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290 · Nov 2014
Sitting in class
Shanijua Nov 2014
The feel of your fingertips on my hair sends sparks through my mind and soul.
Didn't I ever tell you never to do that in class?
287 · Jul 2018
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Shanijua Jul 2018
as i sit in a place of mental darkness
I force my hands to raise a weapon.
A weapon raised with a trembling arm,

I try to be steady, to be accurate and aim.

My arms wreak of guilt ridden lines dripping with a burning sensation.

But my pain hasn't been taken away.
284 · Feb 2015
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Shanijua Feb 2015
And for once, nothing is the best thing I can think to write.
283 · Oct 2014
Who got away?
Shanijua Oct 2014
Here I go, another poem for you. I don't think my lesson will ever be learned
How long has it been since you didn't love me? 1 month? 3 months? A year?
Maybe you did love me, but I was always to scared to ask and you were too
Tough to tell me.. I realize it's to late now
Your girl is beautiful. She should be told.
I can tell that she loves you. Just like I once did..
I think it's funny how I went from wanting to **** every fiber of your body
To not giving a **** about what you do.  
Now I won't say I don't love you anymore because I don't know if I do
But I do know you are the one who missed out and there's no getting
Me back.
283 · Oct 2014
My love lives
Shanijua Oct 2014
My love lives.
You had my heart in your hands only to rip it to pieces.
My love lives.
You moved on, still I have not.
My love lives.
I have never seen you smile as much as you do with her.
My love lives.
I do not want to move on because
My love lives.
It kills me to see you so happy, yet my love lives.
My loveā€¦ For you.. It lives only to find my heart dead.
282 · Jul 2014
22 words
Shanijua Jul 2014
Trying to push me to do something that gives me anxiety does not help my anxiety disorder. It only makes it worse.
281 · Sep 2014
I do.
Shanijua Sep 2014
Do you know how many times (I) have cried over you?
I should be asleep at 2 am, not writing (*******) poetry for you.
I can not tell you how much I (hate) that I love you.
Why can't I forget (you)?
280 · Sep 2014
Untitled
Shanijua Sep 2014
Derpression is slowly creeping back into my system and I do not know how to stop it. Lord, please help me.
274 · Aug 2014
Little girls
Shanijua Aug 2014
That girl, she's not the same as you left her,
She's grown a full set of armor and
Her mascara is ******* water proof.
253 · Apr 2018
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Shanijua Apr 2018
This weather brings out the worst in you, all the pain and misery came from hibernation.
The gold that lasted in yours eyes and that I've grown to love, disappeared right along with the sun's warmth.
Something died my love, something is dead indeed.
248 · Aug 2014
She and I
Shanijua Aug 2014
Conclusions were drawn, better now than ever.
Realizing the past was only a door that had been
shut, a little easier it was to accept. Only temptation
remain.
Not anything could lessen the desire of having
her name called back onto her or
the feel of strong hands trailing along her back.
She ached to feel the heat from his body
as it burned her skin, a sensation she could not live
without.
Her tongue felt lonely without a partner to dance with but
never had she been kissed..
His fingers being on every surface of her clothes less body
could send her into oblivion.

To loose her innocence was all she wanted.
246 · Jul 2014
February 22, 2014
Shanijua Jul 2014
Don't get me wrong, I'd ******* in 0.02 seconds, but I'm gad you're happy with her.
234 · Aug 2014
Bones
Shanijua Aug 2014
Could you spit in my face one more time or kick me in the gut so I can know I am still alive
I almost miss the dirt your shoes left on my face.
Lay your hand on my cheek then rip the flesh from my bones
Tie my arms behind my back and leave me to cry salty tears, just like you used to.
228 · Jun 2019
Nighttime
Shanijua Jun 2019
Alas, the house is quiet.
A woman whom can not be particularly described as "dainty" but aged by a trying life has succumbed to sleep within her corner of the bricked home.
The home's walls made of plaster start their creaking, accompanied by a soft roar sounding from the a/c that can never stay fixed for more than a few months at a time.
Darkness overtakes each room one by one until the home is one big shadow of black in itself.
Shadows dance along four walls covered in an ugly neutral green that yearns to haunt memories as long as one shall live.
They grow and grow as the night lingers on, taking on various forms until they retire for the rest of the night.  
The cold sends its piercing scent of metal to and fro, taking up as much oxygen as possible.
But, alas.
A faint blue makes its appearance through a 5 by 3 window in the north wall, expanding until it illuminates my cold room, snatching the evil shadows along with it.
206 · Aug 2014
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Shanijua Aug 2014
I loved the smell of salt as you poured it onto my open wounds and the feel of myself burning as you lit my heart on fire.
194 · Aug 2014
That's not what they say
Shanijua Aug 2014
Is it still considered crying if the tears never escape my eyes?
Can I still be sad even if I smiled three seconds ago?
Shanijua May 2020
I wake up and see you.
I go to sleep. And see you.
I pick up my phone and see you.

I see - salty water marks on my pillows,
a heaving chest expanding and contracting with a tremble, and
I see a gray haze covering the surfaces I no longer wish to touch.
I see somber flowers and I see candles that struggle to give off light even in the dullest of days.

I see until the pain creeps back in and reclaims my clear eyes once again.
166 · May 2021
He's gone
Shanijua May 2021
He's gone..
The muse to all of my most precious work is gone. And that is pain.
137 · Sep 2020
The Scent of Being in Love
Shanijua Sep 2020
I crave to be gazed at during sunrise
with fingers tracing the edges of my frame.
Brown eyes should reflect the yearning present in mine
and be colored with the eagerness of being forever close.
The peonise outside of our window would sway in the calm breeze
that enclosed our home, brushing against each brick.
We would bask in the warmth of our sheets
and inhale the air that was contaminated with each song of love that we breathed.
There would only be you and I, eternally bathing in the scent of being in love.

— The End —