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Apr 2022 · 1.1k
Appearances
birdy Apr 2022
Why do souls
care for their cages?
Apr 2022 · 112
Truth
birdy Apr 2022
Sometimes I say things
to say something
Words without meaning

But my words to you
will always
ring true.
Apr 2022 · 3.9k
The Sun
birdy Apr 2022
Its beams pull at the heart strings, each a different noise.
No ray on a futile descent.
All with purpose and poise.
Each stream of light reinvents,
the palette of colors our earth bares.
Truly nothing compares.
Apr 2022 · 521
Denial
birdy Apr 2022
Convincing the heart
to love
is simple.
But arguing against it,
is not.
Apr 2022 · 362
Threats Ooze Red
birdy Apr 2022
Wrapped around my neck are red fingernails,
their color warns me of what they draw.
Apr 2022 · 95
Untitled
birdy Apr 2022
Do you choose not to feel?
Like a hand with a glove chooses to not touch.
Apr 2022 · 583
Taxidermy
birdy Apr 2022
You are the moose on the wall.
Hollow of all liveliness,
barren of all thought.
Apr 2022 · 780
Those Eyes
birdy Apr 2022
Eyes, like a blue clouded sky, raining bright rays of yellow sunlight.
Apr 2022 · 121
Black Eye
birdy Apr 2022
Plump and purple like a plum.
Apr 2022 · 227
Daybreak
birdy Apr 2022
The sun kisses the grass,
as the water hugs the moon.
Apr 2022 · 363
Cycle of Disappointment
birdy Apr 2022
Your eyes oscillate towards her when we speak.
Apr 2022 · 137
A Fraction of a Person
birdy Apr 2022
When your other half is gone,
the unwholeness that follows
is worse than death.
Apr 2022 · 104
The Guilt we All* Face
birdy Apr 2022
I choose to be ignorant,
the world too cruel.
Most choose to avert their gaze
out of guilt
and I am no better.
*most of us choose to be bystanders, waiting for a hero to emerge
birdy Apr 2022
Marred muses mellifluous melodies
make the masses move to the music.
birdy Apr 2022
Skin peeled off of muscles,
the snapping and cracking of ones shell.
The splitting screams of the tortured
mimic the crackle of bones and
the grinding of eyes.
Apr 2022 · 113
Instant Regret
birdy Apr 2022
Words bleed out of my wrists,
dying much faster than feelings.
Apr 2022 · 125
Boy in my Dreams
birdy Apr 2022
The boy in my dreams is perfect,
yet jealous.
He prevents me from finding
a real boy,
For his allurement as a mere concept
outshines that of a flawed person.
Apr 2022 · 212
A Love Letter
birdy Apr 2022
To my love,

You are an idea not a person, but I love you all the same.

Yours truly.
Apr 2022 · 2.0k
Men down the Alley
birdy Apr 2022
Widow me of your gaze,
ugly *******.
The whistles of birds,
are torture from ***** mouths.
Apr 2022 · 184
Dead in the Living Room
birdy Apr 2022
Your ashes,
in a box in the living room.
Sudden flashes,
of memories
force me to see your eyelashes
that framed beautiful deep brown.
Apr 2022 · 1.1k
You're Gone
birdy Apr 2022
A soul's vacant shell,
under newly upturned soil.
Apr 2022 · 955
My Suicide
birdy Apr 2022
My suicide felt like an escape,
waking up felt like a sentence.

Married to death in words only,
falling asleep felt conjugal.

Night visits,
brief moments of peace,
before being thrown into
the deep end.

Death had grown me in captivity,
making me forget how to survive.

I had become dependent
on death's solace.

I sobered myself to reality,
death's sweetness
oscillated in ways
too unpredictable
for comfort.

Life treats me better
than death ever did.

Although there are moments,
where I wish to return into the blankness of death,
into the carelessness of nothing.

I remember how far I've come,
and how proud I would be,
to look into the future and see,

that I love life.
Apr 2022 · 316
The only man that mattered
birdy Apr 2022
was the one who grew in my mind
Apr 2022 · 103
Butterflies or Decay
birdy Apr 2022
love isn't sustainable,
these butterflies,
begin to feel like decay.
'love' eating me from the inside out.
Apr 2022 · 410
Revelation
birdy Apr 2022
"You understand me like no one else."

...

"But that alone isn't love."
Mar 2022 · 2.0k
(Un)lovely/worthy
birdy Mar 2022
You don't have to be beautiful,
to be worthy of beautiful love.
Mar 2022 · 338
Journal entry 5
birdy Mar 2022
Life is flourishing. My tears have worked hard, to rejuvenate this life.
For the first time in years, I feel like myself again.
Mar 2022 · 98
Open Book
birdy Mar 2022
I'm a book without a cover.
Just raw words, and half-baked thoughts,
Without a title.
Mar 2022 · 132
Blushing
birdy Mar 2022
My face ignites,
I can feel the red creep up.
My emotions may be bold,
But I wish to keep everything untold.
Mar 2022 · 695
War
birdy Mar 2022
War
Eyes stinging,
Ears ringing,
Children clinging.
Jan 2022 · 1.5k
Aging
birdy Jan 2022
As I grow up,
I grow d
                  o
                       w
                             n

Wondering when
It will all stop.
Jan 2022 · 355
A Hermit's Shell
birdy Jan 2022
The air fermented and aged
familiar darkness
the futile anger from being caged
light brings no greater starkness
Jan 2022 · 191
Apartment
birdy Jan 2022
'It's as high as Jack's beanstalk'
your apple cheeks protrude
your eyes become crescent moons
and you shine a smile
the could make whole galaxies
revolve around you
Jan 2022 · 131
The Stone Cold Truth
birdy Jan 2022
The world isn't your oyster
not everything is possible
not every dream is at the tip of your fingers
you won't always go down the right path
the world has limits
humans have limits
you have limits
Jan 2022 · 97
Killer
birdy Jan 2022
A killer kills
to fill
a conniving cavern
of inner calamity
Jan 2022 · 221
The air is screaming
Jan 2022 · 690
I'm Selfish
birdy Jan 2022
Does crying out
in a blank world
make me selfish

Selfish to want someone
just so they can hear
my screams
Jan 2022 · 113
Recipe for Happiness
birdy Jan 2022
2 cups of tell me when you find it.
Jan 2022 · 99
Taste Buds
birdy Jan 2022
The world tastes salty
without your sweet words.
birdy Jan 2022
rain
pitter patter
on the roof top
pitter patter
on the sidewalk
splish splash
on your hand
splish splash
holding mine.
Jan 2022 · 86
My mind
birdy Jan 2022
The air rings red,
all attentive to your
bright red lips.
Jan 2022 · 104
Where did it go?
birdy Jan 2022
the warmth in your words
now barren.
Jan 2022 · 100
Mirror
birdy Jan 2022
My love is reflected in your eyes
dancing on blue irises.
Jan 2022 · 98
Your First Memory
birdy Jan 2022
Birds calling to one another
Weaving a web of whistles
Jan 2022 · 86
Home
birdy Jan 2022
Light splayed out across the roof like paint.
A sweet glow, I never want to go.
Jan 2022 · 118
No one ever
birdy Jan 2022
Peeling back the layers
Citrusy and sweet
I want to know
How someone can be so
Perfect
Jan 2022 · 101
"They're just Words"
birdy Jan 2022
Under the streets luminescence
"I don't love you."
...
I breathe in the words
Suffocating
Jan 2022 · 326
Journal entry 4
birdy Jan 2022
I tried to dream of you tonight.
birdy Jan 2022
I can see myself clearer

every part of me working like clockwork.
a machine doesn't have to be alluring.
the mirror holds no expectations
of beauty.
and I'm safe in knowing that

I don't have to pretend.
Jan 2022 · 175
Love
birdy Jan 2022
Your words take me away
the warm breath of secrets
the scent of trust
you sound like love
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