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413 · Apr 2013
9/9
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
9/9
He asked me
If I wanted a tattoo
And if I did
Where
And I said I wanted a crescent moon
To remind me of September 9th
And how I held that Exit sign
Michael broke off for me
And I looked up
And Joey looked up
And I smiled
And said I want that
I want to capture that moon
And that feeling
On my skin
As a part of me on the outside
To reflect that part of me
On the inside
412 · Jul 2014
,
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
,
I'd like to think I'm cold and calculating and unwavering, sometimes I'd wished I was like the people who hurt me, always looking for the next, never understanding or having to retravel the damp, crushed paths of destruction that leaked from the soles of their shoes, never caring to turn and see the thick, salty metal smoke choking it's way through the light. But, I am a lover. A dreamer of only the most sweet, silver realities, realities that are, to most, wildest dreams. I write letters and excerpts, often to people I've never met, often in the position of who I dream to become, often like a madwoman. It terrifies me, how I so often go limp and dazzled by men like gods, on covers, who's voices lull my aching showgirl heart into an almost always fitful sleep, but that I can't get over ever, and I know he'll love me too one day, crying out my name in his virile, fiery tone, to the screeching excitement of electric guitars. Do you let yourself give in to your insanities? Can you claim them for your own, dance with them, let them burst free into your every other area of normalcy? I do, I can, I always have. I am the girl turning the corner, the flashing, fleeing green and red lights in the sky, the faint sound of applause you know is coming from somewhere where incredible things are happening. I've been the hate, and the sick, and the lust, I have hot blood and a heart, and they are pumping, always pumping.
411 · May 2014
Phone call #5
Calli Kirra May 2014
I see the shadows out the corner my eye, start trippin and slippin then I realize they're mine, I can't do this two times, already threw out my lines, I won't be the sweet blondie with the watering eyes,  so go head pick a time, can't promise I'll have my head on fine, but I'll try, will you try? I'll be your pretty itty bitty shinin' sidewalk dime
410 · Apr 2016
GG
Calli Kirra Apr 2016
GG
I don't know a ton, but I do know the truth
The good girl in me is the bad girl in you
So I'll take your hand,
And show you what to do
An open window
The middle seat in the very best row
The only time that being quiet is fun
Such a good scene,
They'd bet their luck for another one
410 · Aug 2016
Pretty&Sweet
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
To say you'll pick up
Is a fifty-fifty shot
But that means that you are,
Just as much as you're not
They tell me I'm pretty,
If only that was enough
Seems even kids get sick of candy
If they eat too much
409 · Jun 2014
Vegas
Calli Kirra Jun 2014
Clinking ice all in our glasses
Tapping heels, darkened lashes
And the lights are all out for you
I swore they'd winked knowing what we were up to
"Free all night for a smile like yours."
Well they coughed their drinks
Us dancin the fake shore
And that bikini was so Vegas
Did it anyway because they let us
"Free all night for eyes like yours"
I know what you wanna do
Bein bad is better
When it's laid out on a strip for you
408 · Oct 2013
Interview
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
"So how are you feeling"

"Okay, alright"

"Tell me why you're here"

"They don't see it like me"

"They don't see what like you?"

"I don't know, things"

"Like what types of things?"

"Like how late at night when I'm writing, little bunnies and birds come out of my walls to be warm and help me"

"That's very interesting, Calli. So tell me, do you have any difficulty swallowing pills?"
407 · Sep 2014
The Spins
Calli Kirra Sep 2014
Round n round,
Round we go
Where we stop I bet I know
You're in my city,
Can't wait till the show
I'll smile sweet then go real low
Circles and circles
And **** it's cold
But I'll stick it out till the Wednesday glow
Gotta remember to chill
Lover like the air I'm chill
407 · Oct 2013
Calendar Girl
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
A beauty born in May
With eyes like September
Her smile's like June
Hair like November
Talks like August
Dances like April
Skin like March
Mind like December
Calli Kirra Apr 2015
I hate feeling like an island with my thoughts, you know? Like you know that feeling where everyone you know is part of that thing you're thinking about that's kinda messed up and removed, and you know no matter who it is you talk to about whatever it is, there's a different point that each person will miss, so you can't actually talk about it with anyone but yourself and eventually it's just like bouncing a ball off a wall so it keeps coming back to you? I bet that's how people go crazy
406 · Jan 2016
What Are You Gonna Do?
Calli Kirra Jan 2016
I want what I can't,
Want what I can't,
Always want what I can't have
There is no better side
No brighter eye of my heart
Well I'm gonna get something good
If I'm gonna get hurt
I'm gonna make it count,
I'll get what I want
If I'm gonna get down
406 · Jul 2014
For a boy in a band
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
So strong with an iron jaw
And a backyard love for raw content songs
For a heart in shreds you're one incredible mess
For a girl with vices you're the best there is
With your face all red and a heaving chest
Eyes like curtains on fire saturated in gas
Get angry metal baby I'm here to collect
For a girl and boy with no happy endings yet
404 · Sep 2014
NC-17
Calli Kirra Sep 2014
No pictures
Cause I can't stay still for the click
Well I even break my own rules,
So expect it
I guess "no" is worth the high it gives
Why can't I just behave
Why can't I just behave
402 · Nov 2014
C(Andy) Land
Calli Kirra Nov 2014
He had blue and orange eyes that were black when he's high
And sweet peach lips that turned white
Soft red hands,
That turned gray from the ash
Toes that were purple in the light
A trembling heart,
That glowed green in the dark,
And yellow all under his nails
Slapped-pink cheeks,
A couple golden back teeth
The same shade of black from before in his hair
399 · May 2016
All The Time
Calli Kirra May 2016
I can't breathe anymore
Than I already have with you
I can't find any more
Reasons why,
To stay here and fight with you
You're too far to pull in tight
But close enough for a crushing goodbye
Well god knows I've tried,
I guess this happens with you all the time
398 · Aug 2016
Rolling
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
I keep betting on you,
You keep throwing the game
I've dug a trench just walking in place
It'll rip me to go, burn if I stay
I roll the dice and take the pain
Like getting 22 over and over again
I'm losing my money, I'm losing my grace
I must love how it hurts since I've been insane
I have no excuse for this trip down the drain
Marbles we are,
You're the one that strays
Rolling out of my circle chain
398 · Sep 2015
Daisies
Calli Kirra Sep 2015
Maybe crazy, never stupid
We might think twice,
But we'd never do it
And like daisies to the sun, we grow
397 · Mar 2014
M pt 8
Calli Kirra Mar 2014
I told you I was out front. I was... waiting, watching the back door,  but it didn't open. I heard crunching coming from the other side. Sophie, she looked to me, and I looked to your noise. You came from the back of the house, you had, a giant machete, it shone like, like sharp teeth. I asked you, "why do you have that shoved in your belt?" You said, "some bad ***** goin on, Calli."
397 · Oct 2013
3rd Degree Burn
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
A match was lit
Just to make it hot in here
But the curtains caught
And burst into flames
And the carpet
What a shame
Poured bucket after bucket
But you loved it, you loved it
Kept blowing on it, on it
Now the bed is on fire
And my head is on fire
And you're a ******* liar
And I'm so so tired
What a shame,
This flickering flame
396 · Jul 2015
Punch First, Punch Hard
Calli Kirra Jul 2015
And he said to me,
Punch first and punch hard
In your evening eyes I see winter stars
Cover mine, I'd still know where we are
Pull me in and shock me with your pounding heart
Yes I guess,
Yes it's best,
When moments come in flashes
May your wanting ache,
Your crossed fingers happen
Lover you'll see, I flirt with madness
But I'll never stray,
You've got it all
You're the missed step and the plunging fall
395 · Nov 2013
TNBB
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
I'm
In loveee
With the
Boy
392 · Oct 2013
M part 4
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
If you asked how it sounded
"Like glass breaking, baby"
"It's cutting my lips, my tongue"
You'd think by now I would've had enough
It's never enough
We both know better
But honey if you ever got lost,
I'd ride the telephone wires to you
392 · Aug 2014
L
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
L
Nothing can deter me from you. You are my July and my Winter, my sweet and sour, my skin on skin and everything in between. And I swear I will come to you, and you will wonder where I've been for so long.
391 · Oct 2013
271
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
271
I know that phone number all too well
The burn of metal all to well
Your speedy driving
Knowing something is so very wrong
I know your yelling like a witches spell
So loud and there's a dinging in my head, a bell
October has it out for me
Get your drinks and your music,
I'm hiding under the covers
391 · Mar 2015
Real Thing
Calli Kirra Mar 2015
It's like when I talk,
He's waiting for me to stop
So he can take my chin and tilt it up
Like shut up and kiss me,
Baby shut up and miss me
'Cause you hear what I say
You look in my eyes
He stares at my face
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
No, *******, I WILL compare drug addiction and being in love, because I've gone through both, and the only people who say you shouldn't are the ones who haven't gone through either ******* one. And uh, yeah, *******
389 · Oct 2015
All The Real Girls
Calli Kirra Oct 2015
I'm not easily convinced,
Unless I'm the one doing the talkin
I'm not easily obsessed,
Unless it's somethin that's gonna be worth it
And I know how to kiss
But only when I really feel like it
Baby I'm the best
But only for real lovin
Calli Kirra Jan 2014
And I had to put something here because this ******* website made me.
389 · Nov 2013
For VV, FiFi, and NiNi
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
I'm sorry everything got so lost
I'm sorry
I'm sorry we are so lost
387 · Mar 2015
In Town
Calli Kirra Mar 2015
In a town thats all the same,
Every face knows every face
Excessive gates and lack of grace
Dropping names and playing games
386 · Apr 2013
Pretty baby
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
Oh love me, love me!
I want to make you happy
Be your pretty baby
I want to make you proud of me
Your blue eyes will jump
And become like lighthouses
Searching for mine
I'll dress real nice
And put mascara on my wide eyes
That look so expectantly at you
You say, goodnight my queen,
I will be your queen
I will live in your castle forever
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
So sick of this and that
And movie endings always being bad
And this back and forth
Through a cracked door  
And knowing ill never trust again
And my mom turning the lock
But she can't really walk
Cartoon characters take your place
In this white bed
And my aching head
384 · Aug 2014
The Hot 100
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
When all the cards shuffle,
And hearts are then spades
The best days are gone
With the incoming grey
I'm pushing on the wall pushing me
So unfair, so short
Was the white-hot harmony
You just can't do this to me
Is it the terror or the trees,
Frozen, sharp, and stripped of their leaves,
That is ******* the madness into me?
Five more minutes, mother nature please
I'll curl up fitfully
Clutching my shorts and ticket stubs
Waiting for my babies to wake me up
When again it all reads
100 degrees
383 · Nov 2015
Cool Blue Safe Air
Calli Kirra Nov 2015
Save me with your safety
We both know
Maybe I'm wrong,
And I'll find out late,
Maybe the silence is kind of okay
I second guess, but I feel it in my bones
And I need you like cars need stop and go
Like a light in the sky,
Blue and unknown
That's the air between us
Just as long as you call,
It's cool
383 · Jul 2016
Kill the Dogs
Calli Kirra Jul 2016
**** the dogs,
With iron rods
Hold them down and drown them
Chain them up,
Clicking guns,
Like the mafia is heartbroken

Burn the snakes,
A stone cold face,
As I watch the slithering pile
It will **** me when I wake
But the morning seems a while

**** the dogs,
For what they've done
And crying, show no mercy
When I see his pathetic bleeding eyes,
Then I'll know he heard me.
Cheaters for the cheaters.
382 · Oct 2014
The Shower Scene
Calli Kirra Oct 2014
Oh I can't hear a thing you're saying
And the water feels great
Maybe if I scrub enough,
My skin will follow the grey down the drain
As long as the door's not locked right?
As long as you can get through the door
381 · Sep 2013
Path to Plath
Calli Kirra Sep 2013
Sylvia, Sylvia, tell me sweets
What was it like to write like that
And how did the oven feel
Were you scared? Was it hard?
Did Hughes hit you?
And how was McLean?
Will you pleaseeee tell me
I want to know
How things go
With a mind like that
381 · Jul 2018
The Sky Cracked Open
Calli Kirra Jul 2018
I saw you in the light of the Mayfair sun
And the sky cracked open
Wide, and blinding
Bigger than the whole city
Deeper than lighting striking a valley
Hot white silver as my heart
As holy as the ocean
With no end, and no clear start
Velvet like the lines in your palms
Breathtaking as the thread we’re hanging on
You guessed it, I’ve been inspired.
375 · Jun 2014
Desertland
Calli Kirra Jun 2014
Hills spotted in scars,
Are mountains all the same
And a sandy ditch
For lovers to pitch
Their thoughts and play their games
Prickly ladies rise above their spikey babies
Glass bulbs lining lanes
371 · Oct 2013
Cold Months For a Cali Girl
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
No windows, no doors
She's passed out on the floor
Black nails, red toes
Sick from drinking the night before
And the room is on fire
As she's fixing her hair
He doesn't care
Kisses and blisters
Do you even miss her?
Another cut, another scrape
It all bleeds the same
Shut up when I turn the radio up
Just wait till December when your hair is longer
And aches turn to rain
It'll all wash away
371 · Aug 2016
Bloody Knuckles
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
I need a light,
I need a sign
I feel you ripping through my chest with a white hot knife
I fall on the rocks and feel the grind
You've let me down for the lucky thirteenth time
Tell me why,
And I'll tell you lies
Like our sky is blue and my hummingbird
flies
My chest is on fire
And my skin is too tight
I see a fault line in your amber eyes
Holding my wrists,
Should've been our night
Tell me why,
And baby I'll lie

I'll rip her to shreds,
For what you both did
I need to make marks so it won't happen again
Something that says I have the upper hand
Violent red fingerprints around two necks
It's either up in flames, or be a man
You better mean it when you reach for my ****** hands
That held my heart so I could sleep again
That locked in your hair on a dark blue bed
Who's knuckles you kissed when you asked me to dance
I swear to god if I hear that name again
The windows will rattle
The beams will bend
The clocks will fly from two to ten
How could you crush me after all that we said
I meant every word and every second I spent
Watching your mouth, curled into your chest,
Tracing the muscles on the back of your neck
Fighting myself to make sure we would last
You say what you mean
But don't mean what you said
You're an iron brand and I'm solid ice in your hands
Melt me down and freeze me again
Leave me then
Just leave me then
370 · Aug 2014
Type B
Calli Kirra Aug 2014
I keep my clothes on the floor
And my head in the clouds
My heart in the music
My eyes in the crowd

My skin in the silk,
Sun and warm water
My toes in the rings
My fingers in lacquer

My soul in the streets,
My wrists in the sheets
My hair in the glow
My baby in my dreams
368 · Aug 2016
Pretty&Sick
Calli Kirra Aug 2016
To say that I'm fine
Is so wrong that it's right
But I'll give you hot days,
Unforgettable nights
Smashing glass in the alley,
Tearing cords and ties
Your glowing green heartbeat rhythm
Up and down, jagged sides
367 · Dec 2013
Thank you, Adrian
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
We grow up, grow old
So much they'll ask that can't be told
Waiting for our train,
I'm waiting in vain
The tracks are rusted
And I'm getting cold
Can I just write a note,
And let the ink do the talking?
Is it too soon for stopping?
Can you hear my cells popping?
You be the pin, you're sharp as it is
So this is it
No cure for headsick
365 · Nov 2013
Pabst pt 2
Calli Kirra Nov 2013
And he's scrollin through his feed and stops on her picture
365 · Jan 2015
Nathan
Calli Kirra Jan 2015
Your face in pixels,
All you are, at least so far
I've got notes and holds to share with you
The story of the bird I lost,
And the way it flew
I want you taped to the wall
That's the madness in me
All the voices chant around our twirling dance,
Harassing our party scene
You should know when it's cold,
I'm a hot coal to hold
But cooled and pressed I'm diamonds
July will come and rescue me,
But now I need you a million times ten
364 · Jul 2014
It's Been Over
Calli Kirra Jul 2014
Like trying to tie a string that's fraying
Like the unwanted rain,
We're staying
Beating a horse,
Bleeding out on the floor,
A conversation fading out with sayings
Like trying to fill a funnel with feeling
As soon as we're through, I'm leaving
Exhausted moans,
Never really alone,
The passion and purpose receding
363 · Apr 2013
Not quite
Calli Kirra Apr 2013
I almost walked down the street
In a black tank top
With my girls
And I almost got into a car
Where I almost smoked something gritty
Where I almost opened the window
Where I almost screamed and laughed at the street lamps
For standing still
When I almost jumped out
Because I wanted to feel it
Where I almost started to cry
Because I almost had you
363 · Dec 2013
3:14
Calli Kirra Dec 2013
My neck feels tight
But it's just you telling me
It's not over
362 · Oct 2013
American Beauty
Calli Kirra Oct 2013
What's going on when the gun goes off?
Pouring rain, what a scene for a beautiful show
A pretty girl's blood must feel so young,
And some song's endings are meant to die to
Kinda like static
Have you ever seen a telephone pole with a million nails in it?
It feels like Atlanta in here
Next time you're in line
Open your eyes, look behind
Everyone on their phones
When did we become such good little clones?
As if I really know
As if he'll ever know
He'll never know
A whole different boy now
Give him a new name, new clothes, new questions, all no's
Time to go
Thanks again for the beautiful show
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