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271 · Dec 2014
Our Future
Ashley Haack Dec 2014
I was never one to count the stars,
I knew that I never could, so why try?
I didn't like to dream all day long,
Just to lay awake at night wanting and wishing.
I used to try so hard to focus on now,
But then I realized I'd rather look ahead,
Plan ahead, waste my time counting stars,
And whispering with you under the midnight sky,
Instead of being a boring old stick in the mud,
We'll paint ourselves a future with words and gestures.
Together we can create our masterpiece,
And we'll call it Our Future.
270 · Sep 2014
No Title
Ashley Haack Sep 2014
Why do I still worry?
Why do I care where you are?
Why do I care if you still think of me?
Why do I worry at all?
Why do I bother thinking of you?
Why don't I move on already?
Why can't I let go completely?
Why do you frequent my thoughts?
Why do I care you spent several nights at a chick's place?
Why do I care you didn't talk to me for a week?
Why do I keep wondering so much about you?
267 · Sep 2014
He
Ashley Haack Sep 2014
He
He’s so depressed he can barely
Hide it inside himself anymore
The look on his face pains
My heart more than the knowledge
That even I can’t help him
When he gets this way…

The crowed rooms of heartless
Fools add to the battle he wages
Inside the hidden parts of his
Mind where I can’t see him bleeding
Crying alone as I watch his face turn
Cold while his eyes plead for my help...

I’m no doctor, I can’t prescribe him
Pills to drown out his heartache
I’m not a dealer, I’ve got no drugs
To give him an escape from this
I’m not a magician, I lack the magic
Needed to cure him of himself…

I can’t make him like himself
Any more than I can make the
Moon turn into a shooting star
To wish upon. He lets me in
But only so far as the front
Yard to his prison of a mind…

Why won’t he let me see
The wounds he’s created in
His own self-esteem? I’d sew
Them up with delicate thread
And gentle loving hands if only
He’d let me get close enough…
267 · Sep 2015
Free
Ashley Haack Sep 2015
Every so often I let my soul fly
260 · Mar 2016
#7
Ashley Haack Mar 2016
#7
Only
the
roaring
storm
calms
Her
255 · Jun 2014
I Wonder
Ashley Haack Jun 2014
When I stare off into the horizon,
and my mind wanders to and fro,
I begin to wonder.
Why is it that people dream?
Is there a reason for winter?
Why must things die?
What happens to you when
you pass on? Do you dissapear,
Or does your mind float into the sky,
Watching as other lives unfold below?
Why don't trees grow sideways?
Why are humans flightless?
Is there such things as dragons?
Do I have a twin, seprated at birth?
Why do I sneeze so oddly?
Does everyone think so deeply?
Am I alone in my wondering?
If people heard my thoughts...
Would they wonder about me?
244 · Mar 2015
Tears
Ashley Haack Mar 2015
I seem
To only
Ever cry
At
Night
243 · Nov 2014
he said he wanted to bleed
Ashley Haack Nov 2014
he said it
he uttered the words not aloud
but still they were heard
and the meaning was felt as
the cutting edge dug in
and the sound of steel rang
in my ears
while whispers of his agony
drowned inside my mind
221 · Dec 2014
A Thought
Ashley Haack Dec 2014
For some reason the idea of freedom
Has never seemed so far away

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