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Laura Penny Neil Feb 2015
I'm in love with two people,
The light and the dark.
He carries me onward,
The other's a spark.
We dance in the twilight,
Entwined and free.
The choice beckons closer,
It falls onto me.
Indecisve and frightful,
I struggle to choose.
How do you count gains,
When you'll inevitably lose?
Laura Penny Neil Dec 2014
When a literal mind
Simply leaves you blind
All I want to do
Is be treated in kind
But you struggle to see
What it means to be me
Ignore the label
And let me be free
I don't need no sympathy
I'm a puzzle piece
Possible chorus of a song, dedicated to autism research.
Laura Penny Neil Sep 2014
The truth is you petrify me.
When I think of you,
A manic smile lights up my face.
A grin of terror.

Please do not be disheartened.
For I do love you.
But I have felt this way before,
It didn't end well.

I push myself to be able,
to show I trust you.
To open up, share my secrets,
dark and daunting.

You are the sun personified,
shining beyond you.
I am moonlight, mysterious
Glowing in the dark

You warm my heart with your smile
Just know I love you.
My smile may contain a flicker
But it's stong and true.
Laura Penny Neil Sep 2014
Me.
I am me.
So simple to understand,
too complex to comprehend.
Colourful and bright,
yet also dark and dull.
Me.
Socially inept,
Confident and calm.
Happy and carefree,
paranoid and shy.
I may not seem positive,
but I am strong.
No matter what life throws at me,
I am sure to carry on
Laura Penny Neil Sep 2014
A forbidden love,
That can never be.
A heart that beats,
But can not see.
A choice,
That I must make.
To take a chance,
And risk a heart to break.
Or play it safe,
And leave it this way.
And deal with the feelings,
That won't go away
Laura Penny Neil Sep 2014
Love is like a fire.
When it starts, it starts with a spark,
Then the friction builds up into passionate heat.
It's released with flames,
until it reaches up and warms the heart.
If not given careful care and affection,
It disappears into ashes.
But if tended to correctly,
It slows to an ember that burns forever.
Laura Penny Neil Sep 2014
From the moment I met you, I loved you.
I just didn't know it yet.
I yearned, in denial, to be near you.
To catch a glimpse of your smile,
Cradle your laugh in my abstract mind.
A foreign drug I'll never forget.

Then, the explosion of passion, intense.
A release I'd never known.
Crash from one place to the next, electric.
The sparks your fingers trailed,
Still resonate through my head daily.
The roots have planted, the love has grown.

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