexander Jul 2021
is it me
or her
looking in this mirror
632 · Feb 2022
a tithing for the weak
Alexander Feb 2022
i crave for the days where I saw you in a different light,
these stained glass moments,
creating delicate pillars in my life  
i miss you is an understatement,
but I love you is too strong
this grey zone which i have always avoided,
because of my fear of the unknown
is now the only place I can call home
612 · Jan 2022
What was left of me
Alexander Jan 2022
Time has a way
of leaving too early-
and arriving rather late
558 · Dec 2021
Untitled
Alexander Dec 2021
the same we all are,
underneath the shallow surface
this knife will ****,
anything with a purpose.
557 · Jul 2021
7/27/21
Alexander Jul 2021
when i am gone,
no legacy will be left
only a grave
494 · Sep 2021
9/12/21
Alexander Sep 2021
You burnt me without fire
Bruised me with just words
Twisted with my desire
Until I was begging to be yours

I remember clearly,
The day I left you behind,
The fire turned to embers
the bruises faded overnight.


These scars I still have,
but a reminder they will always serve,
while it pained me to leave you
love should never hurt
482 · Oct 2021
Faded
Alexander Oct 2021
Why did you only notice me when I was almost gone?
480 · Jan 2022
A title with meaning
Alexander Jan 2022
hello looks like goodbye,
every time I look into your eyes;
as a leaf born from the May air,
on an August day,
the death grip on the hour hand,
desperate to stay:
There is never enough of the time we share
437 · Mar 2021
Twin flame
Alexander Mar 2021
I’m so used to being burned
Your cold shoulder made me feel loved.
Alexander Mar 2019
I’m a stepping stone in your river of love,
A current reminder I will never be enough.
I actually love the river
411 · Oct 2018
Sun|•|Moon
Alexander Oct 2018
I promise a day will come,
When the sun shines bright
And the darkness only finds you at
Night
378 · Feb 2022
You
Alexander Feb 2022
You
it doesn’t hurt that you left,
It hurts that you did it in the name of love
374 · Jan 2022
A friend
Alexander Jan 2022
a lesson you will learn,
before your life comes to an end
is that the grave is dug the deepest,
For the ones putting you in
Alexander Sep 2019
I loved an empty being,
Gave my all just so you could feel something,
But somewhere along the way,
You came alive as I withered away.
369 · Feb 2022
A little bit of okay
Alexander Feb 2022
I’ve scuffled with wanting greatness,
A grip that’s held onto me tight
Squeezing the life out til I’m just tired
Weak and stressed
Wanting everything to be just alright
355 · Mar 2019
My love
Alexander Mar 2019
My artificial heart beats
only
for
you.
Somehow you made me whole by breaking me apart.
352 · Nov 2018
Untitled
Alexander Nov 2018
Just a flicker of your smile
Made the world a better place.
347 · Apr 2022
soothe
Alexander Apr 2022
i think hail kinda burns before it melts
the same way your love hurts before it is felt
346 · Nov 2020
Untitled
Alexander Nov 2020
Clouded vision by these things that haunt me,
Still waking up from yesterday’s fog
While stressing over tomorrows possibilities.
339 · Dec 2018
Up
Alexander Dec 2018
Up
I realized I had grown up
When I looked around for familiar faces
And I had found none.
My personal experience with growing up is that when you hit a certain age,
Everything  somehow begins all over again.
The people you once knew are seen in a different light.
337 · Mar 2021
3/5/21
Alexander Mar 2021
It’s crystal clear,
You love my skin.

But my mind?
335 · Jan 2022
Lowest places
Alexander Jan 2022
Perhaps I’m just a kid from Jordan
with dreams to fly
or maybe the pills are starting to take control
of this sunken mind
332 · Sep 2018
Flipped
Alexander Sep 2018
When


         The

    Sun
  
                 Felt


      Wet


                 And
  
The

             Water
  
       Went
                             Dry.
  
Is when I knew things weren’t right.
329 · Dec 2021
but.
Alexander Dec 2021
like the bruise carefully placed on my upper thigh,
by the man who gifted me my green eyes
you affectionately caused pain in the name of
love



this cycle truly never ends
325 · May 2022
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Alexander May 2022
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I find myself breathing through others,
living a life that never was
319 · Oct 2021
how to leave
Alexander Oct 2021
Would you care if I left and not just for the day
I feel myself slipping,
slipping away.
310 · Feb 2019
Eyes
Alexander Feb 2019
You can hide your shame
Cover your past
But the look in your eyes
Will always last.
304 · Dec 2021
more than just words
Alexander Dec 2021
they say truth is a hard pill to swallow,
i desperately wish that were true
for the ones that I tend to swallow,
are why I lost you.
266 · Nov 2021
Gutted
Alexander Nov 2021
they don’t think to save the girl
with a smile on her face
259 · Feb 2021
Metamorphosis
Alexander Feb 2021
Come back,
Let us talk
I can become what you want.
242 · Oct 2021
Someone you can love
Alexander Oct 2021
I can’t blame you for loving her,
She’s everything I want to be
235 · May 2019
Stop feeling bad
Alexander May 2019
You aren’t the designated anchor,
For the person who can’t get it together.
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