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3.0k · Jan 2021
Nothing new
MB Jan 2021
Whisper broken promises
I’ve heard them all before

Tell me all your excuses
I have them memorized word for word

Tell me pretty lies
Nothing you can do is new

The precedent was set before I was born-
Before anything had to do with you.

Just please promise you will stay
Because he never did.

Now I sit here and wait
Waiting for your text,
Waiting for his call,  
Or for the letter signed-
         Love,
                  Dad
Waiting up for you to show up-
but u never did
2.5k · Sep 2021
words left unsaid
MB Sep 2021
Oh all the words left unsaid-
All the fits of anger,  
   I twisted away under a bitten tongue.
All the tears i didn't cry,
  stored in a vault in my heart.
And yet we crammed all the 'what ifs' into a single,
   "Goodbye."

Yet, when he puts his hand on my waist,
and pulls me in
for the last fiery kiss
I hold my breath for just a second-
as if i could bottle this moment up
into a single memory,
and I could live there forever
floating in his arms.

And I'll wonder if he thinks of me
as the girl he could have loved all his life,
or just a chapter of many lovers
that he left unread.
I guess we will never know
1.6k · Jan 2021
Modern icarus lovers
MB Jan 2021
I never liked Romeo and Juliet
But I’m okay with crashing-
just let me crash and burn in your arms
Let’s try to touch the sun
before we know what’s good for us
Let the wax melt and hold me close
Let the feathers and tears fall  
Because at least we can say-
We flew
Let’s reach the sun tonight
1.2k · Mar 2021
A simple sadness
MB Mar 2021
When I'm sad,
pain trickles down my chest,
from my heart,
to my sleeve
and paints it all red.
salty tears sting my broken parts
1.1k · Dec 2020
People pleaser
MB Dec 2020
How many friendships
I would end-
if was honest,
about the wounds
they caused me.

Subtle taunts,
and soft jabs,
created deep holes
of insecurities.

But instead,
I hold my tongue,
and bite my cheek-
because I want them to like me.
sometimes the people closest to you - are the ones holding to tight
981 · Jan 2021
Wrapped in you
MB Jan 2021
Hands on hands,
legs entangled,
blushed cheeks,
soft touches,
crinkled noses
and secret smiles.  
Perfectly falling for u.
Let’s hope I can catch myself
955 · Jan 2021
love yourself
MB Jan 2021
They say that relationships don't work endless you love yourself-
that you can't love someone if your not happy alone.  

That may be a problem-
but then why do I love my hands when your hands hold them?
or my legs when they are entangled in yours?
or my cheeks when you kiss them?
or my smile when you laugh?

is that close enough?
to love myself with you...
or are we doomed?
lets hope that they are lying
679 · Feb 2021
Wither away
MB Feb 2021
Haven’t written in a day
Nothing much to say
While I wither away
I just wonder if they noticed
670 · Feb 2021
Relapse
MB Feb 2021
I’ve missed you sadness
I’ve been pushing you off
Keeping busy
But your tang
Your forbidden kisses
On my wrist-

The pain
Gets me so high
I miss feeling something
560 · Apr 2021
No one else but you
MB Apr 2021
No one notices your scars as you do,
how deep they run, every little twist and turn on your skin

No one else will carry your scars the way you do,
how you hide them so perfectly, to never see the light of day

No one will know how the scars came about,
how you **** a little part of yourself every night, just to feel alive

No matter how many fingers run across your scars,
They will never fully understand your pain, the journey that you took

No one will know your pain as you do and that's okay-
You know what you feel, and no one can take your strength away

But no one else will start your recovery but you.
I see you, and it gets better
530 · Dec 2020
My bad little habit
MB Dec 2020
Loving you was my self harm,
your words like a blade upon my skin,
making marks on my memories,
and tearing me apart by each cut.

So I became addicted to the high
but now with you gone,
I recreate the memories on my wrist-
but its not the same self-inflicted.

And I lied that day,
I said I did not love you,
but loving you was killing me
and losing you is my recovery.
Yes, you were a bad little habit-
but you were my bad little habit
515 · Dec 2020
Flower boy
MB Dec 2020
How can one be so carelessly cruel?
To run around a field, picking flower after flower-
not seeing the weeds that have grown
or the flowers you have stepped on.

And I am just a broken petal-
but when you smile at me like that again,
I can forget the bouquet that is in your hand
and let you stomp on me all day
Somehow your sweet lies always work on me
507 · Jan 2021
Sorry
MB Jan 2021
I'm sorry for double texting
and reading into every word-
that I miss you so much
and that it consumes me,
and that I hold onto every little snippets of
emotion crumbs that you leave.

Sorry I just don't know how to love in a healthy way.
If I could- I would
MB Mar 2021
The girl with the bright blonde hair
drawing hearts on her notes with no care,
with her hand always raised
and always getting praised.

But one day she fell into a lull,
overtime her hair seemed to dull,
her seat moved farther back,
and new clothes all shades of black.

Maybe I should have taken it as a sign,
but she always swore she was fine-
I wonder if she would call me fake
if I were to show up at her wake.

From a boy who never said hi,
to a girl who committed suicide.
left to wonder if she would have said hi back
235 · Nov 2020
no more tears left
MB Nov 2020
I don't know if I can't cry
because I don't miss you anymore
or because I'm so used to the pain
that it numbs my heart

my love for you is as leaky as a faucet,
destined to never stop-
one drop at a time
till I lose my mind
I wish I could cry- because then at least I would feel alive
Instead I am empty inside
217 · Nov 2020
I miss him
MB Nov 2020
His soft touches
with warm embraces,
turnt to bruises and scars
all over her arms.

His sweet lies
full of warm sugar,
stuffed her throat with honey
till she's was gasping for air.

His rampant insecurities-
the way he made her wear them,
like a shield of armor
bore to protect him.

But most of all she misses
the way he played with her.
For now all she feels is numbness-
where once was her heart.
It is a twisted thing-
to miss the one who made cry-
but at least then you had someone to blame
152 · Nov 2020
I wish I wasn’t her
MB Nov 2020
She liked new clothes,
She would wear them out for days-
till they got raggedy and thin,
then she would throw it out -

He liked her,
He watched her shop and pursue,
but he was still confused,  
on the day she threw him out -

As if he wasn’t a new thing to try on
I tried to love you- but I like shiny new things
138 · Dec 2020
First
MB Dec 2020
I hate you
for stealing all my firsts-
my first kiss
my first touch
for tainting all my memories

for every new person will be compared to you
and I can't just drink the memory of you away
for you will always be first
you will always have that over me

I hate you for saying you love me-
who loves someone like that?
How can I ever learn to love-
when you were my example
I hate you- I hate you for making me hate love

— The End —