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halle Aug 2018
What do you do when every heartbeat is a thunderstorm?

How terribly strange to be seventeen.
At seventeen, your eyes open to the
Dastardly wicked world we live in.

At seventeen, you can't help but feel outcast
-- an outsider in the adult in crowd.
Innocence is an abstract concept,
for how can you be innocent when you
cannot have purity without corruption?

The world keeps spinning, lives are
created and destroyed. We are all disposable
and -- while some argue that trying to be a
permanent entity in a constantly evolving
universe is asinine -- we crash, burn,
and recreate ourselves.

At certain times, you want it to never end.
You just want to keep going and going in infinitum.
There are so many things to try
and places to see
and sunbeams to feel that 87 years
(if you're one of the lucky ones)
seems like 87 seconds.

As humans, we are questions without answers.
Some desperately seek out the one thing
that will solve their problem.

Others are fine without their answer.
They are too afraid to find out what is after the light.

Me?
I hope it's bewitching and beautiful.
halle Jul 2018
i had a dream about you the night before last

it was so bright and vivid; almost like from the past

only except you love love loved me -- you told me so

the sun was smiling down on us and i never wanted to let you go


dreams can't be real can they? no of course not


in reality i'm standing here and trying to give this my best shot

i'll remember you after the end

the way your eyes glistened in the sun

and how you only wanted to be friends
halle Jul 2018
they say fools fall quickly

well they must have never seen you

they say it's love after six months

i knew after six seconds
halle Jul 2018
I wish I wasn't alone.

I wish I didn't get belittled. I wish my family ******* cared about me at times when they didn't have to. I wish I wasn't drowning and yelling, only to be the only one able to hear me. I wish I didn't hate everything including but except myself.  

I wish I wasn't stranded here with nothing but these vacant wishes that will never ever cone true in this or any other lifetime.
halle May 2018
in text books, they'll tell you that
the human heart is a real wonder.
you don't have to remember someone
to remember how they made you feel.

however, i think that was written
by people who don't know what it's
like to lose the sunlight,
having it drip through your hands.

it's sweltering, sticky and sweet
like honey. but it packs a sour punch afterwards.
halle May 2018
who do you think we were
before the end of time?

i'm sure the words fell flat
and the songs couldn't even rhyme?

your eyes were still brown, i know
and the days flowed into night --
but all else had changed,
nothing could ever seem right.

you're the only constant
in this hectic, mayday world
i just hope that its iron-clad grasp
on you will soon uncurl.
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