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Apr 2016 · 362
Existing and Seeing
Haley Deese Apr 2016
I don't exist in a realm where I see myself.

I live in a world of flashing images,
Only some of which I have control over.

I'm drifting through the moments,
Trying my best to float back to you.
Apr 2016 · 794
The Purity of Snowflakes
Haley Deese Apr 2016
Everything was white and soft.
The sky looked like home.
I never knew snowflakes could make me feel so human.
Apr 2016 · 421
In the Fall
Haley Deese Apr 2016
I fell in love with you in the fall.
Your presence like a crisp breeze
so refreshing, nothing could ever feel that good again.
Stealing glances from across the room
It took all I had in me not to fall to a million pieces.
I'd give anything for you to make me self destruct.

You put me on edge in the best way possible.
For you I'd fall apart forever.
Oct 2015 · 310
The Darkness and The Light
Haley Deese Oct 2015
Maybe feeling the darkness is the only way to bring us to the light.

And maybe these people in our lives with stay
And maybe they will go but
Maybe if we hold that little bit of love in our hearts
That little bit of light
Then maybe we'll have the strength to push away all the darkness
Until we're blind to all the bad
Till all we can see is the good.

And maybe there will always be shadows
But they will be behind me now.
Oct 2015 · 255
Changing Memories
Haley Deese Oct 2015
I try hard not to think about you.
Because I hear the more times you recall a memory,
The more bits of it change.

But I want to remember you exactly the way you were,
Because you've already changed enough.
Oct 2015 · 396
Leftover Words
Haley Deese Oct 2015
Maybe I could write those things here.
Those things that I wish I could say but I don't know how.
Maybe we can both write to people who don't exist
And pretend somehow we receive it.
Maybe those words are safer in a place unknown.
Feb 2015 · 390
Turn of the Tides
Haley Deese Feb 2015
I always thought
You were the one I could depend on
The one that would never turn on me
But the world turned on you
The wind inside you grew cold
You no longer were a daisy in my field of gray.

With you gone
Who will be there to make things okay?
Jun 2014 · 294
What is Love?
Haley Deese Jun 2014
Stories told of love so true.
Formed my vision of a world with you.

What is love?

If not the drop of hope in a baron sea.
The all of you that there is in me.

The only flicker in a perpetual darkness.
How grateful I am that you had a part in this.

The first drop of ink on a blank page.
Finally finding the right words to say.

Love is pure and love is sure.
The remnant of life when there is no more.

So what is love? I cannot say.
But in a life full of minutes, you are the day.
May 2014 · 376
This Fight
Haley Deese May 2014
Sitting around.
Saving up energy for round 2.
The silence says more than the screaming to ensue.
Love and war means all is fair.
No amount of empty notions
Could make up for the emotional disrepair.
Sit in the corner tearing out your hair.
No bell rings to start this fight.
Dec 2013 · 527
Unsure.
Haley Deese Dec 2013
Is there something I could say?
I can never be sure.
I feel like I just annoy everyone.
I can never be sure.
Why am I sad all the time for no reason at all?
I can never be sure.

It seems like I'm not sure of anything these days.
Not sure of myself, or where I'm going.
If only there was a way to run away.
From my problems.
From my sadness.
But there's not.

Or is there?
I can never be sure.
Dec 2013 · 368
Alone In My Room
Haley Deese Dec 2013
I feel lost in the shadows.
The darkness in my room is comforting.
But the silence is unbearable.

I just sit and stair at the walls all day.
Pretending that I'm looking at the faces of friends who aren't there.
And maybe they will listen to me.

When you have no one, what do you have?
Nothing but a feeling of uncertainty.
And a room full of unanswered questions.

— The End —