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 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
you said so many times
that you would love me
for the rest of your life
and only now do I
realize you may
have understood
that love isn't
confined to
a relationship
it just lasts.
(c) Brooke Otto

This realization was sudden and very painful.
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
Nm.
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
Nm.
I still
look at the
moon and wonder
if you are looking
too
(c) Brooke Otto
 Aug 2013 kiera
Ian Johan-Gomez
The little green monster
sits on my shoulder as I see you.
And her.
It feeds on my insecurity and longing.
Growing.
Getting fat.
I try to suppress it--
I know it does only harm.
Yet the little green monster is persistent
and never truly leaves.
I might be able to force it away
But it leaves with a knowing smile.
And a promise.
To come slinking back
whenever I see her lips touch yours.
And I wish that you were mine.
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
Sweet Boy.
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
something about those
first sugar cookies that
you made me said a lot
about your heart
(c) Brooke Otto
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
Self.
 Aug 2013 kiera
brooke
Feeling beautiful
without the words
of another is perhaps
the hardest.
(c) Brooke Otto
 Jul 2013 kiera
marina
fist fights
 Jul 2013 kiera
marina
i heard once on the playground that the human heart
is about the size of it's owner's fist;
that day i spent my whole afternoon
gathering handfuls of earth within the
palms of my hands just to see
how much i could hold, as if that could show me
how much i was capable of loving, but dirt
slipped through my fingers when i loosened my
grip, and i was scared that people were the same
(even at eight, i knew that sometimes the only reason
people stayed was because you held them too tight,
and if midnight provided a last-minute flight
they wouldn't hesitate to catch it because holding on
was harder than running away).
later on, i tried to catch people like fish,
reeling them in and then leaving them on a hook
because when i held them at a distance they were
pretty to look at and i could feel their heat, but when i
clutched them close to my chest, underneath my line of
sight, it was much easier for them to
break and hide.  that all changed when i met
you though; i disabled all my traps and
reached out to you with bare fingers, telling myself
if i could hide you between my hands then
maybe you wouldn't mind hiding in my heart.
i started out timid, grasping handfuls of your
shirt and the way your laugh sounded when it was
me that caused it, and sometimes at night
when i pretended you were there with me, i would
reach out for you, but daylight was different
and i've always had small hands

(i realized it was never about taking your heart when you
reached for my hand and held it like it was your favourite secret
you couldn't keep any longer; it was about letting you have mine)
(ps: you're my favourite secret too)
&this; is a mess because it's unedited but i'm lazy so yeah.  and sorry for freaking out on my last poem.  to anybody who commented, thank you- it meant a lot.  i managed to get through okay.  thank you.
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