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139 · Sep 2015
What Me Worry?
L Sep 2015
Do I amuse you, dear? Would you think me queer if while standing beside you I opted instead to disappear?
St Vincent

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Leigh
139 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
I can't begin to explain
And you can't begin to understand
138 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
Put the pieces together - tell me, what remains here?
138 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
It's become clear that I should have left sooner
138 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
Maybe I'll never sleep peacefully again... But did I ever sleep peacefully before?
138 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
What I offered was never enough, so I stopped giving.
137 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I pity you.
137 · Nov 2015
Untitled
L Nov 2015
When I think about where I was a year ago tonight, I can taste regret on my tongue
137 · Sep 2015
6
L Sep 2015
6
I've spent the past six months loving you with half a heart, but I'm trying to love you fully.
For B
I'm sorry

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Leigh
137 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
This lens has been thoroughly cleaned
My eyes are wide open
136 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
"I can't keep myself and still keep you, too."
136 · Feb 2014
Untitled
L Feb 2014
Do you think of me the way that people believe you do?
135 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I'm crying out for you; can't you hear my pleas?
135 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
My mind desperately tries to forget, but my heart painfully holds on
134 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
I want to scream and cry and laugh and love but the hurt is too great
134 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I don't think you realize the kind of pain you caused. You ****** up, again and again and again. Now I'm just waiting for one of your "friends" to lose their head. Soon enough.
whoops
133 · Jun 2015
8w
L Jun 2015
8w
You
break
because
you won't let it
bend
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Leigh
132 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
I'll stich the wounds myself
131 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
Was it nothing more than noise inside my head?
130 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I am waiting for the day that you realize that you're *obsessed
130 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
You hear both sides of this twisted story... which do you believe is the truth?
129 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
It was in indulgence, per say. A take take take situation. You took anything you could get. Heart, mind, and body. No, I didn't stop you, that's how it was. You took, I gave. But I didn't give everything away.
129 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
Did you ever? Was anything truthful? Is anyone? Is it me? Am I that easy to lie to? Liar. It suits you.
128 · Oct 2015
10w
L Oct 2015
10w
Your fingertips graze singed flesh.
Do you notice the burns?
**
Leigh
128 · Nov 2015
Untitled
L Nov 2015
I've got a feeling I can't prove
128 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
I make my hatred known so that no one trusts you the way I did
Does this make sense
127 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough I wish I was enough
then maybe things would be different
127 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
The sun moves from behind the clouds
and all is right in the world
127 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
I worry about you constantly- but are you worth the time, the stress, the effort?
127 · Jun 2015
Teenagers (12w)
L Jun 2015
We're just a bunch of children
wanting so desperately to be grown
**
Leigh
126 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
It'll do more harm than good,
but you're willing to take the chance,
aren't you?
125 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
You love like a man
"Women often give *** to get intimacy and men give intimacy to get ***."
124 · Jun 2015
Untitled
L Jun 2015
Even if it were possible,
I wouldn't have been enough.
I wouldn't have been what they wanted for you.
Who am I kidding though?
It couldn't have been possible.
Just another reason to end it.
I'm too literal for proper poetry
124 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
I'll always find you
124 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
You promised me
124 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
My feet are barely touching the ground -- euphoria or depression again?
A bit of both, I suppose...
It's coming back
help me
124 · Sep 2015
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
My smile reaches your ears and your words smile back
There's always you

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Leigh
123 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
Forget it, forget everything I said
123 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
If you had the strength to overpower me, would you?
123 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
I can't get inside if there's no soul to bare
123 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
I've stopped making excuses for your actions
I shouldn't have made any in the first place
"Why? Because she's a ******* idiot, that's why."
122 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
You breathed air back into my lungs.
Did I ever thank you for it?
121 · May 2015
Untitled
L May 2015
God, when will it end?
Do I need to do it myself?
121 · Nov 2015
Untitled
L Nov 2015
The only proof I have is a foggy memory and these words.
How could that save me? How could that end this?
120 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
You can see me, but why can't you ******* look at me?
118 · Mar 2015
Untitled
L Mar 2015
You're not going to let me move on
118 · Apr 2015
Untitled
L Apr 2015
Now it's your promises that mean nothing
117 · Sep 2015
Untitled
L Sep 2015
Me? Funny.
114 · May 2015
15w
L May 2015
15w
You seek it,
but you know the truth
is just the fruit of the fool.
Does this even make sense?

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Leigh
112 · Oct 2015
Untitled
L Oct 2015
I've forgotten how your lips felt against mine, how your arms wrapped around me in the night, how your heart sang for me -- does this mean I've finally moved on?
If so, thank GOD.
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