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Anna McElroy Apr 2013
You called out of the blue.
I couldn't believe that it was you. 
But the caller i.d. said your name.
You had dismissed my presence for so long that I was in awe.

You asked to come over.
I let you in.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
All the feelings I had for you starting rushing back in like they were a river pouring through me.

We starred at each other reminiscing on our memories together.
The connection that had always held us up was there,
It was as clear as the sky and both of us could see it.
Maybe it had never really left.

I could see in your eyes that it was taking everything in you to not lean forward and kiss me.
The ****** tension started rising up in both of us.
My head was screaming yes.
But my heart was shaking no.
I had been unconsciously waiting for this moment for as long as I could remember. 

So I gave in.
I went with my head.
As soon as I knew it we were lying in my bed and you were outlining my body with your hands.
I craved your touch.
You were the happiest I had ever seen you,
You always were when we were together.
I wanted to stop time and live in this moment forever.

Even though this moment was perfect,
Everything in me knew I should say no and screamed that this was a bad idea,
But I was too happy to listen to anything besides his breath.
He was everything I wanted.

I could see he was falling back inlove with me.
We both were.
It was scaring the **** out of us.
Right when he realized his feelings he pulled as fast as he could away.

He thought we could just use each other to fill the gap of loneliness.
But nothing ever goes as planned, with us.

He finally left and I was then stranded with my feelings,
All over again.
Anna McElroy Jul 2013
I knew what it felt like for bitterness to absorb into my skin and take over my body,
And to have the pit of loneliness and sorrow live inside me,
Turning my body hollow. 
I couldn't run away from this torture because nothing could pull the pain out me.
It was glued there inside of me, stuck.
Anna McElroy Feb 2016
Why don't people understand that there's so much pain in my heart,
I'm absorbed of pain and it hurts.
It hurts so bad,
I don't know how to get the pain out so I cause pain to others.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
My vision was blurred by darkness when I stepped foot into the apartment.
As my eyes adjusted,
I felt out of place knowing all the memory's that held the walls up,
were what tore his down.

As wonder filled my mind of the lifeless being,
who once wandered these halls was like,
the thought dropped from my consciousness
as I became aware of the soft body pulling me closer.
His warm fragile eyes held my gaze.

As he moved towards me,
his lips pressed against mine,
as I felt the soft warmth on me,
some type of switch turned on in both of us.
The moment flew out the door, when the storm flew the door open.
Anna McElroy Nov 2016
The pain I’ve caused has wrapped itself around people’s happiness. It murdered them of there peace even before knocking.

The bad I’ve caused came from the darkest part of my soul. No love for anything was found there.

The bad things I’ve done doesn’t make me a bad person. The pain I’ve caused doesn’t make me evil.

I’m sorry to every person I’ve caused pain too. My heart and soul goes out to ALL of you.

I’m going to help everyone that needs help and make up for all the pain I’ve caused.
Wrote when I was 15
Anna McElroy Oct 2014
You are overflowing with emotion, it comes out of every part of you, you wear it like a coat. I hold my emotion in the center of my heart for no one to see, it is a dim candle that keeps burning but slowly gets brighter. Yours is loud and mine is quiet. You are a river and I am a puddle.
Anna McElroy Jan 2014
I wish I could just stop time at that last moment we were happy together and erase the rest.
Keep that one happy moment to float in my soul and keep me warm at night.
So I don't have all the baggage of the rest of our relationship  hold me hostage.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
I could feel your body curved around mine,
holding me as tight as you could,
like if you loosened your grip I would drift away from you.

But the only thing my mind was paying attention too was the sound of his lips on hers
and the anguish stirring in my chest.

With every subtle movement my ears could detect,
the rage started rising to the surface.

Even though you were holding on to me,
I was steaming away with anger.
I couldn't hold my anger down any longer.
And I exploded.
I could feel the rage jumping out of my skin.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
It started rising up in me like a hot air balloon.
The anguish started stirring my stomach around,
As I began to cease my thoughts,
all the guilt in me rose to the surface,
And all the pain I had caused could never be taken back.
Anna McElroy Apr 2014
'Whenever I was with you I would flourish with happiness.
No drug would ever make me feel as alive as you could.
I swear all the anger in the world could disintegrate with the way I look at you.'

But you weren't a fool, you knew I was hopelessly In love with you. I couldn't hide it, it was written all over my face. But you only fell In love with my body not my soul. I only let you because I knew having a tiny part of you was better than not having you at all.

You would give me all the love and warmth I desired then pull me back out just because you could. When you realized you had gone too far, you'd look at me with a blank stare and a cold heart and spit out the words 'I don't love you'. Every single time you said it the pain would devour my body right in front of you. I knew that you didn't care, but I couldn't stop loving you. Even after my heart became dust from you tearing it apart.
Anna McElroy May 2013
I confess.
I yearned for your attention.
My whole body ached for a tiny bit of recognition that you new I was there.
But your eyes were on hers.
And I was being greedy and cared about my own happiness more than yours.

At that moment all I wanted was for you to feel the pain that was tarring me apart inside. 
I couldn't see then that all the pain you had caused me I had brought upon myself.

But i couldn't brush all the anger off.
So i used the only drug i knew that would make them disappear for at least a moment.

So then I ****** all my feelings away.
Every ******, every whimper, pushed all the anger out.
But ******* the feelings away only made the memories stick deeper.

So there I was sitting side by side with all my unwanted feelings.
Not knowing where to go or turn but straight.
Anna McElroy Aug 2015
In my eyes you are sunshine always.
I get jealous of the people you show your light too, the people that you warm with your heart, the people that get to touch your soul constantly.
Anger stirs in my chest knowing I can’t touch your soul constantly,
I can’t always be warmed by your light, knowing you’re giving comfort and love to someone who isn’t me.
I irk for your love,
but if I don’t have all of it I don’t want any of it.
Anna McElroy Nov 2016
I am good, I am wise, I am bright, I am kind, I am empathetic, I am funny
If I am not kind or empathetic once,
that doesn’t exterminate how kind and empathetic I am.
Doing something that isn’t right for myself hurts my soul but it doesn’t make me a bad person.
I am allowed to make mistakes.
I am a good.
Anna McElroy May 2014
I love you for everything you are, everything you've done and everything you will do.
You hold my heart
You give me guidance and love
You have been damaged by many
You are a danger to no one but yourself
You have a hole inside you
Your heart is full of light that is trying to get through the darkness that surrounds it

I want to save you from your demons
I want to be the mother you never had
I want to cause pain to everyone that's hurt you
I want to fill the hole inside you

Everything you feel I feel
your pain is my pain
your happiness is my happiness
your fear is my fear
your anger is my anger
Anna McElroy Jun 2015
I miss you.
I miss the love that would flood through my veins, this love has lived in my soul my whole life.
It was born because i was, it was a gift to me just because I was there.
Your love has lived inside my soul for my entire life, not because of all the good I offer but because I am your granddaughter not by blood, by choice.
My graditude is infinite for loving me and all my baggage, and for doing everything on this earth to make me happy and feel special and believe in me.
Being away from you and topsail island makes me feel lopsided, like I’m missing a part of myself.
I miss being next to the beach,
I can smell sunscreen everywhere like it’s perfume
I have never missed anywhere as much as I miss being next to the beach and in my grandmothers arms.
Mom
Anna McElroy May 2014
Mom
My heart beats because you brought me into this world.
You taught me how to walk, how to talk, how to love, how to treat people, how to be patient.
Everything I know, all the guidance I have was handed to me by you.
You have given me many things but nothing compares to the gift of having you as my mom.
I love you
Anna McElroy Apr 2016
I am drowning in my own sorrow,
I see you in the distance on a big boat alone,
You wave me over with a wide smile,
I swim over as fast as I can,
I am out of breathe when I get to your boat,
I look up at you with a sad smile hoping you'll save me,
Sometimes as I'm reaching for your hand you smile then it disappears and you turn around and start the engine leaving me stranded,
Other times you smile down at me and reach out your hand and grasp mine and start pulling me up then stop, let go, shake your head and leave,
I never get on your boat, you have always left my stranded with me feelings and myself.
Anna McElroy Oct 2013
My hollow heart seeks revenge from all the damage that has been done to it.
It wants to cause pain to all that's out there

My hollow heart knows no pain but it's own
It seeks love in a place that love cannot be reached

My hollow heart yearns for sun light to warmth it's wounds.
But the only thing that can heal it is what's within.
Anna McElroy Aug 2016
I'm going to have to leave my house soon,
I want 'soon' to last forever, but forever wouldn't be enough,
The 'soon' keeps getting closer and I can feel my house slipping from my fingers,
I can feel it slipping into my memory.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
At first I was just running,
and no one could keep up.
It was thrilling.
I felt so powerful,
like no one could stop me or control me.
But in reality I couldn't control myself.

All I wanted was those nights of running,
those nights of disappearing into the darkness.

It felt like a dream that I’d been needing,
a dream that would help me figure out all the confusion in my life,
and that would change him,
change how he felt.
and I wanted more than anything to be inlove again.

I hoped that those nights would make us closer.
But I know now that I can’t change him.
But in reality this dream or longing was just a nightmare.

But nothing went as planned,
it never does.
Then I started craving those runs even more.
Like that was the only thing that let me breath
and let me have a tiny bit of satisfaction or happiness.

Once i new I could get away with this,
once I new I could control everyone around me,
and I could do anything I want,
I stopped caring about everything.
because nothing else mattered.
but those runs.

I began to forget about what life really meant to me,
and what really mattered.
I was to busy controlling everyone else,
that I didn't know how to control myself
and how to understand and dominate my feelings.
I was thriving for attention, for love, for help.
But i began to grow weak each day,
because at that point nothing was ever enough.

I then understood that I couldn't let one person change me into the person i swore I would never become,
I couldn't let someone crash the mountain that I’d been creating over years.

So I broke it,
I broke the bound we never had,
the bound I was thriving for, but could never quite find.
But even then I wanted to reappear in his life,
to stay,
because I didn't know how to live without his non-existent being.
Even though I new being with him would ruin me.
That’s the only thing I wanted.

But then my answer that I couldn't quite think of appeared,
like out of thin air,
and it was a miracle because my feelings were like water drowning me. It was like there was a cloud pouring above my head and then It astonishingly disappeared,
then there was my answer,
right above me,
floating and all I needed to do was reach for it.
Raw
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
Raw
Clothes are like costumes, they label us into different people depending on our appearance. That's why whenever I get the chance I choose to be naked. There's nothing for me to hide or to be, I'm just myself, raw.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
As the light turned to dark,
You were there.
You shielded me from the pain that was trying to tare me apart.
You held me up when I didn't know how too.

I lived on your chest.
It was the only place that i felt safe. Everyday we searched for the invisible bond we both dreamed of.
We thrived for the connection that would move our relationship further,
But neither of us could find it.

So we stopped living in each others arms.
Safety wasn't enough.
We had to learn how to live without one another.
Neither of us wanted to say goodbye.
But our paths were going different ways and neither of us will have the connection we're dying for,
If we stay together.
So we only live in each others memories.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
I woke up slowly, taking my time and preparing myself for my endless journey back into civilization. I felt uneasy knowing I was going to be hit by reality. 

As soon as I knew it I was on the train car on my way back. I watched out the window to see something that would give me the answers i had been looking for while i was gone. But all I saw were the colors flashing by me.

But there was something different about today. I knew something would happen on this very day for curtain. It was in the air all around me, it screaming that everything was off balance. It was all sending me a sign that on this day I would see you.

It was right, I saw you.
Anna McElroy Aug 2020
Should I blow out the candle of *** and love.
The candle that lit a part of the room
that sat and gazed upon our bodies.
That stayed motionless and dim, stagnant and consistent.

The dim spark tries to match and parallel the electricity that it watches.
The light stays dim, at the corner of the room where it is motional;
watching the bodies.
Quiet in the corner.

Dimming and fading, as the lovers slowly finish and sink into the bed, motionless and still as the candle.

The *** candle gets blown out, as abrupt as it gets lit.  

The *** candle sits at the corner of the room awaiting to be lit again, awaiting the movement it lacks. Never ready to be blown out.
it gently dims, just like the mirrored bodies it watched.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
You are my soulmate. 
Everyday You keep me sane.
You teach me how to be a better person.
Everything you are is what i lack and desire to be.
I'm envious of your loyalty to your word and to the people that you care about, your kindness and compassion for everyone around you , your integrity to think everything through and make sure everything you do is/was the right decision, and your honesty to yourself.

And even though you are moving on to your next chapter in your life soon, what has kept our friendship so strong and what will keep us close for a long time is always being able to have one an other and truly know and understand each other and accept each other for everything that we are, and having that equal balance of give it take, and knowing that no matter what we are there for each other and would do anything for one an other.


And Even though you won't be able to have the people you love in your next chapter, I know for a fact that you will be right at home in Utah, it will feel right and you'll be happy.

But I can also guarantee you that there'll be bumps in the road but I know with everything in me that you will be ok and will get through them because you always make the right decisions for yourself and because you have a good head on your shoulder and you know yourself more than anyone else. 

And no matter what pulls us apart, our friendship and our memories will keep us together.
Anna McElroy Apr 2014
We smile at each other,
not that simple smile of warmth from passing someone on the street,
but the smile of acceptance and love,
the smile that makes you warm on a cloudy miserable day.
When we smile and gaze into each other's eyes,
we know at that moment that we are one and the heavy world cannot touch us.
Anna McElroy May 2013
You're like the  tide, you rap around the shore and then you pull yourself back into the sea. Always changing, never stopping, and moving whatever way pulls you.
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
I allowed myself to open up my walls.
You put your arm out to help me through.
I felt myself filling up with happiness,
Allowing it to wash the pain away.
When the safety and security of your skin
started melting into mine.
I could see you drifting away from me.
Anna McElroy Oct 2013
You rushed into my life unexpectedly. If I didn't have my love for excitement and adrenilin, then I never would have set my eyes on you. But I did.

Once you set foot in my car and our eyes melted into each other. At that moment and so forth I was clung to you like a magnet.

We drifted apart for nearly a week, but in that week your eyes clung to another. I knew in my heart that I needed to know if our paths weren't just meant to cross once..

So there I was at your doorstep, not knowing what to expect. Then there you were, with your big blue eyes of yours staring down into mine. You were tall and gawky, and your height didn't fit you. You could barely even hold yourself straight up, not because you weren't strong enough too, but because there was a wall bearing you back.

My body was shaking, I knew this was our only chance to see if there was something in-between us and I didn't want to perish it. Once we got comfortable on your couch, stories started pouring out of our mouths. As i was spilling out these memories, I started to notice you gazing at me. When most people look at me they look Straight through me, not seeing anything at all. But when you look at me you stare right into my soul, gazing at it, giving it a reassuring smile of acceptance for everything It's done and is.
You
Anna McElroy Apr 2013
You
I could hear your footsteps thumping up my stairs. I could feel you there. Your presence jumped through my body. Whenever you were near everything in me was like a earthquake and would shake.

Next I knew you were leaving and all I had left for you was forgiveness. 

This lasted atleast 5 minutes and then all the pain you had caused me came flooding back in when I couldn't find what I was looking for.

I knew with everything in me to always trust my gut. So I stormed into your house demanding what was rightfully mine. But you denied all my claims and I was back feeling hopeless.

I was like a bomb ticking, tick tick tick. Everyone was waiting for me to explode. When I finally did, it all came out at once. All my pain flew out of me in every direction. The anger took over my body.

When I finally got control over myself, i stepped into my familiar home and there was what I was looking for, right in front of my eyes. Relief flooded me. 

I told you what had happened and you wanted to talk to me, like you always did. So I let you back into my home, keeping my eyes wide open so you wouldn't test my trust again. You were exactly how I left you, controlling and an addict.

 Even though I knew that, I let you hold me. You were back examining the familiar quarters of my body as soon as I knew it. And then we were sleeping in each others presences like old days. But I knew that you'll never change and I could finally except that.

— The End —