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Elli Jun 2015
He stands at your bedroom door while you're at the edge of your bed, staring at him. There are wilted white lilies on top of your bedside drawer. He sits at your bed, not too close to you, but close enough you can feel the heat radiate from his skin. You feel like this distance is too far, you want his skin to clash against yours, his lips at the nape of your neck. The street lights pour from your window, his face illuminated with it. His face looks so innocent, yet deadly because of the light. Red for passion? no. Red for blood. Red for deadly. This is not love. This is destruction and pain. He reaches out for you, and you moved too eagerly. He holds you without care, his nails scratches your back, too deep. You're in too deep. Red for stop. His lips crushes against yours, and he tears off your dress, and he kisses your neck, and you realized that he has your heart in his hands.  You didn't pay attention to details. Red for deadly. You're going crazy and wild, you are empty handed. You finally realized that his ribs are intact while yours is wide open. Red for too late. There's a broken vase with wilted white lilies on the floor, and his lips ******.
white lilies are used for funerals.

(idk what i'm doing with my life and exams are finally done. I'm going to be a university this fall. why)
Elli Oct 2013
My love for you is hopeless,
Yet I still do
It is a battle I already lost
But still fighting for it,
Because to love you is to die
And to die is my end
My feelings are worthless to you
Because in your eyes, it's simply a game
But it's definitely not a game I'm willing to play
Elli Oct 2013
I like you
And I hope the feeling is mutual
But I'm asking for the impossible
Because while I spend my time
Thinking about you
You spend your time
Wanting her
And I know I can never match up to that
Because I can only make you laugh
But she can make you happy
And I only say encouraging words
While she can give you inspiration
Compared to her
I am nothing,
I can never be her
And that's a fact
Elli Apr 2015
There will be people like her
who will always belong to the sky,
because you know that her rightful place
is among the stars, and the galaxies,
because you are sure that she is above earthly things.

That's why no matter how hard you try,
she will never be yours,
not fully,
because she might be with you,
but her eyes will twinkle and you know she's gone,
she's in a place that you cannot reach.

So it's okay to let her go,
because you know that deep down,
she was never yours to begin with.
She's just a traveller from another universe.
Elli Aug 2016
You asked me how much I love you
and I couldn't tell you,
not because I don't,
but because my love for you is something
that cannot be chained down by words
for it is something beyond the common tongue

But I do know that I love you as deep and vast
as the oceans that separates us,
and even though you can see the sun
while I see the moon,
it is comforting to know that we are
under the same sky
Written for the girl I was in love with who lives in a different continent than me.
Elli Dec 2013
Have you ever felt so alone
Even if you're in a crowded place?
That every morning, it takes all your will
To get up, tired from not getting any sleep
Because the thought of future terrifies you

you keep yourself busy
With books, video games, or the telly
Because you know that being preoccupied
Is better than thinking
You feel trapped in your mind,
Constantly thinking you're not good enough
And it dreads you that the future
Holds more despair than success

And although there's windows and doors
You feel like there's no way out
No way out of this labyrinth
And constantly praying for a rabbit hole
To appear, maybe to take you someplace else
Far away from this
Elli Jan 2014
She's a lost cause
Right from the start
The darkness engulfed her
And so did the bitter cold
She was screaming for help
But she's utterly alone
Alone in this world
With no one to hold on to
Just a lost cause
Who wanted to know
What a touch
From someone feels like
But I guess she'll die
Cold and alone
With nothing but
Her demons in her head
Elli Jul 2017
You sighed so much
your lungs almost collapsed.

Is existing the same
as living?

You tell yourself
that "today is the day"
day after day
after day
after day

But depression drags you
back to your bed.
It tells you
"there's another day"
haven't posted in a while b/c i was busy with uni. Actually I need to study for an exam on wednesday and I barely started. welp.
Elli Feb 2014
Rest your weary soul
The earth will catch your fall
Let the waves carry you away
Far from your dismay
Elli Sep 2014
He will love you as if it's the most important thing he will ever do,
and he will love you hard.
You will feel his presence with you all the time,
so used to his body heat that his absence on a summer day will suddenly make you shiver.
He will accompany you to your favourite cafes, sipping on your favourite drinks and his laugh will echo in this tiny little cafe of yours,
and when you only hear your silence, sipping on your favourite latte doesn't seem so relaxing anymore.
You will always go to the parks, because malls aren't really your thing,
and he will lie down with you and just stare at the sky while you familiarize yourself with his breathing,
and the sound of his heart will suddenly be your music.
When he's gone, you will feel that the silence in the park is so excruciating that you would rather go to a mall and try to be lost in the crowd, drowning your pain with endless chatters.
You never saw the harm of sharing the things that you love with someone, until you hear him say your name one last time,
and you grew to hate everything.

Because the person who made you feel alive is gone,
and you will feel that you are invisible again to the world.

But it isn't the end of the world, even if it seem like it is.
Because one day you will be able to drink your favourite latte, or go to the park, and you wouldn't mind the silence anymore.
One day you will forget how his heartbeat sounded like, and you will think all heartbeats sound the same.
Until you forget how he pronounced your name one last time,
because it's all in the void of forgotten past.
Within those silence you finally grew to enjoy,
a "hello" will break through and someone will share
their favourite lattes with you, or the best spot to lie down at the park.
(editing)
Elli Aug 2014
I feel like dying,
but that doesn't matter.
I feel nothing,
but that doesn't matter.
I feel unimportant,
but that also doesn't matter.
I go to sleep wishing to never wake up,
but then again, it doesn't matter.

I guess a smile and "i'm fine"
is all that matters.
i don't know. i'll probably delete this later.
Elli Jun 2014
you kiss my scars
as if they were the stars
Elli Aug 2014
you were my eternal bliss,
my sunshine,
my moon,
i would've reached the stars for you
and i thought you would do the same

you were my river
endlessly flowing
my heart beats for you
yet somehow yours didn't beat for me

you are my own destruction
the clouds that covered the sun
and the storm that poured forever;
the stars stopped shining
and i stopped reaching it
because i realize i was standing on a cliff

you are the rock that constricts my river
the one that blocks the blood in my veins
and i have a heart
that already stopped beating
the river was only an illusion
it was simply an arroyo
who never saw the rain
arroyo-(Physical Geography) a steep-sided stream bed that is usually dry except after heavy rain
Elli Apr 2014
my darling sister
he says
this is what happens you love someone
too much
that you lose yourself
because "you" became a part
of them
and when they leave
they take *you

and you'd feel lost
so lost
that you'd end up taking that one thing
you still own
something only you can control:
death.
Elli Apr 2014
I use my head
before I use my heart
but in so many ways
you are smarter than me

It keeps me breathing
knowing that you're by my side
but the thought of us falling apart
makes me dread of the future

do you believe in destiny?
is this what you call fate?
will you believe me when I say i do?

my darling, I hope your dreams
are as sweet as mine

Sometimes I catch myself smiling
and realize it is you that I'm thinking

and I always ask why me?
because you could've fallen for anyone
who is infinitely better than me

In so many ways,
I've wondered what you goes through your mind
do you think of me as often as I do?

I just hope that this last
this whimsical love of mine
I know it's a bit inconsistent, but in a way it represents my state of mind. (still being edited)
Elli Mar 2014
i would always say i love you
and you would look up
from your book
and flash that nonchalant smile
as if you know that you would hear those words
years from now, no matter what
and you would say, without a failure
you're an idiot
but i knew from your eyes
that you meant *i love you too
Elli Mar 2014
I take a deep breath
but I felt a pang on my chest
and I couldn't breathe
as if the world is suffocating me
the darkness is everywhere
I have nowhere to hide
I feel the hopelessness overtake my body
and all I can do is watch everything fall apart
and i cried for hours
about the pain i've kept hidden
letting it all flow out of my body
in the form of tears and soundless sobs
Elli Mar 2014
I know what you are;
You laugh at my own demise
I hear it still,
so loud
and yet painful
I see you smile
as my blood meets the ground
you're mocking me
I see your mouth move
and form a word
idiot
you seemed to say
but i couldn't hear
over this piercing sound
of my tears
my skin stings
because it's covered
with fresh wounds
where did this come from?
I am crestfallen
how could you?
how?
and yet you just stare at me
with those eyes,
you seemed entertained
watching my own destruction
that's right,
I know who you are
you're *me
Elli Oct 2013
Mr. Smith seemed like a good neighbor
Who has a usual routine and greets her good morning
Little did she know that there was something else
Behind his good mornings and greetings on the streets
And one night she didn't realize
There was another shadow, and it wasn't hers
And something unspeakable happened
She grew up believing it was her fault
Because Mr. Smith is a good neighbor
Or so that's what society says
Because it's always the victim's fault
And not the perpetrator
Apparently she provoked the action
At the age of 20 she still can't speak
Because if she does she will be attacked
Not with sticks but with words
She will be labeled as a *****
So she forced herself to believe
That it was her fault
Because Mr. Smith is a good neighbor
It doesn't make sense why and how people justify these kind of things and blame it to the victim saying "she/he deserves it" or "they did something to provoke the person"  or ESPECIALLY "she's not wearing something appropriately." I believe someone can wear whatever they want w/o being harassed or ridiculed by.
Elli Oct 2013
We carve our names to the trees
Hoping to prevent oblivion
But trees decay
And so does your love
So here I am at 3 in the morning
Thinking about you
Wondering what happened
To your promise of forever?
Elli Nov 2013
Death knocks at your door
Saying It's time
As you clutches your life
With your broken and ****** hands
You don't feel ready
And you never will
Because you ran out of time
To find happiness
You look back
And see you never really
Tried
And now death will look at you
With pity in his eyes
But then he says again It's time
No goodbyes
No I love you one last time
And your last words were
*Why me?
Elli Dec 2013
Thigh gaps
Empty stomach
Skin and bones
This are all the things
We aim as girls
Because society's definition
of "pretty" is
Skinny and petite
But since when
Does hollow space
Count as "beauty"
Elli Nov 2013
You expect too much of me
Even though I have nothing
Yet I tried to give you my "nothing"
Which is my everything
And was left with *nothing
does it make sense? I wrote it out of a whim, thinking about how I can give my 'everything' if i had nothing to give.
Elli Dec 2013
Just because the moon
Shines brightly at night
It doesn't mean that
The moon doesn't have
A dark side, casted away
From the shadow of it's craters
Elli Jan 2014
You have to know how to shoot
In order to be with me
Know that I'm a danger
Even to myself
If I tell to you run
Don't look back
Because I don't trust myself
And neither should you
I'm a loaded gun
Never to be trusted
We can pretend,
But a love like this
Wouldn't last
Elli Dec 2013
He believes in patterns and numbers;
That everything is calculated
From the way a person walk
To the waves of the ocean
Even if it seemed random
It actually isn't
But then he looked at me and said
"maybe not everything"
He laughs and turns around
Trying to balance himself
On the big rocks by the seashore
"You contradict my beliefs
And maybe that's why I love you
Because you're beyond the rules"
I told him that maybe
Just maybe, not everything is calculated
And that it has to be a mystery

Because till this day
I never fully understood him
And it led to more questions
Than answers
Elli Sep 2014
"Sorry isn't enough"

Then I am sorry for being insufficient
for i cannot fix a broken heart
nor give back the time we lost

all i can offer is myself
and even i am not complete

but this is all i can offer
and this is my everything
but sometimes everything isn't enough
Elli Nov 2013
A world built
Using playing cards
Can be knock down
By anything
So she goes to bed
With her sneakers on
And sleeps with
One eye open
Ready to run away
When her world
collapses
Elli Dec 2014
The daylight is dying,
and the night swallows it whole.
Elli Nov 2015
After two months of silence,
your name appears on my phone
quite randomly,
which is funny because a minute before that,
I decided to let go a small(huge) part of me who is still hoping.

It seems like you wanted to pick up where we left off,
but I burned that bridge a long time ago,
because I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't run back to you
the moment I said goodbye.
I love you and miss you so much, but it's too late to go back.

( thinking about you is distracting me from studying and finals is a week from now, so I just had to write about you, again. )
Elli Apr 2014
Wake up, wake up!
It's time to get your head
out of the clouds

Wake up you whimsical dreamer
and move to where you want

Wake up, wake up!
you sleepy head,
don't dread time
but rather dread death

Life doesn't move
if you just live with constant fear

Wake up, wake up!
daydreamer you are running out of breaths

Wake up and tell her
Tell her!
tell her you love her

Stop her!
stop her
she's waiting

Draw her a picture,
write her a song,

the more breaths you waste,
the farther she goes

Wake up, wake up!
daydreamer she's gone,
what will you do now?

You let her go,
even when I told you
to hold onto that balloon

You lived in constant fear
now your nightmares came true

Wake up, Wake up!
maybe it's not too late
tell her you love her
tell her what she means to you

Don't just stand there,
move!
for people who live in constant fear of rejection, i think it's better to let that person know how you actually feel instead of just "dreaming", in the end at least you tried. (Happy Easter! say no to bunny abuse)
Elli Nov 2013
I built my walls so high
With my doubts and sadness
Only to be knocked down by you
And I thought I was doing the right thing
But you've shown the world
Existing outside the walls
I carefully created
Elli Oct 2014
It's to know you're not sad,
because you have no reason to
especially when you had a good day today;
and that the thoughts aren't yours
but it's in your head
you can't stop hearing it
and sometimes it makes you cry
sometimes it makes you feel nothing
and then you lie on your bed
thinking it's another day without doing your work
because when you lift up your pencil,
your hand trembles
and you feel weak

And it's not like this everyday,
usually you'd go for days, weeks, even months
without these thoughts

but then you suddenly can't breathe,
and then you'd feel that the weight of your heart
is something you can't carry,
and then you cry for no reason.
You feel like you've been hit by a truck,
and it hurts.

that's why you want it to end,
but you don't want to stop breathing


but it feels like it's the only way out.
Elli Aug 2015
We are so intertwined
that I can't distinguish where I end
and you begin.
Are your thoughts mine or are my thoughts yours?
I can't even recognize myself anymore.
Elli Aug 2013
A conundrum, that's what you are
I thought I understood you
But I was wrong
You were a mystery, even to me
A question without an answer
I thought you were my mystery
But I never owned you
Were I able to break through your walls?
Or did you just rebuilt them again?
I stretched my arms
But you never reached back
Did I really know you?
Elli Oct 2013
Who would love a girl
Who spends most of the time
Reading books
Or fantasizing about worlds
That doesn't exist?

Who would love a girl
who isn't exactly pretty
Or talented
Nor smart?

Who would love a girl
Who let's opportunities pass
Because she's too awkward?

Who would love a girl
Whose mind is so confusing
But finds peace in it?

Who would love a girl
Whose self-esteem is
Non-existent?

And who would love a girl
Who doesn't know
How to socialize
And prefers silence?  

*exactly
Basically me all the time
Elli Jan 2015
I'm losing you,
and I'm losing myself.

I don't know which one is worse.
Elli Apr 2014
It was summer,
but her life is stuck in winter
Elli Oct 2013
Give yourself a pat on the back and say "I did it!"
Because my love, you just survived another day from this hell hole
A place full of criticism, hatred, and hypocrisy
I know that you stare at the road wondering if you can just stand on the middle
And possibly end your life
But you didn't, and I'm proud of you
Because a lot of us don't stand a chance against the monsters of our society
Who loves to bring people down just to feel superior
But you did it, and I hope it continues
Because you my friend deserve to live
And although pollution exist, it's still magnificent to simply breathe
Remember that you're not alone because there are people like us
People that really cares, even if we're just strangers
Strangers that been in that place, or still is
I know you can hold on, and don't say you can't
Because you haven't seen the rest of it
Someone out there will love you for who you really are
And I'm not saying that we don't, but you deserve someone
Someone who will cherish you, even if you see only your flaws
Someone who will accept you, and love you
Because you deserve it
You deserve every wonderful things in this world
For you have been brave
Now go and seek the happiness you've always deserve
Something I wrote for everyone who needs it, and maybe I need it too.
You
Elli Dec 2013
You
You've been on my mind
Once
Because you never left

Whenever and wherever
I just suddenly
Remember you

The way your skin
Feels, as you lean on me
Or the way you breathe
Deeply as if it was your last

The way your eyes twinkle
And your lips curves
As you smile and talk about
The things that you love

Every thought or every action
I make
Makes me think of you
As if every path
I take will always lead
Back to you

And I just love
Being with you
Because you make me forget
All the horrible things
As if they don't exist

How would I know
If this is love?
Elli Apr 2014
cautiousness causes our mind to break
and body to wither
people who only stay in their comfort zone merely exist, you have to step out of it from time to time to live.
Elli Sep 2014
she said "goodbye"
and he didn't realize that
she never really say that word;
unbeknownst to him that it will be the last thing she will say to him.
so he said "goodbye" too,  but didn't find out it was final until the next day.
Elli Aug 2014
Don't tell me I'm beautiful,
because I've heard that a thousand times
and I bet you've said that to other girls before me;
Like an old shoe, tainted with mud,
or worn-out clothes.

A word that simply scratches the surface,
but barely reaching the inside.
It hangs in the room like dust,
so used and common,
being thrown as if it's the ultimate prize.
As if it just slips out of your tongue,
a word you've always used.

Tell me I'm breathtaking,
as if you hold your breath whenever we're not together
waiting to taste the air again the moment you laid your eyes on me.

Tell me that even the thunderstorms clear out when I'm around you,
or maybe that you feel the sun shines brighter.

Say that I am intelligent,
that you always feel at awe when I speak
because it seems as if the angels were the one
who spoke the words.

Tell me that my voice is sweeter than honey,
and that my laugh is contagious even to strangers.

Because these are the things that I am dying to hear,
metaphors that are waiting to be used.

This word has been splattered on me like a paint,
and I cannot be a masterpiece if it's simply white.

So paint me with words and metaphors that you haven't used
and make a galaxy out of me,
because surely everyone is a masterpiece simply hiding beneath the white paint.
(still editing)

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