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Erin Mar 2014
In a hundred years
within dusty photographs,
children will wonder
why we never smiled.
But the truth is
that I was done
with concealing this sadness.
And the children will wonder
why we're so sad.
Because society told me
that I needed to hate myself.
Erin Mar 2014
Don't ever let anyone
tell you
that you can't shine.
Because to me
you are a diamond.
Erin Mar 2014
Wash your face.  
Brush your teeth.  
Bathe every day.  
Make sure to look your best.  
Comb your hair.  
Not that way, this way.  
Don’t wear that, it’s too short.  
Don’t wear that, it’s too revealing.
You don’t want people to get the wrong idea about you.  

Don’t be friends with boys.  
They’re nothing but trouble.  
You don’t want people to get the wrong idea about you.  

Make friends.  
Be nice to everyone who isn’t nice to you.  
Don’t let the people see you cry.  
You don’t want people to get the wrong idea about you.  

Wash your own clothes.  
Clean your room.  
Clean your bathroom.  
Help clean the house.  
This is how to iron.  
This is how to cook.  
This is how to clean.  
Not that way, this way.  
Don’t talk to people that way.  
You don’t want people to get the wrong idea about you.  

Don’t show people you’re weak.  
This is how to at properly in public.  
This is how to act properly to family.  
This is how to act properly at home.  
This is how to act properly at school.  
You don’t want people to get the wrong idea about you.
Erin Feb 2014
You and I are fiction.
I've got one foot in
and one foot out.
Make up your mind
please leave me no doubt.

Our story is untold.
Waiting to happen
like the sun waits to shine.
And suddenly everything
is okay and alright.

You and I are fiction.
You are the sand
and I am the sea.
Things never worked out
between you and me.
Erin Feb 2014
Tell me you love me
When I say that I hate you.

When I call you up
and it's 2:30 in the morning
because I've been
drinking away the pain,
Tell me you love me.

When I'm lying
on the bathroom floor
trembling and trying
to find the words to say
but I can't make a sound,
Tell me you love me.

When I'm carving
the remnants of pain
you caused me
into my skin,
Please tell me you love me.
Even though you don't.
Erin Feb 2014
We were a ship
that never
sailed.

You were the sea
unsteady
and weak.

I was the storm
just about
to leak.
A relationship that could have happened but didn't because of someone's existing personal problems/emotions.
Erin Feb 2014
Boats are not cars.
Cats are not fish.
What a shame it would be
to compare a heart to a tree.
To compare you to me.
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