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 Sep 2013 Dia
Jamie Horridge
I asked you what you thought of,
When someone around you said my name,
Without knowledge of who we are
When it is no one but us in a room
You didn't quite understand,
So I began to explain it again
Just before you said,
"I think of cold hands under my covers
Like ice to my neck while you sleep
Feet, just as cold, wrapped around my toes
Because you never can let go of me"
(He wouldn't let me if I tried)
"I think of a barely angry face
With rosy cheeks, more embarrassed than anything
Because I've mentioned you climaxing"
(Again)
"I think of the ways that I wish I could love you
The way you never have to tell me you love me"
Drunk poems are always love poems,
at least for me.
 Sep 2013 Dia
Jamie Horridge
Can you see emptiness?
Not of a glass or an abyss
Emptiness inside a soul
The echoing through something once whole
I just need to know,
Should I hide these holes?
Should I disguise these bruises?
Cover up these scars?
Should we suppress our pain,
To hide who we really are?
I'm 17 years old
And I hurt
And I bleed
Most days I feel lower than dirt
And some days I can't breathe
Who are you to judge me for it?
I just want to know,
Can you see it or do I have to tell you so?
I want to die.
I want to be alone.
But did you already know?
Obviously I wrote this when I was 17. Just recently discovered it again. I'll be 19 on Nov. 2nd.
 Sep 2013 Dia
heather
plain
 Sep 2013 Dia
heather
i like when
words speak for
themselves
and create
their own beat in your brain
i'm not one for fancy things
i like black ink
on white pages
and sentences that are so
well calculated that they
seem effortless
 Sep 2013 Dia
heather
nerd
 Sep 2013 Dia
heather
i would prefer to sit
home alone
and read
the fountainhead
the catcher in rye
the metamorphosis
the stranger
i get drunk off plays on words
i get high off clever plots
what keeps me up at
night isn't money
or relationships
it's the fact that
there are so many
lovely books
that have yet to be
in my hands
it's overwhelming
i do not dream
of stacks of currency
or a lover by my side
i dream of paper
covered in ink
and the satisfying
feeling of turning pages
 Sep 2013 Dia
heather
i saw you lose your mind
or rather i witnessed
your body
after your mind went
awol
you talked in endless loops
and writhed across my bed
smearing blood leaking from your knees
and shattering the old mirror on the wall
your mind is the most beautiful i have
ever seen
even in that primal instinctive state
you made sense
at least to me
at least in that moment
you thought you were dying
and you stripped completely naked
you didn't understand life
and why we were here
any answer you could
come up with had to be wrong
because if you understood life
that would make you special
and you knew you weren't that special
but the wild look in your eyes
said otherwise
you don't remember any of it
i won't ever forget it
i cannot write any kind of poem that would do this event any justice. drugs, man.
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