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Look, I won't fix you
Because my mama told me
That I should never
Fix something
That wasn't broken
In the first place
I love you so much
I've already forgotten
To love myself too
I'm so **** confused
Because I look at you
The  way I'm supposed to look at
All those pretty pretty boys
And ****
I love you so much i can  feel it
In my very bones
But those church goers  have
Drilled it into my mind
That this is wrong wrong wrong
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
I like you
I need to see you
I want you
I need to hug you
I need you
I can't have a conversation with you
when this keeps popping into my head
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
Clearly
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
Roses are white
So are the violets
The walkway in the park is too
The only thing I can see clearly is you
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
So I go back to that day
With those weird conversations
With my Awesome friends
Having fun
Laughing too much
Choking on pop
Then we talk
And the rest of the world
Seems less important
No more worries
Just happiness
And fun
And it replays like that
Whenever we talk
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
Words
 Jul 2013 Elise
Gwen Johnson
Crossed out words
On crumpled up pieces of paper
Thoughts that made it out of my head
Words that escaped me
Making a huge mess
Why can't I get my feelings right on paper?
Why can't my feelings be right at all?
You said you wanted to
Know me better
So here I go:

I've got exactly 28 pens
I know because I counted

I've got too many notebooks
Yet I can't stop
Buying more and more

Sometimes when it's 4 am
And my mind is
Driving me to the brink
Of total insanity
I take 3 showers
to try and calm myself down
(It never works)

I like apple juice but I hate apples

I've never been good in math

There are too many
Cigarette burns
On the crook of my elbow
And scars on my thighs
and demons in my head

I love the smell of cinnamon

Once when I was 15
I drank blue paint
Because I think blue is beautiful
And I wanted to be beautiful too

That didn't work

So I drank a bottle of bleach
To clean my very core

It didn't work either

Now you know me better
I understand if you'd want
To run away now
It's okay
Save yourself
Run
Wrote this on a paper napkin at a Chinese restaurant today
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