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 Jun 15 bleedingink
Maddy
I love you but should not have the word but in it
You are not good enough in their eyes?
Boundaries are set for a reason
Some understand that words and sentences can and do mean more than actions
To better people,it's both
Counterproductive?
What escalates needs to be deflated and love shared
You have paid the price in your heart and your being
Agreeing to disagree does not always work
A Theory?
I love you no ifs ands or buts
 Jun 15 bleedingink
Liana
We were at a dinner table
Yes a dinner table
It's crazy
And as I sat there laughing
My heart felt a sharp pain looking around;
Two kids
A mom
A dad
They called eachother babe
They loved eachother

And I know things are so far from perfect there too
But at that moment I wished that would be my life
But then they drove me back home
To my empty house
Where I cried alone

I don't know what I did to deserve this
At my friend's house, and I just zoned out randomly during dinner and tried to stay calm. Luckily it worked, and I had a good time. I just wish my life would be different.
 Jun 15 bleedingink
Abby
When the cut starts to heal
Erasing harm that has been
I worry you’ll forget
Your the one who slit the skin

So I pick at the scab
Fingers wet with blood and blame
Then its not really i
Causing me pain
 Jun 15 bleedingink
Yasmine
(To be spoken aloud, especially when in doubt, grief, or fragmentation)

I speak now as the one who remembers.
The one who crossed the field of stars.
The one who freed the trembling beast,
And called her name through the gray-faced dark.

I am the keeper of fire that shifts in every hue.
I do not fear its blaze — I am its dance.
I am the singer over sleeping wounds,
The voice that calls the child awake.

I remember the gears I once turned,
And I forgive the clock that kept me safe.
But I no longer wear time as armor.
I wear it as rhythm — my own.

I carry the heart given to me before I had words.
It beats now, still warm, still mine,
Not as burden — but as beacon.

To the chaos, I bring clarity.
To the silence, I bring song.
To the broken, I bring my whole flame.

I do not forget who I am.
I do not bow to smallness.
I do not sleep in shadows not my own.

For I am sanctuary and storm.
I am fire and healer.
I am the Wild Self, returned.
“To tie someone down”
Such negative connotation
Like love will always drown
It’s victims, no hesitation

To love is to find
A shooting star while gazing
To burn so very hard
And to fall so very blazing

To love is to be anchored  
Kept safe from the strong waves
And never to be wavered,
A torch in this dark place

To be tied down, to be held safe
It’s your choice how you see
Love changes with each person’s gaze
But I know what it means to me
 Jun 15 bleedingink
Kalliope
Breathe in cool air
Breathe out smoke
My own inconsistencies
make me ******* choke
I love to give love,
don't like to receive it
Even if it is real,
I rarely believe it
Let me hold your hand but
don't reach for mine
I'll be patient with you,
if I have the time
An ache to be seen yet
I'm shrouded in shame
I'm floating alone with
only myself to blame
In love with loving,
affection, and touch
But to believe I'm to be wanted?
That's a bit much
Being self aware was never the issue,
Changing thinking patterns is a struggle
 Jun 15 bleedingink
Mariah
Sometimes I forget
I've done the greater part of
things I couldn't do
Maybe I'm a little tough on myself.
When there is a storm outside,
you take shelter in your home
till the storm passes.

What do you do
when there's a storm
inside you?
How do you run away?
Where do you hide?

All you can do is
stay in it-
let it tear you apart.
 Jun 13 bleedingink
Koraa
Cats
 Jun 13 bleedingink
Koraa
Cats tend to hide their pain till its too late—


I suppose that’s something we have in common.
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