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Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
sometimes,* she would say, it helps to count.
I would look up at the ceiling and count all the little dots that I could find. They stared down at me and smiled, and I began to count. There were sixty four of them, and I smiled, feeling as insane as ever.
Counting calms me down, she would tell me.
I was in my English class and I looked up at the ceiling. At first I wasn't worried about what everyone else thought of me. I was in the middle of the room so I couldn't count all the panels, but I was able to reach fifty.

Counting calms me down.
Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
You just might be beautiful.
Whenever I see your smile, I will laugh or I will cry;
It just depends on the mood I am currently in.

And it feels strange writing in full phrases,
Because I'm not a complete sentence kind of person.
I pull my thoughts short until they are not existent
So that no one will have to know who I really am or what I'm thinking.

You make me feel like there is light in the world,
Or like i actually have a chance at life.
You make breathing worth while;
I never thought I would ever be able to say that.
Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
You tell me to
Write a poem
About how wonderful
The world is.
You have given me
An impossible task,
For the world is not wonderful.
It is dark and
Frightening
And I fear I may never
Escape it.

It holds so many brilliant
And beautiful things
Only to lure it into the
Depths of its darkness.

Beware.
Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
There's a fire
In my mind
And a spark
In my soul,
Where the dead
Come to play
And where people
Never go.

There's a glint
In my eye
And a tearing
In my chest
-

**** this.

She's beautiful
And wonderful
And everything
I've ever wanted,
But I sometimes
Find myself
Feeling guilty
About all I've
Ever done to her.

I sometimes wonder
Why she stays with me
When I put her through so much.
Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
there are days when
i just want to
curl up in a ball
and say goodbye
to everyone who ever
meant anyone to me.

it isn't fair how
i put them through
so much stress and worry;
i'm not worth their time.

i find that i could
slip away
and no one would
even notice.
Amanda Michaels Apr 2014
lately i've just been feeling
so empty
and i know that
there are a lot of people
who care about me
and who want me
to live on
and fight this
******* impossible war
but i can't,
i just can't.
no one really knows
how impossible my life is
and i have no intention of
telling them.
Amanda Michaels Oct 2013
racing with you
to desert skies
running until we
       have to say goodbye

holding you tightly
        as tight as i can
closing my eyes
         so it will never end.
a little ******. eh.
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