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 Oct 2015 Erin
Wednesday
Touch
 Oct 2015 Erin
Wednesday
You can't really blame me, you know.
It's not my fault someone else's hands
can hold me so much better than my own.

Ah. the forbidden sense.
The tell us this is a true connection,
a fault in our armor.

To let fingertips raise goosebumps on your ribcage,
to know what it is like to run your nails on a persons scalp.

To let someone else have a sense of entitlement
and control over your body.
Do not tell me this is a bad thing.

A caress, a slap, an embrace.
Knuckles wrapping around your neck.

This could have been you.

I loved you, first.
I love you, even now.
 Oct 2015 Erin
We Are Stories
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 Oct 2015 Erin
We Are Stories
41
I don't want to die,
But the moon still calls my name.
I think I'll visit.

So I swallow fast!
Until the last lump goes down
And my throat closes!

My eyes shake sideways!
And my arms feel cold again-
This is how and when

This is how and when
It all comes crumbling to the
Ever expected

And overly dull,
Commonly thought out, and the
Quiet, calm, silence.

The ever repeat
Of my tragic tragedy:
My heart wrenching end.






Dear trees who hold me,
I will always miss your songs.
I will miss singing

To the soft echoes
Bouncing through your dark branches.
I won't forget you-

Don't you forget me-
I will never remember
Something like your voice.
 Oct 2015 Erin
NV
he just sounded a bit down over the phone.
and all i really wanted to do,
was wrap my arms around his body like a ring on a finger.
to tell him about the times i get lonely too,
and how the only things that take up space is air,
and the echoes of my heartbeat.
and i swear to god,
i could have cried at the fact that technology only made it easier to love someone you aren't able to touch.
the drop in his voice deeper than any ocean i've been to.
but an ocean i don't mind swimming in,
sinking in.
it's 4:28 in the morning and i don't know if all this writing even makes sense,
or if it's just as bad as the one before.
but one day when he gets lonely again,
i just hope that i'm blessed enough to pick up the keys and drive my way into his arms.
 Oct 2015 Erin
Havran
"People treat you like damaged goods
or ticking time bombs,
as if you’re some oddity
they would never understand
even when they don’t know a thing about you.
You are not some machine to be fixed.
You are not a problem.
You are not a burden.
You are a person
healing from the hurt,
finding warmth
under the rain
and wonder
under the stars.
And late at night
as you share
your stories
I feel like the Earth,
listening,
and remembering,
while you are the Moon,
and you are glowing."
 Oct 2015 Erin
James M Vines
Let me shower you with Rose petals, and cover you with kisses. Let me make our bed of fine satin and lace. Let me bring you priceless gems and adorn you for they will pail in compare to your radiance. Allow me to stand before you in the way of any harm. With sword and shield I will give my life to defend you. Let me prepare you a castle and surround it with a thousand men of war, all to serve at your beckon call. I shall lay before you my wealth and give my lands to you. To bear goodly fruit and fair things for you to eat. All I ask is that you consider me with your love and offer me your affection and I will be your slave as long as I shall live.
 Oct 2015 Erin
chris
word jar
 Oct 2015 Erin
chris
the words i left unspoken,
pile up in my word jar,
waiting to be spoken,
to be spilled.

the words i left unspoken,
untold, are infinite, everlasting.

the words i didn't say,
are waiting for you.
 Oct 2015 Erin
Justin S Wampler
The weight of these words
rolling around in my head
are breaking my neck
one thought at a time.
 Oct 2015 Erin
raine cooper
all the boys she loved were abandoned churches
with no forwarding address
until the day she knocked down his door
and walked into a cathedral
©rainecooper
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