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470 · Nov 2014
Numb Hands
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
When life has you on your toes
snapping her fingers
and clicking her tongue
in disapproval

Too much on you plate?
no such thing
and so the pile grows
until you've stretched so thin

That your physical being
is actually
numb

Melted within the small skull cavity;
blending with the bone;
You mind is long gone
and so is your sanity

But you keep performing
because life
is cruel
and unforgiving

to any
with faults
that break the surface
467 · Dec 2014
A Little Too Much Trust
Iris Nyx Dec 2014
For a silly moment
I felt like it was truly
real
I was happy

In this doltish second
everything had stopped
because
I was afraid

For the next moments too
my mouth was a fountain
of truth
and nobody

Not an eye in the stage
could hear
the golden candor
or see the hands of open scars

They shied away from
my literal thoughts
and my honest heart
because they really don't understand

That's alright
It's okay
I could never in a billion eons expect
for anyone

With a PhD in love
or friendship
or psychology
or the human mind

to understand in even the slightest
form
So I am sorry for spurting
Sincerity that you were not

prepared for
I'm truly sorry that I let you love
a person who will forever be
all alone
456 · Feb 2015
Moon
Iris Nyx Feb 2015
I lied
In all of my time
In every painful moment
I cried wolf inside my mind

I swore that the pain was
unbearable
I was sure that I had felt it all
and me being me

So utterly selfish
So undeniably vain
So wrapped up in myself
I was positive

That I had felt it all

I never thought I would feel
What I felt
On that hazy night
When you told me that

My pain
was shared
and oh god
Oh god

If I spent various nights
With hot tears and nauseating guilt
If I spent days wondering if my mother
would still love me

If I wasting years of my life
brooding
over something that I had every right to mourn about
oh dear

That means
That you did too
And how on this forsaken planet

How
how could any god let you
******* YOU

feel the pain
That only terrible people like
I
Should feel?

If that's the God
That eveyone worships
I want
no part
452 · Nov 2014
?
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
?
Don't you ever get tired?                                             Don't
Don't you ever get tired?                                             You
Don't you ever get tired?                                             Ever
Don't you ever get tired?                                             Get
Don't you ever get tired?                                            Tired
                                                                                           ?





Of being




A *Human?
451 · Apr 2015
Fake light
Iris Nyx Apr 2015
Fabricated Moon
If only I'd seen it soon
Fibbing.  Dance.  I swoon.
444 · Jul 2014
Failed Attempt
Iris Nyx Jul 2014
My own decision
my own creation
my own displacement
my own deflation

I thought and
I asked
I was granted and
It passed

It only worsened
I drowned in delusion
I tried and failed
Now I sit in confusion

The thoughts are thicker
for longer
they grow darker
And stronger

My sanity is slipping
My ration is shrinking
My thoughts are repeating
And I never stop thinking

Help
442 · Dec 2014
Familiarity Is My Warm
Iris Nyx Dec 2014
I've stepped closer
Into a world unknown
a world I didn't know
existed

And still I don't know if I'm in love
still I can't tell
but what I do know
is that I love you

I care deeply
and your hugs
are . .
your touch
is . .

is

is

Home
441 · Sep 2014
A Walking Paradox
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
Too prideful to hate
Too heavy to love
Too gifted to hope
This curse form above

The voices they shout
One from in one from out
"Too strong to cry, stand up, don't pout!"
but somewhere inside there's a creeping doubt

Prideful, unapologetic, invincible and high
Isn't this what I want in life?
But there are other things, I cannot lie
Sensitivity, humanity, sympathy, to be rid of strife

Water and oil
They wont mix
but choosing one may spoil
The rest of my life, beyond fix.
432 · Sep 2014
Aliah And Casimir
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
There are two persons
who grew inside of me
Both of who I'm certain
Will never ever agree

One could grant me guarantee
One could chase away the anger
I wish they could sit and have tea
Find some way they could both keep me anchor

Oh how I love the passion, the fire and the hate
The relief of being who I was meant
The feeling of superiority that's simply great
I just adore being sound and kept but bad and bent

But a human portion knows I am distracted
And strains to help
This person who can pull me out of reaction
call out in screams and yelps

I love both
But their voices overlap
They stunt me from growth
but all the same fill an empty gap

Could it be possible to save each one?
Could I function with two?
I know neither and I know none.
but from the cardinal I love you

And hate you too.
Iris Nyx Oct 2014
One person

The words spilled out like a guilty confession

Two

It seems that it's just an obsession

Three persons

I feel the inability of my discretion

Four
*

It seems that non have full comprehension

But not five

Because the fifth pair of ears will be just the same
so here I am
With no air; A dying flame
Stop saying oh
Stop asking whats wrong
If you're not going to help me
fix it
422 · Aug 2014
Oizys
Iris Nyx Aug 2014
They speak of the moment where he whispers
Most of happening fright
In the second where the rein of his sister
Takes you by the dismal night

But through the frequent connections
No one does find the sinister
Even in broad day inspection
The idea is nothing if not frivolous

But for the hopeless victims of the daughter of Nyx
Oh how I do feel pity
Those tortured beyond the ability to be fixed
but to the world, their troubles are so bitty

To find yourself filled with the words in the light of day
Walking with the heavy burden of unseen baggage
To know there is nothing anyone can do or say
Now that is her goal
I usually loathe it when the poets are so mysterious and confusing in their works, but right now I understand why.
421 · Nov 2014
Faded colors
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
I -
I can't remember his laugh.
417 · Dec 2014
Forbidden Moments Begin Now
Iris Nyx Dec 2014
I dont want to use the same words
that every love struck poet in this world does
The words are not nearly as extraordinary
as the passion that is starting in me

For you

Slowly
then all at once
is right
oh so true

And that all at once was today
At 1:45
Those glances
That smile

The comment you made
and the giggle I heard
Oh my
That giggle is my weakness

You are my weakness
and my poison
Because it seems that I
Do have the worst luck

In  the end

Because you can never feel
What I feel for you
It can just
never be

So I will sit the same
restraining my need to feel you under my skin
To feel your lips
To hear those three words that will never

Ever escape your mouth
in the same way
they spill from mine

"I love you"

Because, really.

I do
417 · Aug 2014
Never Enough
Iris Nyx Aug 2014
The confidence that I clawed to reach
The ideas so sure, so secure
All the concepts they dared to preach
I honestly believed it was the one and only cure

But where am I now?
In the exact same position as before
And there isn't any other way I know how
I am standing at the last door

Behind it is yet another brick wall
I have no other way to go
I've been beaten to a crawl
and forever I will dwell in such a powerful woe
I honestly have no idea what to do next
410 · Sep 2014
Passion or Morale
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
Here there are the beaming smiles
Here there are the ***** jokes
Here, so far away at only two miles
Here the canvas hides the opposing strokes

All shes memorized, and nothing she knows
But to teach her is to chase them away
To drop those who are already foes
I Might as well dig my own grave

And so I carry a heavy question
To chose a side of me
and abandon another
Half of me to no longer be

But stubbornness has an iron grip
And I fear I will never choose
Two voices to one lip
But neither I want to lose
406 · Jan 2015
Trembles That Corrupt
Iris Nyx Jan 2015
With fear
that stems from the anxious shivers
That drives cold chills
though my skin

And into my head

Water and Oil
Science and Faith
Tradition and Contemporary
Pride and Anxiety

My mind
A selfish melting ***
of nothing and everything
Trying to scream at the same time

I want to devote
but I know it'll bring nothing but
pain
that I don't care to feel again

But how do I live my life
without the affection
that I spend everyday
craving

Tell me
Tell me
Oh, any deity that will come with open ears
Tell me

How
405 · Feb 2015
Alas
Iris Nyx Feb 2015
I don't understand
How a pair
so Utopian
so astounding
so overwhelmingly faultless
could be such a

distant miss
403 · May 2015
Can I no longer feel?
Iris Nyx May 2015
I can feel
Every popping seam
And every tearing stitch
in the fabric of
our intersewn lives

I can feel the dividing powers
Not quite separating evenly
But taking and leaving
pieces of each other

As we go our own ways
Perhaps not in the physical world
Maybe not mentally either
but the implications are as clear as our once pronounced coexistence

Soon we will part
Turn and walk away from
a piece of our dying heart(s)
not feeling much but numb

And the apathy will even out
our gains and loses
so that we dont feel anything
as we break what once was

And despite the strange estrange
Given the warm memories
That leave me now frost with tears
or sadness that it should insinuate

That is not what squeezes me
Thats not what troubles me
It isnt whats left me puzzled
But what is

Is the fact that I am not as
grief-stricken
or heavy-hearted
anguished
as I'd presumed to be

And oh how much
How much that worries me
I loved you with a fiery passion
In a way im not sure of yet
And now its gone
Someone poured something
over me and now
I cant feel
any
more
?
398 · Apr 2015
Chaos in Question
Iris Nyx Apr 2015
Painting in different directions
Striving towards a painted goal
The chaos works as a nasty infection
In the pure health of the knitted souls

And all because half cannot
Make up her mind
Its seems all her training she's forgot
And her logic nowhere to find

And with each hesitant word
Comes a falling painted chip
To think of its demise would be absurd
How so much damage come from one lip?

Nothing but sky and earth clashing
Winds of desperation thrashing
Calming waters come out lashing
And everything I've ever known seems to be
Vanishing
398 · Nov 2014
Fear greater than I
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
I used to think back
to get my fix
of giggly
love

But now the memories
are faded and worn
pieces of my mind
that are slowly
being
forgotten

I love you

I loved you

But now remembering your voice it too hard
on my mind
and too consuming
for my tight schedule.

You hurt me
but with me being who I am
I love it
because that was the small price to pay
to feel the wonders
of love

And with the fading pain
the fading passion
I am petrified
that I will never




ever love again
I love(d) you
398 · Aug 2014
Only I
Iris Nyx Aug 2014
Genuinely they smile and speak
I know and understand this
but everything inside me is weak
so all their admiration I always miss

And even when I don't
I cannot see
Their kindness simply won't
reach and enlighten me

But still I crave the sweet taste
Of love and affection
Though there is plenty for me to enjoy
I still only feel like a burden, a bother, an infection

The words with no meaning
tumble out of my mouth
I smile and nod, beaming
but not a word I believe

This poem stopped rhyming
I'm tired of finding the words
I'm tired of living my life
I't Tired of the lies I tell myself every day

"You're fine
You look great
You're beautiful
You'll make it out alive
Life is amazing
This isn't forever
You're still yourself"

I'm a flightless bird
A toothless lion
a doe with a broken leg
A plant with no sunlight
A human with no spirit

**And I'm done
383 · Mar 2015
Give Up
Iris Nyx Mar 2015
Stop I tell you
Leave me to the ebony that is my home
Give me to the hungry
Curling fingers that bekon I say
Only a smaller ways, Iris
Only a little more

Just give us your whole
Give us the hope and we will give you peace
Give in to the thoughts that thrash
For attention
Give in the the shadows that are aching
Aching to hold you

Nobody cares
And that's okay
Give in
Stop fighting
Stop trying

Because you cannot win
Okay
369 · Nov 2014
Is That Love?
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
Gorgeous faces
and beautiful minds
pass me by
everyday

Things I look for
in a person
in their appearance
and in their hearts

I find them
and I smile
and daydream
about a potential life
with them.

But when I think of you
all those perfect figures
melt away
unwanted

because
well
I actually
don't know why

But I would choose
your stupid jokes,
your sour attitude
your whole very flawed self

over any
pretty thing
in this world

now

You tell me;
Is that love?
368 · May 2015
Cries
Iris Nyx May 2015
Heavy eyes
Reluctant compromise
Ordinary routine lies
That tear and vaporize

I want to know the why's
366 · Sep 2014
Fading
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
The words that once held me together
An adhesive of the strongest kind
Now as delicate as a single feather
has left me crumbling, all heart and mind

Their once soft voice has mutated to a raspy scream
Their lovely home is nothing but a painful prison cell
My thin fabric is now a popping seam
From my mountain-top journey; I fell

Always a physical deformity to blame
"It's your glasses, It's the stress, It's the weight"
But the dizzy spells and the migraines are not from where they claim
And some of this anguish is arriving a bit late

I can feel the water filling my lungs
I can feel the iron fingers closing around my throat
I can hear my friends, only they speak in tongues
I can smell the smoke of the burning words I wrote

Nothing is familiar and everything is vague
I can feel my head slipping
into this virus that's worse than the plague
The reason that I have spilled is slowly dripping

I have ceased
She has died and yet I cry for another
358 · Mar 2015
Semblance
Iris Nyx Mar 2015
Everything that has come to light
Contradicts
And spirals
******* up the game pieces
Blocking the Sun

A paradox that waltzes
only to stop and reveal broken kneecaps
Harmony that pours from lips of crimson truth
only to turn and divulge a fork against ***** ceramic plates
Beauty that discloses:

Beauty does not exist

And everything that I
That you
have once known crashes
To expose something that I cannot interpret
I can only make sense of the canvas of pretty painted lies
I can clutch to their comfort and close my eyes

But tapping together my glittery slippers
will not bring me home
because home was never home
Home doesn't exist and I
I don't know

What is true

A-"ny
-==Mor=+;'e

?
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
Sleep
                                                                                            Sleep
Oh how i love her so

Sleep

I drown in the beauty
of delusion
the colors
That I bath in

The smiles
That I cause

The image
That I
want

But its all in my head
because in the real world
sleep is sleep and dreams . . .

Dreams are dead
                                                                                                  Dead
348 · Jan 2015
Dim
Iris Nyx Jan 2015
Dim
A moon to me, was brought
A glowing persistence that illuminated
the blithe of my world

And oh did I cherish that moon so
Oh how I cared for it
Oh how I

Loved it
with all that was left of
me

But the brilliance
that poured from its surface
faded

to nothing
to become only a dark
cold rock

I am sorry, Moon
I am sorry you were not enough
I am sorry I do not love you so
344 · Oct 2014
Hesitant
Iris Nyx Oct 2014
I don't get butterflies when I see you
My heart doesn't skip a beat
I don't smile and fumble for words
I don't get red or flushed with heat

But your nasally laugh is a sweet choir
That brings comforting smiles
I would love to say I'm just a silly girl
When I confess that for you; I would walk a million miles

The way your arms feel
around my waist
I can't describe it; the words don't exist
But in those few seconds I am happy

I don't know if I love you
I don't think I do
I don't want to love you
but I need you to breathe

You love me
I know you do
But that love is for brothers and sisters
sad, yes
but true
343 · Jul 2015
Something to Lose
Iris Nyx Jul 2015
I walked alone
sad
but i'd known
so it wasn't that bad

My pockets were empty
and so was my head
Everything was meaningless
every measly word I'd thought or said

But here there was comfort
For no one could steal
no one could make me suffer
Fear wasn't something I could feel

But along the solitary march
I come across a sudden light
vague and distant: a hopeful arch
and suddenly there was reason to fight

And so I named it moon
And I hung it up in the sky
a wondrous glowing balloon
my single solemn ally

And now I sleep in terror
Now I live with dread
Hoping I will never
see the day that it will fade, and fall, and be
dead
332 · Feb 2015
Lament
Iris Nyx Feb 2015
I can feel the groans rattle through my hollow stomach
I can hear the even breaths being expelled through my nose
I can feel the heaviness of my eyelids
Pulling
I can feel my tongue run over my cracked lips
And I can hear my thought sighing in the distance
But my mind cannot
Find my heart
And I don't know if it's
still
beating
332 · Apr 2015
Better Life
Iris Nyx Apr 2015
She dreams in color.
She dreams in red?
The only dreams I seem to have
are ones where I have cried and bled

But those dreams are not dreams at all
It seems
They are the very air I breathe
The very life I live
in the messy words I scrawl

My dreams are the fulfilled
I dream in red
I dream in blue
Yellow
Peach
Pink
Green

I dream in new

And those dreams where warmth is internal
Where the sun shines in every crevice
Where smiles exist and
Where I am no loner nocturnal

Those are the dreams
Ah yes
those are the ones
322 · Sep 2015
Dont
Iris Nyx Sep 2015
Don't tell me to breathe
Don't tell me its okay
Don't stay but dont leave
Don't say there's a way

Don't act like I'm fine
But don't hover and brood
Don't tell me I'm the star shine
But don't tell me I'm ugly or rude

Don't tell me anything at all

There's nothing you can do
Nothing you can say
To slow or brighten or stop
This ******* day

Unless you can fix me
Don't say I'll be okay
315 · Nov 2014
It's True (?)
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
"I just love you so much"
I said as I read your messages
Those words escaped my lips
without much thought

I am afraid

I am very afraid
I cant have you
310 · Nov 2014
Stop
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
When I see you
I want to walk the other way
When I hear your voice
I panic

When I feel your hands
anywhere near me
I freeze
Just go away

Stop smiling
like its all good

Stop laughing
like I'm a comedian
stop liking me
as though you love me

Because you don't
and knowing that kills me

*Every
*******
Day
304 · Jul 2014
White Flag
Iris Nyx Jul 2014
Books are not an adventure
A pen is no longer a bridge for my thoughts
The rain is not a smile on my face
My mind is currently tangled in knots

The world is not my oyster
and I am no pearl
My goals are boring
I don't want my thoughts to unfurl

The shadows are my home
Their arms are my bed
Their whispers I do love
But all the same I do dread

There's nothing about it
but an exasperated sigh
I've tried every door
I really have, no lie
304 · Jan 2016
Waiting to Leap
Iris Nyx Jan 2016
How strange it is
To bear witness
To see inside
Someone's mind

But how stranger it becomes
When the mind
Has stagnated
In one single place

For so long
295 · Jan 2015
Departed Joy
Iris Nyx Jan 2015
You know how you know
you're gone?

When the art you once indulged in
The beauty you once created
The things you once loved

are now things you can't stand
Iris Nyx Jul 2015
The sentences never flow the way I want them to
Much like my life never goes as planned
Just as my feelings never yeild to mind
Just as I never bow to pain

Don't stop fighting
287 · Sep 2014
Hidden
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
It is difficult now
To feel the empty woe in my chest
It is hard to imagine
My tumbling world of insignificant success

The distractions have grown
Covering and Overlapping
But theres is a faint noise in the back of my mind
Its the subtle tapping

"Here I am" It mocks
"Here I am to stay" But I continue to ignore
Hoping maybe one day it'll starve of deprivation
After all: Its food is attention

But I know It isn't gone
I know It won't just disappear
I wish It would leave me be
Things are good now, you see

Except for the little voice that whispers late at night
The one that taps
The one that mocks
I hope he knows, that I wont give in without a fight

But my fight is limited
and smaller it shrinks
I might have a chance
Or so I think
Outside the Stars align
Inside the world is anytihng but fine
274 · Nov 2014
The Change
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
I can no longer sit
and write
with ease

The stories of fear
were so alluring
I could read them
for eternity

But now they're nothing but
a tedious
chore

Reading in general
is
hard

The words lull me to sleep
and the story makes no
sense
at all

My dreams
have melted away
into a corner of my mind
that I don't dare

                                                           ­                                             touch

Nothing is exciting
Nothing brings me
smiles

I can feel the part of myself
that I was so sure of
slipping
through my fingers

Being torn away
by the cruel grasp
of
of


                                                   ­                                                  of what?


I
I don't know
but I desperately hold
whats left
with an iron grip

And I fear if I look
at what I have saved
Ill find a handful of


                                                            ­                                          Nothing
270 · Jul 2014
Beyond Reach
Iris Nyx Jul 2014
Your baffling dance was my sweet giggle
Your smile was mine
In the light, or in the dark
You were here

I want to dance in the light
knowing that you're right beside me
I want to feel the warmth of your hands
I want to reach out and touch you
Just to make sure you're real

And I do
And you're not

You disappear with the slightest touch
falling into fragments of my strongest dream
Your voice only echos in my mind
And I am alone

I am broken
beyond repair

And Here I Lay
Forced to the ground
Your absence will be the end of me
If I cannot rise
267 · Sep 2014
Weary
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
And then in a moment I can see
She toys with me
But its not an eye opening moment of dramatic realization

because I've always known

Oh that silly Life, she
Making people want to die for no reason
I just love her humor
266 · Aug 2015
Finallly
Iris Nyx Aug 2015
I died that day
And have been dead since
Dead and alive
Rotting inside
Crying every second
With dry eyes

And no one cares
It's ok no one can fix it anyway
And even if they could I wouldn't let them
But I wish they wanted to
I wish

I want the sweet kiss that ends it all
I want cold fingers to take a tight grasp
And snap my life
In two

So that I can crumple to the ground
With a smile and resting eyes
Happy
Because I'm finally at peace
Finally I am at peace

Finally
If only I'd die
Finally I'd be
Finally
263 · Jul 2014
Solitude
Iris Nyx Jul 2014
The only thing worse than bottling up the sadness
the anger
the frustration
and the pain

Is having many people be aware
but knowing in your heart that
not one of them really care
255 · Jul 2015
I really
Iris Nyx Jul 2015
Am tired of trying
To explain
253 · Nov 2014
Familiar
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
I was happy
I was happy
I was happy

was I not?

I was happy
I was happy

Or so I thought?

I was happy

perhaps I'm just caught

or



No,  I wasn't happy
I wasn't
Hello there
Come in
you left and I thought that was that
I suppose not

Glad to have you back
oh
oh so glad
253 · Nov 2014
I could
Iris Nyx Nov 2014
I could tell you my problems
I could sing you a song
To tell the tales of woe
all night long

I could cut out my chest
and give you my heart
I could wipe away the blood
so you could tell them apart

I could show you the scars
of my own words
or my flaws
I could show you my dead birds

I could disgorge all my thoughts
I could draw you a table
and explain to you my sky
I could do all these things, but you'd never be able

To see
**Why
217 · Sep 2014
False
Iris Nyx Sep 2014
I can't say that I won't stand it
Because I will
I won't say that I can't do it
because I can

I won't say that I am done
Because this ride is never over
I will never say that I will leave
Because I won't

But I will never stop thinking it
oh no
never
217 · Jul 2014
Tired of the Same
Iris Nyx Jul 2014
These words, they echo
They've already been thought before
I decide to feel instead of think
but emptying my mind is such a chore

These tears, they burn
They've already been shed
I cry instead of speak
it's all the emotion I have bled

These feeling, they hurt
They've already been felt
But I don't feel instead of do
Under the fire I just melt
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