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The thuds in my chest stopped being my heart a long time ago-
my feelings ceased,
and maybe me,
the initial person I was,
is knocking on my ribs
begging for freedom.
Throughout all the voices in my head,
his is the lowest,
getting tangled in with all the
killers that took him,
torturing him until he's nothing but a headstone.
You don't see it,
but I do,
how I open my mouth to speak,
and he's accepted I just won't accent my words the way he used to.
My disappointment tore up your eyes,
as you saw the person I was
formed by a web of lies I loved to string up,
and tried to pretend I wasn't struggling to
get out-
All feedback is welcome
I wanted to do something emotional, I hope this conveys that.
 May 2018 Cello Girl
EMD
A heart that is twisted
Beyond all recognition
A torn up novel with a ruined cover

Tonight’s the night,
And in the dark
He’ll somehow fix her bleeding heart

Gilded pages,
A glued up binding,
In a soft new jacket

Pretty words and delicate pictures
Color and dark black ink
The adventure of a story
“Every life is a story to be told”-unknown
 May 2018 Cello Girl
thomezzz
I've just started living and I can already feel the lenses start to break
Sense the veneer crack against this solid slate memory
See the creases and folds of this bittersweet opus, *disaster
A picture-perfect desecration, an arduous whiplash

I may not be old but I can feel the age set into my bones
Sense the muscles and their atrophy, *apathy
See the wrinkles and puckers balloon from my skin
A dotted landscape, a jagged puzzle piece

I may not be bored but I can feel the bugs under my skin
Sense the wild, unfiltered urge of a sleeping giant, *mouse
See the time and seconds flicker by without a second look
A bullet train to nowhere, a jet plane doomed to fail

I may not be sad but I can feel the weight of everything
Sense the cool blue water filling up the tank
See everyone outside the glass smiling, *laughing
An antelope in the lion's mouth, a snuffed out candle

But the days go by so fast
In the vast chaos of life
And in the spiraling, sprawling expanse of time
I've somehow lost you, *me
My wings have now found room to spread
Feathers no longer dampened by the hurricane of home
But I never quite learned how to fly
So I look on in yearning as my peers soar through their ocean of sky
while I’m planted on the all too familiar ground
I wonder when I’ll have my turn to take flight
I wonder if my wings might as well be clipped
It’s a matter of time before I just leap
Without a care of whether I fly or fall
Whether I vacate the ground or become it
My feet are already bound by vines
Entrapping each toe into the unforgiving flora
I struggle to break free from my tangling reality
but I will flap my wings and keep hoping I’ll finally soar
Something I wrote a while ago, when I attempted college and just couldn’t keep up.
 May 2018 Cello Girl
leslie
Stop, listen
But you don't hear because you're not Listening
Static fills the mind
And suddenly you're not you
The lights blind your face
Your fear takes over your mind
And now you've become someone else
But you call and try to get back to yourself
You hope someone out there listens to you
But if no one hears you
Did you make any sound at all?
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