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405 · Jul 2014
You
Chloe Elizabeth Jul 2014
You
I found comfort in the way you looked at me
while you spoke
and while you were silent

I loved the smell of your car
because it smelled so much like you
and your expensive cologne

You would trace hearts on my hand
while you held it
and close your eyes when I touched your face

You held me while I cried
during the sad part of the movie

When I think of the moment you left
I remember all the reasons why you had stayed
and cannot think of one reason
why you would want to go

Because why would you want to leave someone
that you thought was so beautiful?

By Chloe Elizabeth
All those things no one will ever know but me
404 · Nov 2014
The Boy Who Couldn't Dance
Chloe Elizabeth Nov 2014
I remember looking at his eyes in a dark room
My hand was still in his when the world took a break
Spilling out the truth that has been kept inside through unbearable days
We stood still in a room full of swaying people
His eyes had never looked so beautiful than when I could see his soul
I never truly knew who he was until that moment
When he placed his heart in my hands and mine broke
To watch someone fall apart at my feet and apologize for making a mess
I picked up every piece and put him back together
With all the strength in my body I still could not handle his tears
And never have I felt truer love than when I sat on that bench
With the boy who couldn't dance
And loved him for everything he was, is and ever could be
No matter who he loved

By Chloe Elizabeth
402 · Aug 2015
Time
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2015
Day after day of running away,
My mind keeps coming back to him
I guess time does not heal everything
Unless time can bring him back to me

By Chloe Elizabeth
397 · Jul 2014
Pieces of Them
Chloe Elizabeth Jul 2014
You are drawn to people
who look like someone
you've loved before

Because the last time you saw them,
a piece of them sunk into your skin
and became a part of your body
that you will have forever
running through your veins

And you are constantly trying
to give it back
by loving someone like them

By Chloe Elizabeth
393 · May 2014
Nine Years Later
Chloe Elizabeth May 2014
You stood there in the rain
On a Saturday night
With nine years of distance
Lingering in your eyes
And hiding in your smile

Your body brought back
A small piece of home
That I thought I left behind
On that dirt road
A long time ago

All I felt was anger
Because you made yourself familiar
And then walked away
With my youth
And the scent of your blue T-shirt
That you were still wearing
Nine years later

By Chloe Elizabeth
To the man I watched spongebob with every morning as a kid and didn't see for nine years until he showed up at my house in the rain on a Saturday night.
384 · Aug 2014
Lost and Found
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
The day I lost you was the day I found myself

I always thought about what it would be like
and how it would feel
in my heart
to see you again

I never knew how I wanted this moment
to unravel until I was living in it
and longed to know if your hand still fit in mine

Faces passed while I was fixated on yours
which seemed too unfamiliar to be real

The truth is,
you were a stranger
and I felt non existent

You were real and so were the festival lights
but I wasn't really there

Things seemed to move in slow motion
as my heart beat at full speed
and I felt so distant
while you were only a few steps away

Your eyes forgot who I was
when they looked at me
so I stopped hoping they would remember

I stopped hoping you would look at me
and not through me

I stopped hoping and I walked away,
away from you and away from us,
and I lost you

By Chloe Elizabeth
383 · Jul 2015
All Good Things
Chloe Elizabeth Jul 2015
Nothing about this life is easy and all good things are the hardest to get. They are also the hardest to let go of. If you want them bad enough, you either have to let go or fight harder and I think that there is a very good chance that I will spend the rest of my life searching for him. I will walk, I will run, I will fly, I will not stop because he is the face I will always be looking for in a crowded place. Some say that all good things must come to an end, but I refuse to believe that is true. He is the best, and yes he is the only, love that I have ever had. I will not let that go easily. I will not let him go without a fight.

By Chloe Elizabeth
377 · Oct 2014
At What Cost?
Chloe Elizabeth Oct 2014
How bad does one's life need to be
for it to be considered vital for change?

At what cost do we wake up and realize
that we deserve more happiness
than we are allowing ourselves?

Humans can store mountains high of sadness
and regret and grief and anger and longing
and nostalgia and tears
and the bitter cold of hate
and still wake up with nothing to show for it

We get by on our brave faces
and comfort places
so that no one will notice
and no one will ask

By Chloe Elizabeth
375 · Oct 2014
A Small Guide To Living
Chloe Elizabeth Oct 2014
I live my life with my heart on my sleeve and open arms because I don't see a better way to spend my existence than risking it all and embracing whatever I happen to stumble across in the end. Life ends too soon for us to be afraid of the possibilities it has to offer, so I choose spontaneity and the unknown over fear and comfort zones any day.

By Chloe Elizabeth
368 · Sep 2014
Here
Chloe Elizabeth Sep 2014
We fell in love here,
in this room,
under these blankets

Spilling our words to the quietness of our heart beats
and feeling the spaces in between our fingers
until our eyes couldn't take it anymore

We fell apart here,
on this bed,
heads on these pillows

Fighting to spit out the right words to fix us,
yelling over our thundering heart beats
and wishing sleep would take the pain away

I still feel you here,
under this ceiling,
within these painted walls
and I miss you

By Chloe Elizabeth
It's 8:49 p.m. and yeah
360 · Jul 2014
It Breaks My Heart
Chloe Elizabeth Jul 2014
I keep waiting for you
but I've come to the
heartbreaking,
shattering,
painful,
crushing realization
that you are never coming back

By Chloe Elizabeth
Wow. You came back...
360 · Jan 2015
That Feeling
Chloe Elizabeth Jan 2015
I don't know how to explain it
But it feels like my heart is going to beat out of my chest
I don't have many words to describe it
But I think this is what falling in love feels like

By Chloe Elizabeth
Update: That wasn't what falling in love feels like
356 · Jul 2015
Where It All Started
Chloe Elizabeth Jul 2015
"I'm falling in love with you by the way."
A sentence I will never, ever forget
341 · Sep 2014
Please Come Home
Chloe Elizabeth Sep 2014
In one moment
you can know someone so well
and then not know them at all
in the next

Life is a beautifully painful existence
in which hearts will beat,
hearts will break,
hearts will love
and hearts will stop

But your heart stopped too soon
and those hands turned to frost
in the heat of September

She lay on the floor,
sinking in the tears
that stream for you
and she waits;
she waits for you to come home
while you lay on the pavement
and slip away

The world will keep turning
and tomorrow will come
but these bodies
in this town
will crumble with the loss
of the boy who never frowned

You stopped breathing
on September 26th, 2014
but you did not stop existing
and you will never not be loved
and remembered

Rest in paradise

By Chloe Elizabeth
A boy in the next town over from mine died yesterday morning at his
Co-Op placement, leaving behind so many friends, his family and the girl he loved. His name was Adam and he was 17. I didn't know him well but I felt a need to write something for him. This is absolutely devastating. We live our lives every day and you would never think tomorrow will be your last day alive. His death breaks my heart and has torn apart the hearts of so many people. I honestly just can't believe it. Most of this poem was written from things his friends, family and girlfriend have said about his death and I hope whoever reads this will love harder, dream bigger and just live every day as if tomorrow will be your last because you never know if it will be or not. Adam will be remembered forever and he will be nothing less than an angel watching over these broken hearts of ours.
Rest in paradise, Adam
337 · Nov 2014
She said
Chloe Elizabeth Nov 2014
If I could, I would give you the world
she said

I would never ask you to do that
he replied

By Chloe Elizabeth
333 · Nov 2014
423.3 Miles
Chloe Elizabeth Nov 2014
It was waste deep in a lake where I realized that if with you was where I wanted to be, then why wasn't I there? Why was I standing in the water, my family around the camp fire in the distance behind me, the moon lighting up my face, and not beside you? Why was I not with you? Sometimes, what seem like the most complicated situations in the world come to complete clarity in the strangest of circumstances. As I gently ran my fingers along the surface of the lake water, I saw a shooting star and I wished for you. I didn't wish for anything but the simple idea that me and you could some day be in the same moment together. That's all I wanted. For me, love was always an undiscovered emotion that I longed to feel. I watched the movies and listened to the songs people wrote about their love and I wanted nothing more than to find mine. But now, after tripping, stumbling and falling harder than I could have ever imagined, my love is 423.3 miles away and I'm stuck here, wishing upon stars and crossing my fingers, to be 423.3 miles away from here too.

By Chloe Elizabeth
328 · Aug 2014
Trust Me
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
If leaving is what you truly want,
then I will hold the door open for you
even if it means falling down the back of it when you leave
and never seeing you walk through it ever again
and I just hope that when you're free,
you will love someone again
even if it's not me
and that they will love you so much harder
because when someone says "I love you more"
they mean it.
Trust me

By Chloe Elizabeth
323 · Aug 2014
Home
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
I can love you in every pulse of my heart and every shiver in my spine but that will not bring you home

By Chloe Elizabeth
322 · Sep 2014
A Life Worth Writing About
Chloe Elizabeth Sep 2014
Living a life worth writing about is not about risking it all together. You don't need to go jumping out of airplanes or off of cliffs. You don't need to conquer all of your fears and break all of your bones. You just need to take chances, give second ones, fall in love, fall out, sneak out of your house, go for long drives, kiss the person your parents don't approve of, drink coffee for the taste, and feel EVERYTHING that life brings your way. Taste the tears that roll down your cheeks from happiness, wipe away the ones from sadness, shake uncontrollably from excitement, tell people how you feel for God's sake! Don't hide what comes naturally and you will live the most amazing life and trust me, your stories will be beautiful.

By Chloe Elizabeth
316 · Aug 2014
Heart Beats
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
People should be more grateful of who they are
and I don't mean the little things, I'm talking about the big picture.
Yes, life is made up of the details,
but you should step outside,
go to the edge of the water
or your city
or town,
listen to the world around you,
feel the world on your skin,
look at how beautiful this ****** up world actually is,
and be so ******* grateful that you are able to be a part of it.
But for some reason,
for some mind blowing reason,
humans are completely incapable of realizing
how wonderful their life actually is.
And no, not the life they live,
but the fact that they are actually alive.
The life that beats in their heart even when they are asleep.

By Chloe Elizabeth
306 · Aug 2014
Caught Up
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
You're so caught up
in your own mind
that you realize you've missed something
that you can't get back

By Chloe Elizabeth
266 · May 2014
It's Just Sad
Chloe Elizabeth May 2014
It's sad
Oh so very sad
The way you look at me now

By Chloe Elizabeth
Thoughts at 4:54 p.m.
254 · Apr 2014
Runner
Chloe Elizabeth Apr 2014
I often sit and wish
That I would have let myself
Experience more of you
Because you are not my regret
And you are not my pain
You were my fear of losing myself
In someone I loved too much
So I ran

By Chloe Elizabeth
For the boy whose heart I broke one year and nine months ago. His name started with an H.
244 · Sep 2014
Untitled
Chloe Elizabeth Sep 2014
Sometimes, you're going to blame yourself. You're going to get angry at yourself and upset at "what you have done" because it's "your fault." People go after things that they want, often overlooking what they need, leaving them set up for a failure that they will take the blame for when it is no one's fault. It's okay do go after the one you love because you want them. Life is too short to walk away from rarities. But, when you're sitting on your bed and they're gone because the feelings you felt before simply vanished, it's okay. Don't hate yourself for something that you can't control. Cry because it hurts and cry because you have every right to be upset, but remember that people who love each other are not always meant to be together and again, it's okay. They will live and you will live and everyone will love again because I do not believe in a person's soul mate. I believe that every person can fall in love with countless amounts of different people and there is a lot of beauty in that; in the amount of love we are capable of storing and at times, losing, but still having enough left over to love someone else just the same, if not more.

By Chloe Elizabeth
Just what I was thinking about at 9:40 p.m after a conversation I had with my best friend last night
236 · Aug 2014
The End
Chloe Elizabeth Aug 2014
What hurts the most is I know things must come to an end but I can't bring myself to be the one to say those words. When the phone hangs up and your voice is gone, I'll be lost.

By Chloe Elizabeth

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