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 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
At one point you made me feel
like I was the only girl in the world that you could love.
Your affectionate touch, your soft spoken words.
In every way making me feel like I was yours.
All those days we spent together,
all those late nights I wish’d would last forever.
I never thought it would all be gone.

I can’t blame you entirely
for giving up on and letting me go so easily.
It seems I’m the only one surprised at how this ended.
I just didn’t know it was possible
for someone so intentional and caring
to be washed over in a sea of apathy.
Because when I needed you most
you ran scared and left me alone because you didn’t care.
Now the memories are not sweet-all they do is sting.

Everyday that passes every hour that drags on, your silence rings volumes in my ear. Because just like that you disappeared.

Everyday that passes every hour that drags on, I’ve come to terms that you really are gone.

Everyday that passes every hour that drags on every tick of the second hand, I am that much further in moving on.
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
We get back to school and, once again, out of nowhere you come back into my life. You began to care for me in ways I've never felt cared about. So fast I don't even remember how it started, our relationship built. And as our favorite heroine Hazel Grace would say:
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep..slowly then all at once"

Those next two months I experienced joy I didn't even know possible for someone like me..and mostly because of you.
My heart for you exploded and I wanted to take every opportunity to treat you right. My friends thought I was going insane..accusing him of using me for selfish gain.

Its almost funny..how love can completely blind you. You see that light in someone and it distorts your vision of who they really are.
I saw a light in you..a light that no one, not even yourself saw.
And I had faith in that light..in you.

But there comes a point when that light gets fainter and dimmer..the veil is lifted, and that "light" is not worth fighting for anymore.  
I gave you so many chances to prove everyone wrong.
But you showed me how easy it was to let me go, to give up.
Your silence is something I may never get over.

You used me up like a piece of paper, got what you wanted out of me, crumpled me up and threw me away.
And while I'm over here with a broken heart and dragging days, you're over there-completely silent and doing okay.

So just know, when I cross your mind and you decide to come back into my life..I'm not going to let you in this time.
maybe its me and my blind optimism to blame..or maybe its you and your sick need to give love and take it away
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
I don't want to wake up crying
Because I had another dream
About you caring.

Your silence is the most hurtful thing.
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
I don't want to wake up
At 4am anymore
To check my phone
Hoping for the message from you
I know will never come
it was so easy for you to walk away
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
I’m scared.
I gave you my heart
when you never said you’d protect it.
But it’s hard to resist
when you’re with me like this.
Caring and loving me
as if I were your own.
This is dangerous ground I’m walking on.
The no-mans-land of love promises no security.
No protection.
It’s not safe but I don’t have the strength to walk away.
For fear that if I do you won’t come after me.
And then I’ll really lose you again.

I guess what I’m trying to say is I love you.
And I don’t want to leave.
So please don’t let me.
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
He's the king of mixed signals
He's the master of deception
His gentle touch says "I'm a protector"
But his words declare "Stay back, I'm a predator"

His blue eyes are soft but his heart, not enough
He says "relationships are worthless" and I'm calling his bluff
And I'm just waiting for you to believe what you already know

I know you're scared and I am too..
But after all we've been through
What do we have to lose?
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
"Just make sure you're guarding your heart" she says right before she takes a sip of her latte with the bible in between us opened up to the book of Proverbs. This isn't the first time I've heard that phrase. And quiet frankly..its beginning to make me cringe. Because for someone like me, that is one of the hardest tasks you can challenge me with. I am an open book-I have been my whole life, and while some say my vulnerability "inspires them," I don't think they understand the consequences I face daily because of it. Because my heart has been dormant and neglected for almost 20 years-all that it wants to do is give itself away..to anyone and everyone. No matter how many times it has been broken, no matter how many times its been twisted and manipulated by the world it still continues to give itself away.

When will the pain be too much to where this heart of mine turns to ice?
When will the walls build up without ever coming down?
When will I learn?
 Apr 2014
Hannah Turner
If you’re gonna leave-leave completely
Because the thoughts of you
That consume my mind
Keep me up at night.

I hate the little things
that remind me of you.
I’m still pulling bits and pieces of me
From your quicksand.

And although I do like him a lot
He’s not you.
Why do I have hope
That this is redeemable
When it’s based on nothing?

So-here we are, you’re gone, and you left the door wide open ..
I haven’t had the strength
to close it yet
why can't i get over you.
 Dec 2013
Hannah Turner
Things change

Friends leave

Hearts are broken

And it is what it is

But we can try to move forward

Try to heal 

And pray to God this will all disappear
I’m walking away and saying goodbye

Not forever but for now

I’m not waiting anymore 

For a text that will never come. 

I’m not going to our places anymore

Hoping you would show up. 

And I’m not giving you
Any more of my shattered heart

Just so you can break it again and again
"She thought that love was gonna save her-but love just never showed"-parachute
 Dec 2013
Hannah Turner
You hurt me and made your intentions clear.
And I hate that I don't hate you.
More so, I hate that I still have feelings for you.
I hate that I cling to the few words you say to me,
And I hate how much I miss you
When you don't think twice about me.
When I ask myself: "Why do I pick people that treat me like nothing?"
My dear friend Charlie reminds me:
We accept the love we think we deserve
I finally understand what he means.
I am not over you.
 Dec 2013
Hannah Turner
For the past 19 years
My heart has been dormant.
The cobwebs of loneliness and longing
Make intricate patterns around its bruised and beaten frame.

It runs on little,
With inconsistent beats that continue my breathing.
This heart is rather cold
From endless nights and dragging days
I fear for my heart
For it is hungry.

And it will take any opportunity it can get
At the first sight of affection
To feel something, anything at all.

— The End —