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Well I hope you’re good
at jumping fences
and running quickly
and lowering defenses

And I hope you’re good
at catching what’s running
and I hope you don’t think
that ice is numbing

I’ll turn and I’ll run
I’ll look away
I’m uncatchable
But I want you to stay

I’ll be drawn to you
You’ll be drawn to me
And just before we collide
I’ll run for safety

Well I hope that you
Don’t mind the chase
Because I can’t slow down
Until I know it’s safe

So I'll run my fastest
I'll build my fences
I'll slow down when you show me
It's safe - from a distance
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
I lived on "what if's?" and "what could've been's..."

I always dwell on missed opportunities

But I could never remove the fear

of falling in love

                                              Thought I'd be scared for the nth time around

                                                         ­   because here's that scary feeling again

                                                          ­                      Yet it feels all too different

                                                      ­                                   This thing called love
And I will never be afraid again.
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
I won't say a thing

I'll zip my lips

Lock my words with a key

and die  keeping this secrecy

Silence saves regret

spares any embarassment

and any future guilt

for the things I want to say

and feelings I feel

won't be returned to me
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
What we have doesn't mean anything

and if it ever does, it means nothing

And that's actually a good thing

If there isn't any complicated feelings
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
Don't **** yourself, I beg of you
I guess you think you're alone
I bet you think I won't understand

Well, honey, I do

I know what it feels to be on the edge
And when all my cries fall on deaf ears
Drown in a flood of tears
The agonizing loneliness that won't go away

Please, don't forget to hold on
I know you could
Remember that I'm always here
and you are not alone

I promise, it will get better
Some of my really good friends are going through very rough times emotionally. I thought about them when I wrote this.
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
It didn't feel like anything

The moment he kissed me

He was the perfect stranger

whom I've gotten along with

but the kiss was so sudden

I could've been filled with rage

Instead, it's this kiss I hunger

even if I'm not in love with him
One of those "Last night, I..." stories of mine.
Gillian Cortez Apr 2015
Hello to the guy in the white polo
the formal black slacks
and polished black shoes
You could've noticed a little girl around
who is utterly attracted to you
You look at me every now and then
and I ignore those looks of yours
you don't know I'm secretly giddy
flattered, enthralled, enamored
Writing this right now in school while some upper class guy is sitting across me. Hoping for sparks to happen.
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