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Katie Lorenzo Apr 2013
They all looked up
at the same dark sky.
A thousand pale faces
tilted upward.
Every empty mind and blind eye observing
the wide, black, hovering vastness
of nothing
And until their dying day, that same nothing
would haunt them
because they will know absolutely nothing
about the darkness that encompasses our planet
and allows our stars to shine.
Katie Lorenzo Apr 2013
She's lively, and lovely and gorgeous
But she has the saddest eyes I have ever seen.
A constant dazed look of anxiety
glistening with tears
gathered at the waterline,
that's covered in a dark substance
which
she thinks will somehow transform her eyes,
so close to falling over the edge
and rolling down her cheeks,
which she thinks are too chubby,
getting diverted into the indent beneath her nose,
which she thinks is too big,
to roll over her lips,
which she thinks are too thin
and only serve to hold back
feelings,
that she thinks are too stupid to share
Katie Lorenzo Apr 2013
Note to self: When I wrote this, I was happy.
Katie Lorenzo Jan 2013
The moon was supposed to be beautiful on March 19th, but it was hidden behind the clouds.
Still, I hoped you saw it, and I hoped you hoped I saw it too.
Katie Lorenzo Jan 2013
If I could, I'd write you a dictionary.
I'd fill it with all of the things I feel but cannot name.
The feeling of kissing you. The way my heart pumps in blood and pumps out hummingbirds.
What word can describe missing you? The ache, the longing for you when you're away?
How could I define the feeling I get when you hold my hand? When we are no longer just beings, existing separately in space.
That moment when we become linked, through a simple gesture;
I can feel thousands of universes unfolding inside of me, millions of little worlds revolving around you, because the one we're in now is not enough.
It doesn't have enough words
Katie Lorenzo Jan 2013
How unfortunate that we must wait lifetimes for the right one to come along.
Katie Lorenzo Jan 2013
Her head was heavy
with thoughts and with doubts
Soon it became too heavy to lift
and she saw nothing but the ground
She forgot skyscrapers
and power lines
and her beloved stars
When he came along
she told him her weights
He took them away with a kiss
and she could finally lift her head once more
and she saw the stars

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