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 Jan 2015 ejb
Amanda
A single eyelash, one orchird petal and a flannel shirt button.

She kept them in an old shoebox sandwiched against old sneakers with laces knotted like lovers, old yellowing papers and letters. All of which had dated back 5, seven, 11, twenty-1, 29 years ago.

All of them incongruous objects, but they all belong in the past.
I outgrew them, my mind memorized all the words on those pages.
Once from a person I knew.

I don't love him.
Lie

I loved him.
past tense

I had loved him.
still past-tense

I love him.
*Present tense. It's now.
Happy New Year to you, you and you!
I am excited, nervous and eeek about what this year will bring.
xo
P.S The phrase "Knotted like lovers" is a quote from Jodi Picoult's Handle With Care.
P.P.S It is a beautiful novel.
 Jan 2015 ejb
r
2015
 Jan 2015 ejb
r
This is it
The only one

Everything between the rising moon
and the setting sun
is all you've got

It'd be a shame not
to make the best of it

It's a new year
What's done is done
Today is here

Move on.
r ~ 1/1/15
Happy New Year!
There's a few days
When
I don't think
About you

Those amount to
A total of two
And one of
Those days
I slept
Through

The other
I was too
High
to see
And

Too concentrated
On breathing
To feel
The expanse
Of my heart

Breaking


What does this mean to you?

More than something

But not enough to make it all go away...
I'm just not sure HOW to stop feeling this way...
 Dec 2014 ejb
Just Melz
I fell asleep
      with you
    on my mind
I woke up
And you
      were still there



**When's this gonna end?
 Dec 2014 ejb
Kelly Rose
Always thought
loneliness
was something one
felt when alone
in life

But...

Sometimes
that loneliness
is felt even
when you have a partner

All
the more devastating
as loneliness
should have been held
at bay

No longer
safe as
Loneliness slowly creeps in
12/26/2014
Bewildered
 Dec 2014 ejb
Just Melz
Alpha Dog
 Dec 2014 ejb
Just Melz
I wear my heart on my sleeve
Where it's easily broken
I'd rather be made of steel
Or just a girl sitting around tokin
So many emotions
And I'm bloated
Just full of ****
And a belief of something fake
But I'll revamp my ways
My precious heart to take
I don't need it anymore anyways


(Douglas Scheurn wrote this part)
Keep it,
Incase it deep within your soul.
Put the key in,
Make the latch whole.
Don't let someone steal it quickly,
They have to thoroughly plan the heist.
Now this is tricky,
But wait out to see the lines.


Doesn't matter much anyways
My heart ain't worth the fuss
I held on a long time
Even longer for the lucrative "us"
My hearts shattered
Not that it mattered
Pieces are too small
Not worth making whole
No body would want
This emptiness y'all call a soul
There is no need for a lock
And certainly not a key
The last one inside
Has proven me no longer worthy


If the last one who had a piece
Is reading this now
Give urself a pat on the back
And a raise of ur brow
Congratulations is in order
You finally completed ur mission
My heart is finally free
You, no longer in my vision
Emptied my soul
And cleared the fog
**** being a *****
I'll be the alpha dog
Chewing up smiles
Gnawing on hearts
Spitting back up tears
And unimportant parts
Then run away, still intact
Leaving the rest to the hounds
Never looking back
Smile on my face and hell bound
 Dec 2014 ejb
Tyler Durden
Over the years
I've built this home inside of my mind
To put away the thoughts and fears
The for sale sign allows me to leave behind.
Soon the prevailing wind
Will soon bring vacation to an end,
I'll return to find a cracking foundation
Crumbling walls and stagnation.
I'll search for answers from the beginning
The cracks in my concrete grow
But you're the one filling them, I hope you know.
 Dec 2014 ejb
Poetic T
"Two Petals fell"*
From up high, They fell
Fast,
Hard,
Stopped
And then they greeted the hard floor.
Pigment
Bled,
Saturated
Upon the surroundings.
These petals  fell in love,
And fell in silence,
They caressed eternity, still **holding hands.
Love makes us do things other emotions would never entertain.
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