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Lvice Apr 2017
She held on with pale finger tips
And white knuckles
She held on
With praying hands
And tender lips
From rosaries
She locked arms
With something like the truth
And she held on
Lvice Aug 2018
Her heart
Beats inside my
Stomach
Lvice Jun 2017
The truth is that
   I can't write you back
   You won't call for my grasp
     No matter how many pencils
        I leave next to my nightstand I
           Can't draw you back to my side .
Lvice Jul 2017
She
already forgot
your name
Sometimes
I think that's luck
But I don't want to forget
You
Lvice Jan 2018
I love chaotic
Things
Each bit of me
Messier
More unmanageable
Than the rest
Lvice Feb 2018
I don't know
Why I do this to myself,
Over and over again.

Why I keep telling
Myself that I will get
What was promised.

I should know better.
Lvice Feb 2018
I am
Always there, but
Where were
You?
Lvice Jul 2017
I think,
there comes
a point when
the pain is so
great that when
you break it is
peaceful.
Lvice Feb 2018
I hope they
never look
quite the same
as you
Lvice Aug 2017
Can anything
Comfort a crying girl
On the top of a truck
Outside at nine in the evening?
Lvice Jun 2016
Life isn't all sunshine. You need rain to make the flowers grow.
#happy #tough #strong
Lvice Sep 2017
She just turned 40,
And I wonder if her
5 year old self
Would love the person she became.
God knows I do.
Lvice Dec 2017
You
Bring back my childhood
Make me woman and girl
All at once
And love me
Lvice Nov 2017
If you want to know
Where my heart is,
Listen to me say
his name in my sleep.
Lvice Jan 2018
I wonder if the
Stars can read my
Lips when I pray
To them from my window
Lvice Jul 2017
If her breathing
ever gives way,
let it not
be to hate.
Lvice Feb 2017
One day,
       Someone will kick me in the stomache
And leave me breathless

And we will grow up-
  I will remember it
But they may not
  
  The feeling will leave footprints on my ribcage
  That will turn to mud
  On hardwood kitchen floors

We will fight
  And probably cry,you more than me
But oh can you imagine the happiness you bring!

One day you will lay your head
On the place that first knew your heartbeat

And we will both be home
Lvice Feb 2018
I hope there is a heaven
I hope it was swift
I hope you were not in pain.
I hope there is forgiveness
I hope there is peace.
Life can be short..life can be good. Two of my classmates I used to be very close with when I was younger passed away late Sunday night. Rest in peace loves.
Lvice Mar 2017
They say the friends who build you up
Are the ones who are supposed to stay
But it turns out once you make them a wall
They'll quickly be on their merry way

But you're stuck between the doorway
Because you fell halfway through
And the person who used to pick you up
Is now the laughter that mocks you

Just like I cried over you once because the thought of losing you drove me to the edge and I couldn't bear to be standing on the edge of some mountain where we'd once stood together

And then it was just me..looking up at the view of the tallest person I'd ever met alone
Not knowing how to take it and I wish you would have showed me how
You were the sister with every answer
And a lyric for every song
You had the courage to just say let it be
And I did not
But thank you for bringing me short lived peace..
And now I have love
And really that's all  you need
Lvice Jul 2017
He
didn't try to
Give me ancient Rome
or
promise
me a world
he couldn't give
Instead
he lent me a soul
to sit next to
and
gifted me
with what I needed.
Lvice Jul 2017
Is it easier
to breathe
when you
  are empty?
Lvice Aug 2016
The flowers needing to reach for sunlight..
Stretching in every direction and bunches of blooms that were once close together spread their petals at its own pace.
Some stay at the bottom and others blossom at the top.

It's natural to grow apart, because in order to grow you need space to stretch and change.

It's no one's fault..sometimes we need things we didn't need before.
So that's what we reach for.
Lvice Oct 2018
She becomes woman
When she puts her foot down
After only using them for
Dancing.

She is woman when she
Doesn't question herself
Or her feelings and isn't scared
To talk back for once.

She is grown when she can
Still giggle and be playful and dance and have wonder
And still put you in your place
Lvice Nov 2016
Bring up the four walls again
Close all the windows
Make sure the blinds are shut
Keep yourself locked inside.
Lvice Nov 2016
From where your thorns stem
Around your harsh words
Your petals float
Above the places others do not see
Nor did they care to look

But I did.

She's a freak
Dressed in all black. AGAIN
Who's funeral are you going to?


I know those words
I used them
To water my garden
So please don't you worry

In this garden of ours
They are weeds
And they stem from negativity
In this garden
I do not want weeds.

Do not worry Haley
You are the flower
That knew cracks and ice
Before you lifted into the sunshine
You are the rose with character
The gorgeous red that isn't afraid
To draw blood in your defense

They stretch their hands into your bristles
Wanting the beauty
Without the pain
Leaving your thorns
For petals
And you will make it a point
To show them not to come again
Unless they are willing to get the scars
And they will get the point.

They are weeds
And this is spring
Lvice Dec 2017
I can't help but
Be thankful it didn't work out
Lvice Jul 2017
His cheek bones tightened with a little bit of a masterpiece,
yet I can see a small beautiful grin right underneath.

She looks at me,
And my world turns upside down.
Oceans don't seem so deep,
The sky at my feet.
She crashes into me like a wave,
And her hair curls around my finger like the tide.


His eyelashes flutter in the dark, lost within themselves,
every breath he took was taken with his demons sitting on his shelves

She can hardly breathe,
I know that now
Will all this talk of being deep
And yet she starts to drown


He built her into a gun, loaded her up,
made her say things she wouldn't

She crashes.
She looks beautiful as she breaks


He kisses her,
He tore himself apart first

I let her hands
Find mine


and so our hearts
were intertwined
This is a collaboration with the wonderful poetess Mina! Her beautiful words are so inspiring♡
My work is in italics, but look out for hers♡♡
Lvice Aug 2017
If babygirl wants, baby girl will get
He takes care of mommy
And loves her to death

He says that if I need him,
To please let him know
He wants to take care of me too.

Peaceful snoring on my couch,
And I hope that he stays.
We'd all like it better that way

Will I have a new Daddy?..
I've never had one before,
But I hope that maybe he'll stay.
He calls me baby girl ❤
Lvice Aug 2017
I learned more
About myself from the guys
Who never gave themselves
The chance to break my heart
Lvice Apr 2017
The thing that breaks my heart
And allows me to come clean
Confessions at midnight
When tears are nearly pristine

He becomes the sheets my hands crave
To hold on to
when the day is rougher then us
He is where my soul can rest its tired head

He is the laughter between recycled jokes
And somehow his classics are funnier
As I feel the laughter tremble in
His heart of hearts

He was the happiness
That found me the way
all wonderful things do
And he stays the way they usually don't
Lvice Dec 2017
His presence brings you peace,
Allows you to sleep, but what
Has he done for you that
You haven't already done for yourself?
Lvice Jun 2017
I don't know what it's like to trip unless  I'm literally stumbling..
I guess I've never been anything but scared to try these things and let them take me.
Would I still be the same..think the same..feel the same?..
What does it even feel like?..
I imagine its like holding a baby for the first time..and letting its soft new head cradle in the crook of your arms..
IF I was ever close to high it would be hearing his voice for the first time..it would be shaking and shaking and hands not being able to  write letters or lips forming words
The first time sitting next to him and talking for hours on some wooden bench
A boy once carved my name into his arm and let it stay there and later I found out he went on some acid trip-trip-trip tripping he was never clumsy before he met me
But I guess we all fall for something sometime or some other
this time some other girl and later some other guy
But I fell up for the first time
I started writing right-to-left
I started being intoxicated at the hint of the truth
I let him touch my hair and hold my hand in the seat of some bus
I let another tell me I was always the color of sunsets
and so I started watching sunsets
the same sunsets I drew when I was 5  for my grandmother who, when she died
was buried facing the West so she could watch the sun fall as I was falling
Falling up for some new guy who never let me down
Or..would. And  I would not care
Because the sight of him is clouds when I would run in rain
He has me higher then the ferris wheel  from California, Santa Monica Peer, New Years night 2015
I've never been so high as the first time he whispered my name across the state at midnight
Lvice Aug 2017
He says to leave you
He says to leave you
You once said to leave him
I left him
Do I leave you?
Lvice May 2017
If I had been born on another continent
Would I still long for Prague
as I do now?
Lvice Jun 2017
I let his sighs roam to the heavens
Where ghostly things are
His ghost- to be precise
He's aware of the rain
Even as it clings to his eyelashes-
The droplets fall
And he has no intent of moving out of the pour
No intents at all
Lvice Jun 2017
I was as close to you
as I'll ever be again
And the road signs sighed
As I left you unhinged
My hands will never hold your face again.
Lvice Jan 2018
You do what
you have to.
Even though part
of you dies a little
Lvice Jan 2018
So many children
are products of science
So few are
born from love
Lvice Aug 2017
I tell you
Goodnight
But I don't know what
I really mean by that
Lvice Jun 2017
I
                                                                ­                stopped being
                                                                ­             scared long
                                                                ­           enough to
                                                                ­               realize you..
                                                           ­               One day won't
                                                                ­              matter. If the Earth
                                                                ­                stops turning and the
                                                                ­           tides reclaim the equator
                                    I'll let the sea swallow your thoughts
I won't worry if you made it to your house safe at midnight

If one day
The pyramids are the
only things that make it in this
world then I won't cry thinking that
I keep losing what I already lost when I said goodbye

If the Sun stops
                     burning then                              I won't mind                  
           when the cold                                          becomes my hands
then  I                                                    ­    
  will no longer                                                   care to hear you
            complain about their  lack of warmth        

If we
  were       the last
         peo-           ple            
alive           then
     I         would
still love you

B u t   t h i s   t i m e

I    wouldn't   dare   waste   the   time   we   had   left
Lvice Aug 2017
"I'm just waiting
For you to come home
To me,"

You can also
Keep dreaming.
Hahahahahaha reaalll cute, buddy :)
Lvice Oct 2018
You and I
We will live in
This place,
The space between
Heaven and Earth.
Where I've only
Met you God's handful
Of times
And everyone
Would probably
Speak in Shakespearean
Ryhmes, and love would
Pave the sky.
Lvice Jul 2017
Do your hands
always smell like ink?
Do they always
hold what made them leave?
He used to call her a sunset in the summer
he no longer knows her.
And he, was just
Some guy from Minnesota.
Lvice Nov 2016
Keep the gates up
God please please please
Keep the gates up
I am not ready to break again
Lvice Oct 2018
How do you hold
Yourself together
When the distance
Is growing,
When the quilt is being ripped
To cotton and thread
And your tears spill as you have begged them not to.

How do you pick yourself up
When the anger you feel
Threatens to unseam you and
Everything you love falls to
The floor and shatters like
The last glass plate in the cabinet?

Please tell me how you stay true
To yourself while becoming a woman, and wanting to be unselfish while still staying loyal to the promise you made to always say how you truly felt.

I need answers on how to grow and still grow together
Lvice Jun 2017
I'm probably not as scared as I should be-
Not of the dark, heights, or leaving.
I should be terrified, but the fact is I'm not.
Lvice Aug 2018
I'd run away
From all of you
To find myself
And live my truth

There wouldn't be
A problem left if only
She understood he
Wasn't the secret kept.

I left your anger
Tears and pettiness
Under my pillows to be
Collected by whatever God

Is there waiting for them.  
I will not be the one
Your insecurities and fears
Haunt. I cannot let You

Determine my future
When what was good for you
Cannot be my medicine. I smile
With all the brightness of

A million suns and I can't
Take your constant clouding
Of my judgement. If you don't
Know I love so differently then

You do then you haven't been listening to me.  I have been screaming so loudly for so long
My throat is raw with emotion.

I want to bathe until all of the things we have been through are boiled off. I want a skin only the sun and breeze have touched.
Lvice Jan 2018
The problem with insecurities
Is that it stems
From things we don't
Think we have
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