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L May 2015
But I do.
I feel the same way and God ******, I want to tell you.
But how would you feel about that?
Would you think that I'm saying it just to soothe your fears and vulnerability?
Would you think that I'm being sympathetic and saying it out of guilt?
I'm not.
I promise.
I love you.
I want to tell you

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Leigh
211 · Nov 2015
13w
L Nov 2015
13w
Switch the blade like I switched my heart;
Cool and clean and parallel.
Do it

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Leigh
211 · Apr 2015
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
You are not feared by anyone, let alone the fearless.
Someone should probably tell you

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Leigh
210 · Nov 2015
11/4
L Nov 2015
The life span of a red blood cell is 120 days...
This means that part of you is no longer who you were four months ago.
Just something I learned today that gave me a sense of hope

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Leigh
209 · Jun 2015
Ray
L Jun 2015
Ray
The first night without you, I cried like an abandoned child and bit my fingernails for the first time in years. I drank straight from a bottle of wine I snuck from the pantry. I spun violently around my room, letting an angry record spin. Later, I hit my fist against the wall of the shower as I washed off all my shame and anger in ice cold water. Then I spent the rest of that godawful night shivering in my bed like the shattered heart that I was, my skin shaking and rising over my fragile bones. And no one knew, and no one knew...
Three months later and my heart is still breaking

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Leigh
209 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
Get out of my head
209 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
Do you recognize your own vulnerability?
208 · May 2015
10w
L May 2015
10w
What did I do
to deserve a love
this pure?
I don't deserve him at all

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Leigh
208 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
I spent hours in your arms
and realized that there was no place
I would rather be
208 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
I'm so ******* sick of worrying abut you and thinking about what you're doing get out get out *get out
207 · Apr 2015
6w
L Apr 2015
6w
I will crawl into your atmosphere
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Leigh
207 · Nov 2015
Flames
L Nov 2015
Every time I feel the flames licking at my heels,
you swoop down and save me from being engulfed.
I never have to tell you, you just... do.
How do you do it?
How do you know?
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Leigh
207 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I will never be who you wanted me to be
207 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
Don't you dare say I didn't try.
You have no idea how hard I tried.
I tried
I tried
I tried
207 · Oct 2015
It Will Come Back
L Oct 2015
Don't give it a hand, offer it a soul
Honey, make this easy.
Leave it to the land, this is what it knows
Honey, that's how it sleeps.
Don't let it in with with no intention to keep it
Jesus Christ, don't be kind to it.
Honey don't feed it, it will come back.
Hozier

Not mine
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Leigh
207 · Oct 2015
Lucky 7w
L Oct 2015
I escaped you like it was nothing.
And I left behind no regrets

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Leigh
207 · May 2015
Society
L May 2015
I think I need to find a bigger place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space
Eddie Vedder
206 · Apr 2015
B III (10w)
L Apr 2015
This love is fortuitous;
I am falling for your soul.
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Leigh
206 · Jan 2016
1/4 (15w)
L Jan 2016
Your breathing was shallow
And I longed for it's warmth
Against my goosebump covered neck
I feel as if my heart is going to explode

Leigh
206 · May 2015
10w
L May 2015
10w
Through it all, my heart continues to ache for you.
You've hurt so many, yet I still feel the need to defend you.

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Leigh
206 · Dec 2015
12/1
L Dec 2015
You gave me a bottle of lavender even though you knew I hated it.
I only opened it twice - when I received it and that night.
I found that bottle last night, hidden away in dark corners.
The minute I opened it, I regretted it.
The once sweet smell was putrid.
I coughed and heaved and felt tears ***** my eyes.
No. Please no.
...
Never again. Never.
The memory passed and I saw red.  
I gripped the tiny bottle until my knuckles turned white.
With power I didn't know I had, I threw that bottle at the wall.
It shattered, just like everything else...
So I opened my window and let the world know of your sin.
Someone told me I shouldn't let hate overrun my heart
But I'd rather hate you than show you the pity you think you deserve.

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Leigh
206 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
You're filling every crack and I am not objecting
205 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
You make me nauseous. ******* sick. I am disgusted. Revolted.
How did I ever? ****, how did I ever?
205 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
It would be a lie
to say that I love someone
more than I loved you
An accidental haiku

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Leigh
205 · Jan 2015
Thoughts (1w)
L Jan 2015
***.
Well, it's the only thing going through your mind, isn't it?
;)

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Leigh
205 · Apr 2014
10w
L Apr 2014
10w
You say that I can't help you...

*I'll die trying.
I've learned to love 10w poems. it's like there is a small box around my thoughts and I have to stray from touching the edges.

For R, with every ounce of love.
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Leigh
204 · May 2015
10w
L May 2015
10w
You're only a disappointment if you allow yourself to be
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Leigh
204 · Oct 2015
Give Up the Ghost
L Oct 2015
Don't haunt me
Gather up the lost and sold
Into your arms
Gather up the pitiful
In your arms
What seems impossible
I think I have had my fill
*I think I should give up the ghost
modified Radiohead lyrics

Not mine

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Leigh
203 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
The heart knows what the mind does not
203 · Sep 2015
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
When this world upsets me,
this music sets me free
Gary Clark Jr.
"The Healing"

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Leigh
203 · Nov 2014
J (10w)
L Nov 2014
I broke my heart
before you had
the chance to.
For someone long lost.

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Leigh
202 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
Today I ripped up the first "I love you" note you ever gave me.
It felt good, admittedly.
It felt like fearlessness.
It felt like freedom.
202 · Nov 2015
Untitled
L Nov 2015
The pressure is gone -- thank god, you love me still.
201 · Apr 2015
20w
L Apr 2015
20w
It's a swing of the hips
and a flick of the wrist
that puts me
at the starting point
I have no idea

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Leigh
201 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
It's you, you ******* idiot. You're the one causing your own issues. Are you so blind? For ***** sake. Idiot. ******* IDIOT.
Sorry for the *****
200 · Jul 2015
Home(?)
L Jul 2015
How many nights have I spent with my lanky arms wrapped around a long ago chest caved in, whispering to the wind "I don't want to be here, please help me".
My home life is ****
Get me out of here

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Leigh
199 · Apr 2015
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last
This Feeling // Alabama Shakes
199 · Oct 2015
One or the Other
L Oct 2015
Genius in one way.
Idiot in another.
Which one will make you happy?
Which one will take you further?
For one of you

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Leigh
199 · Mar 2015
R (12w)
L Mar 2015
I will sing my song
for you
and I will carry on
With fondness

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Leigh
197 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
I'll spend the rest of my life blaming myself for something you did
197 · Nov 2015
8w
L Nov 2015
8w
We are made of dreams once deemed unreachable
And love unsought for

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Leigh
197 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
"I think I love you. ****, I know it's way too early and things with Rachel didn't end well and you probably aren't ready to say anything along those lines, but... I had to say it or I would've exploded. You don't have to say it back, Leigh. I just had to, still have to, say it.... I love you I love you I love you."
197 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
I spent weeks coughing up blood, but now it races through my veins
197 · May 2015
15w
L May 2015
15w
Tears stain my pillow and I wonder how many of them were shed for you
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Leigh
196 · Sep 2015
9/13
L Sep 2015
I threw away your things today.
Love letters, fake flowers, incense, clothes.
You gave it to me, it's gone.
I can't stand to look at you, let alone the things you left behind.
So I got rid of it all.
Now, I'm a little bit freer.
196 · Apr 2015
14w
L Apr 2015
14w
The taste of your skin lingers
on my tongue
and I cannot get enough
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Leigh
196 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
You had to learn the hard way
that you can't always get what you want
196 · Nov 2015
10w
L Nov 2015
10w
Don't seek solace in me, my arms protect myself only
You may be, but I am not.

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Leigh
196 · Sep 2015
The Last Supper
L Sep 2015
Every time I look at you, I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You would've managed better if you had it planned
JCS

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Leigh
196 · May 2015
Sound Memory
L May 2015
I can listen to the storm outside without thinking of your eyes

I can listen to The Rain Song without thinking of your hands

I can listen to my own heartbeat without thinking of yours
The Rain Song // Led Zeppelin

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Leigh
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