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405 · Apr 2019
"anything to see my baby"
adriana Apr 2019
maybe this time
you can figure out a new way
to flex your way out of this
401 · May 2018
Rx
adriana May 2018
Rx
There are four pill bottles in my cabinet.
1.) Vicodin for the pain, the agony that comes in the night, the suffering.
2.) Prozac for the numbness, the void, the grey space in my brain.
3.) Ativan for the insomnia, the late night tears, the constant thinking.
4.) Xanax for the panic, the racing heartbeats, the walls closing in.
I'm working on a couple more.
There are four pill bottles in my cabinet.
All of them are almost empty.
adriana Mar 2018
You smell like cologne and formaldehyde.
With your Day-Glo eyes, you knew I’d lied.
Green lights under ******, red skies.
No more cash in the bank, no more time we could buy.
398 · May 2019
ups and downs
adriana May 2019
i bit the bullet and threw up the shell.
your high is like heaven and your  love is like hell.
adriana Mar 2018
they say that time is money
going bankrupt on you, honey
i might have to pull a loan, maybe
you got me going broke, baby
sorry, i'm broke(n)
sorry, we're broke(n)
adriana Jun 2019
she was looking for love in all the right places
but her mother said the devil can take many faces

she ruined herself but still loved him the same
choosing him over her own family name

she pleaded her innocence to no avail
so she sat and just watched her whole life derail

she lost her way in trying to find "the one"
she loved the thrill but chasing all of them is done
and then there were six.
adriana Feb 2019
my world is flipped upside down.
the blood is rushing to my head.
i can feel my face flushing.
you're next to me, right side up,
as if nothing even matters.
my stomach's hurting a little,
and i'm holding on for my life

our knees are over the back of the couch.
and my hair is brushing the ground.
and we're hanging here,
falling in love a little,
and laughing like absolute maniacs.
adriana May 2018
You like to gamble.
I am the Queen of your heart.
You're risking it all.
You play a dangerous game. A game that I control.
adriana Jun 2018
you run your fingers along my fault lines
and watch everything crumble to pieces,
unaware that we're both in a dangerous place
as the world falls down around us.
381 · May 2019
if i tell you
adriana May 2019
loose change and my
real name
we can say whatever
cause it's all the same
and yet all i wanna say is that i love you
376 · Aug 2019
what i need to know
adriana Aug 2019
are you somebody's late night?
are you somebody's hold on tight?
are you the 3am, at my window,
throwing rocks because you've got no other place to go?
are you the where it starts?
are you the where it ends?
the getting back together just to fall apart again?
just something i heard somewhere. thought maybe you needed to hear it too
376 · Feb 2019
four years of snow.
adriana Feb 2019
i wish that i could get as high
as your expectations.
i guess we're both disappointed.
374 · Aug 2018
not poetic, just pathetic
adriana Aug 2018
my promises are, at best, overcommitted lies.
your words are dull and mean less than before.
we are aesthetically pleasing and so we stay.
we both think we're the one
and so we are.
368 · Mar 2018
i break boys
adriana Mar 2018
Let me start by saying this:
Relationships are anchors.
Sorry in advance.

I run through boys. Quick.
They just never really click.
They like the way I talk.
They like the way I walk.
The way I look.
They way I’ve shook
Them to their core.
Even then, they’re all a bore.
They don’t think I’m basic.
They know I’ll make them headsick.
They like that I don’t just fall at their feet.
They like to have to take the backseat.
Numb is beautiful, apparently.
I guess they dislike transparency.
They don’t want a girl that’s a doormat.
So, I guess, let’s run with that.
Oh, and I’m sorry is you were the last,
But sea of fish that’s waiting is vast.
Get running.
To all who have loved and unknowingly lost my game.
adriana Mar 2018
Summers of baseball fields and
Decaffeinated Dr. Peppers.
Volunteer work because we had
Nothing better to do.
Meaningless crushes and
Unabashed flirting in the
Sweltering heat.
When July bled into August I thought
I would never see you again.
But tonight I saw you again.
My shame burned behind my eyes and
My memories brimmed, threatening to spill over.
Suddenly, I didn't want the bubblegum ice cream
We used to share.
I remembered your laugh and the way your eyes looked in the hot sun. I remembered how we played hide and seek with our friends for hours on end just to have an excuse to escape. I remembered the tan lines we collected and the times we had water gun fights just to have something to do.
All at once, I remembered how I left.
I remembered how I hurt you.
I remember how we yelled until you left.
I knew I was sorry
And I knew that you were the one who got away.
The one I set free by leaving.
The one that I would never forget.
I'll always want you back.
I'll never get over you.
Sorry. I'll never forget you ***** *******.
adriana Aug 2019
you're walking on the edge even though you can't really walk.
i'm walking the line but i know we can't talk.
i just wish we could bury this before your casket.
adriana Sep 2018
how the hell are you about to hold it down
when you can't even bother to hold up
adriana Jul 2018
whipping hair and stormy blue eyes
not as innocent as she implies
child of the chaos, ruler of the skies
adriana Sep 2019
you said you wanted to be next,
but you'll never be unless you learn to put me first
adriana Apr 2018
I'll find a way to escape this, too.
Whether it takes me until the sunrise.
Whether it takes me until I'm at the end.
I find a way to circumvent your feelings.
I know you've got your heart set on love,
But I have to say, I'd really prefer your trust.
adriana Nov 2018
i've told pretty lies and made fatal mistakes.
i get what i want, no matter what it takes.
but in the end, the worst thing i did was
you.
359 · Apr 2019
a lil bit wrong
adriana Apr 2019
it's better when you whisper it
even though we shouldn't
be talking about it at all
359 · Jun 2019
rlly real
adriana Jun 2019
lately, i've been hearing that you wrote
someone else's name on your heart
but lord knows that all the sharpie in the world
couldn't cover up what i carved there
356 · Apr 2018
i only ever try to save you
adriana Apr 2018
i lock it down, can't let that go.
it can't hurt you if you just don't know.
things lose power when you say them out loud.
there are things i can't let go. guess i'm too proud.
adriana Mar 2018
Don't make me watch you,
Falling out of love.
Watching you fight,
It makes me miserable.
Just give up already.
You've got your rings,
And it's still not real.
Just admit it,
It's over.
Sign the papers, please, and
Cut the tie that binds.
It'll set me free, too.
adriana Mar 2019
you say i'm an angel.
you say that i'm good.
you see me in a way that i wish that i could.
and sadly, i know that we're both wrong.
adriana Mar 2018
Somebody asked me if I would give
Something... everything to feel nothing
Suddenly I didn’t want to lie
So I said it was too late

But there comes a point where the truth
Bleeds into the lies and the lines
Become blurred with tears and the peace
Breaks away from the people that advocate it most

Answering that question changed the
Advocation of everything that mattered
As our surroundings grow dim against the brightness of
All of the things that need to be said

Whoever wants redemption needs to
Wage war against their emotions and
Want freedom enough to pull the chain on the light
We blindly rely on to lead us to the end
adriana Apr 2019
i'm on a one-way street
playing a game that takes two.
it feels like we're doing ninety-five on the back streets.
adriana Apr 2019
i'd tell you to leave
but then i'd have no one left to stay
and really it only seems like that because i refuse to consider any of the other seventy options.
adriana Jun 2018
i'm so cold i can make your blood boil.
adriana Apr 2018
Sometimes it seems like my nightmares last longer than my sleep.
Then I realize that I never slept at all.
adriana Jul 2018
i'll stay if it's the last thing i do.
i look for something new,
but old is familiar and tastes like you.
i'm counting the days on hands tainted blue,
shivering, cold, in the storm of what's true.
trying to play with the cards that i drew,
but i'll always fold, always fall through.
over the span of an ocean and a year or two,
i'm standing here shaking, waiting for your cue.
329 · Apr 2018
1-800-313-1310
adriana Apr 2018
he moves in the moonlight
weekends, never all right
swerved and hit the curb
know better than to disturb
don't bother to watch his tone
got mad and shattered her phone
god, she wishes she was alone
adriana Aug 2019
because you're the whole reason that i'm not around
adriana Jul 2019
they never really last...
fake chains and pretty boys, that is.
i like to keep them both wrapped around my fingers regardless
adriana Jun 2018
we can’t play tag with time forever.
it’ll catch us soon.
323 · Apr 2019
on the DL
adriana Apr 2019
we know i can do both.
i just got to figure out how to do both of them
at the same time
and keep them seperate.
both of you
322 · May 2019
kamikaze and kintsugi
adriana May 2019
somehow, you have a really nice way
of blowing things to pieces
and then finding a way
to piece them back together again so that,
with your eyes closed,
you can't even tell they were broken.
kamikaze - a japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target

kintsugi - the japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum
adriana Feb 2019
i can't always be
whatever you're wanting
and
whatever you're needing.
especially when you're needing
me.
and yet you try and love the real me anyways.
322 · Feb 2020
love long lost
adriana Feb 2020
now you and i are nothing,
which is at least something,
because they say nothing lasts forever.

and all i ever wanted was forever with you.
i gave you everything that i was but somehow i always seem to come up just a little too short every time. jml
adriana Jan 2019
Because Of You, All Of LA Is Grey,
And I Know You're Wearing Red.
I Never Capitalize My Writing, But You Make Everything Just A Little... More.
319 · Jun 2019
a midnight kind of venom
adriana Jun 2019
i want to roll my eyes so hard
that someone who likes to gamble
as much as you could
use them as game dice.
i hope you like snake eyes
adriana Jan 2019
if you can't stand to look a little deeper
you don't deserve to stand by me.
316 · Jun 2019
power is power
adriana Jun 2019
heavy is the crown, but only for the weak.
i suppose that i'm weak, then,
because without you i can't keep my head up.
the fire never goes out.
adriana Feb 2019
when it rains it doesn't just shower, you know,
just like pain's a requirement for power to grow.
i'm tired of always running back to you and getting pushed aside every time you have something better to do. i'm tired of being hurt, but that's what it took for me to learn.
312 · Apr 2018
bloody waters
adriana Apr 2018
grey skies and bold lies
our waves cut shallow and quick
dear god, we're drowning
309 · Aug 2019
burnt asf
adriana Aug 2019
feelings fade and seasons change but
the question is did you
you've got me wasted
adriana Mar 2018
I swear I hate you.
I don't love you, too.
Amen.
Beyonce to the Black Parade.
Friendships badly custom-made.
Amen.
Empty walls and a mirror.
Lies've never seemed clearer.
Amen.
Lipstick and split ends.
Broken bottles and fake friends.
Amen.
A m e n.
This one goes out to you. You know who you are.
adriana Feb 2019
i wish you messed with me
and not my mind
but at least you ***** something of mine
307 · Mar 2018
fake shakespeare
adriana Mar 2018
i knew you wanted to die.
that goes both ways.
you can be my juliet.
sorry, boy, it was written in the stars.
I guess we both thought it was too real to live without.
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