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91 · Jan 2019
i'm trying to understand
no more lies
you don't have to hide
i'm here to show you the way

in the end its you're call
if you want to put up that wall
and not let me help with the pain

just know that i've tried
to see past your disguise
and there is something to be saved

but i wouldn't blame you at all
or put you at fault
because you are afraid
91 · Jun 2024
jesus christ
i never said i could walk on water
or that my feelings wouldn't be a bother
but you cant hide your disappointment
as i get swept into the current

as the tide crashes it swallows me whole
and i dont think you've ever been this cold
just watch as it carries me away
bitter to the very last wave

blaming me for what i wouldn't be
acting blindsided when i never missed a beat
trying to tell you how to steer back into safe waters
you couldn't even bother

so as you spit on an empty grave
cursing those who speak my name
remember who hurt who
the person you should be projecting on is you
not trying to be insensitive with the title. think exasperation 🥲
91 · Jul 2021
smokey the bear
cool summer night
no fourth of july
but in your eyes
i see fireworks
laid up by your side
under a very empty sky
guess it was my time
to learn how a liar works

ever explosive
swear you'll control it
and in the moment
i believe it
and of course you blow it
heart rebroken
trust eroded
guilt deep-seated
history repeated
you say i love you
and i think you mean it

flick of a match
fire licks the fuse
eating away whats left of it
about to get a special view

beautiful disaster
waiting to occur
waiting for the show
still trusting in your word

staring right at the light
naive to how this works
you get to have your fun
i get left hurt

a knocked over rocket
destroying everything in it's path
you did this on purpose
and you'll never take it back
91 · Jun 2021
burning streets
always something to say
nothing productive though
can't get your way
so we're at each other's throats
couldn't say it to my face
but it's fine cause i already know
you've always hated the word hate
but you feel it in your bones
91 · Mar 2021
hesaidshesaid
i can't tell why i'm doing this
letting you in
saying its fine

it's not
i'm about to lose
my ******* mind

moved on
and ready to be done
yes you are

but this matters
so much to me
taking it so hard

made of glass
so its blatant
you could shatter me to bits

the only thing
stopping you
from doing this

is knowing
once im gone
who'll be your slave

feeding into your
god complex
with my hopeless faith
90 · Mar 2020
macon ga
shared some sense of family
i never had
it's what kept you all together
what holds you back
i remember feeling alone
before i even knew what lonely was
since i was a child
i knew that i was the only one i could trust
90 · Jan 2019
i don't know why
love the thought of me
befriend my personification
the person you think i am
the pretend me

but i'm not really nice
i hate all of you
but for some reason i keep
acting friendly
90 · Sep 2019
law
law
a few things just are
like warmth of the sun and gentle light of the moon
the way that only wind can calm your soul
and my love for you
90 · Oct 2020
breather
setting down my bags
hand on my back
been pushing on
but i just feel really bad

my hands look unreal
there's too many ways to feel
all i need is a couple days
to hide away and heal

but that's not an option
i'm not allowed to soften
i'm broken up and stumbling
and everybody's just watching
90 · Jan 2019
redisappointed
it's alternative
it's similar
but not something i've ever had

so familiar
yet foreign
what a peculiar kind of sad

i thought
it'd get easier
as time continued to pass

but it hasn't
i've realized
each hurt is different from the last
kind of how the love you feel for each person is different, so is the sadness they make you feel.

that's why time hasn't made me stronger, because i have to relearn everytime i am hurt.
90 · Jan 7
WIP (the eyes follow)
still got that hole in my chest
and limp in my walk
drinking shallow breaths
as i turn into the wall
i rested my head on
as i pictured bashing it in instead
till it became pulp
and the bad thoughts oozed out red
maybe then it might all be okay
but no it's still all wrong
telephone wire nooses
cut down before they get too long
stop calling cause i'm busy
trying to find a **** to give
before i spontaneously combust
before i even truly lived
cause the list is growing
and i'm not even started
cooking cleaning making nice
******* up and having to restart it
and feeling so irredeemable because of it
and incapable and sick to my soul
would call out but i can't
because i'm also ******* broke
would call you but i slept late
cause i spent all night losing my ****
its been so hard to sleep
that i've just started making lists
that never end and don't help
quash the feelings of distraught
the world tells me i'm an okay person
but i still feel like i'm not
almost misshapen or off put
a satisfactory answer for sure
but not the best example
not what she was looking for
so just off kilter
and not quite right
hard to love and
broken of mind

i've paced a circle
in the carpet of my mind tonight
and those ballerina feet left a trail of red
against the yellowing white alright

1 step
  2 step
     3 step
                    4

whatever happens

don't
  open
     that
                    door
life imitates art
I'm just trying to clean the machine, if you know what I mean.
90 · Aug 2024
lack of warmth
burning the last of the papers
the wisps turn from orange to ash
as they fly somewhere to be left alone
having served their purpose
are we done yet?

drudging my efforts from the depths of my purpose
sometimes i feel like this life is worthless
if i can't have you

i'd burn all the pictures
but i never had any with you
i've never been a picture person
but now i wish i had been
so i could remember it all before i throw it away

the wind burns my eyes
i count all my fingers and look at the sky
the smoke is blowing towards home
or what used to be home
i oughta go inside

before i freeze
that's not how i want to be found
it'd be too dramatic
to give up and give in now

close the door
i don't know how to make this more interesting
i've poured out all my thoughts
to try and make a friend

my rhymes aren't that good
my lines of reasoning are all right
but you will never see them trend

i'm not the kind of person
who learns the first time
i make the same mistake again and again

i keep writing away
pieces of myself to connect with you
but i still feel lonely even then
i'm not where i was
when i last closed my eyes
wiping away the blur
letting the figures materialize
reality sets it in
the aches crawling under my skin
scatter under harsh light
but they're still eating away at me
what more could i want
butican'thaveyou
why can't i have you
whydoiloveyou
why cant i see you anymore
whycan'tiholdyou
why can't i kiss you
whycan'tiloveyouanymore
why can't i miss you

cause i do
and i always will
til the day that i die
and i was holding out for something
but i'm not seeing the light no more
as i'm closing up shop
and putting the last of it away
will you accept this token of my love
or will you spit in my face

if i try to say goodbye
though i guess i know the answer
it's hard to leave with nothing
and my feet and my hands hurt
though they've gotten me this far
but i think i'm ready to go to bed
so kiss my grey lips
and forgive me for the rest
of what's about to happen
90 · Nov 2020
okay then ig
you were burning time
thought i was investing mine
oh couldn'tve been more wrong
now could have i

not saying you weren't genuine
but we didn't share the same sentiment
you just wanted company
unintentionally made **** intimate
90 · Jun 2024
T.O.D?
i am just a human being
life goes on despite the season
feelings change without good reason
i love you but we're not meeting
where it really counts

in dreams i'm kissing other people
at parties i get too ****** up so you have to come get me
you can't tell me why you love me
and it makes it hard to sleep
guess i'm a problem now

two years in and i hate to think
that my consciousness is splitting as we speak
there may still be hope but we
don't wanna be the one to uproot the peace

we've found in the monotony and unwantedness
deep down i want to believe you are the one but something's amiss
you don't touch me the way that you used to
and i can tell exactly why i love you

long silence
i dont want to tell you how i feel
i don't think you'd understand
and worse
what if i hurt you
89 · Jan 2019
apparently
apparently
i am not a good person
but nobody ever really expected much from me

apparently
i have wasted everyone's time
and there is so much more i should have achieved

apparently
i'm a disappointment
to everyone who believes i'm not the best that i could be

apparently
i am not a good person
because none of this causes me to lose any sleep

apparently
i've accepted
i'm not cut out to make everyone happy

at this point
you should know
how this game works

apparently
pen to paper
fingers to keys
writing for everyone else
but me
saying sorry or wanting answers
going without what i need
i wanna write to myself
but that is really cheesy
i write for approval
because validation is what i seek
like maybe if i put words in the right order
my issues would cease to be
but even as i write away my soul
my problems keep existing
i can't find out how to feel
so i write like it will fix me
89 · Feb 2021
physical death
you do so much for me
but i hate you
i mistreat you
i withhold care
i punish you
for being tired
when you give me your all
i spit on you
for not being what i want
you do your best
and i still hate you
i'm sorry
i can't love you as you are
as i let my heart break for the thousandth time
drying tears before they can leave my eyes
the most horrible thought entered my mind
why did it take me this long to realize

i
forgot
your
birthday

there's constant reminders that you're gone
and now missing you feels wrong
how can i deserve to feel like this when
i forgot your birthday

i had to ask and i was ashamed
i should've known and i wish i could make
some excuse to make this better but
i simply forgot your birthday

and i am told that i shouldn't be so hard
on myself but i'm sick to my heart
and hate myself for
forgetting your birthday

and now i realize
even now that i was told
i already forgot your birthday
again

i don't deserve to miss you
89 · May 2021
intentions rarely matter
in an imaginary world
where everything went right
where you dont hate me
isn't it crazy to think
i made it the way it is
not asking for sympathy
but if i could reverse this hurt
you should know i would in a heartbeat
89 · Jun 2020
AGGGGGGGH
they never miss me
when i am gone
now that i'm dead
what could they possibly want
i'm losing all control
and it sure isn't pretty
why can't i keep
anybody with me
89 · Oct 2024
false bottom
needles and pins
if not now then when
a thought makes me wince
i loathe myself for needing

to be high for this
and thinking about him
might not give into my whims
but it's not a good way of thinking

staring out but lost deep within
hearing nothing but the wind
phantasizing fingertips
i feel shame for dreaming so freely

but then again
i'll never touch another skin
so does it even count as sin
if you knew, would you leave me?
i'm scared that i might be evil sometimes

my mind flies further than my body.

can you ever know someone other than yourself?

it's hidden somewhere i hope you dont find.

would you even know what to look for?

did you ever check the bottom drawer?
89 · Apr 2020
we saw
it kills me
to see how far apart
we are
to know
the distance has grown

i dont wanna
let it under my skin
but i'm disappointed again
dwelling on the past
why we never last

and it's a lie
when i say i'm okay
i'm riddled with pain
the honest truth
is i'm not happy for you

you know better
and so do i
but we always deny
we know how it seems
but never really say what it means

we hurt each other
with who we've become
the unforgivable that we've done
the people we choose
what we promise but never intend to do

it's all in good fun
till i can't bear to see your face
or utter your name
because my heart aches with concern
seeing your arm around her

cause it's all wrong
and all out of place
strangers can't do it the same
i miss you so much it kills me
maybe you'll come around but we'll see
you win some
you lose some
oh well ig
89 · Dec 2020
april
i said

what if i kissed you right now
kinda missed seeing you around
with each wrist pinned down
there's no where to fall but to the ground
and man is the descent soft
you infiltrate my thoughts
so used to saying stop
weird to rather not
strange to not turn away
unfamiliar but a trusting face
with every shadow i touch and trace
i'm more deluded than yesterday
89 · Aug 2019
balance
constantly saying you care
consistently proving you don't 

you talk a lot but 
your words don't add up
when your actions are judged alone

you feel the need to speak
but you only say things you cant promise

however
doing so just makes you seem silly
and paints you as dishonest

stop saying things you can't prove
the evidence is stacked

no matter what
you say or do
you can't win my trust back
89 · Jan 2019
good christian parenting
good god
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
jesus christ
THE FATHER AND THE SON
demon inside?
SATAN BE GONE
only a sinner...
EVERYTHING EVIL BENEATH THE SUN
i'll burn in hell
FOR WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME
but i'm your daughter
YOU'RE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE HOLY ONE
a recap of when my dad found out i might be questioning my sexuality. legit told me i would burn in hell. it was a nice day.
88 · Jul 2020
afterdark
please
just a piece
just a nibble
to appease
the demon
inside of me
i'm more
than just a freak
than how often
i need to feed
i hope you
can see the me
that is
genuinely
interested in you
not your amenities
88 · Sep 2024
keeping watch
lake of fire
tucked away
coyote cries
not so far away
simpler times
never come our way
we don't wanna
but we always find a way

no faith to find in hell
so we can only question this existence
why our parents had kids
and why theirs did and the ones before them

how could you do this to me
to us
ungrateful unsatisfied unfruitful
as ****

dying flames
topped up another time
the locust choir
fills the night
in these moments of respite
the stakes are still high
the world at my fingertips
but at the cost of goodbye
can't let the embers catch
waiting outside
staring into the blaze
mulling it over
and over
and over

altercations in the distance

i guess i'm back now

i pray to find some recourse
88 · Jul 2024
my offering
i feel so rotted through
my bones ache
and my eyes are sunken
my stomach touches my back
my arms leaden
my feet broken
my heart slowing
my fingers struggle to output
the resignation of my mind
the desecration of my time
the devastation of my life
it feels like my life is over
and i just keep going
like the last round of hurting wasn't enough
to convince me thoroughly enough
that this world isn't for me
and these people aren't either
but i just keep going
i can't give up now knowing
my problems are someone else's blessing
i'm just tired of the universe testing me
i lost my brother
my sister almost too this saturday
the little family i barely have
not my blood relations
just my only reservations
my few considerations
still i'm well aware
everyone is gonna go
whether they leave me now
or later
whether by choice
or by nature
why is it so wrong
i want to do it on my own terms
youth is no excuse to enable suffering
if in the meantime all i can do
is be punished for trying
it's unsuprising
i'd be so romanticized with dying
i know he's lying
to me
but my god
it's tantalizing
to be sacrificed
intead of sacrificing
congratulations and farewell
oh the stories we both could tell
but that would be in bad taste

goodbye and good riddance
you grew fond of my permissance
and now you recoil seeing my face

whatever happened
may never be clear
if erasure is what you want
for the last 5 years
that's honestly really sad

i can't stop you
but i can grow on
when you're ready
i'll be long gone
and it'll be just too ******* bad
i didn't want to move on, but i am. it's weird to feel empty looking at her, when i used to feel so much love. but what can't we do? no negative wishes, just respectful distance. the least i deserve, no?
88 · Jun 2021
i don't forgive you
you're gonna hate me
if that's what you want to do
there's something wrong with me
because i'm not just like you
i didn't want it to be like this
but you can't have it any other way
you steal the few things i have left
you'll convince yourself that that's okay
i'm not even sure if i love you anymore
you proved you've lost none on me
so ******* childish to play these games
even more ******* i didn't need
88 · Dec 2020
myndset
get up
come here
there's something to be excited for

ever since i met you
it's just so different from
before

and i don't know what that means
but i want it
to stay this way

everything feels foreign
even though nothing's
changed
go on and pour it all out
can you put it back in now
just the way it was
nothing can ever be undone

it's not that hard to understand
stop saying that you can't
88 · Dec 2018
Excerpt from"Empty"
Because you’re empty
Just like me
When you don’t have love
But that’s not love
It’s poison
Laced with lust
You need something more, babe
You need trust
You need an “us”
You need
You need
You need
But you take what you want
And leave what you don’t
Treat people like this
And you always be alone
Childish as ****
But act like you grown
Too good to be true
I should’ve known
Why fight to be with someone
Who numbs me to the bone
Whose presence is worse
Than being alone
You’re drowning in pain?
Sinking like a stone?
Calling for that trick?
She only listened when you made her moan
Calling for me?
Calling me on my phone
Really think I care?
Here’s a secret; I don’t
87 · Jun 2020
fallback
no thanks
not now
i'm flattered
you're down
but honestly
don't wanna be your rebound
spent too much time
thinking about
everything else
i could do right now
you're cool
but i'm
just trying
to vibe
don't want you
to clamp on too tight
you seem
too nice
knowing
my life
this is bound to
bite
me
in the ***
the second
i relax
said i liked you
i take it back
***** to do
but i retract
don't want
none of that
wanna keep
my sanity intact
87 · Jan 2019
i did what i did because
i just felt so lonely
so heartbroken
so betrayed
you made me feel like nothing
so i wanted you to feel the same
87 · Jan 2019
i need you right now
your thoughts
but not your desires
your words
but not your mouth

your presence
but not your body
please understand
that i am over that now

you can be
comfortable
i won't try to trick you
or mess around

you mean so much to me
that i let it go
i don't want you romantically
i feel no doubt

i used to crave you
but now i am
suffering with this wall
and doing without

you
so please forgive me
i finally apologized
out loud

never meant
to ruin the friendship
but all i did
was drag us down
this is about being trying to be friends after they don't love you back, but they are afraid to let you close again
87 · Jan 2019
yin and yang
half of the truth
for half of a lie
partially wanting the best for you
while secretly wishing you would die
staring out at the distance
though you are here by my side
i pretend i don't hear you
but your voice echoes in my mind
we're so open it shouldn't matter
so why do i hide?
87 · Dec 2018
if you asked
if you asked
how's the weather
i'd say i don't know
but i wish it was better

if you asked
how's life been going
i'd say not the best
but time is not slowing

if you asked
who i am
i couldn't lie to you
but you'd never understand
87 · Dec 2024
the hunted
indulged then engorged
i slipped right through your fingertips
does the timbre of my voice
still shiver in your ribs
chest locked and throat blocked
a frantic exhale denied
does the whisper of my touch
drag along the walls of your mind
are you grateful you didn't cross that bridge
or bothered that you couldn't
dignities were stained some later time
when i was still too callow to have better judgment
but i was discerning enough
to identify and avoid your sticky lures
and so fledgling instincts beat out the odious
only now i know for sure
like saliva foaming to your jaw
down to the floor into the ground
i slipped right through your fingertips
you'll never catch me now
but not the prey
i didn’t know you were gone
till i saw that you just weren’t there
i didn’t know you couldn’t stay
so i blamed you for my despair
for the overwhelming blue
that settled over my life
i missed you so much
when you weren’t by my side
and i still miss you
when i hear your name in someone else’s conversation
even if it’s not really about you
it fits into the version of events i’ve created
where you’re coming home
with a smile and time to waste
that you got caught up at the office
and just running a little late
or something or another
just that you’ll come back to me
i know this is not possible
but i dream selfishly
and i’m not mad anymore
i’ve grown to understand
this isn’t something you could control
under any circumstance
but like i said
i am fading in your absence
if you can’t come to me
i’ll close the distance
god drew the line that keeps us apart
i’ll erase it without a second thought
anything that put me next to you
is going to have be my best shot
but this isn’t right
you’d never approve
how do i please myself
without disappointing you
87 · Jun 2021
redwagon
something is keeping me up tonight
but i don't care to figure it out
it's either you or something else
and it hurts to think right now
passing burnt out streetlights
summer has me by the throat
experiences to be had
with people i don't even know
any way to just get out
of the box i find myself in
tell me don't be stranger
but can't see me as a friend
87 · Apr 2021
serenity
first full moon of the year
not enough light to see clear
but there's not much of need
to see beyond the trees
when you know nothing good lies beyond them

in my sanctuary of leaves
no one searches for me
i'd be upset but they never cared
the peace of being absolutely nowhere
caring for lost friends without a need to stalk them
86 · May 2020
fiddlesticks
man
i'm too soft for this world
gonna get squished
but i guess that's the price
of feeling
86 · Aug 2021
clock out the window
hold me up
i'm slipping out
you're not even real
i'm no where near sound
of mind but i'm trying
to survive at least
with thoughts and dreams
distancing reality
because in theory
the fall wouldn't be so bad
but touch just feels icky
and i'm always too sad
it's comforting to hope
one day i'll function fine
just consumed by fantasies
in the meantime
you took something inside of me
and broke it
didn't even try to fix it
if you felt guilty you didn't show it
kind of left me ruined
and no one wants the toy that's broken
it ruins the fun you know
like a present that's already been opened
all of the good stuff is gone
it's now bitter, hollow, and potent
angry at the other dolls
even though it's you that chose them
what was there to gain from hurting me
i can't move on until i know it
86 · Jan 2021
stupidstupidstupid
oughta be more careful
with the thoughts you entertain
with the words you carelessly say
with the people you choose to claim

it's easy to
excuse your own mistakes
put too much on your plate
lose when there's too much at stake

just be cautious
as you try to find your place
when you come across a new face
and always check both ways

because when that car comes out of nowhere
when life takes you by suprise
you won't be able to do much
but keep asking yourself why
the ******* did
what you did
if you knew something bad would happen
would you still do it
86 · Dec 2020
ripples
distorted
imperfection
disgusted
by my reflection
dyshporic
fighting gag reflexes

like how do i
stand what i see
look in my eyes
and not hate that i'm me
as long as i'm alive
i'll never be who i wanna be
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