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Barker Sep 2018
I want to fast forward 3 years where we’ll both be in university.
Waking up next to each other and falling asleep in each other’s arms.
Being able to come home and say
“Hey baby, how was your day?”
And we’d talk about our days over diner.
I’ll kiss you and smile because I know that I am lucky to have you
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I trusted you...
I gave you my heart...
I gave you my time...
I gave you my past...
I gave you my dreams...
I gave you my mind...
But you threw them away
And threw me in the opposite direction


It took me months to make it back to myself
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2016
Sometimes I just look at you and smile,
Because I see glimmers of the future in your eyes...
And my god I've never looked happier.
Barker Oct 2017
If god values good people,
Then why are
The innocents locked up and the guilty free
The crooked, rich and the sweet, poor
The heartless, full and the full hearted, empty
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2016
As we part -
And say our goodbyes,
I try to memorize every detail of your face.
There are some moments in life
That are unforgettable,
And this - my darling
Is one of them
Barker Oct 2017
Good people always try to look for the good in others.
They let people in and believe that they have good intentions.
Even when something bad happens to them,
They will always blame it on themselves.
Even though it was the other persons fault,
Because they want to believe that there is good
(c)ibarker
Barker Nov 2018
You're standing on the edge. You feel the pull of gravity as it tries to grab at you, trying to drag you back down. You are struggling to hold on as you stand at the very top of the crane. You clear your mind and you yet yourself go. You stop resisting gravity, and you let it pull you down. You fall, and you get the taste of true freedom before you hit the ground.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
What happened here?
What happened to us?
What happened to the plans we made?
What happened to our happily ever after?
What happened to the love?
What happened?
(c)Ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
"I could have made you happy." He whispered

"You could have, but you didn't"
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
You remind me of the purest and simplest kind of happiness.
The kind of happiness you feel when you watch nature,
When you read a good book
Or having really good coffee after not sleeping the night before.
She is simply my happiness.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
She follows the words with grace.
The happiness of being alone
Holding the key to a new reality
Is all too familiar
To this little girl
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2016
I am haunted by the memories of what could have been the words I wish I said.
Barker Sep 2017
One of the things I'm haunted by
Is giving up on something that I was told
I wasn't good enough to do
(c)Ibarker
Barker Apr 2018
I just feel so useless
You need someone who is better fit for this

I'm trying to help
Yet you are still hurting

I don't know if it's because I am not doing stuff right
Or if I am just not good enough

I really want to help you
But I get frustrated because you are still hurting

I feel hopeless
I get down because I don't know what to do

It's not your fault love
Just tell me what I can do
(c)ibarker
Barker Aug 2018
I can see past their hollow reassurances.
I know that they have sympathy but nothing beyond that.

Just a quick glance my way with those pitty full eyes that speak,
"You poor soul. I wish I could help you. I wish you the best in your journeys."
But they will never actually help me.
...

Standing in the middle of the street.
A bus screeches to a halt.
It stops inches away from me.
The driver looks at me with those same eyes,
But he does not go out to help me.
No one does, he just drives around me.
Some people stare at me with pity, others judgement,
But none will help me.
That's the tragedy of living,

You have to learn to pick yourself up because no one else will.
(c)ibarker
Her
Barker May 2018
Her
She reminds me of a cool summers breeze,
Or that feeling you get when you watch the sun set or rise.
She is the feeling of beauty and simplicity.
She is the feeling of awe and amazement that you get when you look into her eyes.
She is the air that I breath.
She is the feeling of joy when you dance around in the rain.
She is the fire that keeps you warm on a cold winter's day.
She is the very essence of my happiness,
And I love her with every piece of my heart, mind and soul.
(c)ibarker
Barker Nov 2017
Your smile
Your laugh
Your devilish grin
Your sense of humour
Your eyes
Your personality
Are the reason
I'm still here
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
And here I am
Screaming at the
Top of my lungs
Praying that someone
Will hear me
(c)Ibarker
Barker Jan 2018
And here I am

Wrecked to the bone from something metaphysical

Drunk and High from a drug I didn't even mean to take

My mind is slowly starting to disintegrate

My soul is filled with poisoned memories of you and I
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
Here I am
Still in love with you.

And

There you are
Still doing you.
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
And here I am  drowning in my own thoughts
And there you are screaming at me to learn how to swim.
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2017
I bury my face into the pillow on her side of the bed- and just for a moment it was as if she was still here with me.
Barker Jun 2018
Sometimes she can be the hammer that pegs you down.
Don't expect her to always be her calm self.
But you must be certain about one thing and that is
She will always love you and she will always be that crowbar to dig you out
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
Little did she know
That she didn’t need a hero
She was her own hero
(C)ibarker
Barker Jul 2018
You will never know
How I feel about you
Because I feel more
Then I would ever dare to show
And more then I would ever dare to say
(c)ibarker
Barker Jul 2018
My history could use a change in scenery.
The ones I care about, they always leave.
The girl before you might have gotten rid of the best of me.

I push away the people that I love and care about
Because I’ve already scarred people with my past,
And now they are trapped in the darkness because of me
(C)ibarker
Barker Nov 2018
Hold onto me, because it is in times like these where I need someone; Because the world is big and I feel so lost in it.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
I have this hollowness
In my chest
No one notices it
Because I am always pretending
To be happy
(c)Ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
I have this
Empty hollowness
In my chest
I am nothing
Yet I have
Everything
I feel empty
Yet I am
Full
(c)ibarker
Barker Aug 2017
When you're not around is when I feel homesick, because my house was no longer my home - you were.
(c)Ibarker
Barker May 2018
You looked at me
As if you'd die if
You lost me
And for the first time
I knew I was home
(c)ibarker Topher Kearby
Barker Apr 2022
I’m just here,
Waiting for you to come home
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Home is wherever you are
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2018
Dear future you,

Hold onto me please, even through the dark times; for I love you more than you’ll ever know and I care for you more than I’ll ever show.

Love,
Me
(C)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Although at the moment you may not feel well and it may seem as though nothing will get better
Don't lose hope
Nothing lasts forever
Just like seasons you're just trying to get through to the next season.
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
The ones who have seen the worst horrors
And who are still standing tall
Are the ones who are the bravest and the most courageous
(c)Ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
Humans often forget that we're humans
We aren't gods, we aren't goddesses
We are just that, humans
We all go through difficult times.
No one is perfect
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
Nothing in the universe can hurt as much as the absence of the person you love
(c)ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
I am the person
I am today
Because of the things
I've gone through
The lessons I've learned
The hard truths
The empty words
The broken promises
And here I am
Standing stronger than ever
(c)Ibarker
Barker Sep 2017
I remember the pain
I went through
I remember the anger
I had
I remember the emotions
I felt
I remember the lies
I was told
I remember the shock of being stabbed in the back
I remember who
I was
I remember how this has shaped me into the person
I Am
(c)Ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I am plastered with ideologies and expectations of other people.
I am the product of everyone else's wants.
I am everything everyone wants me to be.
I am everything but me.
I am not enough.
(c)ibarker
Barker Oct 2017
Just because we're dating
doesn't mean that I automatically give you consent
(c)ibarker
Barker Dec 2022
If only you knew how much I want to be with you.
If only you knew how much you mean to me.
If only you knew how much I love you.
If only you knew how much I care for you.
If only you knew how much I am missing you.
If only you knew how great you are.
If only you knew how I feel about you
If only you knew what I'd do to be with you.
If only you knew I'd sacrifice my beating heart before I lose you.

Maybe you would start to love yourself as much as I love you.
(c)barker
Barker Aug 2019
Let them rage on things they cannot change.
We will continue to love.
Ignoring their bouts of hate.
(c)ibarker
Barker Jun 2018
I am in a room surrounded by family and friends,
But I still feel alone
Without you, I might as well be standing on another planet.
(c)ibarker
Barker May 2016
I thought I could be productive,
And mask my emotions with a smile on my face.
The truth is that I collapsed inside
And my accordion lungs gasped for air,
While I drowned in my own tears.
Barker Dec 2022
Do you ever just hurt so much inside,
But no one knows,
Because you just smile through it and say
"I'm just tired".

It's hard to keep going,
It's this constant battle of trying to get through the day,
I constantly wake up tired,
It feels as though the world just whirls by and I'm just trying to hold on.
(c)barker
Barker May 2018
I broke your heart so carelessly
But made the pieces part of me
And now it hurts, what I've become
Because you taught me how to love
And it was me who taught you how to stop
I'm sorry for what I've done
(c)ibarker Nothing But Thieves
Barker Jun 2017
Some nerve you have,
To break up my lonely,
And tell me you want me.
How dare you march into my heart,
Oh how rude of you,
To ruin my miserable,
And tell me I'm beautiful,
Because I wasn't looking for love,

Nobody asked you to get me attached to you.
In fact you tricked me,
And I wasn't trying to fall in love,
But girl you pushed me.
So all that I'm asking,
Is that you handle me with caution,
Because I don't give myself often,
But I guess I'll try today,

Because I've had my heart,
Broken before,
And I promised that I would never let me hurt anymore.
But I tore down my walls,
And made room for one,
So baby I'm yours.

I wasn't trying to melt this heart of iron,
But the way you hold me,
Makes the old me pass away.
I would be lying,
If I said I wasn't scared to fall again,
But if you promise me you'll catch me,
Then it's okay

Because I've had my heart,
Broken before,
And I promised that I would never let me hurt anymore.
But I tore down my walls,
And made room for one,
So baby I'm yours.

I'm mad at you
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Barker Oct 2017
I want something that I can have but it will require me to lose everything
(c)ibarker
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