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jǫrð Jul 2021
Unattainable
Goals that ask softly for me
To reach skyward, home.
The History: Calling
jǫrð Jul 2023
Burgundy walls
And bamboo
Light fixtures

A glass table
With two chairs
Just you and I

You brought me
Literature and
Coconut macarons

I'm not
Quite sure what it was
That I brought to you
The History: I wish I had known earlier, what love you bring. I should have tasted it in the pastries. Your love filled that place and I didn't even recognize it. I try so hard to make it up, but I feel I've missed a golden opportunity.
jǫrð Oct 2020
Poisoned my soul with
Elixirs, moltov potions
Set alight within
jǫrð Nov 2020
In this shell, I am
Soft and membranous, waiting
For heavy footfall
jǫrð Nov 2020
He's got it under
Control, isn't it so, so
Unfair that he's not
jǫrð Dec 2020
Hibiscus Flowers
planted in the wrong season
will not see the sun
jǫrð Dec 2020
Forgot about me
Little thing that no longer
Kept your attention
The History: I woke today, feeling discarded and unwanted by everyone in my life. I reach out to them and they take a step back. Apparently I will never be happy....And as I type this, you looked at me like you cared at all for the first time all day.
jǫrð Oct 2023
Treat me like a therapist
Until you feel embarrassed

Tell me you talk to me
Even more than your new wife

Act like it's a compliment
I know any good doctor would

Say that's unhealthy but
I am afraid of your reaction

So bite my tongue, and I listen
And then when you tell me

I remind you of your ex
You really mean I remind you

Of the one who got out from
Underneath your sweaty thumb

Unable to be controlled
And that just kills you
The History: He talks to me any which way he pleases. I have accepted the indiscretions, in addition to his displaced and covert professions of love. He is higher on the food chain and I am not afraid to point out his weakness. He is wholly unreliable and hates that I know, or so it seems. He is quick to anger, the closest external contact I've had with sociopathic tendencies. He lies for his own preservation, he ignores risk factors, he disregards others' experiences.
I struggle with some of the same issues. I identify them within me and work to change them. He has influenced me to be a better person so as not to end up alone as he has, comparing strangers to people of his past and allowing his bias to control every interaction. Sad from someone who's had such a long time to get it together. I sense, regret.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Calling was the void
Wondrous, fearful, cavernous
From within her mind
The History: Today, preferably.
jǫrð Oct 2023
From our
Bed's stillness,
He scurries off
Softly into
The morning
Delicate and
Quiet as mice
We say goodbye
& yearn
For when we'll
Meet again.
The History: Come home.
jǫrð Apr 29
You always wanted to be something more.
John Wick, or John Snow,
Or John Doe who gets all the girls
Who dumps them off when you're done
Hacking them apart
The History: Weak, insignificant men playing games they'll never win. They dream of importance, of status, of fast cars.
jǫrð Jun 2023
Each tear,
One could,
Freeze them
& study the fractals
Created by these lies
I should have said less
The History: Tears speak when the heart cannot
jǫrð Nov 2020
Can't you tell, I'd do
Anything you say to, any
Little thing you ask
jǫrð Jul 2023
Those come before
Were training wheels
And those after
A lesson in purpose

And now, I can say
There is love, where
Only despair and
Disdain once grew

Soul mates can mean
Many things, perhaps,
And I'm sorry if
This applies to you:

We could have been
But you were never
Quite ready for
More than just yourself
The History: Better love by Hozier
jǫrð Dec 2020
His promises of
Tomorrow, Something to look
Forward to, waiting
The History: I made conscessions for your preference and you never got out of bed. You slept until you were late for work and I tried to pretend I didn't exist.
jǫrð Mar 2021
Hail on the rooftop
Echoed through the long hall
Longing, too, was I
The History: The hail echoed your name. I wanted you to come home but home for you isn't the same.
jǫrð Nov 2020
Red Chrysanthemums
Zealous on the mantlepiece
Say it with flowers
The History: Flowers from the right hand mean yes, and a yes is all I wanted, all I needed but....
jǫrð Jun 2023
Your cologne
Like a tooth
Penetrates my
Softened skin
The History: Wake up and smell the cologne
jǫrð Jan 2021
Cumbersome, I am
Under some profound stress, and
I'm clueless at best
The History: Fumbling my way through this world, stressed 98.7% of the time.
jǫrð Mar 2021
I long to be so

Far away from me, in the

Current state I'm in.
The History: Is it possible to distance yourself, from yourself? I'd like to sometimes, and sometimes I do unintentionally.
jǫrð Nov 2023
My inflection changed,
"Oh my God"
To "Oh," "My God,"
My sweet God.
The History: "It's is noteworthy that this Godhood thus extends only to your own Self, not to the selves of others (though a clever God may certainly influence them.)"
jǫrð Jan 2021
"Behold," what a phrase,
Uttered the kind, the crude, and
An unlucky few
The History: Golden or wrought-iron? The gates that await you are foretold with a simple word, "Behold" and you create the rest.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Fingers set to graze
Like starved cattle or silver
Raised my skin to peaks
The History: I am constantly questioning whether these are accidents or intentional acts. There are two realities now, the one in which I don't turn to call you out, and the one where I do and you make me feel crazy.
jǫrð Mar 2021
Your name on Yellow

Labeled biohazardous

I drank like Alice
The History: Go ask Alice if she regrets her choices in wonderland, and she'll probably say no.
jǫrð Nov 2020
You know that I would
Hold it down good for someone
Like you, distinguished
jǫrð Nov 2020
Burn it all down
And rebuild like
My kin did
The History: I am tired existing in this world with others.
jǫrð Oct 2020
Hohenheim, where is
My light, like limbs, lost to me
Gone beyond the gate
jǫrð Jan 2021
Veins blue and icy
In a hot body, melting
Then frozen again
The History: A trait of narcissists, they're hot and cold. Narcissists are people too, who still in their worst state need love as much as the rest of us. Narcissism does not indicate that someone is inherently bad or beyond change. It is simply a necessary way of being for some.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Optimism is
Hibiscus painted beyond
The fabric that binds
The History: I want to dead
jǫrð Mar 2021
Keep your diary
Full with the stupid **** I've said
and tell me you're too good for it
The History: Honesty is the best policy.
jǫrð Feb 2021
I looked over the frame and upward to
Meet your eyes when you passed by
A sidewalk beggar
A kenneled hound would
Present this posture to any passing uncertainty
Doning fangs or long coats and a predatory aura
The History: When I felt your gaze you walked away and I mustered an acknowledgement and you responded but kept on your way. What were you thinking?
jǫrð Sep 2022
Gesture
At the other
Girls
Wait for
Them to
Notice you
The way I
Do
The History: Scribbled on a piece of paper, which I took a photo of and threw in the trash.
jǫrð Jul 2021
Manifestation
Manipulation I can't
Distinguish between
The History: Is..a lot.
jǫrð Oct 2020
I've returned them, June
Smiles, Sunshine & Rainbows, that
Too went unwanted
jǫrð Nov 2020
I talk with my hands
And dont blame me if i get
A little bit mouthy
jǫrð May 2023
The flavor of your home
Baked into it,  I'm
Fortunate enough to taste
The four walls
Fortunate enough to house you
The History: You baked a lasagna, then brought me some,  and played around with me one day. You then became cold again the next, and I wondered what I had done, but this time I was too afraid to say it and so I let you go.
jǫrð Nov 2020
I want your blessing
And your curse, though I know it's
Perverse you're the one
jǫrð Nov 2020
Unconscious aware
Who we really are is a
Lesson I learned hard
The History: I have come to the conclusion that loyalty does not exist. The word friend is now synonymous with stranger in my book.
jǫrð Dec 2020
I do what you do
Linger and loom like colors
On the horizon
The History: You procrastinate when it's time to go. Maybe you don't want to show that you've got nowhere to be? Same buddy.
jǫrð Jul 2023
I do this to myself
Accept fights I could never win

Search for ways to disprove
What I've sought all of my days

Hurl myself into the ring
A luchador with something to prove

The fight rages on
And I lose my will

In fear and self doubt
I sabotage my win

Allowing the opponent that is my mind
To deliver that last fateful blow
The History: I stayed up late and compared myself to everything you could want in a woman. I break my own heart over and over again until you grow tired and leave.
jǫrð Dec 2020
i saw that shift in your gaze
when you remembered
the last time
you became something
Wild, Hungry

whats in my mind, asked
with that eager
and far away look
in muddy water eyes
I sympathize, compromise

it's happened again
while the city lights
rippled the water
with their speed
you put your hands on me

and I doth not protest
when you say
i was the one that got away
so why am I back
so why am I afraid

to turn away or
say this ain't ok with me
why must I empathize
without boundaries
or fear an abrupt ending

to this uncomfortable moment
The History: You put me second. You put me last, asked me if you could grab my *** and all I did was question my worth.
jǫrð Nov 2023
Awake into the night
Paralysed before sleep took hold
Suffocated by my worries
As some stranger had foretold
Awake into the night
I dreamt of coffins and stars
Hopeful for a soft future
One that died out young
Awake into the night
I felt him lingering near
Tickling my occipital lobe
Reminding me for the first time, ever
I'm never really alone
The History: I was little once, with a lot of big dreams and sleep paralysis
jǫrð Nov 2020
Ancient Fairchild Oak
Stripped away with saws and rakes
More room for the dead
The History: The day brought me to a memorial garden with Fairchild Oaks draped in Spanish Moss.   I watched as a group of 12 cleared the tree for more dead ground. I decided when I'm reborn next, I'll call my name Mori.
jǫrð Nov 2020
Florencent light shown
The texture of my skin, the
Yellow undertone
jǫrð Jan 2021
You lost that look that
Kept me by your door waiting
To see where we'd go
The History: I'm the dog that waits over zealous by the door, ready to pull the leash and gag itself. Simple dreams, I suppose but you forgot to take me out.
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