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Dec 2014 · 581
a hero or something
HiJinx Dec 2014
He loves that I'm broken
He loves the idea that if he fixes me
He'll be a hero or something

But babe the ones who stay up late
hallucinating they're ok are far from fixable
They're too far gone.
Nov 2014 · 601
Untitled
HiJinx Nov 2014
"Suddenly you're 21 and you're screaming along in the car to all the songs you listened to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different and everything has changed
but everything is good
everything is moving on"
Not sure who owns this, but I saw it on Tumblr, and related to it.
Nov 2014 · 844
It's not fruit punch
HiJinx Nov 2014
he always asks,
what's there to enjoy about alcohol? It tastes disgusting.
I reply every time,
alcohol is not to be enjoyed. You drink fruit punch if you want to drink something for taste. Alcohol is to get rid of the even worse taste in your mouth that every awful person in your life has left.
Nov 2014 · 641
Untitled
HiJinx Nov 2014
"I've wanted more minutes in each day ever since I met you,"
I'm sure who wrote this, but I think it's quite relevant for when you first meet someone you're crushing on. Suddenly, even if you were to spend 24 hours with them, that isn't enough; and you're left wanting more of their company.
Nov 2014 · 544
Always
HiJinx Nov 2014
"why does it sound like you're always saying goodbye?"
"maybe because I don't know if I'll make it to tomorrow"
Jul 2014 · 792
Back and Forth
HiJinx Jul 2014
Black and white
Flip a switch
Toss a coin
personality
Every time I think I see
What's wrong with me
The world flips over
Crushing me
Jul 2014 · 2.5k
Boring
HiJinx Jul 2014
other boys are boring / but you are a burning house / that I want to curl up inside of with a long book / and lay in your bed as your flames engulf / smothering me
Jun 2014 · 877
Tonight
HiJinx Jun 2014
I lost it / everything crumbled underneath my / shaking knees and quivering heart / pupils blurred by salt / water and mouth filled with sharp liquid metal / from biting down the slurs I want to throw at the mirror / i can feel the weight i carry around on my bones / i see the way i move in reflections / it disgusts me and i crave nothingness / weightlessness / emptiness / 130 does not mean a single thing /when there is 120 / 110 / 100 / 90 / 80 /60 / 50 / 40 / 30 / 20 / 10 / when there's zero when I can feel zero and be zero.
Jun 2014 · 533
Hell
HiJinx Jun 2014
If I wanted to feel Hell / I'd spend an eternity next to him / and an afterlife in his skin
Jun 2014 · 2.0k
Open Heart
HiJinx Jun 2014
but does he make you feel like you've just woken up / in the middle of your own / open heart surgery?
Jun 2014 · 628
Mental Glass
HiJinx Jun 2014
in a way my mind is a sheet of thin glass / that has had one too many hammers thrown at / my mentality has shattered into jagged shards that / when I try to piece them back together my hands are torn and sliced / I end up feeling empty and numb from the pain endured / then you stride by with your slender cautious fingers lifting up / my fragmentized mental state / meticulously you built me up again / despite your efforts I am not who I use to be and perhaps that is alright / because you don't mind the gaps between my chipped pieces / you say that's where my light shines through /  for this I have to thank you / and when you do leave know I won't fall apart at your absence / your devotion and caring hands have made me whole-feeling even if / light shines through those serrated mismatched glass pieces
Jun 2014 · 666
...
HiJinx Jun 2014
...
I have periods where I do not speak to anyone / days when I cannot haul myself out of my own bed / nights when I curl up and feel like fading into the night as a ghost /I'm sorry I cannot be a better person to / and for you / because the truth of the matter is that I haven't felt / like a person at all in an incredibly long time / I enjoy the feeling of being hollow inside / like the world has carved my insides out / I do not remember what it is like not to have demons sitting on my shoulder or / voices in my head I'd rather hear than the voices of my own few friend/s
Jun 2014 · 735
Note To Self:
HiJinx Jun 2014
do not build yourself up with bricks / laced of his scent & promises - you will only fall apart / slower & more painfully
Jun 2014 · 1.4k
Suburbs
HiJinx Jun 2014
trapped / these streets are like walls closing in on me / with spikes that are inching closer to my sanity, ready to tear me to shreds / already they are puncturing my lungs / it burns to breathe in this awful suburb and it's mirrored houses with the people smiling / the venom seeping through their teeth / my mind is collapsing into itself / not neat like a fabric napkin / like a telephone number written on a bar napkin crumbled in your back pocket
currently feeling extremely cooped up I need a long vacation thousands of miles away
Jun 2014 · 920
Ashamed
HiJinx Jun 2014
I forget how beautiful he is /looking into his forest eyes, shaded by greens and browns, flecks of yellow sunlight streaming through / it's taken this long for me to see his  beauty and I'm ashamed / ashamed I didn't notice all of him the first night / I laid eyes on him with the fluorescent lights over our heads. / His handsome form hits me hard / knocks me off balance / if I were to be hit on the highway by an eighteen wheel truck, this is how I would imagine it feeling. / I need to feel his hands against my fragile cracking skin, burning heat through my paper thin body. / I fall apart without him and I crumble to the floor /  in his presence.
Jun 2014 · 370
?
HiJinx Jun 2014
?
Do not fall in love with
people like me.
I will take you to
museums, and parks, and
monuments,
and kiss you in everything beautiful
place, so that you can never go
back to them
without tasting me
like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most
beautiful way possible.
And when I leave
you will finally understand,
why storms are named after
people.
Not sure who this belongs to, as I took note of this poem a long time ago but was unable to find the author (even to this day) - it's beautiful none the less & I relate to it.
Jun 2014 · 1.6k
Hoodie
HiJinx Jun 2014
zipping myself into his hoodie / hoping it'd be the equivalent to being / inside his skin
Jun 2014 · 381
Counting Down
HiJinx Jun 2014
All the warning signs / are visible, red flags marking my every flaw / and illuminating my demons / and I'm not sure if you care too much that you're overlooking them, praying I'll get better / or you genuinely do not see the giant numbers over my heart and lungs / counting down my days before I self destruct.
Jun 2014 · 369
you're a fool
HiJinx Jun 2014
I just wanted to be / the girl you broke down about in front / of your mother, screaming / that you loved me and her /saying you're a fool
Jun 2014 · 631
Untitled
HiJinx Jun 2014
I've realized that the people in / my life don't leave / I do. I'm the one running away / from people's lives and perhaps I'm alright with that / and that troubles me
Jun 2014 · 859
Hurricanes
HiJinx Jun 2014
It's assumable that hurricanes / are nothing more than / two am drives home alone / when everything's just gone terribly wrong
Jun 2014 · 2.8k
His
HiJinx Jun 2014
His
his videogames rest on my desk / snuggled under my belongings / his things fit perfectly amongst mine / like the way our fingers lace together under the chilly autumn stars.
Jun 2014 · 2.6k
Lists
HiJinx Jun 2014
you make lists in your head / about what you want in a lover, like
brown hair and a sweet voice / a sharp minds and soft heart, a sense of humour that actually makes you laugh
this and that.

it's all *******

because people are not and can not be lists / I've always wanted to be the person who made someone realize this / I want to come across someone with a list in their head this is nothing like what I am, and I want to show them / what they didn't even know they wanted and what they were looking for.

Nobody knows what they're looking for, and if they say they do,
they're only fooling themselves / Wwe don't know what we want / until it's right in front of us.
Jun 2014 · 975
Purest Substance
HiJinx Jun 2014
I know I am / the thick smoke rolling off fires / but treat me like / the purest substance / to have ever entered your lungs
Jun 2014 · 607
Quicksand
HiJinx Jun 2014
tell me about / the quicksand in your shoes / and how even now / you have troubles standing when you see me smile
Jun 2014 · 559
Us
HiJinx Jun 2014
Us
One day we'll meet
when autumn's fire burns red with
the trees
and pavements brunch with
frosted leaf.
My anxious hands,
too hot, will find yours
and then I know we'll be okay

- T.W
This was written for me by a friend of mine I talk to through Twitter, he's lovely.
Jun 2014 · 1.7k
I refuse
HiJinx Jun 2014
I catch a glimpse of my / utopia in your scintillating eyes / I sense peace in your touch / and hear salvage in the beating of your heart under my ear / perhaps I am too idealistic about the perhaps of us although / I have nothing but sour memories and / skeletons in my overflowing bedroom closet / I cling to the possibility there is / some decent people out there / I have brought proper weapons to this war / my heart has back up this time / I refuse to be hurt anymore
Jun 2014 · 501
Stay Afloat
HiJinx Jun 2014
you hear people tell you how
lovely you are
you read it, hear it roll off
their tongues.
But what you hear disconnects
somewhere
before the point of
receiving.
It gets near but not in
or in but not through.
You close your eyes
and all
you have is a dark black drum,
beating towards a dark sharp
edge, dragging you away

don't let the down days come,
you're begging yourself. Don't
let it swallow you, don't let it
sink, sting, don't lose yourself.
Your only hope is that you've been this low
before and you can float back to the surface
stay afloat, stay
afloat
you don't have to drown, you can drown the dark days
Jun 2014 · 1.1k
Shocked Senses
HiJinx Jun 2014
he is a shock to the senses / like the first sip of hot chocolate / the way the sweet liquid scalds your tongue / like the icy air that wraps it's bony arms around your body / when stepping out of a steaming shower in the early morning hours / he is a sharp inhale when your torso touches the blue water of the swimming pool on a hot Texas afternoon
Jun 2014 · 15.0k
hand in hand
HiJinx Jun 2014
and I don't know /if we're keeping each other / afloat / or drowning hand in / hand

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