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3.3k · Nov 2015
December
Ciara Nov 2015
December is when I met you
December is when I felt for you
December is when we kissed, and you took me on a horse carriage ride to see the Christmas lights and we were so close I was scared you could feel my heartbeat.
December was cold, my bones were aching, but something about you stopped the quaking in my chest and the flurries in my brain.
December was when I felt your touch and your kiss and knew I needed it.
Since then, you've kissed me, and you've sang to me, and you've been adorable and nervous around me, and all I've done is love you more and more.
January 1st was when we made plans for New Years Eve, but you said you couldn't stay.
February 14th was when you wanted to surprise me, tell me you felt for me so we could start something new. But I had been with someone else and you fell into the arms of another. She broke your heart and my heart was breaking for you. I wanted to love you and cherish you.
July 29th was when you took me on a date, and we were both nervous. I was blushing so hard and tried hard not to smile too much. You were sweet to me and we shared the most wonderful moments. But you didn't want to make anything official.
It's November 12th, and we want to be together. Circumstance won't allow it but I swear to you I'll make it happen. I swear. I love you.
3.2k · Dec 2013
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2.5k · Dec 2013
Rage.
Ciara Dec 2013
Do you ever just have that deep, burning anger
that silences everything around you,
and you can feel it in your bones?

Do you ever want nothing more than to brutally ****** someone,
just swinging at them, losing all control.
That intense, unhealthy, murderous anger,
that no one can explain.

Everyone calls you crazy,
but you're just
*******
angry.

You just get so angry,
so full of burning rage,
that you don't have anything else to do
but
take it out on yourself.
2.3k · Dec 2013
Failure.
Ciara Dec 2013
I just **** up everything.
I can't keep things together,
I can't keep my grades up,
I can't stay happy,
I can't be ******* perfect.

You only remind me I'm a **** up every single day,
and it haunts me, even
when you're not around.

Thank you,
for reminding me of what
I already know.
Thanks dad. ******* too.
1.8k · Jan 2015
Phone Number Poem
Ciara Jan 2015
I can't sleep without your breathing and I
can't breathe each time you're leaving
I'm trying to write
come back, please...
and darling,
I tried my hardest but
I couldn't make you feel a **** thing.
I hope you wake
up and realize I loved you the most.
just an exercise we did in my Creative Writing class.
1.5k · Aug 2014
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1.5k · Dec 2013
Miss Merciless.
Ciara Dec 2013
I promise to never show mercy again.
You always tend to have an excuse.
But this time, it's different,
my dear.
The knot you tied around my heart has become loose.

Such inhumane thoughts, so compelling as to say the least.

The thoughts of destroying everything, running and not taking a glance black,
almost in the same sense of mind you use before you destroy yourself.
You do, without a second thought.
Oh, how you wish you could just tear them apart,
give them the same deep, tortuous scars that you bear.
How you crave to open their skin, in the same fashion you open your own.
That compelling blade, that riveting sensation of pleasure you feel after going deeper,
    deeper,
                "deeper",
you tell yourself,
and with each irrefutable slice,
with each breath that deepens,
you still
          feel

                     **nothing.
1.4k · Dec 2013
The Temptress.
Ciara Dec 2013
Are you happy now,
that I've figured out I was just a victim,
in a game of lies and lustful tension?**

My love, try to understand me when I say you torture me.
Your lips they beg for me to get you alone.
I want you to know it's the sway of your hips.
You taste so sweet cruel temptress.
I'm at your feet.
I can tell by the way you move that you want me to want you.

Are you happy now that I've figured out I was just a victim?!
In a game of lies and lustful tension?

Your lips they beg for me to get you alone.
I want you to know it's the sway of your hips.
You taste so sweet, cruel temptress.
I'm at your feet.
I can tell by the way you move that your want me to want you.

Are you happy now that I've figure out that I was just a victim?!
In a game of lies and lustful tension?

I can't believe I fell for you!
I was wrong, I am so confused.
A foolish mistake!

I gaze across the chasm that divides me from her, my prize.
And drink in her beauty.
I let the heady aroma of perfume riding on the hot wind saturate me.
I train my ears to the creaking of the bridge spamming the gap to her.
I throw caution into that wind of passion and continue down the path.
The path to the unknown.

I'm losing control and I want all of you.
I ache to swallow you.
I'm losing control, you're body screams for me, it's destroying me!

I can not resist the temptress of the night!
I'm coming for you!, I want you, I need you!
As the earth quakes I will deflower you!
Oh how my head swims, oh how my heart yearns!
I'm coming for you!
Our flesh will become one and we'll never speak of what we've become!
It's what you want. I'm gone! I'm gone! I'm gone!

So it seems that we were nothing.
I'm giving up!

Are you happy now that I've figured out that I was just a victim?!
In a game of lies and lustful tension?
I can't believe I fell for you!
I was wrong, I am so confused.
A foolish mistake.
Alesana- The Temptress.
1.2k · Dec 2013
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Ciara Nov 2013
I want your toxic,
talk sick, baby.

Our bodies collide, intertwining,
enveloped in adoration,  sprinkled with lust,
and so much more.

I am so ready to feel your sweet, enticing lips
talk candy in my ear.

I want your hands on my hips, your face in my neck.
I need to feel you close. I want to feel your heartbeat in my chest.

I want your sultry voice to swim through my ears,
and to feel your warmth, in my bed, no need for blankets.

Most of all, I want you mine. always.  to have and to hold.
To whisper the violent thoughts and feelings away.
To kiss me, sweetly, and mean it.

I love you.


And I want to know if you're in love with me.
Mhm.
1.1k · Dec 2013
Ridiculous insecurities...
Ciara Dec 2013
"Leave him, he's already starting to ignore you."

Funny, that's what I've been hearing lately.
Funny how it's pretty ******* true.

I mean, I understand that I'm just your girlfriend,
and it makes me selfish to want to be with you all the chances I get.
But, I love you. Maybe I'm too attached. jealous. crazy?

but when I know, that you talk to
         her,
and pay more attention to
         her,
and erase your messages with
          her
when I ask to use your phone.

It bothers me.
How she ******* talks to you like she's in love with you.
It makes me feel really insecure when you pay more attention to her,
but I guess I am just really needy.

I don't know how to feel.
I trust you.
I just don't trust
     her.

****...
830 · Dec 2013
shadow
Ciara Dec 2013
Why is it that everyone leaves me?

Everyone quitting on me
Really makes me want to quit on myself...

"You can't rely on anyone else,
Because even your shadow abandons you in dark times."
Ciara Dec 2013
It's the holidays.
**** me, right?
I hate them, Christmas,
the family meetings, the "cheery" smiles everyone forces themselves to wear.
The dinners and closed doors that hide whispers that you know are about you,
the way they say, "You've grown so much! Maybe you should lose some weight..."
The way they try not to look you in the eye, the smiles, the laughs, the ******* jokes.
The ******* glitter and presents and everything everyone thinks you want,
when all you really want is for everyone to shut the **** up.

I only love the way the lights twinkle, the perfect way
that the snow falls,
the bitter, cold, lonely nights you spend alone.
But the way the lights twinkle, it gives me a sense of hope.

I just loathe the evenings that everyone is drinking and ******* laughing and having such a "great time".
The way I feel I don't fit in, anywhere,
the way absolutely no one wants me there, and you ******* know it.
"Christmas spirit"
815 · Jan 2014
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803 · Feb 2017
You are my soul light.
Ciara Feb 2017
I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS UNTIL I MET YOU,
BARELY EXISTING
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME HOW TO FEEL ALIVE,
YOU'RE SHOWING ME THIS BEAUTIFUL THING CALLED LOVE.
772 · Nov 2013
Survival.
Ciara Nov 2013
It's intriguing to see the things people go to, just to get out of their minds for a little while.
You pop pills, I turn my music up.
You scream at me, I cut. Deep.
You flip your ****, I go mute.
But you don't understand.
I do this... to stay alive. To be sane.
To be able to put up with your ******* each and every single ******* day.
but you yell at me, when I listen to music.
You ask why I'm upset at family outings, because I don't have my music.
You basically took my ******* lifeline.
So don't you dare ask me, "oh what's wrong dear? just because you're upset doesn't mean you have to take it out on us..."
You can royally go **** yourself.
You're one reason I need my music. Why I ignore the world.
You don't understand, that I need it. You say you know.
You don't.
You won't.
Because
              you
                     don't
                
                                                         care.
Had to get this out there. Not exactly poetry. Ehh.
725 · Nov 2013
Something Destructive.
Ciara Nov 2013
Something painful.
Something consuming,
numbing, clouding,
erasing, burning,
destructive.

Something painful to numb the pain, something to drain the shame, something.

Whether it's the bruises that accompany hitting the wall,
the beautiful pinkish purple scars that come with the cuts,
the deep, blissful pain that comes with the enduring healing of the eraser burns,
the stinging, aching hunger pains from depriving yourself of any nourishment, the burning in your throat from purging, the red hot scratches, it's the things you don't think about while in the moment.

Anything, from the pills you swallow to get high or low,
the alcohol you drink to feel the burn, and numb the pain.
The certain assortment of things you can smoke to get high, to have 'fun', shooting up to feel the rush,
snorting to blur your mind.

It's anything to get you out of your head for awhile, anything to numb yourself, anything to steal you away. Anything to take your mind off of your surroundings.

Regrets may accompany most of the actions, yet you aren't always aware of them; you just don't care.

"I desire all things that will destroy me in the end."
Self destruction; such a pretty little thing.
722 · Nov 2013
Someone, Somewhere.
Ciara Nov 2013
It started out with a kiss-
and I don't even know how we ended up,
or if we ended at all.

You were my ******* future, we had everything planned out-
a ring, a house, what our baby's name would have been.
But you let go. You quit talking to me, and stood me up-
had me crying for hours. hours on end I spent for you, making sure you hadn't overdosed,
I stayed awake at night, worrying my *** off,
and for what?

False ******* hope is what I got, at best.

But somehow, I still find myself thinking about you, dreaming about you,
waking up in tears. Wondering if and when you'll come around.
Part of me wants you here. Cause my bed feels half empty, not half full.

And all the nights we spent under the stars, for nothing.

And that night I snuck out, to stay with you,
in your bed, wrapped in your arms.
That same night, embraced in pleasure,
feeling so serene, so complete, wanting nothing more than that very moment.
And waking up to you...
waking up to you was purely what I knew I wanted for the very rest of our lives.
If your heart stops beating, god rest my soul. Dig this grave for two, can't live without you... It's hard enough to face the world alone.

"We have each other. You don't have me, nor do I have you.. There is no me and you, there is only us."
That's what you said.

and I believed you.


-Have you ever had a one night stand?
"Yeah, why-"
-But have you ever been a one night stand?
Feels, man.
Ciara Mar 2014
When you look into the mirror
and you are unsatisfied with the fact that you cannot see your ribs,
unhappy with your lack of a thigh gap,
ashamed of your extra (ugly) curves,
missing your hipbones,
wishing for dainty, feminine hands,
wanting the stretch marks to vanish,
praying to feel beautiful.

When you regret eating, but also regret not eating,
you're kindof ******.
When you only get relief after throwing up the contents
of how little you ate.
When you feel like everyone is watching you eat,
terrified, in fear that if they stop you,
you'll eat them too.

When you hate the way your thighs jiggle excessively with every step you take,
how they accommodate the size of Russia when you sit down,
how your love handles aren't so lovely,
how you can't wear clothes that flatter you appropriately to others
because you feel so disgusting in your very own skin,
and you wish for nothing more than to be skinny enough to be loved...

When you regret the scars you claim to love sometimes
because you can't wear those cute short-shorts,
like you would anyway,
but it just eliminates the option.
How you are terrified to wear bathing suits because of your deep pink and purple scars, even the faded white ones,
and how they litter your thighs, and aimlessly hope
that someone could find a way to love them, if possible.

When you can't wear short sleeves or a sleeveless shirt,
because of the dark pink scars scattered across your arms,
the burns,
the cuts,
the deep ****-looking scars,
when you hate yourself for making them,
but still eventually accepting them, only to
end up hating them, again and again.

When you feel like a stranger in your own home,
because your step mom doesn't want her daughter to see your scars,
and yells at you for every choice you make,
and your dad doesn't even ******* defend you.

This isn't healthy, but you can't do a single ******* thing to change it.
665 · Aug 2014
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648 · Jul 2015
12:55 AM, thinking of you.
Ciara Jul 2015
I GUESS I'M STUCK FOREVER TEXTING YOU AT 12 AM WHILE YOU'RE ASLEEP, HOPING YOU'LL FIND LOVE FOR ME AGAIN SOMEWHERE IN THE BACK OF YOUR DREAMS
622 · Feb 2017
Too much or not enough?
Ciara Feb 2017
YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR OPTIONS OPEN AND I DON'T BLAME YOU
I WOULDN'T CHOOSE ME EITHER
574 · Jan 2014
goodnight. (goodbye)
Ciara Jan 2014
Goodnight, you said;

Goodbye, I said



And you never thought *twice
  about it...
568 · Dec 2013
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563 · Dec 2013
It sinks into your bones.
Ciara Dec 2013
Funny,
how the worst, most torturous depression comes at night.

Mind-splitting, bone crushing, aching, lonesome depression that cuts you open to the core.

That heavy, painful feeling in your chest that you cannot help but succumb to.
It reminds you just how weak you are.

How susceptible you are to pain, to humiliation, shame...

How you want nothing more
than
to
sleep.
557 · Dec 2013
Anger.
Ciara Dec 2013
So angry you shake,
tremble,
you can't move,
you clench your fists and you start to cry.

So angry, you want to hit something,
anything,
everything.

You hate everything, your head hurts,
you can't breathe,
you hyperventilate,
and you just break down.
530 · Dec 2013
Sometimes.
Ciara Dec 2013
Sometimes,
I wish you married me.
Sometimes, I break down.
Give up everything, but then I think...
    about you.

Sometimes, I don't want to get better.
Most of the time, I just get worse.

Though you aren't here, I don't dare to erase what I thought we had.
I could lie and try to say that I'm the same.

Sometimes, I torture myself with the thought of you and
                             her.
And it ***** me up so much, and you know it.
you ask what's bothering me.
you ******* know what's bothering me.
you tell her you love her.
And you just *******....
I love you. but you need to stop.
please,
            stop.

I understand I'm being selfish,
but holy ****, aren't we all?
I just don't want you loving someone else, or thinking about loving someone else,
when you tell me you love me.


I understand I may be overreacting, but oh my ******* ****.
You need to stop.
509 · Nov 2013
We are the damned.
Ciara Nov 2013
You can always rinse the surface; but the stain will remain.

The cursed and the broken,
the unspoken and refused.
If hate is what's inside us, then hate is what defines us.
And when we use our hate to drive us,
we are the ******.

Love is lost like words.
You let the blood tell the truth; expulsion of remnants of your old self.

Innocence lost, with your conscience.

You look for destruction,
things that will surely **** you,
sooner
           than
later.
unfinished.
497 · Sep 2014
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492 · Dec 2013
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478 · Dec 2013
Happiness.
Ciara Dec 2013
For me,
it comes in little bouts and stays for not long enough,
and when I grasp onto it,
it slips through my fingers,
like warm sand on the beach.

Happiness for me is seeing the happiness others feel,
like when my little sister laughs,
or when I see a little girl dancing to music.

It's the little things that come and go,
the things that you can only catch when you have hit
rock bottom.
476 · Jan 2017
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474 · Dec 2013
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458 · Nov 2016
Scream poem #21
Ciara Nov 2016
YOUR SCENT IS INTOXICATING
IT LINGERS
IT'S BEEN HOURS SINCE I'VE SEEN YOU
457 · Mar 2014
Panicking about panicking.
Ciara Mar 2014
When your body trembles,
threatens to give in to the fear
you feel so deep inside,
it feels permanent.

When your breathing is erratic,
almost nonexistent,
your chest so heavy,
it barely compares to the heaviness of your eyelids,
for you haven't slept in days.

When the tears flow like the blood
you shed so desperately
to escape this feeling of fear.

This unbearable, unbreakable, unmistakable,
deeply penetrating fear,
of the infamous panic attack.
454 · Nov 2015
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448 · Jun 2015
Phone calls and tears
Ciara Jun 2015
"I love you."
"Alright."

"Ciara, I do love you, just not in a relationship way anymore."
Please come back.  Just ******* come back
Ciara Mar 2014
Have you ever noticed
that the way we perceive and do things
isn't as innocent anymore?

How getting in trouble isn't as simple,
how being dramatic isn't okay, because back then you were just "being a kid".
And now we're seen as "attention seeking".
Everything we do is "attention seeking".

How whenever you get a "boo-boo", no one asks where it hurts,
and if they did, you would point to your head
and your heart
because that's where it hurts most.

Have you ever noticed,
the sparkle in your eyes diminished years ago,
and no one brings it back.
And when you fall asleep in the car,
or on the couch,
no one carries you to your bed,
instead they shake you awake,
and tell you to go sleep in your own **** bed.

How you're expected to have responsibilities
but no one lets you embrace that.
No one believes in you.

How we give ourselves to anyone,
begging for the love we are denied.
and we take it,
when it isn't even the love we deserve.
What we need is to be loved,
not to be slept with,
or to be "in love" with,
but to be truly loved, and cared for,
not neglected,
or ignored.
441 · Apr 2014
those damned moments.
Ciara Apr 2014
I ******* hate those moments where
you feel your chest sink in,
or you feel your heart fall into your stomach
when you know something is going to end.
Those moments you can't breathe from the pain.
The moments you start crying in front of everyone,
and they all ask you whats wrong but you cant answer cause you think its ******* stupid as hell.

When you feel yourself start to hyperventilate.
When you feel people abandon you.
When you can tell someone doesn't want you around.

When you break down in the middle of the road while you were going to go get your ******* mail.
When someone tells you they don't need you.
When everything hits you like a semi-truck.

When you can't take anything anymore.

And to think you were getting better...
441 · Apr 2014
a realization.
Ciara Apr 2014
I have realized
My existence is absolutely necessary.
The world needs people like me.
I am a nurturer, I care too much, I am a lover, a fighter.
I'm strong, yet sensitive.
I am smart, inquisitive, loving, and people need me.
But the thing is... I ******* hate myself.
I do not always want to live. I am self destructive. Most of the time I do not want to exist.

But just in this moment, at 12:52 in the morning, on a Monday, I have realized
That the world needs me.
The world needs you, too, darling dear. <3
439 · May 2014
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439 · Dec 2013
Secrets kept.
Ciara Dec 2013
Interesting,
how much power one person can hold over you.
The way they look at you, the way they speak to you, the way they touch you.
It's almost manipulative, in a sense.
How they can make you feel so many things at once, whether elation or major ******* depression.

How easily they could crumble you,  
send you over the edge.
and you would let them...

I love you.
429 · Dec 2013
Deeper.
Ciara Dec 2013
"Deeper,
              deeper,
                           deeper,"
you tell yourself,
driving the sweet, sharp blade into your skin,
you open it, and you feel the beautiful pinch it brings,
the deeper you go, the more relief you feel.
You crave to go deeper, and see how deep you can go,
and nothing is deep enough,
you press firmly,
so deep, that it didn't even bleed.

You love how they look,
so deep, open so the sides don't touch. Beautiful. Perfect.
You're so excited for them to scar,
and you cannot wait to make more, to go deeper.

You know exactly where and how deep you want, need to go...




**You become an expert on your body as you slowly destroy it.
423 · Nov 2013
Feel.
Ciara Nov 2013
I hate this feeling,
like I belong. But I don't.
like I matter. but I don't.

I just need something, anything
to get me out of my mind-
something to cloud my brain,
something to dull the pain, the feelings.
Substance.
Pills. Alcohol. A blade. Something destructive.

I want something to temporarily hinder my ability to think,
to feel, to be.
I want something to mess me up, to make me feel just about anything but this.
Something to take me anywhere but here.




"Honey, I think you should run...




                                                                   run."
Line in the end is from the song Cynical Skin by Joel Faviere/Get Scared.
411 · Mar 2015
Scream Poem #3
Ciara Mar 2015
YOU'VE BEEN GONE FOR THREE MONTHS AND WE'VE BOTH FOUND SOMEONE ELSE
YOU SAY YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH HER
I'M IN LOVE WITH HIM
YET YOU STILL INFILTRATE MY DREAMS AND ANY TIME I SEE YOUR FACE OR HEAR YOUR NAME MY CHEST CAVES IN
*GIVE ME MY ******* *LIFE BACK
Ciara Sep 2014
Your kiss was pure euphoria--
all I've ever wanted.

You were all I've ever needed.

Bliss, I found in the fullness of your lips.

Hope, I found in the creases of your bed sheets.

Love, I found in your touch.

Or so I thought.

But last night I was slapped in the face with the harsh realization that you'll never be mine.

It's tearing itself through my soul
and out of my chest--
It's rotting me from the inside out,
*and that's not a very big deal to you.
389 · Aug 2019
2.5 years
Ciara Aug 2019
Two and a half years full of lies and despair
Worrying for no reason and pulling out my hair
30 months of heartbreak and pain
It was all a facade, with nothing to gain
I'm tired of all of this
I just want out
My life is a hell and I'm married to the devil
374 · Jun 2015
Stormy nights
Ciara Jun 2015
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE STORM OUTSIDE MY WINDOW IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE STORM RAGING IN MY CHEST
367 · Dec 2014
Scream Poem #1
Ciara Dec 2014
YOU SEE THE THING IS THAT I'M A WRECK AND IT'S BARELY BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE YOU LEFT AND JESUS **** MY HOME IS GONE MY CHEST IS CAVING IN AND *I JUST WANT YOU BACK
363 · Sep 2014
Things I love.
Ciara Sep 2014
"Because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon."
-Neil Young

"But the truth is, you were never there
you won't ever be.
Sometimes I think I'm not either, so what do I do when everyday
still seems to start and end with you?
And you won't ever know, you won't ever see
How much your ghost since then has been defining me."
-La Dispute: You and I in Unison

"Don't tell me that I'll be fine. I'm so sick of hoping you're right."
-Neck Deep: What Did You Expect?

"Get off my mind, give back my heart, and get the **** away from me."
-Front Porch Step: Drown

"You were the only saving grace I ever had."
-Slaves: Starving for FRIENDS
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