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danger
he's a stranger
may seem nice
but you don't know him

anger
could be in his nature
look in his eyes
know that you don't know them
can't it just be
can't it just flow
can't i just see
if i like where it goes
without obligations 
or worrying about trying
i'm tired of feeling lonely
and so sick of crying
it's about what inside
so dont make me have to beg
to get a glimpse of the good stuff
hint: it's not between your legs
because that's never even mattered
in fact thats all a cluster ****
the body is weak and the soul is selfish
but all that can be cured by love
well not really but it helps
overlook the flaws
love is imperfect
in fact we cherish it more because of its faults
so throw me a line
and show me a brand new lie
demonstrate what could be
for my uneducated eyes
but let it be a trial
of what could be
as much as it seems like you want it
theres a feelings back guarantee
oh but if you could bear my touch
would you mind to take the care
pleasure is the destination
but you have to convince me that i should take you there
mixed signals
mixed feelings
mixed schedules
mixed everything
all mixed up
tryna mix it with you
am i a quick fix
or am i an issue
mixed decision
fixed position
wanna click
but not under these conditions
the evil you know
the evil you don't
the boy you should trust
is the boy that you won't
something is up
just feel it in your bones
a trembling in your gut
that says you'll always be alone

would rather be lonely
than ghosted and afraid
easier to fall
than **** it up and walk away
it's less about my pride
just my need to be sane
would rather feel lonely
than find myself played
tell me to get some rest
and stop fighting sleep
have you considered that maybe
sleep is fighting me
hope you wake up to these words
and try not to be sick
go through your whole day
feeling like complete ****
that the message reaches to you
and you hate that it does
that you can barely manage
to keep from throwing up
hope you realize what you've done
and it makes you feel afraid
so stressed
that you're hunched over in pain
about to *****
from the memories in your brain
then maybe you've had a taste
of my life in the wake
of your indecision
and plans to keep me lost
impossibly dizzy
trying to understand your thoughts
sad
starving
and
sleepy

i suffer on occasion too
life isn't always daiquiris and Daisys
more to aspire to than cars and babies
picket fence might make you a little stir crazy
chaos is an option consider it maybe
oh
you wanna know
wanna see
wanna taste
wanna breathe
want everything
you do

take
what doesn't break
lie if you must
in the name
of love
ask for too much
you do

here's everything i have
if it makes you feel okay
so what if i feel bad
if you make your great escape
softly
can feel that you forgot me
in the gut it shot me
i want this feeling off me

awfully
only my pride stops me
pressure slowly dropping
everything turns wonky

and its not like i've never been ignored before
it's not that i love you all that much more

i just feel like i'm making the same mistakes again
and i dont wanna lose someone again
don't tell me who to like
or make me feel bad for drawing lines
i'm justified
i'm stronger from the lies

don't tell me i'm mistaken
finally vindicated
my old friends won't be debated
excommunicated

you weren't there so watch who you defend
nothing will convince
fact check your evidence
you don't even know your own "friends"

stop trying to change what doesn't fit
into you're narrative
not determined on making you get it
the truth always comes out in the end
it's always gonna be something with me
at least that's how it feels
why can't i get over myself
it can't possibly be that hard to heal
first i want loyalty
but that's asking too much
how dare i have expectations
who even gives a ****
then i want patience
and love and support
it's silly to think
i want for even more
i am dying to be consoled
and to look into someone's eyes
and believe them when they say i'm not horrid
rather than expecting it all to be a lie

so the world says ******* to me
for wishing with all my heart
it took a bond i cherished
and shredded it apart

now i'm even needier
i barely even function
every memory stings
it takes an ocean of tears to numb them
the act of betrayal is so severe
i shut down on sight
i need you to be who i thought you were
i need it to be a lie
i need i need i need i need
i need to come to terms
it's all wrong, change it back
but that's just not how it works

i need an explanation
what did i do wrong
tell me what i can fix
show me how to move on
you seem fine
you dont look back
you're happy without me
you never crack
that positivity of yours
is omnipresent
i thought you would miss me
or at least regret it

i need to yell at you
i need to make you understand
how this all boils down
to me questioning who i am
am i a friend
am i the enemy
will i lash out
will i show sympathy
i don't know
i never thought it'd come to this
i trusted you
so i guess it's what i get

i need a sorry
i need to hear the catch in your voice
i need to know you didn't mean it
hear you acknowledge that you made the wrong choice
but i'm afraid i'll disclose
and you won't even blink
what if you never cared
and you never needed me
the way i need you
even in this moment
i'm attached
and everybody knows it

i got my sorry
i felt it in the way you spoke
you never meant to hurt me
you never intended to ghost
but you didn't know what to say
or how to not make it worse
you look back at what you did
and you're disgusted by your words
i know you have learned better
and that gives me peace of mind
but as relieving as this is
something still doesn't feel right

i stay up the whole night
rereading what you said
i cant believe it happened
i'm paralyzed in my bed
laying in a crumple
in a drying puddle of tears
the apology echoes off the walls of my mind
as i go back a couple years
and remember when we  first met
to when i thought you were perfect
then realizing you weren't
****** into the current
of recalling the old us
and comparing them to the new
i have changed tremendously
and i needed to learn you did too

but still when i close my eyes
i feel unstable and ugly
every little thing haunts me
i thought you could trust me
i thought i could trust you
and it's not that i don't now
i just can't shake the feeling
of self-doubt when you're around

i need a sorry
and i got it
forgiven
but not forgotten
in fact i've been haunted
by that stupid conversation
i tried to rush the process of healing
i thought i was being patient
i thought i could just go back to normal
just hug you and say hi in the halls
but i feel so ugly in my skin still
and i hate to admit i think it's your fault
i thought i could trust you
i think one day i might
for now i'm gonna try
but its gonna take some time
and i know it's just a saying
and i'm not trying to burden you with guilt
but i think i'm realizing once the trust is gone
it takes a life time to rebuild
i could cry
but i don't wanna do that to myself
been hurt for a while
been without your help
so don't offer it now
you're too late to fix this issue
past the withdrawal
glad this time to miss you
i spent too much time waiting
feeling wrong for being insecure
you apologized then did it again
you're the one who's unsure
i tried and it killed me
if you wanted to you would
don't want me to leave
but won't do any good
won't meet me in the middle
won't even open the door
when i've closed the distance by myself
you won't be bothered anymore
you can trust me on that
i'm tired of being told i am one thing
then treated like the opposite
i'm bothered by the people around me
acting like i am incompetent
have to be too stupid to see
how they use double meanings
but i understand
i just hope they don't mean it
i wanna be someone's friend
i would try to make myself emotionally available
i would be what you need
be the traits you find favorable
but i won't change it all
but then again who's to say
if changing only a little
doesn't make you fake
if you get to know me you'll find out i'm not that clever
not exactly glum but i tend to find things whatever
i like being alone because it feels less lonely than together
if i think you're toxic i'll add you to the list of friends i've severed
life feels so impossible so my favorite word is never
push my buttons and pull me down then flip my lever
trigger me with you presence forever
worn and torn and bound like leather
cloudy and moody so i must be under the weather
still i am lighthearted and floating like a feather
i wrote down this word but i can use it in this them so header
this is the lamest poem ever
i'm smarter than i look
i like to read books
sometimes i cook
i've never slept in a nook
my family's a bunch of crooks
my poems will leave you shook
AP World History is the longest exam i've ever took
i don't know how to tie on a fish hook
i really didn't understand the babadook
never had a friend named brook
or brooke
i think there is a kind of fish called a snook
they call me sierra because the name shtook
lol i am done now
i hate taking tests
my handwriting is not the best
i wish cried a lot less
i experience WAY too much stress
i never feel the need to dress for success
i just barely learned how to play chess
i've got a lot of secrets i don't plan to confess
i slept all day, but i still need a rest
i don't know why everything has to be a contest
i really don't like movies about the wild west
i think my favorite word just might be yes
school is such a pest
i've never stuck gum under a desk
i get one penny a month in interest
another word for a clown is a jest
i've never read consumser's digest
my prescribed medicine is the only controlled substance i ingest
i am firmly against ******
i don't understand what makes the shaving of a citrus a zest
the top of a soundwave is called a crest
birds keep their eggs inside of a nest
i really think this idea has me possessed
its not even that good but i keep making progress
i'm gonna end this before it all becomes a mess
i hope my rhymes have left you impressed
no one would consider me a baller
i'm not much of a scholar
i only have a single dollar
i jump when i get scared but i don't holler
if i don't wanna talk i can be quite the staller
re people who put up walls called a waller
i clumsy so you could call me a faller
sometimes i wish i was taller
i look bad in shirts with collars
i would hate to be eaten by a machine called a mauler
i still answer the phone even if it says unknown caller
i don't think i am all that pretty
i live in a city
i don't even know why i chose this word but litty
i do find pizza to be quite fitting
i feel like i am always sitting
i hate the sound of baseball bats when they are hitting
i hate it when people look at me with pity
i'm kinda of funny and can often be witty
i much prefer crocheting to knitting
my favorite hobby must be forgetting
the sound of styrofoam is ear-splitting
this poem is looking pretty ******
i should have stopped this before the beginning
i'm not sure if that last line rhymed.. it didn't who am i kidding?
tsk
tsk
just the way i said
down to the self deletion
you lost yourself
trying to please them
stuck in limbo
trying to decide
if being liked
is worth dying inside
do what you do
you'll have to live
with the decisions
can't resist the compulsions
i won't hit you up anymore
you gotta message me first
im tired of being the only one
who puts in any work
because as cool as you are
i cant find it in me
to keep going out of my way
i could lose you if it means winning
peace of mind and freedom
to **** with whoever i want
but i want you
its just i won't be the one
who waits on you and your every move
make up your mind
stop playing with my feelings
stop acting like have you time
to be messing around
because i cant keep on lying
i am not happy and this isnt fun
and i am tired of trying
to be there for you
and put in a hundred and teen percent
better take advantage of your opportunity before you lose it
because this is the only chance you get
(talk to you never)
something hangs
in the air
like smoke
clings to our clothes
stings in my nose
but thats just how it goes
the lump in my throat
too large to be swallowed
causes me to choke
on the words i've waited to say
was finally ready to be honest today
let you see all of the pain
and stop putting on a brave face
but in the moment my resolves fades
all my vulnerability melts away
my heart cannot afford to break
can not let my strength budge
cannot value any trust
can not ever fall in love
isolation needs to be enough
when you're this afraid to be touched
this regretful of things you've done
reverse my touch
return my time
burn the words

nothing i am
can compare
to all that is hers

don't explain
or apologize
that'll make it worse

vomiting remembering
that you said
i love you first
being next you
is nauseating
knots form once
i realize what you're saying
the kind of ugly that you are
is complicated
already had this conversation
took advantage of my intentions and patience
effort utterly wasted
on someone who's beyond complacent
with being unhappy for the rest of their life
just as long as i'm just as miserable by your side
you make no sense so go ahead and lie
haven't been listening since i realized i was right
slept on
but you kept on
checked by every shoulder
that you wept on
you've finally lost me
got me
off your tail
already forgot me
like chopped meat
now up for sale
say you don't want me
**** me
you've had enough
think you can just dump me
once you're sick of me
tired of my love
i gave you my patience and time
to better your life
now you act like i'm a stranger
behind you in line
to the next person you whine
"i ******* hate her"
two years ago
when you broke my heart
i told myself i was done

i cut you off
and criticized myself
for ever being so dumb

painfully and repeatedly
told myself
i was not enough

it was the only way
to break myself out
of the unreciprocated love

two months ago
when you lied to me
and tarnished my name

i couldnt get over it
like you did
i had to pull away

you didnt acknowledge a thing
you said nothing
you continued to change

i hated you
for not caring
i felt stupid and ashamed

two days ago
it might have been
the first time

you acknowledged
some fault
and apologized

but i still feel like
nothing
i still cry at night

i thought the sorry
would fix it
would make it all alright

two hours ago
when i should've been
asleep

i realized
that even though you apologized
to me

and i thought
if you really meant it
it'd be all i need

i'm not okay
i never healed
and i don't know how to stop this bleed
just like that
it's over
will likely never
get any closure
you keep
avoiding my calls
mystery remains
unsolved

confused
as to what to do
shouldn'tve
depended on you
but i did
and now i am ******
somehow
i'm never enough

to hold you eyes
or know your plans
close my eyes
remember your hands
nothing will make me
understand
youre never gonna care
to know who i am

i miss you
like an old friend
troubled trying to
comprehend
how it was never
how i felt it was
only explanation you give
is just because

you let me
hang myself with dreams
you were fine with how
it all seemed
when you benefitted
from knowing me
now it's a lie
no mystery
i see through you like glass
but i'm trapped on the other side
watching you try to spare my feelings
then experiencing the resulting lies
i know that you're using my fear of change
to abuse me
and for the longest time i didn't even
wanna leave
with the full knowledge you don't love me
you just can't
get a better deal than this so you exploit me
in every way you can
but now it's past a point of physical pain
or neglect
you say what you want
blatant disrespect
kick me while i'm down
but you didn't have to spit
now i've got no other choice
but to up and quit
a lot of rough edges
and problems you won't miss
torn, worn, and scorned
pointless to fix

i know that it's a lot
but i miss feeling whole
worn out by my attempt to seem okay
oh won't you help me fix my soul
lies upon lies
fitted disguise
pretty faces on demand
to entertain you
throughout the night
but you can't see
the destruction
forming in my mind
all this hate brewing
somewhere just
out of sight

still in this moment
i can't just leave
but somehow
the thought
comforts me
i will wait patiently
what else can i do
there are no
solutions i see
so i'll wait
until they present
themselves
hopefully

i'm right here
but i am far far away
in a place
where i don't feel
as controlled
by your hate
where how i feel
is actually the emotion
i display
somewhere mentally
planning my escape
ugh
ugh
good morning
i guess i am awake
gonna show up
even if i know i'll hate today
u&i
u&i
you knew
i know
i'm getting dusted away
like nothing
i hate that i feel how i feel
i wish i felt nothing at all
i resent you for being okay
i hate myself for letting myself be used
i this
i that
i need to disappear
i wish i was anybody else
because i'm tired of the skin i'm in
i don't serve a purpose anymore
other than to ruin everything i touch
the only way to make you happy
is tearing myself apart
being someone who i am not
would heal your heart
but why must i suffer
for you to move on
seems backwards
but don't get me wrong
i don't wanna see you hurting
but i can't pretend
to be your fantasy
or your best friend
we are not what you think
you project onto me
hope you find what you need
cause i'm not what you search for desperately
crazy calm
fearlessly afraid
you can make me feel all these horrible things
but never again make me feel insane
you taught me that showing my vulnerabilities
should make me feel ashamed
yet my tears are not a show of weakness
and i can take pride in my pain
really glad i've gotten to this place
where i could give two ***** about what you say
i feel horrid since i'm not perfect
cracked in a visible place
i wish i could be everything you dream of
every flaw i feel erased
but that's not even possible
i'll have to live with this instead
i'll never be anything like
that girl in your head
i don't like talking to you
for this exact reason
it's not about being cold
or making things even
you only wanna talk
when your sky is falling down
when all along you walk all over me
like i'm the ground
every little flaw
makes me want you more
i'm not afraid of your scars
understanding is not a chore
there might be a situation
but it can be fixed
i know that you're broken
can i assist
i've been shattered too
now i'm just shards and bits
but let's put our pieces together
and see if any of them fit
let love be born of this pain
let me be there in the night
you don't have to do anything
we can just lay there in the quiet
i don't want to hurt you
i don't want to be just like the rest
i know you've got a lot of baggage
lemme hold some for just a sec
i've been exactly where you are
i've walked those very gallows
they take all the light
and now life is a maze of shadows
thinking why walk through it
and get more lost and confused
why live a life
when its guaranteed abuse
and i'll tell you why
because i care
i watched as you died
and i felt your despair
i was there when she left
i held your hand from afar
as you forgot yourself
as you tore yourself apart
with the questions
"why wasn't i enough?"
but you always were
"who am i without us?"
listen to me
listen to reason
don't let them fool you
into thinkin'
that you were wrong
for loving with your whole heart
i see how you try
and i love who you are
let me help you see
the person everyone else adores
with all these open windows
why focus on the closed doors
i know that you've been hurting
i can help treat your wounds
i'm unbothered by the bleeding
but i can respect you
and your boundaries
if you don't want me today
just know that i am here
waiting to ease the pain
feeling inspired?
there's so many stars up there
i wanna ask questions but i'm too scared
that you won't care
or i'll just be talking too much

too many too count but still i try
almost as many thoughts in my mind
there would never be enough time
to tell you how it really was

but when the symphony begins to play
for a moment everything feels okay
you may have dropped my hand
but i don't register the pain

i'm exploring all the ways this could go
the words i almost had crawl back down my throat
you dont need to worry about me anymore
i'll never have the answers when there's so much to know
if i had you
i wouldn't need anybody else
but you won't take me
so now i've gotta fend for myself
looking into me
and turning over once you're done
seeing what you wanna see
no longer interested whatever it was
don't want to assume the worst
and i'm not trying to be scummy
but you can only make me feel so stupid
and take so much from me
before i can't be as patient and kind
as i really wanna be
i just wanna be treated like a person
it's not even that deep
romantic
turns to panic
as nails break skin
blood fills in
each shallow wound
what did i do
it's going too fast
unfastening clasps
push down and away
you think it's a game
it all feels so loud
i need to calm down
can't breathe when you're this close
feel a buzzing in my bones
that is so **** ecstatic
wanting it doesn't mean i should have it
does it matter
will he notice
questioning after
if you really know him
that is not the time
to be unsure
you're already tainted
freshly impure
should've asked yourself
before you laid out
lost something and well
you can't have it back now
don't wanna be alone right now
don't wanna be conscious for this moment
i wish i did drugs so i could numb the edges
but i'm too sensitive for that and i know it
this all just feels like so much right now
and no one around me seems to feel the pressure
inside my head it builds and builds
i swear to ******* god if someone says it'll get better
it's devastation
was always patient
believed the lies
that you created
when you fell back
i always waited
now my will feels
bruised and wasted
can't help but recoil
i was baited
don't deny my heart
you've earned this hatred
just kidding
what if i meant it
mortified
let's just forget it
i wish i had better words
to show you how it feels
but i don't

all i have is this brain in my head
i tell it to verbalize
but it won't

scratching paper with pens
slamming keys and banging heads
can't find the perfect note

wish i had better words
so you could feel it too
for now i'm on my own
even if it was the right thing to do
it ****** to set you free
even if it was the best thing for us both
i constantly blame me
i didn't wanna give up
but the signs flashed so blatantly
i know you're happier in my absence
so i'll go without your company
this is hard
harder than i thought
parts of me want it to work
but i feel like it will not
the balance between
needs and dreams
close enough to touch
yet too unavailable to keep
something has gotta give
can't you just make up your mind
i'm not really asking for a lot
to just know where you've drawn the line
cause i'll be needy if i'm honest
i'll be wrong if i push too far
and cold if i walk away
and embarrassed as **** when you break my heart
it's a lot of ins and outs
yet no solutions reveal themselves
i'm not asking to box you in a corner
i just want you to be true to yourself
just a icky sticky situation
i wish you'd do more if you aren't gonna leave
cause this halfway caring and broken conversation ****
is the worst kind of thing you could do to me

because i don't know what i'm doing
and i don't wanna be the girl
you laugh at with your friends
looking stupid waiting on a half truth
that means more to me
than it does to you
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