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Kiana Lynn Jun 2015
It’s never straight forward.
It’s always redirected,
people trying to save face, but that’s expected.
I’ve gotten so tired of the games,
trustworthy- the definition just isn’t the same.
I just wonder when it changed,
when words became so perfectly arranged.
I just want the real.
Don’t comfort me with a lie, because from the truth I’ll heal.
I’m ranting now,
but people have gotten so lost somehow.
People are known to beat around the bush,
maybe they just need a little push.
Get to it,
I’m not talking about shooting the ****.
I want the truth,
not the attitude of the petulant youth.
Get the point across,
so the truth can’t be lost.
Kiana Lynn Jun 2015
The world is ugly, and brutal,
but we can’t believe our attempts for change are futile.
It’s time for change, for better things ahead,
but we need to change together, too many have been left for dead.
Too much hate, and at this rate
we’ll all suffer the same fate.
Banding together,
we can form an unbreakable tether.
We need to take a risk, take a chance,
there’s so much to improve, so much to enhance.
It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight
but this violence, this hate, won’t win this fight.
So I ask you to join me,
to hear this plea.
We want the same thing,
and we have to stand hand in hand for what change will bring.
We can make a difference,
we just need some assistance.
Together we’ll make it,
no matter how hard we get hit.
We’ll get back up, and keep moving
because this world is worth improving.
Kiana Lynn May 2015
Truth or dare?
You said you didn’t care.
My eyes met yours,
and I witnessed firsthand, those dimples I adore.
Nobody’s perfect,
but I found no obvious defect.
There was something about you,
overwhelming, passionate, and all-consuming too.
I lost myself in that first glance,
my heart never stood a chance.
I was in love with this feeling you gave me,
begging everyone to not save me.
This tickling in my tummy,
that kick in my chest when you said my name felt funny.
There’s this childhood type bliss,
I feel to my toes, every time we kiss.
Truth or dare?
I said I didn’t care.
And that’s when you picked dare,
in your eyes I saw a newly sparked flare.
“I dare you to fall in love with me”
it was with my next breath I agreed to your heart stopping decree.
And would you look at that,
after our little chat,
I knew there was no turning back.
There was no running from this attack.
It was then I was able to clearly see,
this beautiful future between you and me.
Kiana Lynn May 2015
In the beginning you were the sweetest drug.
A kind of prescription I didn’t need to sweep under the rug.
Innocent, and foreign but strangely beautiful,
you had this way of keeping us youthful.
But it was that night in the diner
that now serves as a reminder.
Did you feel the shift?
That striped shirt you wore, I’d gotten you it as a gift.
Now you’re a poison, I feel you in my veins
my chest is aching and these aren’t growing pains.
You were my biggest choice,
and I no longer rejoice.
A lingering regret,
your name conjures a cold sweat.
I’m itching, feeling your hands that were once calming
that now remind me of my hearts bombing.
You’re my biggest mistake,
or just maybe my biggest heartbreak.
Right now, they feel like they’re one in the same
and for all our problems I don’t know who’s to blame.
You left that next morning...
No note, no explanation, I had no forewarning,
only a bitter after-taste
and a broken heart, seemingly laid to waste.
Kiana Lynn May 2015
We were easy,
that’s something I remember.
It’s buried under the freshest memories,
memories that can’t be cured with medical remedies.
The rain felt like hail,
your words felt like bullets.
Nothing about that night was easy,
I remember feeling queasy.
It was such a contrast,
soft spoken words of love seemed to be a thing of the past.
We were easy,
that’s something I remember.
Being together was freeing,
lust, love, I guess I mixed up what I was seeing.
I thought we fit,
now it seems your personality’s seen a split.
Did you ever love me,
or was that another hopeless and fake decree?
We were so easy,
so what changed, and why didn’t I see?
Kiana Lynn May 2015
It’s not the type of ugly, like the bruise on your arm.
It’s the type of ugly is meant to disarm.
It’s brutal, and gut wrenching, and it hurts.
It makes you feel as though you’re constantly trying to avert.
It’ll make you feel numb,
until you’re don’t even recognize who you’ve become.
Once you’ve experienced this ugly, it takes over your life,
reminding you constantly of your strife.
Your failures seem to look you in the face,
with every step forward you seem to take.
It’s got you questioning if you’re taking two steps forward, or back,
it’s got your calm, unaffected, beautiful façade about to crack.
Once you’ve experienced this type of ugly, it’s hard to believe you deserve the beauty
and you start to come off as snooty.
Once you’ve experienced this type of ugly, you’ll think there’s no going back,
that the past will never just be in the past,
but in your future too
stealing your happiness, ruining the true you.
Once you’ve experienced it, everything takes a backseat
even when you want something so bad you can hardly speak.
Once you’ve experienced it, and let yourself suffer,
you have to decide if a second time around is worth it, knowing it’ll be tougher.
You have to see that somehow, when you accept it,
the good times make the bad memories fleeting, even though it’s hard to admit.
This type of ugly will ruin you, but only if you continue to let it.
So fight, because if you’ve experienced this ugly, you’ve already taken the worst hit.
Let yourself believe,
there’s more than just an ugly side, don’t continue to misconceive.
When push comes to shove,
you have to fight to see past the ugly side of love.
Kiana Lynn May 2015
Our generation has become so use to temporary feelings, things and people
we aren’t surprised when there isn’t a sequel.
But it’s sad really, how accustomed we’ve become,
detachment has become a rule of thumb.
I don’t want temporary feelings, things or people,
I want to be surrounded by loved ones when I’m standing in that cathedral.
I want forever, like in the storybooks
but it doesn’t have to be a fairytale like with Peter Pan and Hook.
I just want something real,
something that in the depths of my soul, I can feel.
Someone through thick and thin,
there for me when I lose, and when I win.
It won’t be perfect, and definitely not easy
but we’ll have each other, that’s the dose of 'cheesy.'
Our generation is use to temporary feelings, things and people
they don’t expect a sequel.
They’ve come to expect everything to end,
the idea of temporary is the new trend.
And it’s really sad to see,
this generation missing out on so much that could be.
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