Emma Mariko Rahalski

Emma Mariko Rahalski Mar 2015

Do you remember
our summers
I replay it in my memory
vividly, you infatuating me
we sat and talked ourselves
into loving one another
on a tree with branches
twisting awkwardly
Somehow
we settled on it comfortably
just the two of us
for the weekend
overlooking the still lake
reflecting our bare feet
the restless clouds
and the warm gold sun
spotting the peaks
of the pine trees
whose scent filled our lungs
the sun would fall to the lake
and I would fall for you again
it happened every time
every tedious summer
every nervous weekend
for four years of our lives

Then just yesterday, years later
you tell me the flowers
we found by the lake
that you gave to me
with a gentle kiss
were poisonous
then I tell you
even if I knew
back then
I'd still
kiss
you

holding those fateful flowers
every summer, all over again

#love #summerlove #younglove

Emma Mariko Rahalski Mar 2015

Burns

I turned you into a flame
hoping you would engulf my pain
but everything you touched turned to ash
flames may burn bright
but they destroy everything in their path
there's some sunshine in the hell fire, however,
your wildfire burned everything in my path
and cleared the way for me to move forward

Thanks for that but I wont look back.

#heartbreak #sad #boys #breakup #movingon #unrequitted

Emma Mariko Rahalski Mar 2015

Love Is Not A Mirror

You are not expendable
just because someone did not cling to you
with crusade like determination.

You are not feeble
because you fell to your knees
when someone kicked you in the shins.

You are not pitiful
because your heart beats with more tenacity
than the ones it beats for.

And your heart
will continue to beat with that same valor
with or without them.

You are made of a billion galaxies.
You fill your lungs with life itself;
And for these reasons, please believe
You are more than the love that you receive

<3

I've been having a tough time lately believing that I have to fix myself just because someone does not love me in the way I desire. I'm learning though that others feelings towards us do not and should not reflect our self worth.

#beauty #inspiration #unrequited #encouragement

Emma Mariko Rahalski Feb 2015

Maybe I Can't Leave

Don't you dare
Ask me why I've been distant
Maybe it's because it's been two weeks
Since I've felt your dry nervous hands
Fiddling with mine as if
You were a crack addict
On his last straw from breaking

And maybe it's because you still act
like I'm immovable and tamed
Like I'll come bolting to your feet
at the sound of your name

All this may be true
But you play my like a fool, and I just want to run
But I'm afraid you won't notice
The space I'll leave when I'm gone

#love #sad #relationships #lettinggo #breakups

Feb 2015

Madisen Kuhn

Don't Forget To Live

Time isn't wasted at the end of the day
When you're in bed thinking about all the things
You could've done,
You could've said,
All the empty boxes left on your to do list

Time is wasted
When you're standing on a rock at the edge of a waterhole
And decide to not jump
When you're sitting in your car trying to justify reasons
For not going in
When you anxiously hit backspace
Instead of expressing how you truly feel
When you ignore your heart that's screaming
"You deserve better."

It's lost in I could have and I should have,
In missed opportunities,
In letting fears override judgement

Time is not necessarily wasted
In passing minutes, months, years
We waste time by
Counting seconds,
And by letting seconds pass
When we could've made
Those seconds count

Emma Mariko Rahalski Feb 2015

2/5/15

I'll preserve you with paper and ink
just in case we don't survive to see the day
we planned to pick out our kitchen sink..

Emma Mariko Rahalski Feb 2015

I won't try to forget you.

Some day, one of us will wake up
and not think about the other.
And although I’d like to say
that I could brush you off
in a matter of days,
I’m afraid I’m becoming too accustomed
to your fingers filling the space between mine.
I don’t like the taste
of air that hasn't filled your lungs.
and every moment apart from you
feels like wasted time.

I may be living in a dream
but its true.
I’d never wake up if I knew
it wouldn't be
to the thought of you.

— The End —