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333 · Sep 2013
Can We Let Go?
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
There is nothing left
For us to say
So how about just a kiss
And then we can let go?

You go left
And I right
Different paths
One dark, another light

Our eyes betray
How much we will miss
Being together, we thought forever
In eternal bliss

But I succumbed
To any thought
Of our futures intertwining and binding
I left those memories to rot

There is nothing left
For us to say
So how about just a kiss
And then we can let go?
332 · Feb 2013
Without Hands
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2013
Just like the sand in
An hour glass
Running in
And out

Never going anywhere
Sounds just tedious to me

I dont want to be sand
In an hour glass
I wanna be free
I want to be me

And what about
The clock without its hands
It still ticks
In the drawer

Broken, rusty
Never used any more

I dont want to be
Put in a drawer
Away, to be forgotten
I wanna have a legacy

I wanna be remembered
So dont forget me

What about the dusty
Books that sit on this shelf
Have you forgotten
Them also

Pages filled of dreams
Wishes, prayers, and imagination
Did you forget them too?

Well dont forget me
And my legacy
Remember me
Dont forget me
Was named Dont Forget. I changed it. Written in 8/03/11. Written to the tune of a song I wrote.
329 · Sep 2013
Walls That Broke
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
I have a problem
With keeping secrets
I never let one go
I know how to keep it

I hold on tight
Placing my blocks with care
Around my little secrets
I challenge people and dare

Dare them to climb over
The walls I've made
Around my secrets
In the walls I used to wade

But now I'm neck deep
In my walls
That's when you broke through
Like a wrecking ball

The dam broke
The secrets pour
You know almost every one
Except for one left on the floor

Leave that one there
Let it lie in mystery
My one last secret
And wonder what it could be
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
I cry often these days
Silently singing to keep
Away the bad thoughts

In the shower and
In my bed
Walking home when no one sees

I cry often these days
And I think
I think about suicide

And how it could solve
All my problems
Down to the last bone

But I'm too much of
A coward
        No, that's makes you strong

No, can't you see?
I'm crumbling and drying up
        I think your life is just about
             To begin
I'm fighting my inner demons and I'm afraid of who is going to win.
322 · Dec 2012
Lies Filled My Heart
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2012
I love you so much
I ignored your                    lies
I just looked for a love
That wasnt there

But now my head hurts
It is                                    filled
With pain
And anger

Over flowing
And                                   my
Head is punding
With hate

My sould is hurting
And my poor                      heart
Is aching
I just want to let go

I want to fall
Fall deep inside,                 to
A peaceful place
Like a heaven

I am running to it
Its                                      the
Only thing I have
Left to hope for

I just have to hope
Faith overflowing to the    brim
And I will make it
I promise
321 · Dec 2013
F
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2013
F
Fake smiles and fly aways
Fiction and fantasies
Fractures and fatalities
Frowns and fits of rage

In which we are drowning
313 · Aug 2013
Hang a Right
Ellyn k Thaiden Aug 2013
My bed is cold
And I can spread out more
Than I have ever wished
In my short life

I want a love
Tangible and real
Like what I use to have
Before **** hit the fan

It was like a calm
Before the storm
As we fought nearly
On a daily

But in the end
We were in the bed
Together with clasped hands
And tangled legs

But you went left
As I went right
The distance grew
More than we planned

But that's okay
I search for someone
Who also decided
To hang a right
310 · Sep 2013
Dont
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
"Simply dont"
Says my mother
But she does not grasp
That I am nearly 17

And "dont" is not
In my vocabulary

Sorry
310 · Sep 2013
This Time Around
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
You only wanted my happiness
When I was in despair
I didn't see your struggle
Through my own selfish haze
And I'm sorry

I should have uncovered my eyes
And seen you were there
Arms out and trying to hold me
That's all you wanted
Was to hold me

But I put up a fight
Saying things were all right
I nearly lost my voice
By saying I'm fine
When I was not

I'm still not fine
And I didn't realize the comfort
That you gave until I told you to go
Now I talk less
And cut more

My life a mess
And my heart aches
All I want now
Is your embrace

But I'm not going to get
What I want this time

Am I?
I'm sorry, Levi.
309 · Sep 2013
I'm Sorry, But I'm Not
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
He says he worries
And he whispers he cares
I tell I've bleed through my bandage
He says to stop there

I cannot stop
A flowing river
My will is weak
So I slice and shiver

His eyes meet mine
Guilt fills me up
And I tell myself I'm done
That's my last cut

But here we are again
In the same routine
With the same old razor
And the same ****** thing
309 · Dec 2013
Back For Seconds
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2013
For the first time
In such a long time
My smile is real
And irreversible

You put it there
But you weren't even here
It's amazing what a few
Words through a text can do

I'm actually getting my
Way for once
Usually they just leave
But no, you come back

Back for a second helping
Of crazy
308 · Nov 2013
Let's Read
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
I want to open you up
Flip through your pages
And cover you with kisses

I want to read the Braille
Of freckles
And touch your paper white skin

And after I'm done
Reading your body
You can read mine too

Though I'm sure
My pages won't have the interesting
Story that yours holds
306 · Nov 2013
Love is a Sinking Ship
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
Love is a
Sinking ship
A ship of which I
Am captain of

I am going down
With this ship
There is no other
Way to run, dear
299 · Nov 2013
Little Girl
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
With that razor
Every slice I make
I hurt the scared little girl
That's pounding on my heart

She just wants to be free from me, too
293 · Dec 2013
To Each Their Own
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2013
After you go through Hell
You don't talk about it
You try to push it back
Down your throat

What might seem like Hell
Another person might pray for
But to you it seem like your lowest
It seems like rock bottom

Little did I know
That after the rock hits
It borrows deep into the sand
And continues its journey down

I'm prepared for more
**** to hit the fan
I have braced myself
And I hope to brave this storm too

Because this too shall pass
292 · Jan 2013
Damn
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2013
I'm loosing my creativity
I'm loosing my will to write
So I'm not giving damns anymore
I'm being myself tonight
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2013
I don't quite know how
You knew but you did
I was about to cut up
When you calmed me down

You called me asking if I
Was fine, and I whispered
"I'm not" into the phone
And I started to cry

Thank you for knowing
286 · May 2013
Happy Memory
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2013
You are that happy memory
That lingers in my head
Us two at the ocean
Intertwined in the bed

But sadly now I toss and turn
Searching through the sheets
For a love we once had
Sorrow took it and reaped
284 · Feb 2013
God Knows
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2013
I cannot take more sadness
I cannot take more pain
My soul is full of these emotions
Like a burning acid rain

I will these feelings to stop
But they do not know the definition
I try to make through the day
With my little amount of ambition

I cannot fathom
Why this happened to you
God knows I cannot live
Without you too
284 · Jan 2013
Work
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2013
I hate it when you work
Cause when you are gone
He screams and yells
He threats us like little pawns

He controls us
When you disappear
Gone until one
I shed the tears

I am quaking
Shaking
Heart breaking
And aching

Because I fear my dear
That one night
You will never
Come back
283 · Jan 2014
You Don't Like Me?
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2014
That's okay
I don't like me either
278 · Mar 2013
Now Do You
Ellyn k Thaiden Mar 2013
By myself 
I walk this path
Broken and torn
By Gods pure wrath

Have he any mercy
I'll make it through

If hell is a place
Then I'm going there
I will find my way
Fair is fair

But you don't really care
Now do you

Well that is fine
I'll find my own
Running through
These catacombs 

That's a nice way
Of putting it

Hold me tight
All through the night
I'll leave on the lights
I'm the first one home

This place is not
A place at all
It's dusty and forgotten
A mangy animal

But you don't really care
Now do you

You just want to escape
Leave us all behind
You've lost yourself
Your eyes are blind

Have you any mercy
I'll make it through

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah.
To the tune of the song Hallelujah. Inspired from it. It is lodged in my head.
276 · Jan 2014
Love Cannot Stop This
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2014
You look me in the eyes
And threaten to leave me
Because you think my blades
Are all that I can see

But the truth is that
Just because I love you
Doesn't mean you can fix me
This you can simply not do

I will stop on my own time
With my own will
And it will not be because of
Love for you

But love for myself
276 · Feb 2014
What They See
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2014
They see the scars
But not the story
They see your mangled outer shell
But not the lessons that put you through Hell

Whether it was from a battle on the field
Or a battle in your head
Or from them cutting you open
To take out the tumor instead

Whether you now have a new
***** in your body
Or you fell of the shed
Maybe you failed at your attempt to be dead

They see the scars
Not the story
272 · Nov 2013
Friend or Not
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
Yes I really like you
Yes, I would **** for a kiss
But I don't think think the feeling
Is mutual

I'm fine with just being your friend
Yes, it does ****
But yes
I do need you here

Friend or not
270 · Nov 2023
I Don't Want To Die
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2023
I don't want to die

I just want enough cash to survive.
I just want food on the table,
Clothes on our backs,
And a handful of of happy memories

I don't want to die

I just want life to be simple,
I just want to run away from my problems,
I just want
I just want
I just want
I just want to

I don't want to die

I want to not feel selfish.
I just want to take a breath.
To not feel the guilt creep in,
Every time I watch Netflix or Disney.
Every time I try to get a good deal at Walmart or Amazon,
When I buy a burger,
Buy a shirt,
Buy a vacuum,
Buy water
that I'm helping a company further dig it's talons into our soil, our souls,
Our morales trying to take refuge somewhere not in reality
Because this reality can't sustain
A healthy mind
And a healthy wallet
At the same time

I don't want to die

My mind won't stop screaming.
The mind never quiets,
Never pauses,
Never takes respite.

I have locked eyes with something,
I'm not sure what yet.
It waits patiently, though,
At the edge of my vision.

It feels like I can't breathe,
I can't breathe,
"Please, bend the knee,
Get off of me!"

I don't want to die

Gaza is being bombed
Mother's cry out for their children
Father's carry theirs in grocery sacks
The people have been cut of from water, food, electricity, internet

I don't want to die

But sometimes it feels endless,
Feels like I'll never get my peace,
It feels like I'm carving out a place in the world that rejects me at every turn.
An endless fight, rolling the stone uphill.
And yet, I try.

I don't want to die.

I want to keep trying.

I want to keep moving,
Keep making noise
We need to keep making noise,
Now is the time that we resist
Now is the time that we fight back

They can't keep us in the dark anymore
We are seeing the light
Post by post
Video by video
Lived experience, parasocial relationships, live footage
We are watching the horror around the world
As a collective
We can be so much more than individuals, we can rise up
As a collective

I don't want to die

Sometimes it might feel like
I want to die
But I promise, it's not a permanent feeling
We can channel our anguish into passion
Our passion into words
Our words into action
We have the power of transmutation
We can decide where our story goes

I don't want to die

I want to fight
Free Palestine. Free Hawaii. Free Congo. Free Puerto Rico. And more. And don't lose hope. We have the power to change so much. We are on the brink of a whole new way of life, where capitalism and patriarchy and religion don't have to rule our lives. We can do amazing things.
270 · Mar 2013
Falling Up
Ellyn k Thaiden Mar 2013
I feel so                                                                      distant
Form where I once called home
My heart is lonely
I did that on my own

I cannot tell where I came                                       from
I do not remember my old life
If I did I might try harder
Steer from the perfect knife

The world is cold and                                             the
People are colder
No one will lend
There frozen shoulders

I am loosing my                                                    mind
Falling up from sanity
The world I thought I knew
Is not a reality
268 · Sep 2013
Its Been a Year
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2013
Its been a year
Since I have heard you claws
Click on the floor

Its been a year
Since I have heard you banging
On the back door

Its been a year
Since you ripped that old blanket
You ripped and tore

But the scratches on the floor
The back door
And the blanket in which you tore
Remains the same

But oh love
Nothing is the same
My Sam.
268 · Oct 2013
Walk To Decide
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
Tomorrow I promise
I will walk right over to you
I won't get nervous
And avoid what I need to do

I will tap your shoulder
And when you twist around
I will smile large
And I won't make a.sound

I'll let your mouth and eyes
Tell me what I need to know
I'm I'm clinging
On an imaginary string of hope

If I see what I need to see
I will work my way back
Into your heart
And life will be right and on track

Tomorrow I will walk up to you
And this walk will decide
If you're here to stay
Or if you're going to hide
268 · Feb 2013
Memory
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2013
My memory is failing me
I feel tired all the time
The ache in my stomach
Feels like I've swallowed dimes

I am terrified
Of whats next to come
My body feels old
Even though I'm young

And my body feels tired
Ancient and out of place
The blanks in my memory
Are leaving to much space

Did I mention
My memory
Is failing me?
267 · Nov 2013
My Bad
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
"I'm sorry for
Abusing you through
The entirety of the
Relationship, my bad"

"I'm sorry for *******
Up your whole
Family's life
My bad"

"I'm sorry for
Rapping you
The other night
My bad"

Apologies don't fix
Every mistake
No matter how sorry
You are
264 · Sep 2012
Forever
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2012
I meet you
In the middle
Of September
How could I not remember
That smile of yours

You said that
It wouldnt last forever
But now
Im wishing somehow

It would...
262 · Apr 2013
Why?
Ellyn k Thaiden Apr 2013
Why?
This is the quiestion my world
Revolves around
Circling and spinning
Spirling
Why?
259 · Jan 2013
Simply
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2013
They say that
Money makes the world go round

It's nights like these
That make me wish it simply
Didn't.
249 · Aug 2013
18
Ellyn k Thaiden Aug 2013
18
18 seems so close
But so far away
It doesn't arrive quick enough
Here I don't want to stay
241 · Oct 2013
Secret Sharing
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
I'm confused
Because yes, she is sweet
And yes, my heart likes her
And my brain tells me I should

But today something happened

The only place I've slightly conveyed
My issues and my problems whole
Is this website here
This is my diary for strangers far and near

But today you got me talking
As we we're driving
You we're so inviting
I lent my secrets to you

Only time will tell
If this secret sharing
Was a mistake
Or the best choice yet
240 · Oct 2013
I Made You Smile...
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
While talking to you
You said I made you smile
Made you happy
Made your day

After these months I
Am elated I can
Still make your lips
Shift from their usual form
240 · Oct 2013
Mixed Signals
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
Either take me
Or leave me

But do not
Lead me on
237 · Nov 2013
Letting Go Another Heart
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
I did not forget you
I didn't not leave you
I did not abandon you
I did not tease you

It your memory that has faded
It's you that walked away
You were the one to leave
And hold your love up in the air

You made me reach for it
You made me stretch
And no matter how hard I tried
I couldn't grasp it

So don't point your finger
At me anymore
I'm finally putting myself first
And I'm walking out our door
235 · Oct 2013
One to Twelve
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
One and only one
All I need is one more
Red line of beauty on my skin
Then I'll be complete

I tell myself one
And one turns into four
Which turns into seven
Then we end with twelve

It helps and makes me heal
The cold metal caressing my skin
Almost a burn
And one turns into twelve
234 · Nov 2013
Up and Up We Go
231 · Dec 2013
Below The Frost
Ellyn k Thaiden Dec 2013
He used to want to fly
Way up in the sky
But now his dreams are ruined
Cause he's six feet below the frost
229 · Nov 2013
Do I Stay
Ellyn k Thaiden Nov 2013
I wish I could know if
I would leave behind a few broken hearts
A few shattered souls
A few people ripped apart

It might change
If I decide to stat or go
When I bite the bullet
What emotions will people show

But I know that if I were to leave
All that would be left behind
Is an empty shell of me
An already empty state of mind
229 · Oct 2013
Girl Who Cried
Ellyn k Thaiden Oct 2013
I am the
Girl who cries wolf

Except this time
Someone believes
222 · May 2021
Final Chapter
Ellyn k Thaiden May 2021
I'm always searching for peace
Some sort of resolve to chapters
That never received a clear cut ending
Trying to finish writing a story that I didn't start
Viscously attempting to make sense of it all
Filling in the blanks with timid words
Guessing at how it was supposed to end

I want to be angry
I want to leave everyone behind
Go where no one knows my name
Where guilt and shame aren't forced  on me
Find myself and move on like everyone else gets to do
I wonder what it's like to be able to breathe
To break apart from your past self
To find inner peace

I wonder what it's like to be loved by someone
With their whole heart
To be their first choice
I wonder what that looks like
To be loved with no expectations
Trusting someone so deeply
I wonder what it feels like to be held
By someone who could never imagine
Letting you get away
I wonder a lot of things

There's a shadow looming over
Breathing down my neck
It won't let me forget
It forces me to remember

I don't want to remember
I just want my story to end
217 · Feb 2013
I Know
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2013
I feel my time
Is coming to an end
The light in the tunnel
Is around the bend

I don't know why
Or how I know
I just know
My life hangs low

Everything around me
Is dying quickly
So I must be next
These thoughts are sickly

But still I know
My life is going to be
Cut shorter than the rest
Then I will be free
216 · Feb 2013
You
Ellyn k Thaiden Feb 2013
You
Dead and numb
I wake every morning
But you my darling
Awake with open eyes

After all this pain
You still love the world
You are still thoughtful
Precious and kind

Through all our trials
And tribulations
One thing has remained
A constant in my life

And that is you
215 · Sep 2019
Vacant
Ellyn k Thaiden Sep 2019
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
Where do we go from here?
When did you stop loving me?

Was it a year ago? Two?
Was is more than that?
When did the feelings start to fade?
What did I do for you to stop caring?

The thing is
I feel like you think I'm terrible
I'm walking garbage
You left me like I was

What did you see in me
In the first place?
Why did you even choose me
In the first place?

Was it slow?
Was it some specific action?
I tried to be there for you
I tried to help

But you never let me in
You never let me help
Even when you were vulnerable
You were still closed up

I feel like I never knew you
I feel like you wouldn't know me anymore
I'm not the same person
I'm different, things have changed

They will never go back to
What they were
But I have this sick fantasy
Made up in my head

That you'll call me at 3 a.m.
Voice shaking and heart aching
You'll take everything back
You'll say sorry and want me again

Want me like how I want you

I can't talk to anyone
The way I can talk to you
I can't sit in silence with anyone
The way silence feels comfortable with you

No one feels like you
My heart is empty
I've been doing stupid things
Letting stupid things happen

Just so I can feel something
Anything at all
But everything is numb
It feels like I'm in a play

I'm a guest star in my own life
I'm sleep walking on set
I'm a robot, performing basic functions
I'm a puppet, letting everyone tug on my strings

Nothing feels real anymore
No where feels like home
No one feels like home
I don't know what to do or where to go

I am stuck in a place
I'm not even sure where it is anymore
I can't stop rambling
Filling this empty space

Nothing fills this empty space
My heart still aches
Everyone feels like a stranger
No where is home

I just want to die
Because then the pain would be over
At least I wouldn't feel empty
I just wouldn't exist anymore

That's better than this empty I feel

I can't go back
I don't think I deserve to go back
I don't deserve a lot of things
I don't deserve a lot of people

I don't deserve to be here
They don't deserve someone
As empty as me
As cold and harsh as me

Everyone is pretending to like me
My own lover hates the way I look
My own family tolerates me
That's why I can't leave

If I were to leave
What would I do?
Where would I go?
I'm trapped

I'm trapped in this empty shell
I'm trapped in my own head
I'm trapped in this relationship
I'm so tired
202 · Jan 2013
One That Got Away
Ellyn k Thaiden Jan 2013
I don't think that
I ever want to marry

Why love when you know
You can never love like that again
201 · Apr 2013
Whats New?
Ellyn k Thaiden Apr 2013
Over text
Again
You broke my heart
Again

But hey!
What's new
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