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Elizabeth Brown Apr 2020
It’s the roughness of new pages,
the feeling of a stone, well weathered-
the kind you brush your hand across in awe
as you make your way to the cliffs
and look down at the sea.
It’s something magical, that is.
Knowing that it’s only right now, that you may never go back,
Only makes it moreso.
Take in every detail.
Keep those scents, those sights, those sounds, with you.
Darkness will return, and you will cry.
Let those be your light.
Drown that sadness, as it has done you.
Elizabeth Brown Apr 2020
I waited for you.
No, that’s not true.
You waited. You stayed
while I drank in what I thought were the pleasures of life.
I had convinced myself of it.
Then, I met you
And I knew that I should have waited.
Elizabeth Brown Apr 2020
Even now, I can smell you.
I can feel your skin on mine.
If I close my eyes and take myself back,
surrounded by green,
I can breathe you in once more.
I kissed you.
I felt your lips pressed to my forehead
our legs entangled,
our selves released.
Dancing, we were dancing,
though we stood still.
You bring forth my purities, blinking at the light.
I am so thankful for you.
Elizabeth Brown Apr 2020
Sit me down and tell me
who it is you want me to be.
I won’t disappoint.
If there’s anything I’m good at
it’s Pretending.
So good am I, in fact, that I forget
it isn’t me.
Because I am whoever I need to be.
A chameleon in clothing,
a precious piece of soul that you can mold.
I prefer this.
If I don’t like myself, how could anyone else?
So I remain ever-changing
fitting in the only way I know how.
Elizabeth Brown Jan 2019
Reflexively, i shut down
as trauma floods my mind.

What a ridiculous reason to cry,
what a childish fault.

One word.
Just
"Yep."
and my world crashes around me.

**** you, Lucy.
You'll never know what a decade old sentence can do.

My psyche shatters

and i fold inside myself
and my words are silenced
(but my Thoughts are not)
and my eyes are wet
and i am torn to pieces

as rough hands work to fit me back into my mold.
Elizabeth Brown Dec 2018
The way to insanity is through perpetual pleas for pain.
Only after
years
of hoping that- one day- my mind would die,
have I finally found bliss within pain.
I cannot be alone in this,
of that I'm certain.

I have seen suffering,
have lived through pain,
and I remain.
If I can do it, so can you.
Elizabeth Brown Dec 2018
Look how far we've come.
Look closer and see how we've fallen.
Now look once more... and see what we've become.

We are the beasts that will **** this world;
the creators of our own demise.

The human race has driven itself

so
far
into the
depths

that they have lost the path to redemption.
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