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 Nov 2017
Kellin
We are all poets,
Some write poetry
Some become the poetry
 Nov 2017
Kellin
I tried to hold on to you
but you were
nothing but sand
And I was the tide
Who tried to drag
you out to sea
 Nov 2017
rained-on parade
Go on, dance with me now.
Your hands ticking away time       like a drumbeat,
               your radius hitting the table
with a knock
              on every door that has my heart     hidden
somewhere between dreams.              This orange
              October     sky, your laugh like       an earth
losing its spin,           axis alias         to your tongue.
               Forget me now then, we were never a race-
               track
burnt asphalt                   into your name, I was only
               a ship with a suicidal anchor,
crashing turntables         like the surface of the sea,
              our song stuck now in the echoes
                                                          ­     of the Atlantic.
You write lovesongs that make no sense
/
My lovesongs make no sense anymore.

10/2/17
 Nov 2017
Kellin
Oh how I want to be loved,
And accept love
But how my pendulum swings
From crowning myself worthy
To fearing I'll never be good enough
 Nov 2017
DaSH the Hopeful
Life is a melody
      You can listen to only once.

    The first thirty seconds, you find the groove,
         it's appealing
    A harmonious rhythm hereto unwritten
                    
       This could be your favorite.


 
             It is.
       For the next three minutes, you settle in.
               The chorus comes around.

          *You'll be here again.

                  It's fresh, it's catchy
You're enraptured by these certain pitches and the words rhyme perfectly.
   One line flowing into the next, the ends justifying the means.
       Another verse, another chorus. This one feels more weathered
          Routine, maybe. You still feel that groove but your perspective of it has been altered by the change in tempo and direction during the last verse.
               

           You realize you have fifteen seconds left.
         This was your song. What did you do with it?


       *As you think back, a gentle blanket of white noise embraces everything that ever was, and your song fades
Let me know how you feel.
 Nov 2017
Anya
Love is a spell and I'm cursed by it. I'm captivated by the pain it carries.
The feeling is weakening but I hold on evermore.
Hoping it'll change, dreaming for no more pain, wishing for the day this is no longer reality.
Praying you won't go but always seeing you leave.
Making me just a convenience,
letting me drown in my sorrow then you'll show up when I'm at the point of jumping just to hurt me again,
you'd rather be the one to do it, to hurt me repeatedly.

The pain you cause is constant
never easing my sorrow,
never giving me enough.
I hold on long enough to give you hope and as soon as you see the light you let go then I'm neglected.
Feeling used and mistreated like a porcelain doll left to collect dust.
While you're away drowning too and when you finally come back,
there's too many apologies,
too many broken memories to fix what's been broken.

What's left to do but except fall back into routine
so we talk again but this vicious cycle never ends
sooner or later we don't talk anymore but we both are falling on our own time why not live in a false reality?
We're better that way anyhow.
Making eachother laugh, thinking of corny jokes and ways to flirt.
Inside jokes that are stupid too but they're not stupid to me and you.
People tell us not to do this,
we say we don't want to give up.
We'd rather be together than end for the better
and maybe it's an illusion
or maybe we just can't see
what it is we do
or how we're meant to be.
 Nov 2017
Anya
you ask what I want
but what do I say
because I want you
in every single way.
I want your hands on my waist
as you draw me near.
your lips almost touching mine
as you whisper "come here"
you pull me in tighter
as I breathe you in
but I look up to see
a mold of your sins.
you've already left me for another
but I stay and wait for you,
my ideal lover.
as I collect dust like a statuette
I'll once again see your silhouette.
you'll return
when I can no longer bear the loneliness
but who's to say you even care?
so you leave once more
and my love finally disappears.
 Nov 2017
Kellin
Almost eight billion souls
And all I see in them
is your absence
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