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4.5k · Jul 2014
Okay
I'm not okay,
And that's okay
Because with You,
My future's safe.
I will be okay someday.
4.3k · Jun 2014
A Break
Give a man a break
And he'll take a mile
Give a man two breaks
And he'll go the extra mile.
4.3k · Apr 2014
Perspective
I'm in a bad perspective
Selfish in my worldview
I apolpgize for judging everyone
I'm just as messed up as you.
4.2k · Jul 2014
Sponge
Life ***** like a sponge
When you just can't get it right
And you miss Happy Hour at Sonic.
4.2k · Aug 2014
Endure
I can rest assured tonight—
I know I am secure;
Even when all others fight,
I know I shall endure.
Psalm 4:8
    In peace I will lie down and sleep,
    for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe.
4.1k · Apr 2016
always running
The place that I run,

And what I run from—

The boundary begins to fade...
—"Impostor" Rob Graves & Michael Barnes
4.1k · Nov 2014
Moonrise
Sunset
Sunrise
Twilight and
The moonrise

They dictate
Time and sight
Without be
No more light.
4.0k · Jun 2014
Crimson
When blood runs into your eyes
It doesn't turn your vision crimson,
It doesn't make you think of red and hate
It blurs your view to whatever comes next.
4.0k · Jul 2014
Heat
It's a relief to know
That on my trip north
I missed most of this summer's heat

But I'm still quite hot
And it's really not
Anywhere near the hottest it'll reach.
3.9k · Nov 2014
Silent
Dear, won't you tell me,
Whenever you are silent,
What bothers you so?
3.9k · Jun 2014
Weight
The weight was too much:
I despaired until I saw
I was meant to fail.
For when I try carrying,
I cannot lift as You can.
3.8k · Apr 2014
Beauty
Beauty can be sharp
It can get you the worst way
So let the tears fall.
3.8k · May 2014
Moon
Tonight will be different,
I'll go to sleep soon;
Just as long as I'm not bothered
By the light of the moon.
3.7k · May 2014
Help Me
Oh Lord, help me, please
I know I can't do all this;
I don't want to fail.
I'm trusting that You know me,
I know You, You'll get me through.
3.7k · Nov 2014
Nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen
Surrounded my warm heart, and
Froze the blood and flesh.
3.7k · Apr 2014
“Friends”
They meet me in a few hours
And call us best friends right away
Excuse me, but I really thought
It took months, and not just a day.
You think you know me, but you don't.
3.6k · May 2014
Swear
I liked you when you didn't swear,
When innocence was commonplace;
Maybe we're all growing up,
Lost in life's cold embrace.
3.6k · Jun 2015
brownies
brownies taste better
and fill me up with their love
more than you. that's it.
3.5k · Apr 2014
Gravity
Drag me down, go on
I can lift myself higher
Than you ever thought.
3.5k · Apr 2014
Cool
My face is so hot
And my hands are just so cold
It's a nice problem.
3.4k · Jun 2014
No Joke
Writing on my phme        
makes me want to shoot myself  
in the leg. no joke.
Haiku senryu phone agggh
3.4k · Apr 2014
Stuck
Song, you are so stuck
In my head, that I wish you
Were stuck in theirs, too.
3.4k · May 2014
Unspoiled
I'm excited now
An unspoiled weekend, mine,
Tomorrow begins.
Let's keep it that way.
3.3k · Apr 2014
Waves
Waves of the ocean
Waves of the brain
Waves of the air rush
Over wires in the rain.
3.3k · Oct 2014
The Poet
He is a poet
And everybody knows it
Though sometimes they can be a little hard;
He gives them wordings
As easy as is speaking
And does it with pride and truly without regard.
3.2k · Oct 2014
The Person I Was
If the person that I
once was
Met the person I
am
now
I am sure the two would
argue up
a storm
Or stare at each other with
a
scowl.


If the person I
once knew
Met the person he
is
today
They would laugh and get along
just
fine
And watch as I
wasted
away.


If he met the person you
will love,
That person you
love
now,
He'd feel unworthy of a girl
like
you
And that awe would elicit
a
wow.
3.2k · Apr 2014
Message
It says I have a message
That I have never read
But when I to to 'Unread Messages'
There's empty space instead.
3.2k · Oct 2014
Wasting
You always waste time,
But what you can't see is this:
Time is wasting you.
3.1k · May 2014
Converse
I didn't feel cool when I came here
Old jeans, and shirts were worse
But my one consolation
Was that I had my converse.
3.1k · Apr 2014
Chewbacca
Grrrrr aaaaann aagh aaaaahh naah,
Aaaang n' aghhh ahh grrrr aaaagh naaah,
Grrrrrr aaagh aan naaaaang aaggh!
3.1k · Aug 2018
Monday's Child
Original:
Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.


Our version:
Monday’s child will be a superhero – ABIGAIL
Tuesday’s child never gets a zero – JULIA
Wednesday’s child loves to smile – ASHLEY
Thursday’s child is kinda wild –
Friday’s child is so nice and likes to play –
Saturday’s child is true and won’t betray –
And the child born on Sunday, so happy, –
Is an angel with a great personality. –
I wrote this with my girls (7 and 9), and they had a lot of fun. I just love writing things with them, it always captures that childlike spirit of fun that just makes me smile.
3.1k · Nov 2014
Tears (Pt 2)
My eyes freeze and glass
The nerves in my nose tingle
And my throat closes;
Tears well up inside, bound up
And determined to remain.
When a song is so beautiful, and you're trying not to cry.
3.0k · Apr 2014
Hold Inside
There's words I don't say
I hold deep inside of me
But when I'm tired
They come out, unexpected
Clumsily, I turn bright red.
2.9k · Apr 2014
Anymore
I am not talking
To you, because you just don't
Know me anymore.
2.9k · May 2014
Listen
You—
You should listen.
Keep holding on,
You're not alone.
2.9k · Jun 2014
Complicated
You make life complicated
You spill your words on me
Why can't you just speak plainly
With words we all can read?
2.9k · Jul 2015
Creativity
an outpour of you,
Creativity, the bird
who lives inside me
and sometimes devours me
but sometimes leaves me helpless.
2.9k · May 2014
Truth?
Everything you said
Was really true, I have found;
Truth like what you told
Doesn't set me free, sadly
I feel bound to change myself.
2.9k · Jul 2014
Deceive
Hide your disappointment
Lock it all away
Wait until it burns you down
Or sets in, here to stay.

Never show your weakness,
Tuck it deep inside
Keep it out of sight and mind
Until your thoughts collide.

Cloak your heart's desire
Don't let wishes in
The drive that takes you onward
Will never let you win.

These lies fire the defeated
They goad the aimless on
And if you listen to them
You'll soon be good as gone.
2.9k · Apr 2014
Juice
My mother puts chocolate milk in my lunch
She puts it in an empty juice bottle
But today I forgot my water container, so
I'm filling up my apple juice-chocolate milk-bottle.
And it tastes like all three. Ew.
2.9k · May 2014
Spider
You are a spider
I don't want to be afraid
But you're poisonous.
2.8k · Apr 2014
Grown-ups
Grown-ups were supposed
To be good role models; then,
You realize they're not.
2.8k · Apr 2014
Understand
I can't understand
Why people don't like the things
That God made special.
2.8k · Sep 2014
Breathe In
I need to breathe in
And I need to breathe out
There's no time to die
In this life I complain about.
2.7k · Apr 2014
Clarity
Dark, but suddenly
The moment your eyes open
New clarity sparks.
2.7k · Oct 2014
Save
Help may come someday
When you least expect, or want;
But it will save you.
2.7k · Mar 2022
Tinge
It comes from nowhere
It's the faint, burning prickle
Springs behind your eyes
Bidding you stop and wonder
Why your breath caught in your throat.
2.7k · Apr 2014
Old
Old
Some people call me young
But to others, I am old.
How you see me depends
On the way my impression is sold.
2.6k · Aug 2014
Expect
Deep inside, you're not the one
You always wished that you were
You're worse than the average,
Better than what you expect;
What they gonna do with you?
You're the one they need the most.
2.6k · Apr 2014
Played
It cuts me deep and to the quick
To think that you had fun with it
When all the while it was my own
My heart you played with, not a stone.
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