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381 · May 2016
The Ghost of Him
It looks like a nightmare
It hurts like reality
There he is, the ghost of him
Running his soft hands over your skin
Whispering endearments in your ear
Lovely promises he never got to keep
There's nowhere else for you to be but here
Even if nothing is ever as it seems
He was gone, he is gone
But he's here in your dreams
You touch me
And all of a sudden
The fish are drowning
Swimming, breathless
Towards the surface
Where the air is turning into
Fairy dust
Painting the sky in
A thousand different colors

Then you're gone
Fairies aren't real
The sky is just blue
The helpless fish
Are being cooked
And paintings are just paintings
Even if they remind me of you
361 · Jun 2016
Stranger
I know what you came here for
So skip the cheap words and alcohol
And lead the way to the dance floor

Our sadness is the same
Broken hearts dipped in black
Love is but a twisted game

Polite conversations are in vain
Small talk a waste of time
I’ll distract you from the pain

Come, uncross your arms
We can go anywhere
You can’t resist my charms

And as the night comes to an end
We’ll keep going , no destination
Just keep playing pretend

Come, you don’t want my pity
Take my hand, take this chance
The night is ours and so is this city
327 · May 2016
Between the lines
I am an artist
And no words of mine
Are used in vain
While you throw your "I love you's"
Like ***** in a game
I hide mine in everything I write
And wait for you to
Read between the lines
And find them
322 · May 2016
Untitled
You treasure hearts
Because they’re easy to love
As long as you keep
Living
I treasure minds
Because they change my world
Long after their hearts stop
Beating
305 · May 2016
You think he might love you
You think he might love you
When he recognizes the monsters in your eyes
And stays until they turn into faint whispers
On the back of your mind
Instead of running away
And leaving you behind

You think he might love you
When you catch him looking at you
A question dancing on his face
Permission reflected on yours
And your soul has never felt so exposed
As when your lips are fighting his

You think he might love you
When, late in the day, sitting on the rooftop
You look over the edge and find that
You might be falling
And you realize
He might be there to catch you if you do
269 · May 2016
Untitled
If humans had wings
They’d still make the mistake
Of flying back to the people
Who’d cut them off
258 · May 2016
Broken Trust
(trigger warning: implied ****/self harm)**

Unwelcome hands
All over your body
Silenced screams
And then, agony
Like plucking petals
From a flower
That has yet to blossom
When it's over there aren't
Any tears left to cry
Nothing left to do
But let your own
Welcome hands
Carve lines into your skin
Because you think no one
Should have the right
To hurt you
Unless that someone
Is yourself
And you build a wall
Around your mind
Because you can't build one
Around your body
You think you'll never
Invite anyone else
Inside it
(But then you meet him.)
And on a side note, I didn't write this about myself, this did not happen to me, it's inspired by a book I've read. I put a trigger warning  but if you feel this should be marked as explicit please let me know!
231 · May 2016
Change
Like unfinished work
My story has been left
Untold
And I struggle
As I have to decide
Between rereading
The pages of my past
And mourning
What could have been
Or picking up a pen
And writing a new book.

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