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Ali May 2013
You never hold me
Or put your arms around me in any way
We are much too secret for that

Instead we share a small glance
A smile maybe
Never for longer than a few seconds

And you walk by
Your finger tips grazing my shoulder
Or my arm
My hand
My waist
The top of my thigh

Your touch seers through cloth and skin
I feel it against my bones
Your touch is imprinted straight through me
And when I see you
It is what I crave

But it's all I can receive,
The connection between me and the tips of your fingers
That graze so lightly and hold me to you with such force
Ali Apr 2013
If you were to be torn away from me right now
I fear I'd risk finding myself
I would much rather have no knowledge of who I am.
I would much rather be lost in you,
Searching for the parts that I have not yet discovered.
al
Ali Mar 2013
Somewhere between meeting you
And loving you
I forgot the difference between making myself happy
And making you happy
Because you consumed every part of my mind
And seeing you smile, lit my whole world up
So there was no one left to take care for me
Cause we both only cared about you


a.l.
Ali Mar 2013
My voice was trapped in my throat for so long
When I'd scream,
All that could be heard was the straining of my vocal chords

Then I freed my voice
Ready to finally say the words that were stuck as thoughts
But when the words came out

No one was listening


a.l.
Ali Mar 2013
I want nothing more than to curve into you
My arms around your waist.
My cheek pressed against your chest
Our legs woven together
Listening to the rhythmic beating of your heart
Breathing in the familiarness of you
Till I've memorized the pattern of your breathing
Till you're imprinted on my skin
And I on yours
Ali Mar 2013
I've admired you, with all your flaws.
Held you, even when the shards of your broken heart cut me,
Bruised me, they stung even after they healed.
I carried the weight of your emotions,
Even though my fragile body could barely carry the weight of mine.

I cared for you, even with the pain you caused me.
Reassured you, time and time again that you had my forgiveness.
You abused it, used it to your advantage only to sooner disregard it.
I listened to you talk about someone else,
When all I wanted to hear you say was my name, over and over till I grew tired of the sound

I trusted you, with all the lies I'd heard.
Believed in you, with all my heart that you could be the person you wanted to be.
Still you doubted me, never believed in how important I believed you were.
You chose the easier road,
Ignoring the support I'd promised and worked hard to give.

I loved you, but I couldn't tell you.
You were blinded, unable to see that all that I had done for you only meant this.
So I let go. Of me and you and everything between us.
Stopped trying so hard to make you happy,
Because you never did any of it for me.

And so you admire me, for all that you knew I did for you.
And you wish to hold me, but the shards of your broken heart scatter
And you search for them, losing sight of me and all that we could have been
And my heart will always be waiting, even if I'm not, so take your time

One day you'll notice the signs.
You can only give someone so much of yourself.
And I feel, personally, that once they have a certain part of you, that you can't really have it back, not all of it at least.
They carry it, and you oddly feel that weight of that part that you let go for them.
That's why I say, my heart will always be waiting, even if I'm not.
Because even though I may not belong to them any more, it still does.
Ali Mar 2013
The word I left unspoken for so long when it came to you.
Love.
I only say it now because I have nothing left to lose.
Are you happy?
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