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483 · Jun 2011
Why I Love You
Isobel G Jun 2011
I love you,
Because you make the sun,
Shine a little brighter,
And the pain,
Drift away to a place,
It cannot be felt,
I love you,
For your honesty,
Because of everything you are,
For giving me a reason,
To wake up,
I love you,
Because I feel so alive,
So real,
When I'm with you,
I wouldn't dream,
Of closing my eyes
©Nicola-Isobel H.     24.05.2011
482 · Jun 2011
Suns Become Stars
Isobel G Jun 2011
When it's quiet,
I can still hear your voice,
Soft and lingering,
Surrounding me,
I can still feel you,
Faded yet fixed,
In my mind,
Your hands,
Cool on my skin,
And your arms around me,
Reality dawns,
Suns become stars,
You're gone,
When I most need you,
To stay
©Nicola-Isobel H.     31.05.2011
482 · Feb 2011
As We Collide
Isobel G Feb 2011
Your voice,
Motions a collosal shift,
From within me,
The words make changes,
Between us,
And I dream,
Of summer sun,
In your eyes,
As we collide
©Nicola-Isobel H.       02.02.2011
481 · Oct 2011
I Turn Away
Isobel G Oct 2011
He takes my hand,
Runs his fingers,
Through the broken veins,
Whispering the same words,
The lies that caught me,
Every time,
He fills my mind,
With sleepless nights,
Listening for Death's sirens,
As our blood stains the floor,
Red bleach filled with poison,
He finds my eyes,
Keep them closed,
I keep them closed,
To hide his tears,
To keep from drowning,
I turn away from yesterday
©Nicola-Isobel H.      08.08.2011
480 · Apr 2011
Save Me
Isobel G Apr 2011
Save me,
But what is there to save,
There is no life here,
It has been gone for years,
You can only postpone,
The inevitable,
For so long,
But I ask,
Selfishly, I ask,
Save me,
Before I breathe my last
©Nicola-Isobel H.     15.04.2011
480 · Apr 2012
Monster
Isobel G Apr 2012
Wash the blood from your teeth;
you're all in pieces,
taking us in pieces,
to become your own.

Pull the dirt from your nails;
you are not whole.
We've always been empty
behind the illusion.

Cut the colour from your eyes,
stop beating.
I wish I could pull the stopper
and call you a monster.
©Nicola-Isobel H.        04.04.2012
480 · May 2016
Mon amour
Isobel G May 2016
I want to savor you like fine wine.
When I pull you close
it feels like I'm fireside,
and your embraces taste
like soft caramels dissolving on my tongue.
© Nicola-Isobel H.          24.05.2016
Isobel G Feb 2011
I love the way,
He says goodnight,
Like there's no such thing,
As goodbye,
He drives me wild,
With his clarity and perception,
It's in the way,
He clouds my direction,
And takes control,
So effortlessly,
He's exactly who,
I wanted him to be
©Nicola-Isobel H.       03.02.2011

Not one of my best...
480 · Dec 2011
Perhaps
Isobel G Dec 2011
Perhaps I'm falling,
Into the bottom of this bottle,
Looking up,
From the palm of your hand,
Dancing between your fingers,
Perhaps I'm less now,
Wasting and diminished,
Perhaps I'm just not,
Perfect
©Nicola-Isobel H.       12.12.2011
479 · May 2011
Drifting back to sleep
Isobel G May 2011
In the bath tub,
I lie,
In my soaking black dress,
Vision blurred,
By pills,
Your hands are cold,
Like the water,
I drown in,
As you watch me,
Drifting back to sleep
©Nicola-Isobel H.      09.05.2011
477 · Dec 2011
No
Isobel G Dec 2011
No
A slave to all the poison,
Running through my veins,
Take my rights,
I've no will
477 · Jan 2011
It's Okay
Isobel G Jan 2011
I'm sorry,
For running to you,
When you have so much else,
Someone else to fix,
But what else can I do?
And when you see,
These tears,
You hold my hand anyway,
And ease the heavy burden,
That's when I know,
It's okay
©Nicola-Isobel H.     04.01.2011
476 · Jan 2011
I'm Leaving
Isobel G Jan 2011
I don't want to make,
These same mistakes,
Yet again,
So I'm leaving,
Don't speak,
I know what you'll say,
You need to let me,
Move on,
Do the same,
Just don't try,
To put us back,
Together again
©Nicola-Isobel H.     12.01.2011
475 · May 2011
I Don't Feel Empty
Isobel G May 2011
Sometimes,
I stop to watch,
The sunrise,
And I believe,
For a moment,
I don't feel empty
©Nicola-Isobel H.      09.05.2011
475 · Jan 2011
Can't I Just Go Back
Isobel G Jan 2011
I'm sick of hurting,
Can't I just go back,
To being blissfully unaware,
Sleeping in feigned security
©Nicola-Isobel H.     14.01.2011
475 · Jan 2011
I Won't, For You
Isobel G Jan 2011
Air escapes these punctured lungs,
Far too fast,
With too much ease,
Eager to leave,
This broken body,
Riddled with pain,
Blood flows,
Anxiously,
Far too anxiously,
Through these brittle veins,
And fresh, bleeding wounds,
But I won't,
I won't end the pain,
If you ask me to stay,
Though staying kills me anyway,
Slowly but surely,
Inevitably, hopelessly,
I will endure it,
To stop your tears,
Falling, crashing,
Through the cracks of the earth
©Nicola-Isobel H.     02.01.2011
475 · Jan 2012
Love
Isobel G Jan 2012
I didn't see your face,
When you loved me,
Maybe when I was dreaming,
But it was only cold,
It follows me now,
Your name across my world,
And you've stolen all the feelings,
All the places,
That I shouldn't have given you,
So I change my sheets and mattresses and hair,
But I still smell of us,
And you're still breathing on my neck,
So I stop crossing bridges,
And maybe I want to dream of you,
But you never loved me,
You're too cold to hold fire,
Too blind for emotion,
So I'll move my window,
And cover my doors with things you've never seen,
And bring strangers to bed,
Because that's all you are.**

And somewhere in this whirlwind of boys who don't feel and furniture, he takes my hand and shows me I never forgot how to smile.

                                                                      ­                                                                 ­                           I guess that's love.
©Nicola-Isobel H.          09.01.2012
474 · Aug 2015
Sentiments
Isobel G Aug 2015
Everybody wants to fall in love.

I just want to fall in love with you.
©Nicola-Isobel H.        20.08.2015
474 · Jan 2011
I Can't Accept This
Isobel G Jan 2011
I think,
I'll just blow my heart,
To smithereens,
Because I can't,
Accept this
©Nicola-Isobel H.     14.01.2011
473 · Dec 2010
Then Is Not The Same As Now
Isobel G Dec 2010
There was a time,
I lived to breathe,
Nothing but your name,
You were there,
To tell me how to see,
The world,
I saw only through your now empty eyes,
Now I see nothing,
Since you've left me with only my lonely, untrained eyes,
My vision is dead,
Like I am to you
©Nicola-Isobel H.     28.12.2010
472 · Oct 2011
Hush
Isobel G Oct 2011
Hush,*
The bitterness rests,
Idle on your tongue,
The interlude of silence,
Falls softly on the wind,
The thawing wind,
Inducing the lullaby,
Of eternity
©Nicola-Isobel H.        17.10.2011
472 · Oct 2011
His Vanity
Isobel G Oct 2011
It was too much,
Yet all in the same,
It wasn't enough,
He tore at my insides,
We fell in sync,
But I wouldn't die,
For his vanity
©Nicola-Isobel H.      22.06.2011
470 · Oct 2011
The Girl
Isobel G Oct 2011
I'm the girl with the scars,
With the blade in her fingers,
Blood and brittle bones,
The girl with the bruises,
With the troubled mind,
Darkness in excess,
I'm the girl without light,
The broken one,
The dying one,
I'm a girl,
I'm a mess
©Nicola-Isobel H.      05.08.2011
470 · Oct 2011
When No-one's Home
Isobel G Oct 2011
I talk to him sometimes,
When no-one's home,
I tried today
I pretend to hear him,
In my footfall,
It was almost too hard
He's there,
The moon on my sheets,
But you wanted me to try
I can't help crying sometimes,
When I imagine him breathing,
Do you think about it?
I remember that feeling,
Of weight on my shoulders,
When I'm alone
I fall into the cold,
Like a makeshift embrace,
*Do you wish you could stop me?
©Nicola-Isobel H.        23.10.2011

Couldn't think of a better title. Any suggestions?
469 · Dec 2010
So-Called Love
Isobel G Dec 2010
You break me down,
And call it love,
You lift me up,
To let me fall,
You broke my heart,
To hear me cry,
You left me,
Your so-called love,
Beneath the sky
©Nicola-Isobel H.    28.12.2010
469 · Jan 2012
Caught and Overrated
Isobel G Jan 2012
It's hard to wonder,
If you're overrated,
When I'm caught,
Blurred vision to your fever,
Two steps behind
©Nicola-Isobel H.        23.01.2012
468 · Jun 2015
Reality Shock
Isobel G Jun 2015
Nobody wants to be with a girl
who sits up late at night in her room
dissecting disposable razors with her fingernails
just so she can feel.
©Nicola-Isobel H.        08.06.2015
467 · Jun 2011
My Words Are Not Enough
Isobel G Jun 2011
Tell me how the story ends,
What's lost and what remains,
Tell me when the rain begins,
To fall senseless without composure,
Tell me what to say,
My words are not enough
©Nicola-Isobel H.     18.05.2011
466 · Apr 2015
Strange Addiction
Isobel G Apr 2015
I broke one of my dad's razors.
I couldn't stand it anymore,
so I picked it apart with
my scissors and pulled away
the deformed plastic frame.
I stole the glimmering blade
and bent it like paper
between my fingers.
I was intoxicated by the
sight of it. I pressed it
tentatively against my skin,
like the feather light touch
of a lover, and caressed my
veins with it's edge.


I can't stop.
©Nicola-Isobel H.     03.12.2014
Isobel G Apr 2011
The black of night,
Against cold blue skin,
Purple fingertips,
Brushed,
With bright crimson,
Cold and red,
Empty and blue
©Nicola-Isobel H.      08.04.2011
463 · Mar 2011
He Loves Me
Isobel G Mar 2011
He loves me,
Should I feel the same,
Or shy away,
From love's uncertain embrace,
Though the force,
Of his words,
Draws me closer,
I feel the sickening twist,
Of confusion,
Within my chest,
How can I return,
Such sweetness,
While love is torn,
Contorted and shredded,
When my heart,
Should be flooded,
Bursting at the seams,
With equal passion
©Nicola-Isobel H.       02.03.2011
463 · Jan 2011
Nine Words
Isobel G Jan 2011
Before I retreated,
To the safety,
Of my wardrobe walls,
Nine words escaped,
My father's lips,
I know this is going to upset you but...
Frantic, I did not wait,
To hear the rest,
But slammed the closet door,
And disappeared,
Into the darkness
©Nicola-Isobel H.        26.01.2011
461 · Feb 2011
Waiting
Isobel G Feb 2011
I spend my days,
Staring out windows,
At effortless blue sky,
And the nights,
Blinking up,
At blatant, white ceilings,
Through the darkness,
Just waiting,
For it to be over
©Nicola-Isobel H.       03.02.2011
Isobel G Dec 2010
To whoever has the heart to hear:
I, a butterfly,
Have nothing but broken wings,
Unwilling to fly,
Though I know,
I am nothing,
But one of many millions,
I pray that you, God unto me,
May grant my wish,
And unlock the heavy doors,
Of my cruel cage,
Heal my broken spirit,
And lift the burden of this pain,
From my brittle wings
©Nicola-Isobel H.     28.12.2010
461 · Jun 2011
Waking Up Alone
Isobel G Jun 2011
The thing I hate most,
About life,
Is waking up,
Alone
©Nicola-Isobel H.     22.05.2011
461 · Jul 2014
Chills
Isobel G Jul 2014
Do you ever feel the ice
wrap tight around your chest?
Its long, bone-thin fingers
fill the gaps between your ribs;
you feel those nails,
familiar as an old friend,
rake across your skin.

I can feel him trace
the chill along my spine.
His whispers
raising the hairs of my neck,
as his darkness cloaks my eyes.

Do you ever feel him?
His devil's grin against your cheek;
that cruel, cold laughter
stealing your breath away.
©Nicola-Isobel H.       06.07.2014
461 · Apr 2011
As You Counted The Scars
Isobel G Apr 2011
I held my breathe,
And watched your eyes,
As you counted the scars
©Nicola-Isobel H.     15.04.2011
461 · Jan 2011
When You Smile
Isobel G Jan 2011
When you're around,
The complex and unforgiving world,
Seems so simple,
So beautiful,
I can believe there is such thing,
As happiness,
Because when you smile,
I don't have to pretend
©Nicola-Isobel H.     11.01.2011
460 · Jan 2011
How Can He Not See
Isobel G Jan 2011
Her soft, silent smile,
A lie to his eyes,
Steals hope from their heavy hearts,
Why can he not see,
How much she cares,
Unwillingly so now,
But no less than before,
Yet he turns her away
©Nicola-Isobel H.     06.01.2011
460 · Feb 2011
Bleeding Truth
Isobel G Feb 2011
Breathing never satisfies,
This hunger,
For eternal silence,
And a simple, tragic ending,
Rather, it fuels the fire,
Of desperation,
For blood across my hands,
And tears me up,
Alive and open,
Bleeding truth,
Across the broken floor
©Nicola-Isobel H.      20.02.2011
460 · Oct 2011
Peroxide
Isobel G Oct 2011
Swallow my peroxide,
Bleach out your insides,
If there's something to live for,
You haven't found it yet
©Nicola-Isobel H.      07.09.2011
460 · Apr 2011
I Never Said Goodbye
Isobel G Apr 2011
The last time I saw him,
He was sick,
He was dying,
Surrounded by white,
A blank room of white,
Sharp and impersonal,
He couldn't speak,
I couldn't speak,
I never said goodbye
©Nicola-Isobel H.      18.04.2011
459 · Apr 2012
Petrus Apostolus
Isobel G Apr 2012
We didn't know your favourite song,
so we chose one from your home town.
A quiet hymn about the joy of God;
I'm sure you would have frowned
behind the outward smile,
as you looked down from above
to bear witness to the solemn mourning.
©Nicola-Isobel H.      25.04.2012
459 · Oct 2011
The Silence of The Night
Isobel G Oct 2011
Clouds befall the canvas,
Of the black, starry night,
Your voice,
A gentle harmony,
Playing on the wind,
The horizon falls from focus,
Matched with the flutter,
Of restless eyes,
The silence of the night,
Finds me back beside you
©Nicola-Isobel H.     21.06.2011
458 · Oct 2011
Winter's Calling
Isobel G Oct 2011
Find me in the snow,
You'll be seconds,
Too late,
The winter's calling,
Could you hear the darkness,
You never felt the darkness,
Pulling me away
©Nicola-Isobel H.      16.08.2011
458 · Nov 2011
Farewell At Last
Isobel G Nov 2011
If I wake up,
Bring me home,
To the vacant dawn,

Lay me to rest,
On paper sand,
And farewell at last,

When I wake up,
Leave me prevented,
Black bouquet in hand,

Under the veil,
Of empty promise,
And wasted youth,
Farewell at last
©Nicola-Isobel H.        05.11.2011
458 · Jun 2011
Surrounded By Night
Isobel G Jun 2011
Street lights for stars,
And smokey air,
Fogging the black curtains,
Of the sky,
I'm surrounded by night,
While I long for the day
©Nicola-Isobel H.     01.06.2011
458 · Jan 2011
Looking
Isobel G Jan 2011
I'm just looking,
For something; someone,
Worth looking for
©Nicola-Isobel H.     07.01.2011
457 · Jan 2011
Somewhere Visable
Isobel G Jan 2011
Maybe I'll just bleed,
For a moment,
So the pain will be,
Somewhere visable
©Nicola-Isobel H.     14.01.2011
457 · Jun 2011
You Mean Everything
Isobel G Jun 2011
When I look in your eyes,
It's clear,
You mean everything to me,
I can't imagine,
Being without you
©Nicola-Isobel H.     03.06.2011
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