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 Dec 2016 Atlas
Adam Mott
Messages come and messages go
Matching with people I barely know
Some I like and others pass the bar
Regardless,
None are worth more scars

People see and people know
Asking why I let it all go
Some understand a portion
Although,
Nobody really knows

Friends try and friend fail
Hoping I pull out of it
While I double down
Maybe,
I should let go

Gym now and gym then
Consistency, my true friend
Sweat and blood
Hope
For better days

Not okay, now I am
Through heartache and time
Found something to fight for
'Future
Is that 'away
 Dec 2016 Atlas
naxiai
the mirror
 Dec 2016 Atlas
naxiai
Father, don't go.
Mother, don't go.
Lover, don't go.

The moment he stopped looking at me as if I was something precious was not the moment my heart broke.

The moment she stopped waking me from sleep with a kiss to my forehead was not the moment my heart broke.

No, neither of these were the moment. I did break, yes, but I continued to move forward in increments.

When I gazed into the mirror and didn't recognize the face looking at back at me...

That was the moment.
I stroked a hand across the glass, touching the stranger's skin.
But that's all she was to me. A stranger.
 Nov 2016 Atlas
Day
practice what you preach
be good.
stroke his back when he cries.
don't expect anything but make him your
sun-
and lose it all when the eclipse comes.
---

love is selfish anyways
how could he teach me that?
 Nov 2016 Atlas
dania
I got a new nickname it was
Pretty Fire and I felt my cheeks burning
when you said it
So I reached out to hold your hand and realized
All of you was burning

I should've realised you didn't call me warm, or bright
I was a pretty fire
forcing the world into an unfair fight

Not an offer they had the choice to refuse
The kind of fight they'd have to lose

Playing with fire never hurts the fire

Every day I burn too
trying to tell you that's not true
When you hurt
My skin turns blue

I have to fight though
everyone. i'm sorry that it includes you

people fight fires all the time and
i need to fight them too. they hate me
i'm trying to prove to you
they hate me
and i hate me too

but none of that was ever enough to scare them away
when there's stupid firefighters trying to put people out everyday

i'm blamed anyways
i'm blamed for when i have a fit
when you ignored it
FOR SO LONG

so don't call me fire because I know now what you you were trying to say
I am a fire and I hurt everyone in my way

I was a fire and to be me I had to damage
I was a fire and it was so much baggage
I was a fire and it hurt to look at me

so you gotta go where you think you'll be free
so good, go, and leave. let me be

Cause I know what I didn't mean to be

I didn't mean to be the retrograde
To make you
turn around and meet the friend I've made
I like to call her really late
I like to call her the Me I Hate

I like to call her
I used to like to call you
Call me sometime soon
 Nov 2016 Atlas
Colm
How I Miss Her
 Nov 2016 Atlas
Colm
On days like this, I wish she were here. I wish she was already asleep in my bed.

I wish that my sheets smelled more like her hair, and less like the mess that I left there instead.

How I wish, and I wish, like the stars she'd appear, every night, before my eyes, burning crystalline clear.

How I wish and I wish for our future my dear, for a setting in which we would ever draw near.

Yet alone every night only my voice I hear. As I question myself, have I've become what I feared?

Until dusk meets the dawn, wisper words in my ear. Say I miss you my darling, say I miss you my dear.
(:
 Nov 2016 Atlas
Meg
birds
 Nov 2016 Atlas
Meg
my bones are hollow
like those of a mother bird's
but when i force myself to throw up,
the only child i am feeding
is the madness
that lives in the nest
of my own mind
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