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Van Xuan Jan 2021
No matter how many lies you said
You can't lie to your heart
For lying to your heart
Leads to pain and destruction

No matter how many people you care
You must never think of something in return
For when you look for something in return
You will gain betrayal and distrust
Van Xuan Apr 2020
When the taste of love is gone
When dating feels empty
When there's no color in life
How could I ever love again?
Can I still have my happiness?
I don't feel like loving at all
Van Xuan Sep 2019
She stares with menace
A custom she can't control
Gray paints her world

She met a kind man
Who gave radiance to her life
A cliche story

People flock on him
Which stains her light with darkness
She is at her end

She is resentful
She want to own him alone
She has a great plan

By midnight they met
She cut his throat nice a swift
"He is mine only"
Van Xuan Apr 2019
Society taught us many things
we are taught to read
we are taught to understand
we are taught to be critical
we are taught to give justice
we are taught to be philosophers of life
but why?
why our voices turned muffled?
why we are oppress for saying the truth?
why ostracize when we speak for justice?
why we are taught to be philosophers
when at the end of the day
we are just a puppet of society
just because I am just a student it does not mean that I can't see the abuses in front of me.
Van Xuan May 2021
When I desperately want to save her
Yet the only thing I can do
Is to let her go
Wiping my tears of being a failure
Heart is empty just like the time I lost someone important
Van Xuan Mar 2021
Trying my best to cheer her up
Support her as much as possible
Yet I can't stop the inevitable
Staying only make things worst
It's too painful to see her pain
In the end I can't do anything for her

She needed to leave
And the only thing I can do
Is to support her decision
The feeling of unable to do anything is back
Van Xuan Mar 2019
Tick..Tick..Tick..Tick..Tick
Time Repeatedly Remind
A Hollow Heartbreak

In this messy world
I only saw gray and black
A color of loss

Rain drops bit by bit
A silent way of grieving
Letting pain flow fast
Van Xuan Mar 2019
"Do you understand?"

He woke up from his trance while silently looking at the foreign place he is in.
He does no know what he is doing there but he remember how she left him when they are still happily having their date on the other day.
He felt being hopeless in the dark when she is gone.

He ask to God why?
He feels that he is cheated
He is angry!
He hates her!
He hates her!
He really hates her!

"Can you prove that she does not love you even if she left you in the dust?"

He stared at the person asking the question.
He thought it is a foolish question
Is leaving him behind not an solid proof that she does not love me? He is dumbstruck
The question that he don't know what to feel.

"Betrayal can also mean that you are love by her you know? Do you now understand?"

And at that moment he remembered that he is in the classroom listening to his professor.

"Yes Bishop I understand everything"
Van Xuan Jul 2019
As tears slowly drops my chin
The rain smooths my crumpled heart
Drowning the sadness away
Van Xuan Jun 2020
It's raining again

It's always like this
Every time rain starts
My mood starts to plummet

As the rain drops on the ground
It echoes loudly
On my hollow heart
Van Xuan Mar 2019
"I let her cry again"
A phrase that made his mind blank
Vow he fail to assert

He push her away
Madness drives him to do it
Love that he must hate

Three years comes so fast
Yet she does not seem to fade
Guilt that hunts me down
Van Xuan Mar 2021
Fragile hearts are bothersome
When they broke
It took years to make things right
Blood and tears are mixed
Just to keep the pieces together

But when it is broken again
You just want to give up and quit
Yet you can't stop
And you'll never stop fixing it
For that's the way of life

To love and to be loved
By another person
Who also experience
Fixing a scattered pieces
Of a Fragile Heart
For those hearts that are broken we can do this. There will be time we can fix this
Van Xuan Nov 2019
The loudest scream I heard
Comes from a girl who says
'I'm fine'
Van Xuan Jun 2019
We have so many pictures together
Since our middle school years
Until this very day

When you left me without explanation

I burn one photo everyday but kept the last one.

You know why?

Because part of me crazily wants you even if I know you will never return to me
For the last 3 years I still can't move on from her
Van Xuan Mar 2021
You believe that I am fine
But even myself didn't know
That my tears starts falling
Even though I'm smiling
My soul recognise that I'm not fine
Van Xuan Mar 2021
This is where I mislead people
Of how broken I am
By putting an act
That I'm very happy
Just like the smiling photos seen in your timeline
I don't need others pity thus I need to do this
Van Xuan Nov 2019
They say I'm a fool
Chasing a woman
Who I can never have
Van Xuan Jul 2020
I lost someone dear to me

It happened so fast that I can't react
My mind can't process it
I can't feel anything
And then..

Reality hits me hard

I can't breathe
I want to go home
I want to die
My world stop spinning
I want to quit
I can't move on

But I don't want to give up
I struggled hard
I fight to live every day
I am healing
I want to be strong
So that when the time comes
When I face that person once again
I can say it pride

I am a survivor
Thank you for your guidance
Mom
A small tribute for those who survived this difficult situation in life
Van Xuan Feb 2021
People who take things for granted
Are the worst type of people
Because they always thought
That everything they have
Are meant to be theirs
Van Xuan Oct 2020
Couples taught me
That the sweetest you can taste
Comes from the woman you love

But I don't believe that
Because when I kiss her lips
It is not sweet at all

What I taste is the desire
To kiss her more
The taste of longing for her

And the taste of happiness
A sincere taste of love
Van Xuan Mar 2019
I hate seeing a woman cry because of me
A principle I throw away
Since the day she left me alone

I made countless women cry
To satisfy my unquenchable anger
A sin that I can never overcome.

But when I saw my mother cried,
My heart was squeezed ruthlessly
An invisible force ripping my soul.

Can I still be called human?
When I've done so many cruel things
Even forgetting the only principle I have

A principle that I made for my mother when I made her cry once.
Van Xuan Jun 2023
As I reached out to you.
I spilled the words of my heart
Frustrations, anger, disappointments
And then  I felt pain.

A Desperation of a hopeless struggle

And then I feel disgusted.
Emptiness, helplessness, despair
I drank the words of my heart
As I stare at the empty wall
Van Xuan Sep 2019
You don't know the feeling
When we have a short conversation
Before you sleep every night
It's like I'm in heaven
Even if my day was hell
Van Xuan May 2020
To the one reading this

We may be thousand miles apart
Connected by an accident in game
An unforgettable experience

Knowing you little by little
Day by day
Slowly but surely

Chasing our different paths
Meeting different people
Yet never losing our connection

Clinging in this loose courage
I just want to say
I'm here for you

I hope our bond won't end
Getting stronger each passing day
Your stranger across the world
A small literature for someone I cherish on the other side of the world
Van Xuan Oct 2019
Who should I choose
A woman who made my world
Or a woman who colors my world?

My heart is torn
Between my past and present
Between who I am today
And who I will be in the future

What shall I do
To stay in love with the girl in the past
Or to love the woman in front of me

Tell me... What should I do?
Torn between two lovers
Van Xuan Dec 2020
"I won't give up on you"

The words I sincerely said to her
A man's promise I solemnly abide

Yet I receive distrust

From the woman whom I trust
The same woman who gave me
The pain of reality
Van Xuan Jul 2020
They said silent means yes
But why it is deafening
When I ask her
Do you love me?
Van Xuan Mar 2019
at the end of the day
when you sat at the table
you will realize
that the one you love the most
will never come back to you

that is the time loneliness strikes in
the noise of silence is too much
like trashing your mind inside out
until tears suddenly drops

followed by a silent scream that you try to hold
until muffled sobs echoes on the walls
of a lively neighborhood
Van Xuan Mar 2019
At that single moment,
I hug her for a very long time
Devoid of reasoning
Just a sincere raw feeling
Of how much I miss her.
Never minding the busy streets,
The amuse stares of the the crowd,
Or the noisy cheers of our friends.
It's just between us,
beating as one.
When I met my long time sweetheart for almost 2 years due to my studies in a boarding school
Van Xuan Apr 2020
For almost 4 years
I can finally say to her
These words that tightly clings
In my heart

"I give up, time for me to let you go"
Van Xuan Apr 2021
When the pain is still there
Slowly eating away my humanity
Words of comfort in my mind
Doesn't reflect the way I write

Numbing my heart
Hiding under my blanket
Forcing myself to write
Hoping to fix myself
Van Xuan May 2020
My mind blanked at that very moment
We've been in this journey for 6 years
And I know someday it's going to end

But your sudden departure made me realised
That it is never easy to let go
Of the things you love the most

On that rainy midnight
I left with a deep sigh
Putting my phone away as I silently said
Such a nice book, thank you for everything
I really don't know how to handle these kind of situations every time i finish reading books or updates of a good novels
Van Xuan Jul 2020
It's been a couple of months
Since I stopped writing
In those months I felt empty
But I don't really seems to care
Like a wasteland without life

I don't really want to write
But it cost me greatly
I almost lost myself
Thus I start writing again
Under this rain

I let myself pour all the emptiness
Inside my heart
When writing makes me feel better

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