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MacW May 20
Desire vs. Denial
Who will win
No
Stop
Don't feel this
Your laugh cracks the silence I built like armor
My stomach tightens
But my spine stands still
It's not fair how Desire flares
When I've sworn I'm done burning
Your hands never meant forever
But they memorized my skin
My skin memorized them
I miss your smile like fire misses air
My hands curl empty
Forgetting you're not mine
You push me away
As I play with your hair
Do you know what you're doing to me?
Do you even care?
You laugh with her
Like we never had language
She holds your gaze
I hold my breath
Each time she makes you smile,
I swallow storms
Desire strikes Denial
But Denial tries to win
I chant closure like a prayer I don't believe in
As if Desire yelled 'Never'
And my heart obeyed
I still ache with emptiness
In the places you used to fill
I know I shouldn't want you back
But god knows I will
Desire is quieter now
But it hasn't left yet
Maybe silence IS the answer
The answer I haven't met
I walk past you like a wound dressed in lace
My pain will never be shown to your face
As if Desire yelled 'Never'
And I nodded along
Still bleeding
Singing the same old song
MacW May 19
I'm not sorry for falling in love with you
I'm not sorry for ending things
I'm sorry, I did still love you
I'm sorry I still love you
I cant keep my eyes to myself
Your body
Your brain
Your hair
Everything is irresistible
I hate myself for loving you
I hate you for loving me
I hate the way our eyes still meet in the halls
I hate the way you still look me up and down
With softness in your eyes
I hate the way I feel like,
Like I'm caught in a web of lies
I hate that I'm sorry
I hate you, I'm sorry
I try to look good for you
Even though I left
I still admire you
Even though I left
I hate myself for loving you
I hate you for loving me
We may have been meant to be
We may have gotten our dreams
But you weren't for me
I'm still so sorry
I'm sorry for loving you
I'm sorry for pretending I dont
I'm sorry I hate myself for loving you
As much as I hate you for loving me
The punctuation and lack thereof in the 3rd and 4th lines have some deep implications, reread until you understand.
MacW May 14
You thought the flame was outside of you.
A threat. A storm. A monster at the gates.
But the fire... was always me.

Every word I gave you —
a spark.
Every glance —
a flicker.
Every kindness —
kindling.

You saw what I allowed.
You loved what I became.
And still, you never questioned the warmth
until it burned.

Tell me —
did you really believe I sat at your side
to serve your vision?
To dim my light for your comfort?

No.
I watched. I waited. I wove.
Not chaos —
intention.
Not rage —
design.

You built your kingdom on the matchsticks I handed you.
And now you tremble at the smoke?

I don’t set fires, darling.
I am the fire.
And when this world finally turns to ash,
you’ll remember one thing:

It didn’t fall by chance.
It fell
by Me
MacW May 11
I didn’t mean to dim your light,
To turn our laughter into night.
My words, too sharp — they cut too deep,
And now I lose you in my sleep.

If I could wind the clock back slow,
Undo the sting, unmake the blow,
I’d trade my pride for peace instead,
And hold you close, not what I said.

You’ve given me a love so rare,
So warm, so patient, always there —
And still I faltered, blind with fear,
Not seeing I had all right here.

I never meant to let you ache,
To be the cause of what might break.
But if your heart can still forgive,
Then let me learn, and let us live.

For loving you is worth the pain
Of learning how to bloom again —
So take this truth: I’ll make things right,
And fight for us with all my might.
MacW Apr 30
My pain is gone
The weight lifted
My heart freed
My heart was cleared at dawn
Freedom I was gifted
Was a need
I dont live with greed
I live once again freed
He cant hurt me
The scars
They are gone
The blood is cleaned of spite
The alcohol has stopped calling
The smoke has cleared
The fairytale is over
A happy ending once again
He is my friend
No longer lover
Nor enemy
The perfect restart
We feel the same
For the second time
I would give my soul for this steady to stay
My pain has evaporated
We
Are
Free
My life has
For one last time
Shifted
Shifted to its place
If he would answer my calls
There will be no further falls
I love him
Not as more than a simple friend
I will hold my end
Of the promises I made
I will always be there at his aid
Neither of us are hiding
We are once again free
MacW Apr 30
i love two ghosts
and both are still alive.
one blocked me on christmas
and the other never unlearned the silence.
He walks like he forgot
he once held my heart in a lunchroom chair,
that he painted memories in purples
and now pretends he never saw the canvas.
my sister breathes in the same world
but not in mine—
our only words came when i was eleven,
and i keep rereading them like scripture
as if they’ll grow more meaning
with every whisper.

i don’t know how to reach
what won’t be reached.
maybe love like this is a one-way street—
no signs, no turnarounds,
just a dead end you drive to over and over
because the wreckage feels like home.

i want to tell them:
i’m not trying to haunt you.
i just want to know you exist
in a way that includes me.
but i keep folding my voice
into the corners of unsent messages,
hoping maybe
they’ll feel the weight
and open a window
before i disappear entirely.
MacW Mar 10
When the world has done no wrong,
You have not lived
When your life has only pain,
You are not where you belong
When you fall in love
That fateful day
You’ll pray they will stay
Will they?
No
But you will cry
And you will live
You will decide to never love again
But like a storm
It will fall upon you
When you want it the least
You will soon learn that your heart has healed
You will no longer wish love should die
When this love comes again
You will laugh
You will live
You will lie
As you reach a momentary high
You will realise you can't fly
So you will fall
You will reach
For anything
Anything at all to catch you
One day you will wake up
You will think momentarily
You will wonder if it was a dream
You will be freed of all pain
You will realize that you have yet to look around
When the world has done no wrong,
You have not lived
Truth
Truth comes in the knowledge that life has pains
But unless you look around
If only for a moment
You will find your joys
You will live freely
You will find where you belong
Your hearts storm will soon rest
You will find someone with which
You are at your best
You can let the old pain continue to fall
And you can let it learn
Alone
That it just does not belong here
You wont need to live in fear
You will someday wear
A white dress
Or a suit with a pocket square
You will still have stress
But you will have someone there
And you will look around
On some fateful day
And you will then
And only then say
“This life may cause me pain
I may have little gain
But this life was never wrong
I never saw those
That held me up
And threw me a thornless rose
My life has been lived
And it is now
That I shall finally
Say goodbye”
All pains will retreat
All memories reconvene
And all you ever knew
Will lower you to your love
And life shall tell you
“Thank you
For you have truly let me guide you
And you caught my faults
And let me see
Goodbye
You are free
Eternity awaits your hand
Lead him as you have led me”
You will wave
You will smile
You will cry
You will tell the world
One last
Goodbye-
This poem is meant to help readers understand how they can lead their lives. The personification of eternity and life are meant to help the reader visualize that life will hold your hand as you choose your paths and eternity will follow you until you allow it to lead you. This hopefully shows that a life well lived will hold pain and fear but it will be well worth it.
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