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AE Feb 2015
,
go ahead
leave me
you won't be the first,
or the last.
it's like everyone i've ever met
slips through my fingers
whether they're 2,364 miles away
or down the street
people just
forget
please, don't run away
i can't lose you
you're the only light
that i have left
**don't go
.
AE Jan 2015
.
they say when you love someone
 you let them go
but how can I let go of someone
    I can never imagine myself without?

when you fall in love
   your whole life before them just
    disappears.
it's like you've never experienced the world
without them by your side.
AE Jan 2015
"I'm not trying to get my hopes up. he is going out of his way to be near me and ugh I know it's all I talk about but it's because it's all I think about ahah, I hate to say it because I hate to be vulnerable but he makes me so flustered and I can't think straight and it makes me mad because I know he probably doesn't even mean anything by it but he doesn't know how crazy he's making me and I don't know what to do. I like him so much but at the same time I hate him because he is driving me insane."
just a text I sent to a good friend of mine about a boy.
AE Mar 2015
I promised myself I'd go to bed hours ago. long nights spent wasted on your existence. the way you raised your arms over your head and stretched, the hem of your shirt lifting to see the outline of your toned stomach and the fragile lines along your hips. ****. I'm getting carried away again. see? this is what happens, this is what happens when you're in love. you're entire life revolves around them. you begin noticing the little things, like how he stares at you from across the room when he thinks you're not looking. or how he will purposely touch your thigh, he will barely graze it but it will set your mind on fire and later that night and 1am you will remember and the burning will never fade. this is what it's like to be in love. your body is marked with reminders of him, his tongue is poison and he will hurt you so badly. love is not bad, but his love is terrible. and I cannot do it, I cannot sit here and have him caress me when I know his love is fake. he does not care for me. one day he will forget about me and I will still be tangled up in him. this is not what love is. this is not what happiness is. the sun burns now. the moon is my only friend, late at night, after he leaves, the moon is the only one left. how long will this emptiness last?
AE Jan 2015
I met a young man on the streets
he had a backpack full of school books
I bought him lunch and sat with him
he told me about his family
how his mother was insane
his father a drunk
he was from New York
and to make money he performed spoken word in the subway
he said he needed to disappear
to get away from his hell he called home
and I had tears in my eyes
he had the biggest smile
his eyes shimmered
no matter what his life was like
he said he was happy to be alive
and I wish I had the courage he has  
I spent ten minutes with a man from the streets
who had a backpack full of school books
and a smile that could save the world
he tipped his hat toward me and shook my hand
and that was the last time I saw
*Benjamin.
AE Jan 2015
I tend to be angry a lot
and I find that my source of rage
is you
so I run
I run so fast I forget about the world around me
I focus on running from you
away from my love for you
I tend to be angry a lot
so I punch things
I hit so hard my knuckles begin to bleed
my skin turns purple and blue
I tend to be angry a lot
so I write
I write so much my fingers cramp
my back aches from being hunched over my journal for so long
my eyes red and puffy
cheeks stained by your words
and I get so angry
so engulfed by hate
but I still love you
no matter what
no matter how many pills
how many empty pages
empty bottles
I still want you
I tend to get angry a lot
and I find that my source of hatred
is you
AE Jan 2015
i feel a sensation of falling every time i think of you. the thought of your smile and your arms and how you could suffocate me but instead you chose to hold me. i remember the way you used to stutter when we talk and how red your face got when i laughed at your cheesy jokes. i only ever want your kiss, your touch, your love, i really only ever want you. and i know i will never have the privilege of knowing how that feels. i try so hard to forget you, i drink until i cannot remember my own name and the only thing leaving my lips is youyouyou. and when i wake up tomorrow with bloodshot eyes and an ache in my heart i'll blame the cheap liquor. i would risk my life just to hear you laugh one more time. i am sitting alone thinking of your hand on my thigh and your words swimming around in my brain. one day you will find someone who makes your heart flutter and you will make her the happiest girl alive and that is when i will erase every memory of you from my skin.
something i wrote at 2am about a boy who will never love me like i am hopelessly in love with him.
H,
AE Jun 2015
H,
the stars have always been my closest friends.
lighting the night,
hung overhead.
but you,
you shine brighter than any galaxy.
you are my stars,
keeping me company when im alone.
and when the sun arises,
i will spend every minute waiting for you.
i compare my love to the stars,
but my love goes beyond space for you.
my world was dark before you came,
and now;
i see fields of light.
AE Feb 2015
i always catch him looking away
his hooded eyes crinkling
porcelain skin turned blood red
his nose scrunches together when he gets nervous
we aren't alone
a crowded room filled with ****** music and cheap liquor
keeping us apart
i'm smiling now, look up, look up, look up
he does
its my turn to look away
i just want to talk to you
but this boy sitting next to me
is telling me about his baseball team
i keep looking at you
oh ****
we've made eye contact
can you see my heart racing?
can you see it in my eyes that i'm in love with you?
this night drags on and i haven't spoken to you yet
but i want to
so badly
please
just speak to me
AE May 2015
i know why you don't like me
i finally understand
it's the handful of different pills
that i'm forced to take, isn't it?
it's because I'm crazy
and you know better than to get involved
because i'll make you mad
and that'll ruin me,
you know that.
i now understand,
and i'm sorry for that.
I've been wondering, and now I get it.
AE Jan 2015
what happened to the happy girl I used to be? did she die alongside the empty beer bottles and jail visits? I wish I could go back and warn myself that you are not the man I thought you were. I looked up to you, I loved you. now at age 16 and a set of scars to prove your love was fake, I now understand why you left. I was too much stress, you couldn't handle me. hell I can't handle me either. no matter how badly you've treated me, I still cared. when you had a heart attack I wanted to lend you mine in hopes to heal your broken one. now I want to reach my fist inside your chest and rip the remaining sliver out myself. and I know that sounded harsh but you cannot expect me to be okay with your decisions. you ruined any chance of me ever being loved. any chance of me being free. i do not trust boys who bring me flowers because even being struck by petals can hurt.
AE Feb 2015
you and your mood ring eyes
exploding in a kaleidoscope of colors
the shady brown erupts into hazel
green prisms speckled with stardust
and i am lost in your eyes
in your past memories
I can see every scar, every past regret
all the stories that make you
that shape you
and they're all captured in your eyes
the way they twinkle with delight
the solar system is alive in them
so vast and dark
lit up by stars and planets
and I am only a speck in your world
just a small fragment of love
barely shading your eyes
but I know I'm there
nestled in the back of your mind
for when the days are tough
and the nights are long
and you miss my mood ring eyes
AE Apr 2015
they put me on pills again
they said it would make me feel better
that I wouldn't be sad anymore
but the shaking is worse
now I can't leave my room
because I'm scared of dying
I'm scared of confrontation
because I'm scared of people.
I don't want to get hurt
and now my palms are clammy
face flushed pale.
inhale
every things gonna be ok right?
exhale
it didn't work
I'm not fixed
the anxiety is still here
and its eating me alive
my mother thinks I'm insane
and my sister is scared of me
I just want to be alone
but I need someone to hold me
to tell me that it's alright
when I know it's not.
the nice people in the white coats
said I would get better
but I blame them
this isn't normal
how can wanting to die,
but live at the same time,
be normal?
AE Jan 2015
time stands still when I am with you
so I wear a watch to keep track
of all the hours I spend loving you
and when you ask me for the time
I don't glance down at my wrist
I look at you
*not enough
we talked for an hour but it felt like minutes to me
AE Mar 2015
it's back
the sadness
it had been gone for a while
now it has crept it's way back
it snuck in my bedroom
and took what I had left
leaving me
in a dark room
abandoned
not a glimmer of hope
left
I will get it back
the happiness
and I will get revenge
I will be triumphant
one day.
AE Jan 2015
you stole my breath but gave me life.
AE Jan 2015
I've found that I'm terrible with my words.
and when it comes to you
I  forget how to speak entirely.
AE Jan 2015
i do not deserve love but i crave so much of it

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