Poems for a heart that hurts..

Apr 2018

Amanda Kay Burke

Pretend

Pretend you are normal
Act like you are okay
Pretend this is just
An ordinary day

Pretend that you are happy
Act like you do not mind
Pretend this will not happen
Some other time

Pretend you will get through this
Act like you do not care
Pretend it isn't words
They want your soul to share

Pretend you do not hurt
Act like nothing is real
Pretend until the emotions
You fake become real

A really old one. I like it though.

#sad #fake #feelings #mask #pretend #hurt #emotions #soul #mind

Apr 2018

stefania rivoltini

The day

This is the day
I knew
My limits
This is the day
You broke my heart

#pain #love #brokenheart #limits #hurt

Apr 2018

Rebel Heart

Rain in All Forms

We dance on the edges
Of our silhouetted frames
As if we were water
Dripping lightly
On empty window panes

But you were the dewdrops
Bringing life to the days
Drizzling slightly to bring
Rainbows diminishing the grays

And the first time
Your deep ocean eyes
Met with mine
I began to wonder
If you would've danced in the rain
Singing as I always did
Or if you would've hid under umbrellas,
Like the others, too afraid
Of the storm
I was born to be?

(I recently read this old poem and realized one of two things. One- this was one of the shorter poems of RH's I've read in a while and that Two- I remembered a couple years ago looking over RH's shoulder as she wrote the final draft to a novel she wrote with the title of the same name (which was no doubt inspired by this poem). I never found out if it were ever published but it was one of my favorite novels by her by far and do hope to read it again in the future. Thank you all for the support so far and Happy Writing! ~BM)

(Front Page 4/7/2018)

#rain #relationship #eye #blue #love #dance #rainbow #color #gray #storm

Apr 2018

Gabriel burnS

Shadow

scars of lessons past
crawl like cracks
on tomorrow’s skin
you stitch and patch
but
it’s a race you cannot win

Apr 2018

trf

Darth Vapor

Smoking brush strokes of painted crowds,
overlooking a landscape's higher regime,
spider silk webs inhaled by lungs of teens,
coughing cotton cumulus clouds.

You're so much cooler, yet softer,
green apple e-liquids versus melancholy,
my antique lighter, your boutigue battery,
kills just the same, don't take after your father.

#die #fast #live #old

Apr 2018

lX0st

Stale

Every day
For the last three years
I wake up
And I hate myself

Maybe it’s been five years
Maybe eight
Surely I’ve lost count

Rare are the mornings
My aching muscles breathe a sigh
The sun drips through the window
Drenching me in warmth and life

Such euphoria is fleeting
It comes and goes
In two-week intervals
And I’m forced to watch it fly
To others’ faces
Where it rests much longer

There must be a balance
Dangling in the ether
Desperately waiting
To be discovered

But when dawn breaks
And my hand searches the sheets
It is hate that I find
Once more

I've been gone a while.

#short #freeverse #hate #hurt #morning #balance

Apr 2018

Rainey Birthwright

Lovers Shy

.
The looking at you
Destroys my mask
And a sun ignites
Heating the blood
That was buried
In window flesh,
Slits break, lid of eyes,
The souls’ shutter.

The breathings with you
Lays me asunder
To bedrooms starry
Where faith succumbs
Only to be reborn
In spooning after love,
The fae body spirals
In positions foetal.

The touching with us
Rakes the ghost moon
Which lies within truths
Dark as reddest rose
Rising in thorny stalk
Where treasure is sunk,
In cavities of chest,
Beat hearts shudder.
.

#lovers #attraction #heartache #faith #boy #girl

Mar 2018

Amanda Kay Burke

There Is Still Pain

I am still waiting
For you to make the call
Lately I cannot help but feel
Like you do not care at all

You say you love me
Should I believe?
What my heart does not tell me?
And my eyes just cannot see?

I have always trusted you
With my secret thoughts
Since you don't trust me
My heart is ******* in knots

I wish you could understand
What I am trying to get through
I do not have the ability
To hurt or worry you

Our friendship suffered
Solitude is weighty
Heavier than the battles
That have happened lately

I want you to be sure
How much it hurt me to feel
The way I did when you fell
Now it is time to heal

Give me a bandaid
Stitch me closed tight
And I will try to get through
Another lonely night

Why am I always wracked with ****** up negative emotions? This is an old one but there are a lot of lines I can relate to right this second.

#sad #love #upset #pain #night #lonely #hurt #heal #solitude