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1.2k · Apr 2016
burn
embla Apr 2016
Your sentences border on senseless
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
How they perceive you
Hamilton
1.1k · Feb 2016
you are not
embla Feb 2016
You are not your pain.
You are not your pain.
You are not your pain.

You are not what happened to you.
You are not what happened to you.
You are not what happened to you.

You are not what they did to you.
You are not what they did to you.
*You are not what they did to you.
By no means.
Say it until you believe it to be true.
1000 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
You don't get to hurt me and then judge the way I respond.
embla Mar 2016
i wonder what you would say if..
you knew you shattered my peace of mind.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew you destroyed my self-confidence.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew that seeing your face sends a shiver down my spine.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew what we thought about you now.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew that you crossed my mind every day.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew i was simply trying to avoid change.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew i forced myself to feel something.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew i used you just like you used me -  but you used me knowingly.

i wonder what you would say if..
you knew that like you, i was just afraid of being alone.

i wonder what you would say if..
the tables were turned on you.

i wonder what you would say if..
*i said i never loved you.
What if I told you this entire poem was a lie?
906 · May 2016
stars
embla May 2016
I always saw stars in your eyes, but now.. my God, they're even brighter. They're so much brighter.
882 · Feb 2016
i'm sorry
embla Feb 2016
I will not change for you.
I understand, I understand, I understand.
You have never once asked me to.
But what you don't understand is that what you want would require me to change.
It would require me to stifle parts of my soul, of who I am to make it work.
I can't silence these pieces of me any longer.
I'm sorry, but I can't make that sacrifice.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, *I'm sorry.
866 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
Forgetting the past is the easiest thing in the world to preach about, until you're the one in question.
855 · Feb 2016
<>
embla Feb 2016
<>
I am tired of this place, I hope people change
I need time to replace what I gave away
And my hopes, they are high, I must keep them small
Though I try to resist..

I still want it all
FOOLS // Troye Sivan
826 · Apr 2016
not one
embla Apr 2016
Not a single
demand,
expectation,
conjuncture,
influence
will keep me from living for me
and living out the hopes, dreams, and light
that I have suppressed for so long
at the request of others around me.
789 · Mar 2016
irony
embla Mar 2016
How dare you laugh at my faults when you're the epitome of human failure?
702 · Mar 2016
quote
embla Mar 2016
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

-- Rick Warren
682 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
Quit selling your soul to the temporary.
653 · Jan 2016
quote (I)
embla Jan 2016
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
651 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
I joke about being lonely all the time, but I don't think anybody gets that it isn't a joke anymore.
***** this.
630 · Jan 2016
chest pains
embla Jan 2016
i can't touch my temples
without
excruciating pain

i can't draw in a breath
without
pounding pain in my upper chest

i can't pull myself out of a chair
without
my legs feeling weak and jelly-like, unreliable and about to buckle

i can't walk down the hallway
without
everything spinnng, spinning, spinning oh how disoriented i am

i can't lay my head down for more than a second
without
my heavy eyelids forcing themselves shut and my brain cutting off

i can't
focus
concentrate
motivate myself

i can't get through the day
without
exerting every bit of the fragile energy in my body i have that day

every day is a chore
every day i have to push and grapple with symptoms upon symptoms that will not go away and continue to increase in number

each day i collapse on my bed and force back leaking tears
caused by
the constant pain and aches that overrun my body
caused by
the inability to want to do anything other than sleep to rid myself of this neverending fatigue
caused by
the mental fog that just won't lift

i can't stop shaking
from
this constant anxiety

my body is breaking itself down
and i
i am helpless to stop it

i am
i am
i am

i can't
i can't
i can't
611 · Jan 2016
lyrics (IV)
embla Jan 2016
Out on the verge of the rest of our lives tonight
Top of the world and we're dressed to the nines tonight
Edge of the earth and we're touching the sky tonight
Out on the verge of the rest of our lives
"Verge" // Owl City
I've never felt more alive.
For the people who relit the fire in my soul.
567 · Feb 2016
8w
embla Feb 2016
8w
They only hurt you after you hurt them.
561 · Jan 2016
conversing
embla Jan 2016
"It was like every **** second we didn't say 'I love you' was suffocation and letting it out was like finally being able to breathe."
**"I may not understand it all but God do I know the feeling of not being able to stand halfway. It's almost as if nothing is better in a twisted **** way."
516 · Feb 2016
bitter? me?
embla Feb 2016
No, I'm not bitter - I just don't have to stick around and tolerate your selfish stupidity.
513 · Apr 2016
X
embla Apr 2016
X
.. *"and gets used by a man who can't love"
Prove it
Show everyone you can
I know you can
495 · Feb 2016
4w
embla Feb 2016
4w
And sometimes, people aren't.
This can mean a lot of things. I feel like the word or characteristic you think of upon reading it can say a lot about your current situation. Who knows.
492 · Feb 2016
elastic heart
embla Feb 2016
And I want it, I want my life so bad
I'm doing everything I can

Well, I've got thick skin and an elastic heart,
But your blade - it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard
Yeah, I may snap and I move fast

But you won't see me fall apart
**'Cause I've got an elastic heart
by sia. not mine
479 · Mar 2016
8w
embla Mar 2016
8w
I will, if only for my own sanity.
461 · May 2016
I Can Barely Say
embla May 2016
I've been gone so long
I can barely say
All I know is now I want to stay
Has it been too long since I went away?
Cause I'm trying to find the words but I can barely say
the fray
455 · Feb 2016
MF
embla Feb 2016
MF
"In a cold and sunshiny haze, I will forget about this."
429 · May 2016
Feeling
embla May 2016
And truly, it is an unnerving feeling to be both absolutely infuriated and completely, utterly heartbroken.
426 · Mar 2016
change
embla Mar 2016
Everything is about to change.
Whether it's for better or for worse is unknown to me.
I wanted change, so here it is.
Ask and you shall receive, I guess.
419 · Mar 2016
alive again
embla Mar 2016
You've restored something in me that nobody else has been able to revive.
How do I begin to thank you?
407 · May 2016
One Line
embla May 2016
"Love you, see you Monday"

You immediately came back after your response in our emotion-charged talk and told me this.
My immediate reaction upon reading this simple line was to laugh (out of shock and happiness, of course), but it was immediately followed by unforeseen cying - no, *sobbing
- because you finally made it crystal clear.
I knew you cared about me.
They've been trying to convince me you don't, but I knew better.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
397 · Feb 2016
i miss
embla Feb 2016
I miss my family
I miss my family I miss my family I miss my -
I miss being loved
382 · May 2016
behind a screen
embla May 2016
Sure, I can say whatever I want behind a phone screen and you'll never know otherwise.
But if you told me to look you in the eyes and sincerely say I didn't love you still, I couldn't do it.
I want you to ask.
380 · Feb 2016
world
embla Feb 2016
I thought the world of you.
How small my world was.
376 · Mar 2016
even now
embla Mar 2016
Still obsessed with what you lost, eh?
It's funny to think that you claim you aren't.
You're not good at acting like you don't care.
367 · Feb 2016
\\
embla Feb 2016
\\
One gonna hold my memory, another gonna close the door              
One gonna leave me restless, another wanting more
"keepsake" // state radio
embla Mar 2016
How was I pathetic for loving you?
embla Jan 2016
Simply shooting the word love from your mouth like gunfire across a battlefield proves nothing. Love is expressed in actions. The word alone is utterly useless and is just another string of letters in the English language. Words have absolutely no meaning until we give one to them through our behavior and animate them by utilizing our human nature and creativity. The feeling of love exists at the core of our very beings - it's natural, and it's what we instinctively long for.
337 · Feb 2016
class
embla Feb 2016
"Is there anything you're thankful for?"
*"Gradual transitions."
said by a classmate
334 · Mar 2016
incapable
embla Mar 2016
Once again, I find myself entirely incapable of hate.
Physically impossible for me.
How could I purely hate someone I once loved so much?
331 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
Sometimes, you have to shake your head and say "***** it." Divert your attention to something new and you'll find something precious.
325 · Jan 2016
lyrics (I)
embla Jan 2016
I know that you're waiting
'Cause love is worth saving
But only for so long
So long
*So long
"It Only Hurts" // Default
322 · Feb 2016
anxiety
embla Feb 2016
I have anxiety about my anxiety.
It's a constant vicious cycle that is wearing my body down little by little, destructing my health and the little peace of mind I have.
319 · Apr 2016
Weapon
embla Apr 2016
You've always tried to keep me concealed, as if I was a weapon of sorts.
A weapon that could threaten everything you've built from the ground up.
I've never seen myself as dangerous.
I've never seen myself as needing to be handled with extreme caution, lest you accidentally shoot yourself in the foot.
Why is it that you see me as a loaded gun, love?
I'm not capable of such violence.

You've always been reckless when it came to me.
Why the sudden hesitation?
296 · Apr 2016
confidence
embla Apr 2016
Shocking, really, how quickly things can change,
largely due to this new burning and gleaming confidence.
I'm like a river - free, flowing, and coursing,
and nothing will ever confine me again.
Try to control me. You will fail.
293 · Apr 2016
Apology
embla Apr 2016
I'm sorry she led me to believe I didn't care about either of you.
I love you both with my whole heart and soul - I don't think I'll ever stop.
290 · Apr 2016
Different
embla Apr 2016
"It's different with her."
Why?
Why am I always a different story?
Why am I always the exception?
It's been three years.
I still don't know.
It's been three years.
I *need
to know.
It's been three years.
I'm scared to know.
289 · Feb 2016
Extent
embla Feb 2016
Nobody believes it anymore, and those who still do don't know the extent of the damage done.
Give it up already. This is pathetic.
288 · Feb 2016
Untitled
embla Feb 2016
There is not
one. single. person.
One person that I was close to in the past that is still in my life today.
Not a single person I loved once that still loves me in return.
Good riddance.
281 · Feb 2016
will i
embla Feb 2016
Will I ever feel like I have a place, a home?
Will I ever be enough?
Will I ever be a constant to somebody?

I think the answer is no, at this rate.
I thought it was starting to work itself out.
I suppose I was wrong.
280 · Feb 2016
dreams
embla Feb 2016
Get out of my dreams, get out, get out, get out.
I'm not going down this road again.
Please don't do this.
Although.. admittedly, it was the best dream I've had in a while. It wasn't a nightmare.. and I woke up happy.
277 · Jan 2016
C (I)
embla Jan 2016
I did have to grow up too fast.
I just never realized it until you said it to me.
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