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elizabeth Mar 2014
i've always found sadness much easier to write about;
it has always felt easier to translate those feelings into
words, it feels more poetic-sounding to me.
but you, my dear, have planted sunflowers where
there used to be weeds and now a
garden grows in my lungs but the vines don't choke me,
the way i thought they always would.
elizabeth Mar 2014
you told me that you would always be here to listen to me
but there you are and here i am,
drawing nebula and counting items on my room wall,
just to keep myself sane.
just to keep myself from drawing yet
another line on my wrists; to keep me from
painting my skin black and painting this city state
red, crimson, scarlet, violet,
a myriad of colours that would shock and scare.
but it would only be temporary
for in a matter of months, many would forget
and few would still care.
elizabeth Feb 2014
//
my heart's a goner and so's my head.
for you, I've died a thousand times over
and over again.
elizabeth Feb 2014
and one day i hope
that you will choke on my bones,
smothered by stardust.
elizabeth Feb 2014
no one knows this but
you were the reason that i decided to pick
death over
picking myself up.
and now that i've tried to start over,
i can hear death calling me
like an old friend from years back
and your ghost is haunting me
from over there
elizabeth Feb 2014
have you heard of a hurricane love?
the kind of love that just sweeps
you off your feet; leaving you breath
less as you dance dangerously towards the eye,
but you don't care.
and have you felt the drizzle
love, in its consistency as it quietly comes
down on you, its touch so light as raindrops fall
from the pale blue sky (like snowflakes)
(but there could never be snowflakes in a place like this).
and a thunderstorm love,
quick in its passing but full of passion and sparks
of electricity that seem to pass through your interlocked fingers
simultaneously.

i don't know what kind of love we are.
but i do know that i love you.
elizabeth Feb 2014
today you are another year older and
tomorrow we will be further apart than before and
i have nothing left to say to you but that
yesterday i have loved you and
today i will love you still and
tomorrow i will still be chasing you from the stars and
believing that in a parallel universe is
where we truly are
(happy birthday)
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