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527 · Dec 2014
Framed
WickedHope Dec 2014
Why do they distract me so?
One object makes me stare.
I'd decided to walk away from that ridiculous fantasy...
But that dream? What was that?
I'm not sure what way it swayed me last night,
But today, that change,
I just couldn't look away...
This was a terrible poem, sorry.
- - -
Prepare yourself for a long note-rant, because I haven't done one in a while:

So there's this guy, I write about him a lot, and I am very much so attracted to him, not in love with him but highly attracted to him. But after doing a lot of thinking -- I mean a LOT of thinking -- I decided that I should leave it alone mostly, because it wasn't going to go anywhere and I wasn't sure I really wanted it to. Then last night I had this really bizarre dream about him, it was part memory combined with other memory infused with desire. And... I was excited about an... opportunity with him that presented itself during this dream, but the situation instead sent me into a panic attack and then I woke up terrified and confused, more so than ever. I never dream anymore so that was really weird.

Then today he wore his glasses and he hasn't worn them in a while, and  I sort of have this thing about eyeglasses and when I snuck into this class he has with some other friends of mine, I couldn't stop staring, so yeah.

~And thus concludes the long note-rant.
526 · Feb 2015
Ask My "Polaris"
WickedHope Feb 2015
Shh, shh, shh,
Shut down.

Ask him how well
It worked out
When we broke up,
Then he wanted me back.

How he showed up crying.
He's the only other one
I've ever called my Polaris,
And he called me his Firefly.

Late nights in my basement,
Giggling quiet because
My parents didn't know.

Ask him about
When I chose him
Over my Bird,
And he felt like air.

Ask him about
When he took it
Too far,
And why I don't wear
Miniskirts anymore.

Ask him about Valentines,
And why his new girlfriend
Hates me.

Ask him
What I'm like
When I lose
Predictability...
I miss playing games.
Welcome back old me.
526 · Dec 2014
O n c e
WickedHope Dec 2014
Why       don't       you*       love       me       anymore?
I      understand       why      other     people      don't
,
*But                                  you                                  did
O                         n                         c      ­                   e.
524 · Sep 2015
Undreamt Lullabies (10w)
WickedHope Sep 2015
If I stay
s  i  l  e  n  t,
will you talk to me again?
524 · Aug 2014
A Lady.
WickedHope Aug 2014
Don't look,
Don't speak.
Stay young,
Stay weak.
A picture in a frame,
A doll on a shelf.
Your looks can bring you fame,
Just deny yourself.
Feminist professor inspired.
523 · Jul 2015
Dear Indiana,
WickedHope Jul 2015
I just want the kind of peace
you get when
you hum to sad song

                 I just want the kind of smile
                 that slips onto your lips when
                 you hear little kids laughing

                                  I just want the kind of love
                                  you feel when
                                  someone wants you to know they care

                              I just want the kind of complete
                                       you make me, dear
~
Listening to something you'd probably laugh at. Laugh and do that adorable swint thing you do.
522 · Oct 2014
Your Pain Kills Me (10w)
521 · Oct 2014
My Best
WickedHope Oct 2014
Everytime I feel okay about you,
you make your way back to me.
You left.
You left.
So why do you keep coming back,
only long enough to set me off balance?
My two A.M.,
my puppy, my Friday,
my love, my peace,
my everything.
My Best.
You built me up to let me down,
so must you return?
Must you kick me on the ground?
I miss you.
I love you.
I need you.
But stop coming around
and letting me hope
that this time you might
stay.
Again, you looked so good. Why am I no longer important?
I love you, and you say you love me... what game are you playing?
520 · Sep 2014
Bloodshot
WickedHope Sep 2014
Bloodshot eyes
Incapable of thoughts
What made me think
I could handle all this
I think, I need a drink.
517 · Nov 2015
Cut me open...
WickedHope Nov 2015
Just cut me
Just pick up the **** knife and cut me
You've already left jagged wounds
Prove that you're capable enough to inflict them to my face
I'm tired of the rocks thrown from the distance
I'm tired of the blows from behind, of the back stabs
So look me in the eyes
And cut me
... for I'm already bleeding.
516 · Feb 2015
Titles can be so trivial
WickedHope Feb 2015
Sometimes whispers grow into shouts,
Though the wind can carry both.
But can a message be pinned and sent?
The wind blows free fast and far...
Can I have the vain hope to attach to it
Heavy words to you from me?
I write nothing. Literally nothing.
This? This is nothing. ...Meh.
516 · Dec 2014
Not Enough For Purple
WickedHope Dec 2014
He told me I was enough.
He lied each and every time.
Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar.
I wish I could be what you're looking for.
WickedHope Oct 2014
I am a giant ball of thought, fright, and worry.
515 · Nov 2014
Dream Dove (10w)
WickedHope Nov 2014
I'd a dream, love, you called me your *"Little Dove*"
...I wish you would.
---
Just a dream I had last night.
515 · Oct 2014
My Life In Colors
WickedHope Oct 2014
I was born white
turning pink

6 years young
they added black and green
wonder why I grew up so fast
I spent so long not realizing
something was wrong

10 brings tragedy
slight grey and silver
to me and my family

12 years young
with so much blue, black and lust
very ****** up little girl
trusted the wrong people

12 also brought a striking bit of gold
but the blue was too strong
too icy, too dark, too cold

14 and you'd never guess
what I've turned into
black and black and black and grey
then finally met enough red
to make me feel okay

15, 16 red was my life
a pulse, a heartbeat
finally happy and alright
soon though comes doubt
and black seeps back in
how did this happen
I was just a kid

16, 16, the last straw
I can't face red anymore
and red was not
the strong color I thought it to be
red faded, receded from me

17, oh, don't look at me
don't look closely
you won't like what you see
as each addiction returns
bringing friends
my life I've wanted to end
for quite some time now
I'm such a gross color

17 is such a great time
to cut short the life of a girl
who has no colors
invisible
nothing
I don't know why this happened.
But I hate myself so much right now.
I don't know why I keep doing this to myself.
I ******* hate myself, and then I hate myself more for hating myself and "coping."

I hate myself for repeating history and believing promises that are never kept.
I hate myself for loving.
I hate myself for lying to myself.
I am such a stupid, worthless **** up.

I ******* hate myself, but I've never been able to **** myself.
I ******* hate myself for wanting to try to again anyway.
514 · Feb 2015
Dual/Duel
WickedHope Feb 2015
One half wants air
The other to drown
One remembers joy
The other only frowns

Split and torn
By love and hate
Tempting time
And teasing fate

One must win
And one must lose
I hate to say
But you must choose
WickedHope Jan 2015
They've all gone
Introverts dream
I'm just sitting
With my eyes
Wide shut in the
Corner of this room
With my music
Blaring through
My speakers with
The wailing washing
Right through me


I am half beauty
And half beast
You deserve the best
Pieces of me, but
I was grown bent
Trying to reach the
Sun shining in
The far distance
But choked out
By all the weeds

I want to promise
I'll never hurt you
But I can't tell
You such cruel lies
I'm going to break
You apart without
Meaning to if
You let me stick
Around too long

Yet if you decide
To keep me anyway
I will clean your
Wounds made by
The world and I
Kiss them until
My lips crack and bleed
If you let me stay
I will make it worth
The times I am a
Destructive hurricane
By being your warm
Spring breeze



The music is me
I had to channel it
For so many years
Sometimes it feels
Like it's the only way
For me to understand
                                                    Myself
The Poet by SayWeCanFly came on, it prompted the middle stanzas.
Harmonicas <3 (more like music in general, tbh)

(Last stanza is making a reference to me being a dancer, for clarity)
513 · Aug 2014
Labels
WickedHope Aug 2014
names and words
called and thrown
like you know her at all
with your hate and scorn
think you can see right through
her 'shallow, fake persona'
she is worn
more than you could know
she has been damaged broken
yet continues to grow
she is more than that word
that name, that label
you smother her with in disgust
she is complex, an individual
you are nothing but dust
Girl, *****, Freak, Dork, Jesus-lover, *****, Idiot,
Worthless.
Woman, Independent, Unique, Quaint, Catholic, Honest, Inquisitive,
A Person.
512 · Oct 2014
I'd Rather Not Be Alone
WickedHope Oct 2014
I can't be genuine in a crowded setting,
I'm not brave enough to be real here.
So I'll write you this note with hope,
That you might try to understand me, dear.
I can be confident if I'm detached,
But with you, I don't want that.
Instead I run scared from possibility,
Feigning confidence and sincerity.
How ironic that I've been most true to myself
Behind a screen when I could be anyone else.
So I can't quite communicate or relate.
I'm best speaking one on one,
Or when talking need not be done.
Yes I'm truly terrified of touching you
If the variables I can't control are more than a few.
Years of hurt, being used,
Years objectified, feeling abuse,
Has twisted me to want and fear you.
So please don't be silent, I'm really quite needy.
I've been quit on and ****** on so much,
And when I miss you, I miss you dearly.
If I love you, it will be fully.
I'm so dependent, so wanting, destitute for you,
I can't take twenty-four hours of silence,
It could **** me.
I like to be alone, yes, it's true,
But I'd rather not be alone if I could be with you...
...
So apparently I'm doing a lot of couplets again.
509 · Nov 2014
In Pieces
WickedHope Nov 2014
He can have my arm

You can have my leg

He can have my heart

You can have my torso

And I'll be left
     with my head
     and the rest of
     my tattered body parts
           like always
So empty.
Just don't touch me
Just don't talk to me.
I need to find someone who can love me.
I need to stop tormenting myself.
509 · Oct 2014
Daddy's Girl
WickedHope Oct 2014
Father,
Do
You hate me
Because
I'm just like her
Or because
I'm just like you?
WickedHope Feb 2015
Cut away at my throat
You don't even know how deep the hatred runs in your veins
Sacrifice me in your diseased logic that traps your mind
Body and spirit broken beyond repair
You've always had a good heart
Please shut your mouth and still your hands

Summer will be here and we have to be perfect
I have to let my scars fade again
So at the beach you can prop me up as your rag doll
I just want to be invisible
All but one, I don't want to see me any longer
Faking functionality so that you can keep your pride

I just want to diverge and break off
Disappear to "where no one knows my name"
Well, all but one, the only one
Started of for one person, but by the third line I switched it.
Guess I'm still not okay again then. Awesome.
- - -
Symphonic covers of songs help me breathe... kinda
WickedHope Sep 2014
Sometimes I listen to songs

About regret and lost love

From a guys perspective.

So I can pretend you're

Singing the words to me,

Your beautiful voice that's

Always off key.
You...
507 · Aug 2014
Childhood Sin
WickedHope Aug 2014
you make me sad.
i wanted to be like
you. now i'm sorry.
i want to share my
joys with you but
your ideas of joy
have been poisoned.
now i'm sorry for
you. i wish you
wouldn't, it makes
me sad. please don't
make me sad any
more. i wish you
would understand that
i'm not an ignorant
child. you are the
one who doesn't get
it. and i'm sorry
for you, very much
so.
Wrote this a while ago for someone I wanted to save, but never had the guts to help.
WickedHope Sep 2021
w h y ' s
h a v i n g
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a  d  d  i  c  t  i  o  n
l   e   f   t
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h   a   r   d   e   r
t h a n
h  a  v  i  n  g
s   e   v   e   r   a   l
506 · Sep 2014
I Can Laugh Now
WickedHope Sep 2014
Your laugh
Your smile
Your face
A joke
You never did mean
The lies that you spoke
503 · Sep 2014
My Tell
WickedHope Sep 2014
When I grab at my neck
You are the only one
Who knows what it means
You know to say stop
To hold me
To hug me
You stopped telling me to stop.
You stopped giving a ****, so I did too.
503 · Sep 2014
Caving In
WickedHope Sep 2014
I am starving.
For so many, many things.
I am dying.
For absolutely nothing.
WickedHope Jan 2015
~ Pop Culture by Icon For Hire

I just need someone
to save me from myself.
                                                     **my head
                                                  m y     a r m s
                                               m  y         f  a  n  g  s

It's a full time job.
Any takers?



It's okay,
I wouldn't either.
The last three quit over the past six years.
Apparently I'm unstable.
Yah, that sounds about right.
WickedHope Dec 2014
I'm sick
I'm illness
I'm incurable

I'm the vile thing inside your mind that crawls out one ear and in the other
I'm your filthy little fantasy that comes running after you with a knife
I'm bloodthirsty butterflies you naively tried to catch in your "innocence"

I'm sick
I'm dark
I'm twisted

I'm the current under the still water calm dragging you down with me
I'm ash after the fire that clings to your clothes and sticks inside your lungs
I'm your reflection in the mirror of the parts you don't want to see magnified

I'm sick
I'm poison
I'm the broken
                    pieces of souls, collected
I'm the poison in your cup, darling.
Drink me.
- - -
Hahaha, I'm going mad. I'm ****** mad.  >%D
WickedHope May 2015
Your pointe shoes still hang at your window
Your trophies still top your bookshelf
Your certificates are all there, filed neatly
Your jar of compliments is on hand to read

So stop forgetting who you are
What you're worth
Think of the tears you dry
Think of the smiles you're thrown
Think of your "sisters" who want to be you

I love your hair like hay and your eyes like midnight
I love the curve of your waist and the crooked smile
I miss the the laughter that you gave everyone
I miss the safety that you provided for the wondering

I miss the girl before the scars
On her body and on her heart
:P
Just another Thursday.
502 · Aug 2014
My Tinted Mirror
WickedHope Aug 2014
It's so unfair.
My heart is breaking,
splintering,
like it was whole to begin with.
I don't understand why
I need you so badly
when I am terrified of you.

How ridiculous I feel
trying crookedly
to walk down
these dark lit streets at night.

I am wandering,
I don't know what I'm doing.
But I do.

I grip my knife
with sweaty palms.
I am searching for
what I never hope to find.

I will embrace you.
I will attack you.
I will run.
I will freeze.

I never sleep.

My dreams
are filled with ghosts of the past.
Of my past.
Of the future I long for.
Of the future I fear.
Filled with nothing.
Filled with you.
Who are you?
Why can't you just leave me alone?
501 · Jan 2015
I'm not safe.
WickedHope Jan 2015
"Stay safe,
Stay safe,"
You beg of me.
I wish to comply,
But I can only cry,
"Don't you see?"*
I can't control
Or guarantee
My thoughts,
My safety.
You tell me that
You don't want me
Hurt,
You don't want me
Gone...
But I'm charred, burnt.
Wrong.
499 · Oct 2014
Call Me...
WickedHope Oct 2014
Call me stupid
Call me lame
I never planned
On earning fame

Call me ugly
Call me gross
The weight I loose
For you the most

Call me ****
Call me addict
Push me face down again
While you're at it
To all my "loved ones."
WickedHope Jan 2015
I love my hands, I don't really know why, but other than my eyes they're the only part of my body I'm mostly okay with

Sunrise on the beach is my favorite everyday natural phenomenon

I can't stand public displays of (physical) affection, but I'm crazy affectionate

If I didn't belong to a conservative family I would look a lot different in appearance

I drink my coffee black but I prefer tea with milk and sugar

I'm bad at talking about myself, so I suppose this is done
Idk.
494 · Jan 2015
Pinned
WickedHope Jan 2015
My back with a two degree spinal curve is not quite flat against the wall
My tall but not tall enough height puts me just below your six-one chin
My small, pianist hands are easily held to the side by just one of yours
My dancers legs refuse to part but that's not what you're here for
My long neck is the target as you stand amid the congret I long to fade into
494 · Dec 2014
12 Words Incomplete
WickedHope Dec 2014
I just want someone
to be the other half
of my something.
Title and poem are dumb.
Loneliness is real.
493 · Nov 2014
I Wish I Didn't
WickedHope Nov 2014
I wish I didn't want to die.
But I'm a little filthy.
I wish I didn't want to die.
But I'm a little used.
I wish I didn't want to die.
But I'm a little broken.
I wish I didn't want to die.
But I'm a little gone.
492 · Mar 2016
Lips (10w)
WickedHope Mar 2016
let's just say that i'm drunk enough to sober you
George.
492 · Dec 2014
So --
WickedHope Dec 2014
I am so cold
I am so numb
I am so old
I am so young
I am so empty
I am so done
I am so scared
I am so dead
Repetition is apparently back.
I'm so uninspired right now.
WickedHope Dec 2014
Sorry my eyes are brown
And my hair's ***** blonde
And I'm skinny but not thin enough

Sorry I'm too short, too tall
And I'm not much of anything
And I had to quit dancing

Sorry my skin is too pale
And I have all these freckles and moles
And all these scabs and scars

Sorry I'm curved wrong
And my eyes are bad
And I talk too much

Sorry I stopped trying in school
And I'm shy but forward
And I'm an idealist

Sorry I'm broken
And uncertain
And afraid

Sorry I'm not any of the things you wanted
Sorry I loved you anyway
Andrew.
Just get out.
Go.
I'm too tired.
WickedHope Mar 2015
We have the same hands;
Or at least they're similar.
I've noticed before,
But I forgot until today....
What your hands look like,
It says a lot about you.


Mine are the hands of a pianist:
Long and slender fingers.
Mine are mostly soft and gentle and afraid --
Yet callused where I hold my pen.
Mine are seemingly smooth and fair,
Unless you look close and see the freckles and scars...
                 (My faults on display like tiny decorative stars)
Grey. You were wearing grey.
I've always liked the way the color looked on you,
funny though, your eyes are still a breathtaking blue.
- - -
My titles can be so **** irrelevant, huh? ;P
WickedHope Dec 2014
I just want to be happy. I have countless reasons to be happy. But in the end it's just me every **** night, every ******* night, alone. And empty. And I hate myself. I hate myself with every atom of my being. And I hate myself for hating myself. I'm playing with needles. That's not really a metaphor. I'm just watching droplets form on my skin. Because I doubt the plausibility of my own happiness. And I've always loved body art.
Please stop doing this to me.
I'm clearly not stable enough to handle these games,
so can't we stop playing them?
489 · Nov 2014
Splinters and Stakes (10)
WickedHope Nov 2014
I am so broken...
...I'm two shards away from gone
WickedHope Feb 2015
There is this boy
I know he didn't like me much
But that was five months ago

Now I'm this girl
I love him as my tattered heart bursts
For a month ago he started mending it
Short. It's two a.m., what do you want?  :P

Almost a month though... A slice of forever, a very thin one.
487 · Nov 2014
MY Words (10w)
WickedHope Nov 2014
She wants to take you
But you'll always be mine
My mother is afraid I'm ruining my life by writing.
She doesn't know I use this site, but if she finds out...
Last time it didn't end well.
486 · Dec 2014
No More Dreaming
WickedHope Dec 2014
I've decided to stop sleeping altogether.
((Rhymes With Purple, where are you?))
486 · Nov 2014
Needing Those Eyes (10w)
WickedHope Nov 2014
I       wish
            so        badly
                             I        could
                                         see         him
                                                        right        now
WickedHope Nov 2014
He always had a deep thoughtfulness in his chocolate brown puppy dog eyes
He reacted to everything with this one look where he would squint and his mouth would twist into an asymmetrical skeptical smirk
His straight dark brown hair rested just below his eyebrows and he was always shaking his head slightly to the left to clear his vision
He refused to wear his glasses even though they turned me on so terribly
He color coordinated every outfit like such a pretty little rich boy
He made me feel so insecure yet strive for greatness being the class salutatorian
He was so shy about his guitar maybe because of his brother the famous musical prodigy
He insulted baseball on a regular basis though it was the sport that he loved and played
He slept and never did it was so strange
He proved how much his friends mattered
He came through in everything always
He made me feel like I could not only be something someday but like I was already everything too
Perhaps that's why I made him mine
                                                        my everything.
I miss you terribly, love.
- - -
No punctuation. If it bothers you,
go **** yourself,
because I miss him so much I'm crying.
485 · Dec 2014
Get Away (15w)
WickedHope Dec 2014
The river is right behind my house
In case I can't find another way out
Not that I haven't already tried that...
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