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Dec 2015 · 2.4k
Life
Oliver Twist Dec 2015
Life is just a series of rooms
You spend time in
full of all the people
You shot grams or
smoked a dime with.
Full of all the people
You laid next to
to rest your head.
Full of all the people
Who would end up dead.
Life is just a series of questions
You gotta answer to.
Like how did God decide
On All the people
He gave cancer to?
Why some things you never had
Will be the best you'll never have?
Why all the good things in life
Gotta Hurt so bad?
Rooms full of questions in my head.
Nov 2015 · 1.1k
It IS What it IS
Oliver Twist Nov 2015
We all take pain
In its purest form
Straight to the vein
Tattered and worn
We are reborn

They say Saints are only sinners
Who kept on trying
But we're all dying
Trying to lick the sore

There is no good
No bad
There is No right
no wrong
We are what we are
Don't judge where we belong.

it is what it is.
And We all bleed.
Sounds like Equanimity
To me.
Nov 2015 · 1.0k
License to Kill
Oliver Twist Nov 2015
Read me with your eyes
Dictionary of silence
Pry me open past my lies
Past my anger and violence

A tiny girl who wants to cry
And watch the world pass by
Steady waiting for the ****
Like I was born with a license

To **** my self
Watching my dignity fall down
From its shelf
Up In my mind
Too busy chasing vanity,***, and wealth.

"The next feel good
Will be REAL good"
I kept telling myself.
But I was creepin to the deep end
Seeking death with a stealth.
Nov 2015 · 876
Gettin better blues
Oliver Twist Nov 2015
Ignorance is bliss
and that's why you got the blues, baby.
Takes a lot of pain;
knowing better while you lose.
We all get straight, one day,
Or we get dead.
In discontent; by old age.
By ******. By lead.
Just remember, Like I said,
It's not their ignorance you choose.
You got them gettin better blues, baby.
gettin better blues.
Nov 2015 · 1.3k
Who am I
Oliver Twist Nov 2015
Changing molds
so i can force myself
through a you shaped hole.
I cut myself Down
to the image that I think you see in me.
In the mirror I can't see myself,
Much less imagine actually being me.

Who am I?
Well, This is it.
I'm a mess and a misfit.
the one who's got it figured out
but really doesn't know ****.
I'm the people pleaser
who never gets what she desires
and then wonders why the emptiness continues to transpire.
I like to deny the fact that I'm a liar.
I like to create
comfortable places in my head
where feelings can go unfelt
and things can be left unsaid.

Just a million little pieces.
My faces.
switched off and on in different places. Different phases.
A million little pieces of you
and every one I knew.
Now I can't find who I am.
Just what I was in my memories.
I can't decide who i was
ever even trying please.

At ease.
I pray for God
to break me down to my core.
To give me strength to stand up
For the things I love and adore.
To never hide behind lies,
sit back and slip
Right through your fingertips.
To be true to my soul
and really start to exist.
Sep 2014 · 849
void
Oliver Twist Sep 2014
i lie when i don't need to.
i steal when i don't have to.
i'm always thinking when i shouldn't.
i eat
drink
sleep
smoke
****
when i dont want to.
its just me feeling like i have to
fill this void because i need to.
but i shouldnt.

i'll eat till i throw up and then admit i still want more.
i'll drink so much i won't get up for days.
i'll sleep all night or not at all.
i'll smoke, snort, shoot all i can take till i go dumb.
psychotic.
numb.

i'll do it
over and over
and YES!
ill do it, all the time.
and every time
that i don't want to
i'm just so certain that i have to
fill this void
splitting me open
till i die.
well, its a good thing i don't have to live that way any more but i can still feel it like yesterday.
May 2014 · 754
Untitled
Oliver Twist May 2014
Truth is

you make me wanna be honest.

Haven't felt that in the longest

time.
May 2014 · 933
A Dogs Toy
Oliver Twist May 2014
I'm a dogs toy and hes got me
ripping at the seems.

I say
its from innocent play.
That's what I like to believe.

Don't trust me.
I'm a dogs toy.
I cannot see.

Hes got my little button eyes
chewed out.
literally just saw a toy my dog friend was playing with and the eyes were missing.. and it made me think metaphorically about a past relationship and how its possible to be played with in a way that you don't realize your being torn apart...
Oliver Twist May 2014
things are better
or i stopped looking.
whatever it is
its working

except the feelings are less 'feely'
dull if you ask me.

maybe just familiar with the pains
so they go unnoticed, un-noted.

chasing my tail
in circles of ongoing obligations

and im much less than satisfied.
some what old journal entry.
i like it tho.
May 2014 · 565
High Again
Oliver Twist May 2014
I start to write.
I get the taste in my mouth
like I'm high again.

I forget to breathe.
I hold my breath
and feel my heart beat
in my skin.

Staring past the spaces.
My vision growing thin.

My mind
paints my face
with a grin.

Unsettling in.

When I write
feels like I'm high again.
May 2014 · 512
Here With You
Oliver Twist May 2014
I used to curse the ground I walked on

I'm so glad you came

Stepped into this world alone

to leave it just the same

though it sure is nice

here with you.

Wouldn't think twice

to be here

with you.
Reese 5/4/14
Apr 2014 · 638
redo on I don't Pray
Oliver Twist Apr 2014
I am addicted to dying.
for I've forgotten how to live.

I'd have the devil sell me back my soul
I just don't think he works that way.

By now the eyes of god are crying,
and i'm settling in to stay.
somethings got to give.
I feel I'm giving up
on me.

i cant live.
i cant forgive.
and i don't pray.
no use in trying

now

that I'm so used to dying,
Still I'm crying out for something to believe

in

something barely thick enough
to dissolve away my sin

off of my sleeves.
I wear it on display
in hopes you'll stop me on my way
down.
before the leaves
of my clandestine life turn grey:
from green
yellow to brown.

and I should pray
but no use in trying
now

that i'm so used to dying.
All i have now is a daily reprieve.
Apr 2014 · 475
i dont pray
Oliver Twist Apr 2014
i am addicted to dying.
can't remember how to live.

i'd have the devil sell me back my soul
i just don't think he works that way.

by now the eyes of god are crying.
somethings got to give.

cant live.
nothing to give
and i don't pray.
no use in trying.

so used to dying.
lol. some days....
Apr 2014 · 616
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Oliver Twist Apr 2014
I discover something lovely
and rush to try and make it a part of me,
claiming suddenly I'm lovely as I could be -
if only I could make it my own.
I'll take it, and I'll break it, and I'll make it
into one of the songs I sing
'bout just how lovely it all would be -
if only I wasn't alone.

I wish to be something I see,
So I take it all and make it all
the song I sing.
Until I'm free to be me,
I'll fake it in the songs that I sing.

Oh, way back when
all the things that could've been
were all the things I couldn't see
in me, in me.
waiting on the time
when I'm ready to cut ties
with all the things that shouldn't be
for me, for me.
I'll keep pretending for so long
it won't be just another song
when I'm free.
When I'm free
to be me.

So I spend a lot of time reading books.
Lovely books about better days.
'bout how to live in these 'better ways' -
If only i could make them my own.
So I take 'em, and I brake 'em, and I make 'em
into one of these songs I sing
'bout how much better my life would be
if only, when I'm finally grown.

Repeating word for word,
regardless if I'm feeling fine
I take it all and fake it for a price.

Line after line,
not every song I sing is mine
but I can't help but think -
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

I wish to be something i see
so I take it all and make it all
that song that I sing.
Until I'm free to be me
I'll fake it in the songs that I sing.

It won't be just another song
when I'm finally free
to be me.
this is supposed to be a song. but really it has no order. just a bunch of crumbled up idea. hm. ok.
Apr 2014 · 487
hurt from the heart
Oliver Twist Apr 2014
if i should change, i guess i could
but it only hurts when you love me
would it hurt you? not to love me?
would it hurt you not to care?

i cut myself because it feels good
and it only hurts when you love me.
would it hurt you? not to love me?
would it hurt you not to care?

so used to being misunderstood
still it only hurts when you love me
would it hurt you? not to love me?
would it hurt you not to care?

i hope to die, but i knock on wood.
now it only hurts because you love me.
i'm really hurt that you still love me.
this only hurts because you care.

i hope to die
and i won't feel a thing.
Yes, it wont hurt
if you don't love me.
Mar 2014 · 365
Untitled
Oliver Twist Mar 2014
while time moves,
it doesn't move me.

countless
days
of time
have moved right past
me standing still.

fast.
fast.
too fast.


and everything I've missed,
I miss it so.
Feb 2014 · 371
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
You knew.
The whole time.
Why did you hide it?
You knew
I'd be such a fool for you.
Oh my God... you ******* like it!
Can't you just let a girl dream?
Can't you fake it,
Make it a little more real than it seems?
I'm not asking you to really try.
C'mon, just play along.
Don't blow my high.
I fell in love
with my imagination
when I found your love there.
You've got nothing to do with this
so keep quiet.
This is sick, and I'm excited.
I'll keep believing that you love me
utill the pains of your truth
sting too clearly
to deny it.
this is a mess and i dont care.
maybe ill make something of it one day.
right now its just an idea
Feb 2014 · 484
Broken Eyes
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
My broken eyes
they only see perfection or rejection

So far from perfect
that I never feel in love with my reflection.
All the things I've done
glaring at me
while I'm stuck
staring at me
in the mirror.

Oh, the countless times
my broken eyes
reject my name.

Another day
I stay inside.

*I hide
my face
for shame.
this is how i feel today. this is how i feel most days. the way i look never changes, only the way i see myself. i dont know how to control it. but i wish i did.
Feb 2014 · 453
Can't Sleep
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
some nights my past creeps up inside me
getting rotten in my head

infecting all my thoughts
telling me lots and lots
of nasty things.

I don't recall a single peaceful moment
I'm skipping straight to pain

tossing and turning
'cause thoughts are burning
thoughts are burning
through my bed

and I'm scared I can't escape my past
and I'm scared I might want to go back
I'm scared relief is temporary
I'm ******* scared

relief won't last.

some nights my past creeps up inside me
getting rotten in my head
these thoughts are burning
thoughts are burning
through my bed.
Feb 2014 · 1.5k
fucked
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
its bittersweet
but he's so rotten.
I just miss love.
The feeling
not the place and time.
Not HIM.
but just... the thought.
The feel.
at times
all the time..
wondering if I'll see you again
not knowing if I want to.
Just set me back
just pull me down.
into that HOLE.
Remember the one you dug?
When you ****** the whole trust thing
and ****** some one else.
It really ****** with my head
and ****** up my heart.
You keep saying how its sad..
that I cry every day

but I've come to terms with that
and it doesn't change a thing.
Feb 2014 · 438
Nothing
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
so I realize
every now and then
the way I lie to myself
and actually believe it.
In the end
I realize
no one is an angel, really
and maybe everything IS my fault, really
but who ******* cares?
I've never been good at making something out of nothing.

I feel a whole lot of nothingness coming on...
what are you thinking: nothing.
what are you feeling: nothing..
whats wrong? NOTHING!!
what will make things better?
... nothing...

because my downfall will be
thinking
and feeling
that everything is nothing
all the time.
Feb 2014 · 512
To Merely Exist
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
I LIVE to feel.
because you've never done it,
you can never know it.

But it's as vital as breath.
And without it:

without love,
without anger,
without sorrow,

..
breath is just a clock..... [[ ticking.]]..
Feb 2014 · 1.5k
speechless
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
scared to speak up
knowing his way will go about
regardless.
A boy should know by now
she always means to say
the way she feels
including the many times
she never does
and never will.
Feb 2014 · 478
by these feelings
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Blind these eyes that couldn't see
through saccharine-sweet felicity
and chain these feet that led me there
beside myself, without a care
you fake the love, I'll take the blame
we're merely players in this game

but I'm the captain of the losing team.

Could you grant my last request
and strip this burden from my chest?
Break my heart and watch it bleed.
Your what I want; not what I need.
Wasted tears drip from my tongue
and by these feelings I am hung

As thoughts of you shift into memories.
Feb 2014 · 302
...
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
...
Waste not the precious years of life,
With which each mortal man has been endowed.
For the green leaves of youth turn brown,
And God takes back the life that He allowed.
Feb 2014 · 339
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
The light in her eyes was so dim you'd hardly notice it burning.
Yearning for the slightest wind to fuel her flame,
but this stagnant air
its so suffocating.
darkness permeating every thought.
now who's to blame?
Feb 2014 · 864
Blue Hole
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
creating.
creating takes place in the blue hole.
experience heightened sense in the blue hole.
time doesn't exist.... in the blue hole.
you have intentions,ideas,a vision going in
coming out, you have an expression.
but WHAT HAPPENED??? in the blue hole?
what expanded? what disappeared? what changed?
WHAT MAKES YOU? what makes your art.
to perceive all things experienced in creation
is to know WHAT HAPPENED in the blue hole,
is to being the artist himself.
a pawn to the idea,
the vision driving your intention.
a pawn to the experience of creating.
a pawn to the creation, itself.
until time exists again,
there is no linear thought.
you are in the blue hole.
the blue hole is who you are.
this is my random scattered idea of what happens when your creating something.
Feb 2014 · 335
4W
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
4W
The dictionary of silence.
i will use this line one day. i love this line. came up with the thought a while back
Feb 2014 · 289
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Face down
arms up high
I reach for anything i can.
From where i stand
the distance between me

and where you are

**becomes too grand.
Feb 2014 · 251
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
reality and truth.
They either come too soon
or too late.
But in this case
they don't just come
they HIT.
My fairy tale stained with hate.
Feb 2014 · 645
Running
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Running from anything
that lives,
breathes

she wandered the street.
barefoot,
blistered.

Her knees became weak
gravel piercing skin,
bleeding sadness.

her head
left hanging
on a question...
(?)
Feb 2014 · 494
Superglue
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
when I found you out
for the fake you are
something shattered...
My image of you
when it fell
off the highest shelf
in my head.
Never thought to reach out
for a cup half empty.

Looking down
I see you a thousand times.
I see you a thousand ways.
I see your thousand crimes
in pieces of glass,
floating in their contents.
For the very first time,
superglue won't do.
Feb 2014 · 281
2 lines
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
we'll label this 'mistake'
and let the distance help forget us.
i'm not really sure what...hahah random i like this tho.
Feb 2014 · 389
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
I'll never have you by hello.
I'll never sweep you off your feet.
Just sip me slowly
like a late night glass of wine.


because this potions got me thinking
we could be made for this.
Feb 2014 · 341
The Questions
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Feelings start slipping
through gaps
made by the questions
leaving burn holes in my head.
Made by the nothing
that I know
of what you do,
while I sit here loving you.

Wondering how long ago
you started slipping,
and how the hell
it took so **** long to notice
I'm slipping too.
All I can do
is look back
to miss what i felt

**when there was nothing to know.
before i knew nothing.
its like that shift between the moment there is truly nothing wrong, to the moment you've been wronged and don't know it, to the moment you realize you've been wrong and then you wonder where exactly things changed, and how long you were wrong about thinking things were right. that **** ****** me off. i want to know exactly how many days i should feel foolish for loving you.
Feb 2014 · 502
F(OO)L
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
I found
we just provoked
the biggest joke
I'm not so proud to call
"a little accident
of time well spent
in all the wrong places."
Down I fall.

I shouldn't cry

but I do.

Just like an ordinary fool
when her ordinary dreams
fall

through..
i dont know how i like the way this mashes together. the first and second half were meant to be separate. ehhh
Feb 2014 · 1.8k
Puppet
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Going on gut alone
I bet you'd think
that you might keep me
just where you want me

but the gaps you left
blank in my mind
surely didn't go unnoticed
and clearly you didn't know this.

We're in a play
and I'm the poet
or the puppet
who didn't know it

and your the boy
who hung me by my strings
who tried to make a puppet dance
among other things,
the way fools do.
Feb 2014 · 380
If Not
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Don't blame me
for losing the feeling
when you leave me
for such periods of time
with nothing to remember.
When you return
don't be surprised
my walls have  raised
and I don't act
like it wasn't hard...
wondering where you'd
gone
what I'd
done
or if I'd see you again.
If not,
would I forget it all
like a bad dream?
Or like a roller coaster
that empties your stomach?
All shaken up
and empty
so when its over
you remember it forever.
Feb 2014 · 416
2 liner
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Move like a jellyfish
The rhythm is nothing.
Feb 2014 · 228
Without the Other
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Can u see me
And still know that it's over?
Must you have just one without the other?
There are moments when I long for both
Too see you
and its over.
There are moments when either breaks my heart.
When there's no One without the Other.
Feb 2014 · 407
Funny
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
It's very confusing, going on like this.
Always changing. Always staying the same.
It starts to make more sense
Once you figure it out.
Feb 2014 · 263
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Constantly looking for something or some one to believe in.
Constantly searching for something or some one i can rely on.
Constantly getting let down.
Constantly.
Feb 2014 · 226
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Not that I'm suicidal,
I just don't see a future for me here.
I just don't see it.
When my wisdom is pain.
When my hope is a lie.
I just can't see it at all.
Feb 2014 · 381
Action
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Lets say this moment right here
is a movie.
If Love is the soundtrack
my life is a song
played over and over
but not very long

'What a lovely scene!' they'd say.
'What a lovely song!'
and my moment is gone.
Feb 2014 · 252
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Be good or be bad.
Love her or leave her.
Care or don't care.
No one else cares either.
Don't you dare hesitate to put yourself first
Because every one else will do so with a thirst.
Don't worry, they will.
Don't forget this.
Feb 2014 · 465
Trying to Fit
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
*******.
All. Every one.
I don't care.
Wish I could just be in my own mind
and not theirs.
Trying to figure with what they think
and how i fit with it.
It's a bunch of *******.
What matters to me is who I am to myself:
without anything, or anyone else.
I'll stick to this state.
Feb 2014 · 231
Untitled
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
I am consistently questioning everything that is me.
I find my self back at square one
more often than not.
so small.
so hopeless.
wandering aimlessly
up, then down, then up again.
what am I missing?
I have to shake this insanity
and stay in the very moment
where i reveal my faith.
Feb 2014 · 567
trying too hard
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
I'm so sick of being lonely.
I wish I was patient
but I'm so restless.
waiting for some one,
any one, THE ONE
**to just love me effortlessly.
Feb 2014 · 327
change
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
Something about today feels like change
But I know nothing ever stays the same.
I feel the past leaving me
like I'm becoming who I've wanted to be.
Feels like forgiveness for myself
for every one who ever hurt me.
Strange things are happening.
Now, I see
strange, great things
and they feel like change.
Feb 2014 · 372
Duality
Oliver Twist Feb 2014
sometimes the weight of my emotions is so hard to bare.
swerving in and out of conscious thoughts
like i exist in two worlds.
two Me's.
but neither of them know each other.

one of ME has a head full of lies.
believes all that is wrong,
sees only the bad,
and plays a victim.
that Me doesn't want to be happy.
that Me doesn't want to change.

another Me is full of hope.
accepts things for what they truly are,
finds the light in every shadow,
and plays the hero.
that Me couldn't be held down.
that Me is wild and free.

I'm confused in my head.
one side of me is ripping from the other.
my body, an empty stage
where two Me's fight for my next scene.
constantly changing
the way i think, see, and feel
and often times,
i hardly find it possible
for the both of me to meet.
to make one singular connection.
one singular understanding.
one singular idea.
one singular feeling.
for an outsider,
it may be hard to conceive
all the action going on behind my eyes.
i would imagine it'd be hard
for one of them to make
one SINGULAR connection
with one of me,
anyways.
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