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Lye Mar 2019
Dear hurting girl,

     You must love yourself before you can love anyone else. Look in a mirror and say "I love you", because I love you, and so should you.
Lye Mar 2019
Dear hurting girl,

     Your skin is not for cutting. Your life is not for ending. Your body is not for hating. Savor yourself. Look at yourself in the mirror and be proud of what you see staring back at you.
Lye Mar 2019
Dear hurting girl,

     Feeling things does not make you weak. The thing that makes us women so strong is that we have the ability to express our emotions. That is the greatest power there is.
Lye Mar 2019
Dear hurting girl,

     Dance like nobody’s watching. Sing like everyone in the room is deaf. Be who you are, no matter the consequences. Be perfectly imperfect you.
I’m starting to really enjoy writing these.
Lye Mar 2019
One small glimpse of spring
Makes the rest of winter
So much colder
Today is pretty warm where I live, but it’ll probably be back to 20 degrees by tomorrow. I love Massachusetts weather!
Lye May 2019
Demons lurk in my soul
I feel them
Making me think things,
Want to do things,
That are absolutely awful

They claw at my insides
Begging me to give up
And join them
In their evil
But I refuse to be that person

That little devil inside me
That likes to hurt people
They set fire in my soul
And taunt me
Telling me to be mean
To be vicious...

Sometimes I give in.
And I have to admit,
It feels good.

But I will continue to refuse
The temptation

For being evil
Is far easier
Than trying to do the right thing

Always think before you act
Before you speak
Because your words,
Could be the difference
Between someone’s happiness
And someone’s complete despair
Lye Oct 2019
Broken pieces
Broken hearts
Demolished homes
Intangible scars

A non-essential necessity
Ripped away from you by a friend
She means well, but it hurts deep inside
I don’t know how it will end

Laughter and life
Are but a whisper of the past
The girl you wish to hold
And secrets of clouded glass

The life you used to know
Now a far gone dream
You must adjust, but you can’t let go
Alone, it’s a challenge to swim upstream
The title doesn’t make sense until you read the last line.

Inspired by the book “Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter To The World” by Ashley Herring Blake.
Lye Apr 2019
I’m off to see the therapist!
The very worst one of them all.
To the tune of “Off to see the wizard” from The Wizard of Oz
Lye Mar 2019
Everyone says that you care about me,
But I’m not sure if you do
Please
Tell me,
Do you really care what happens to me
Or am I just another thing you need to do?
Another child you are responsible for?
Am I really
Not important enough
That you can just stop coming to see me?
I guess that’s how you feel
And I can’t change that
Lye Mar 2019
Blue skies
Fluffy clouds

Beating sun
Summer sounds

Dancing freely
Under the stars

Our time cannot be wasted
The world is ours
Any ideas on what I could write beside “summer sounds” that would still fit the rhyming pattern? I’m not sure if I like it.
Lye Feb 2019
Last night
I dreamt of the beach
And waves as high as the clouds
Everyone else
Was having a ball in the huge waves
Even my little 3-year-old brothers
Not affected at all
By the tsunami-like mountains
Of icy-blue water
But
The second
That I stepped foot in the water
I was swept under
And into darkness
And it was that moment
That I
Was truly
Awoken from that dream
Everyone else seems fine and unaffected, but I’m the one who’s swept out from under my feet and thrown into darkness. But, the moment I was thrown into darkness in this dream, I woke up, and I felt amazing. I think that dream just taught me something really important. What have your dreams taught you?
Lye Mar 2019
Eat?
No
Eat?
No.
Please, eat?
No!
Cut?
Yes.
One
Two
Three
Red lines across the hips
Blood
        d
            r
               i
                 p
                    s
Over my fingertips
Blood
Red, hot blood
Dizzy
Hit floor
Black
Bye...
Lye Mar 2019
If life really is all about change,
Then why hasn’t my situation changed?
It’s been like this for almost a year
Why is it still the same old thing,
Over and over again?
Am I just in an endless loop
Of pain?
Perhaps.
I guess I’ll just have to deal with it.
Dealing with it is hard.
Lye Dec 2018
Sometimes I wish
I could just crawl out of
My body
My mind
Escape myself
And be free of thoughts
Feelings
And everything in between
Everything
That has ever caused me pain
And for a moment,
Just a sliver of a moment,
May I simply
just
be
Lye Mar 2019
Dark sky
Bright moon
A boulder as big as a house
Bony trees black in the night

Strong silhouette
Nose turned upward
Lets out a thunderous howl
Gives everyone around a fright

Clouds conceal the moon
Bring darkness over the land
The wolf turns away
And into the blackness she runs

Watch out, everyone
For she has come
And because of it,
The eternal night has now begun
The rhyming pattern is a little off, but I like it.
Lye May 2019
Evermore,
I will
Be thinking of you.
Even if
You never think of me
I’m not sure what goes on in people’s heads.
Lye Feb 2020

Born from expectations
Born for expectations
Born with expectations

Expectations rule us
They rule you

Don’t let them.
Lye Mar 2019
Stomach?
Queasy

Head?
D
   I  Z      Y
           Z

Pulse?
R a c i n g

Body?
F
A
    L
       L
          I
            N
                G
How I feel when I faint.
Lye Mar 2019
You can’t just think you look beautiful

You must feel beautiful
Lye Feb 2020
Those days you feel on fire.
But.....good fire.........
Being with friends,
Laughing until my stomach hurts,
And just being myself without consequences.
Joking with my mom in the kitchen,
Being silly and never saying anything correctly.
Days where I go outside
And I feel alive.
Like I could run forever into the woods that I know will end.
These are my fire days,
What are yours?
Lye Mar 2019
I try to love myself
And sometimes I do
I think I’m cute,
I think my smile is pretty,
I think I am likable,
But I think that really loving yourself
Means that you say,
“I know I am cute,
I know my smile is pretty,
And I know that I am likable”
But the thing is,
How can I say that I know...
When no one ever says
That I am cute
That my smile is pretty
And that I am likable.
I have no idea where to go from here
Help?
Please?
Because everyone just thinks of me
As a friend
My guy friends
And my girl friends
I don’t think that any of them
Have ever thought of me
In any other way
How do I show people,
That I can be more than just a friend?
I really need advice.
Lye Jan 2020
Forevermore, I will speak
For myself and others in need

Forevermore, I will walk
This Earth without you shaming me

Forevermore, I will love
And I don’t care if you don’t want to see

Forevermore, I will be myself
To my heart, only I have to key
Wrote this in 5 minutes because I thought of the word “forevermore” and I thought it sounded nice.
Lye Dec 2019
It’s been about a year and a half
Since I moved out of my old house
Because of my parents divorce.
And I just recently started to realize...
I’m forgetting it.
I’m forgetting what it looked like
The memories that happened there.
And even though many of them were bad,
So many others were good.
And I don’t want to forget...
I just want to move on.
But I can’t.
I wish I could go back
But I can’t.
I wish I could get my parents back together again
But I can’t.



I can’t do anything.
Lye Apr 2019
I want to forgive
Forgive you for who you are
Forgive you for the pain you’ve caused me
And I admit,
It’s really, really hard
But
I think I love you enough
To try

<3 N
Lye Dec 2019

Being with you is the most contentment I’ve ever felt.
Lye Dec 2019

I stared into her eyes
And I knew everything was alright
Lye Dec 2019

Happy birthday,
To my beautiful best friend.
Please know that I’ll love you until my end.

You are the most incredible human being
And I hope that you’ll see,
Oh, how much you mean to me.

I know you’ll be with me,
Through this year new,
And my happiness now is all because of

You.
Love her so much. Thank you.
Lye Nov 2019
The girl with her head down on the desk
Everyone else playing games with friends
She hides her face with a curtain of hair
Bright dyed red but ever so dark
Her feelings, she never learned to share
She has some friends, yes,
But few really know her
She’s broken, but there’s another girl buried
She’s always been there, and the sad girl never realized that she was hidden
But soon, that beautiful, happy, talkative girl emerged.
Her short, dyed blonde hair showing off her spotty, but smiling face
Her eyes a sparkling blue
She makes friends with the people in her class,
And more people really know her for her
That sad girl still comes out now and again,
But she retreats when the happy girl tells her too
Because the happy girl has taken over
Hopefully, for good.
This is my story, from the beginning of 6th grade, August 2018, to the beginning of 7th grade, August 2019. The change happened over the summer in between the two grades.
Lye Dec 2019
It’s still snowing.
It’s been snowing since Sunday.
Helppppppp meeeeeeeee


But at least there’s no school!

:)
Yes, it has been snowing basically non-stop since Sunday.
Lye Apr 2019
Freezing rain pelts my head
And dampens my clothes
But the only thing
That stays untouched
Is my love for you
I went out to dinner with my mom, my dad, and my twin little brothers a few days ago, and it went great! The story behind this poem is that as we were leaving, it was raining and it was really cold, and I was waiting for my dad to put my brother into that car to say bye. I was freezing, but I couldn’t go away yet.
Lye Mar 2019
Driving
Normal day
I see a white car
Like yours
I look inside
Eyes lock
Realization
I know
You saw me
My eyes pleading
For you to come home
But as quickly as you appeared
Outside my window
The car sped past
And you
Went further and further
Away from me
I saw my dad in his car the other day while I was driving with my mom. That was the first time I've seen him in what, a month? Still haven't heard anything from him.
Lye Mar 2019
Even though
You haven’t done anything for me
I would do anything for you
Is that weird?
That someone who seems
To not care about me at all
Is one of the someones
That I care about so much
That I would die for them
Lye Mar 2019
Green-eyed girl,
Your eyes stare into mine
With such intensity
That I have to look away

Green-eyed girl,
You know how to make my heart break
But then you just as easily
Put it back together again

Green-eyed girl,
I know my love for you is eternal
But please tell me
Is yours?

Green-eyed girl,
Don’t leave me
Because then I could never stare into
Your deep green eyes
Ever again

And that would bring me down
Harder than you alone, ever could
I think this spans over many green-eyed girls, but there’s one in particular I’m thinking of whole writing this.
Lye Feb 2019
I’m screaming
And no one on Earth can hear me
Sometimes it feels like I am screaming so loud, and no one hears me. No one gets me.
Lye Apr 2019
Sitting in my room
Tears streaking down my blotchy face
Packing everything connected to you
Everything that you’ve touched
Into a box
Though, that’s everything
You’ve touched my skin
My face
But most of all,
You’ve touched my heart

Can’t really pack that away in a box, can I?
Lye Mar 2019
She does seem quite rigid,
Truth be told

But I assure you, my dear
She has a heart of gold
Sometimes a rigid exterior is just a facade of a person with a heart of gold.
Lye Nov 2018
a rose won't help me decide
picking off the petals
until the stem is bare
because every time I see you
you remind me of all you have done
to hurt me
to hurt her
but I can’t hate you
because I love you too much,
I love you way too much
Her
Lye Nov 2018
Her
When you wore that dress that day
Oh, all I could do was stare
Beauty in,
And beauty out
“You look amazing!” I just want to shout
The most beautiful girl I have ever seen
Is so funny and is so keen
So silly and so weird
She has no idea
But to me it is clear
She is the most incredible human being
And I just wish she knew
How highly I truly think of her
And oh, how she makes me swoon
A poem of a past crush.
Lye Mar 2019
She walks
Head high
Hips swaying
Boots planting sturdily
Unwavering confidence
Emits from her every movement
The epitome of style

She flips her red-dyed hair
Blue eyes staring straight ahead
Lips slightly parted
Face as still as stone
Unfaltering authority
Emits from her every movement
The epitome of beauty

She moves her head from side to side
From the music in her earbuds
Eyes closed
Immersed in her favorite song
Unyielding passion
Emits from her every movement
The epitome of happiness

She takes out a notebook
And starts writing
Her pen moves fast
Along the lined paper
Unrelenting thoughtfulness
Emits from her every movement
The epitome of intelligence

She opens the car door
And sits in the passenger seat
She starts to smile widely
At her mom, talking about her day
Indefatigable love
Emits from her every movement
The epitome of caring
About me. I felt like I needed to write a positive poem about myself. I really like it!
Lye Feb 2019
Icicles hanging from
Green
Green
Trees
Skies grey and bleak
Bare wood towers over
Dead
Dead
Grass
Wind weaves through branches with a shriek
Wishes for summer lost in the breeze
And carried to somewhere anew
But it doesn’t matter how it looks outside
Because I
Am here
With you
Lye Mar 2019
Hey Violet,
You’re so beautiful
Do you think that you could
Splatter some of that beauty
Onto a page
And share it with the rest of us?
Violet is just a name I really like. But also, all of us poets are beautiful, putting our beauty on the internet for others to enjoy.
Lye Feb 2020
Her heart is golden,
But covered in soot.

She wants to find her purpose,
But doesn’t know where to look.

She has a personality,
But it’s buried deep inside.

For her emotions and sadness,
Have cast it aside.

She has a good life,
But can’t figure out how to live it.

She needs to take a step,
But all she can do is pivot.

She’s frozen in time,
Her destiny sitting dusty on a shelf.

Her existence is a mystery,
Afraid of unraveling itself.
Lye Mar 2019
She sat quietly
Wings tucked behind her back
And her head down
To hide her magical eyes
Lye Mar 2019
I feel alone?
You close the space.

Tears are falling?
You wipe them away.

I’m falling apart?
You hold me together.

I’m a mess?
You make it all better.
To my mom ♥️♥️♥️
Lye Feb 2019
Sometimes
I just scroll through Tik Tok
And see what’s there
There have been so many instances
Where I’ve watched a video
And it’s of an average-looking person
They do just one little thing
And it makes my heart flutter
I watch the video over and over
Just to see that one little thing
Oh,
How I despise hormones
Any similar experiences?
Lye Mar 2019
How is it
That even when you’ve just woken up
After staying up ‘till midnight
You look like an ******* angel?

How is it
That even after we fight
And I’m still shaking
You’re as cool as a cucumber?

And
How is it
That even when I’m at my lowest
You manage to lift my spirits
With your undying love?
You know who you are
Lye Apr 2019
Big, intelligent eyes
Taking in all their surroundings

Memorizing
How things feel

Quiet mouths
But loud in their confident stance

A sense of maturity
Surrounding them

Telling people
“Shhhush! I’m trying to write!”

Giving friends
Life advice

And most of all
They are the troubled ones

That boy without a mom
That depressed girl
That gay girl with homophobic parents
That boy stuck in a girls body
That girl with anxiety
That boy who gets picked on every day

In their hearts
There is true poetry
For they have felt true pain

Poets know disappointment
They know heartbreak
They know
Not to get their hopes up
There is a poet in everyone
For everyone has known pain
Sometime in their life

Everyone
Is
A
Poet
Anyone can be a poet, whether they have a place to write it or not.
Lye Mar 2019
Wait...
Let me go grab a snack
I’ll be right back
Lol this is weird but also so me
Lye Mar 2019
I am my words
I am my thoughts
I am who I am
And I show it

I am a girl
I am strong
I will hurt you
If you hurt someone I love

I am Lilah-Eve
That is my name
I am who I am
Don’t you dare give me shame
Yep! Lilah-Eve is my first name. I usually go by Lilah, but I wanted to embrace my name in this poem. Hope you like!
Lye Jul 2019
I’ve always wondered...
Where did the little Lilah go?
I’m so different
She was outgoing and extroverted,
And I am shy and unsocial
But... I’ve finally realized
That we are the same
I am me
13 years ago or not
I’ve just changed
And I hope it has been for the better
Because I can’t really go back and change it...
Right?
Sometimes I wish I could go back and change things.
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