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 May 2014 Kagami
Love
Eat
 May 2014 Kagami
Love
Eat
Is that the lowest moment?
When you don't dare to wear shorts because of the scars that cover your legs.
And then you're sitting there at the dinner table with your family,
And they keep on telling you to eat,
But all you mutter is "I'm not hungry",
When you actually are.
You're starving but your image is worth more than a meal.
You eat a few bites just to shut them up,
And then run to the bathroom to rid yourself of it,
To make sure you can fit into those jeans,
The ones that could stand you losing another 5 pounds.
You get used to the lies of:
"I'm not hungry"
"I ate before I came"
And "oh yeah I'm fine, just tired".
Is that your lowest point,
When the only food you're feeding yourself is lies?
 May 2014 Kagami
Austin Heath
This tattoo is slowly becoming
an ironic advertisement.
I'm just here.
Writing.
For Christ's sake, if this is how
we make our art, we're all ******, huh?
 May 2014 Kagami
Nat Lipstadt
white lies,
so well remembered,
a tool first employed to salve and save,
from places, tasks, situations unasked,
to shape things the way I desired

white for they were pure
devilry,
a lie is a lie,
except for when it lets me,
my very own truth be

these white truths,
double colored black,
by and for me,
I do not deceive,
nor lie to myself

but no longer need I lie
(much),

now, write poems
where, with mortar and pestle,
grind them both up, together
the white lies and the black truths,
they are as they should be,
one and the same

my poetry,
a simple sum of both totaling

**me
For the one who gifts me titles that make poems come to be instantly...
 May 2014 Kagami
L
Make Love
 May 2014 Kagami
L
Make love* is such an odd term for ***.
Why romanticize something that's already romantic?
Beautiful in itself?
If someone asked if I was a ******, I'd say,
"No, I make love everyday."
Because I do.
Making love isn't ***.
Not to me, anyway.
Making love is defined in everyday actions.
A simple "I love you".
Or another "You are so beautiful".
Even something like "I appreciate you".
Making love is spreading love.
To some, it may sound... creepy.
To others, it may make sense.
I hope it makes sense.
off hand, nothing much.
sounds like something I'd turn into my English teacher...

sike.

**
Leigh
 May 2014 Kagami
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Uneasy
 May 2014 Kagami
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I'm uncomfortable
Anxious
And I don't know why
I don't know what is wrong
But I can't fix it
Who are you
Who am I
I’ve got something to tell you
And I don’t know why
But I’ve…
I’ve kinda fallen for you
Again

And there’s still another girl
I’ve got my eye on
And I’ve seen her looking at me
Yeah I think she’s perfect
And god knows she's worth it
Yeah I think I could make this work

[Chorus]
Because sometimes all that’s needed
Is a simple…                  distraction?
And yeah she looks just like you
But she loves me too
Maybe it’s just my mind
Craving something new
But when I’m with her
I can’t seem to remember you…

And I know
I don’t know how
I’m going to tell you
But I can’t keep these feelings bottled inside
Yeh I gotta let them flow
But I’m afraid you won’t feel the same
And if you don’t then you might let all your friends know

[Chorus]

But every time you look my way
Can I say it makes my day
I just can’t keep the feelings away
And I’ve just gotta tell you
Whenever I’m with you
Life just feels okay

[Chorus]

Yeah yeah
My heart no longer wants…
You…
I don't like to make small talk
But you make it so much fun.

I don't like to travel
But I would to see you.

I don't like human contact
But I'd run up and hug you.

I don't like emotions
But when I'm with you I don't know how to feel.

I don't like people
But I really think I love you...
 May 2014 Kagami
Third Eye Candy
love is the withered regalia of a once plump.

where passion blinks, heat drinks
and stars fall, plastered.
jaundiced in the haunted grove
of our weary retreat
from the *******.

love is the drum, coming. the numb, one thing -
that might matter.
but we have our patterns and the lights flicker
where the loose tatters
knit their treason in the dumb blood
of our heart's disaster.

but love wants
what the heart
is after.

cue the laughter.
 May 2014 Kagami
Third Eye Candy
Sometimes Silence is a Lie.

it drains the lake, it does... it siphons the symphonies.
it bleaks the speech, unbridled
from a long mute, to a mutiny. the mute in me ~
would rather, but we'd rather knot.
null reprisals, highly prize super nova
in the Scotia of our scathing
plight.

no other might. but...
we'll do what the light won't
in the dark night.
we'll trouble the cube. each of us, the rube
in tomorrow's ****...
the Thumb
in the oyster of an ill quiet
where the Lord of Prayers
Errs the attempt
to split Heirs.

We inherit the wind
and a breeze.
And a breeze will ****
a Windmill

straight fair.

but not for the lack of peace.
but the fog of war.

at the very least.
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