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 Aug 28
Mercury
I know your smile is a lie, but I can't help but fall in.
Create dreams of the feelings you might hold within.
Your name is the secret I whisper alone in the dark.
And when you say mine, it's feeding drugs to a narc.
Maybe the stories in your eyes are once I've made up.
Knowing it makes me a fool, because I don't want to stop.


I know loving you is stupid, and what a fool I must be.
I spend my days listening as my heart and mind disagree.
Sometimes I wonder if you're worth losing myself for.
But I can't stop myself from only needing you more.
You always come too close, and I forget how to be.
Because near you, there is no oxygen left to breathe.


I offer myself to you, heart out and completely bare.
But you walk by it all like I'm nothing more than air.
I'll let you hold me in your palm, just treat me like you care.
I'm hopelessly yours, even if you are not aware.

I can't sleep at night because I only dream of you.
All the things I see haunt me, never becoming true.
 Aug 28
Mercury
I have this strange feeling. My heart longs for a place.
It’s a strange ache, I’ve never been able to name.

Sometimes I wonder, maybe that’s where you are.
And all these oceans between are what keep us apart.

They say you find your home when you follow your heart.
And maybe mine is already there, waiting in your arms.
 Aug 20
Mercury
I’ll ask the winds to blow, to carefully kiss you for me.
It’s the gentle whisper of the breeze you meet by the sea.

It will caress your skin, softly brushing over your cheeks.
Carry you forward when you don’t trust in your leaps.
It will calm you down when life becomes too much to bear.
Help you breathe when it seems like there is no more air.
It will hold you in its whirls, that’s how you’ll know I’m there.
Because while I’ll search for you, I’ll leave you in its care.

So, when the winds whisk you away, please don’t be scared.
It’s just a reminder - my love is yours - and will never be shared.
 Aug 20
Mercury
I try, and I try, and I try
All the pictures and people
My head is full of questions
Just why, just why, just why?

The way they talk and smile
Their hands burn on my skin
Longing to be loved and to love
For the effort to be worthwhile

But my heart just doesn’t feel
In its place is left a concave
My chest fully hollowed out
Brain learning to take the wheel

But still, you are in my mind
And my dreams are exactly why
I can’t fall in love in real life
Because loving you has made me blind
 Aug 20
Mercury
They say we all carry only one half of a soul.
Lost on this earth till we become whole.
I wonder who carries the other half of mine.
And how long I must wander till our paths entwine.

Do you believe that all of this is true?
Do you spend your days looking for me too?
I wonder if you’ve heard all this before.
Or maybe you don’t care what fate has in store.

But wherever I go, I promise to search for you.
Hoping that one day you’ll walk into my view.
I might not know your name or how you're going to look,
But I promise to love you with my heart’s every nook.

Until that day comes, I will love you in writing.
Because when it comes to my heart, there is no hiding.

— The End —