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Teressia Feb 2017
I've never stopped wondering since that summer
the summer you implied i was less
less than you, less than an average person, less than everything
i put forth my foot with love
but you took a step back
i never will know why, but i have assumptions to why
could have been you saw my short comings
more than you saw the human in me
i always wonder how the heart recovers to love again
when its been once or twice or more shredded to pieces
summer is a season i no-longer wait upon
particularly June,
because it reminds me of the day love told me i was less
and so one year past
the send went by
the third went along,
and an image and a word remained engraved
  Feb 2017 Teressia
Savannah Charlish
10 months later
And people assume that I should be done healing
They forget to ask me how I'm doing
They seem somewhat annoyed when I mention you
And maybe it's because they've never had their hearts broken like this

But I?
I have to start all over everytime a holiday passes and it's the first time I'm not spending it with you
I have to start all over everytime something important happens and I have to remind myself that I can't call you to tell you

Every morning I have to start all over because even my dreams don't know how to let you go
Teressia Feb 2017
love can be anything and everything
patients for waiting when it isn't time
betrayal if lied to
time if differences stand in the way
pain when not handled with all the care there is
wall is once betrayed
ego when walls aren't let down
dignity if handled with integrity
shame if not respected in the way it's supposed to be
living if everything flows in the right direction
friendship if fully accepted with everything that comes along
enemy if things head into opposite directions
selfish if selfishly withheld for the wrong reasons
forever if kept alive
inlove you will cry in pain that could rob you of breaths
inlove you will laugh a laughter that could be called forever
Teressia Jan 2017
you said hello to her once, the very first time you met her,
and then something got over you and you never made it to be her friend,
she then decided to try and be your friend instead of you trying,
but even then, she failed because you weren't willing, it seems,
and so something beautifully breathtaking fell apart without creation
because you decided to become a cowardly lover who fed on other people's idea of what love is and so your lover walked away with your beautiful flowers that lit up with face when she smiles
and so because you wanted to be the Cinderella, you lost the princess
but then again you couldn't realized because you fed yourself surmises
that convinced you to be divine over her,
at least she tried it all, till her last goodbye,
which you failed to show up for, it was then she knew not to turn back,
and so you ended the story that could have lasted a lifetime of double heartbeats, just because you allowed people to make you a cowardly lover that you weren't to begin with,
and so to your dust, you will always remember her last traces that she left behind for you, if any.
  Jan 2017 Teressia
Joshua Haines
Poison ivy spreading all over my skin.
I brushed up against death and
never want to do it again.
They say with time it goes away,
but I can still feel it all over me.

The clock doesn't erode
the way I can feel inside.
I dance with the hands
but am, really, looking
for some place to hide.
I've used a neon bible
ever since she died.

And when she couldn't move,
the sirens blared,
she said it'd be okay,
but I felt so scared.
Maybe it's all in my head,
as the roof took rain.
She said 'I'm going far,'
I said, you gotta stay,
you're just in pain.

I'll never show her
what I am capable of.
I was in The New Yorker
and I'm not sure if
she even saw.

There's a paralysis
that comes with love,
related to every coffin drop
that sings from above,
and I wish you knew her, too,
as well as she knew me:
I am twenty-three and
covered in ivy.
Teressia Jan 2017
You asked me to plead for something
Something that no one should ever plead for
And something was shattered in that moment, by you
But I kept a posture like a mirror, to let you know I've done my share.
Teressia Sep 2015
I stepped out and took a role of a man for you
But that wasn't enough for you
I don't know what is
Whatever it is, I will never take it on
My line stopped here
That was how far I could go
I feel and have done enough, am not waiting on
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