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Nov 2017 · 114
temptation
Karli Joy Nov 2017
you walk swiftly ahead of me
I try to get you to slow down
you are full of smiles but also some pain
I lean up against your car
as you stand in front of me
and you look at me in the eyes
you grab my face with both your hands
“you’re just so tempting!” you exclaim
and I ask what you mean by that
but you just keep repeating
“you’re just so tempting,”
and I’m left with the memory
and the unexplained detail
of what you meant.
Nov 2017 · 286
catching breaths
Karli Joy Nov 2017
out of breath, filled with heavy breaths
trying to catch our breath,
my eyes are closed and i feel you look over at me
with an expression on your face
like you've never been so amazed
"you look so beautiful right now," you whisper to me in between breaths
i grin with my eyes still close
(i'm speechless when i'm with you).

our breaths are almost caught
and you reach out and touch my lips
"they're so red and beautiful," you say softly
and for the first time in my life,
i could feel the loves for me in someone's gaze
and for the first time in my life,
i felt as beautiful as someone tried to tell me i was
and just like that,
i have to catch my breath again
May 2015 · 345
Want
Karli Joy May 2015
I wonder what it feels like
To really know what you want.

I spend countless hours,
Wishing and waiting
For things I think I want.
Things that would make me happy;
Or so I think.

When the things I wish and wait for
Actually come around,
I find myself pushing it away
Because it isn't really what I wanted.

I waited all this time,
Just for stuff I ended up not really wanting.

The problem is,
It is what I want
How it is in my dreams
But that's not how life works.

And now I am back to not knowing
What it quite is that I think would make me happy.
And I'm left here with the thought of,
That maybe there is nothing that really can.
May 2015 · 643
You See
Karli Joy May 2015
You see,
The way your touch felt was almost electrifying
And when your lips touched my body (anywhere),
It's almost like I forgot what's real and what's not.

You see,
Something had never felt so right,
But also so wrong
All at once when laid upon my skin.

You see,
When I look back and try to reminisce
To when you kissed me all over & grazed my skin with yours,
It feels like I'm imagining something not real.

You see,
It feels I'm imagining it better than it was,
But I know that I am not (imagining)
Because I remember this feeling every time after.

You see,
I can easily not need you
But I cannot easily not crave you
I can easily live without you,
But I cannot easily deny that you make me feel alive.

And you see,
I can easily let you go,
But I cannot easily forget you.
it's a little rough and i messed up the pattern in the second to last stanza. it's quite different from my original, this is extremely edited from the original but i think i like it better.

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