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L Mar 2016
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Spinning around my room at 2 AM
Empty wine bottle in hand
Huge smile on my face
Cool breeze passing through the drapes
This is what it's like to be alive
This is what it's like to feel brand new
Leigh
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L Jan 2016
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Maybe - finally - I'm releasing the voice I've kept inside.
Leigh
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L Jan 2016
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It's impossible not to cringe
when I hear your nails on a chalkboard voice
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L Jan 2016
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I've found I hate the word manipulative
It's synonymous with your name
So the hate is just the same
Leigh
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L Mar 2016
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"I was just a kid, I didn't know what to do... so I did nothing."

*"That's not true... you survived."
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L Nov 2013
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can't you see that perfect picture?
you and me?
you don't.
so here I sit,
waiting
on
you.
first two lines inspired by "New Life" by Jim James, a beautiful artist that I highly recommend
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L Jul 2014
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You were gone
and my heartstrings were being
tugged
by an invisible force.

**I knew something was wrong.
I don't trust anyone anymore.
**
Leigh
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L Oct 2014
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I know you like the back of my hand...




  *Oh, when did that get there?
You never really know someone...

**
Leigh
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L Nov 2015
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Love is turning the lights on then off again.
Love is polishing the knives and forks and spoons.
Love is wishing you were there, not here.
Love is pushing doors open and gently closing them.
Love is friendship set to music.
Love is youthful springtime.
Love is ripped stockings and black lace.
Love is blue highlighter on your cheek.
Love is old comic books collecting dust.
Love is silent exhales.
Love is, love is, love is...
For lovers, friends, and lost friends  

**
Leigh
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L May 2015
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Then
The two of us
Thick as thieves

Now
The two of us
Thin as martyrs
"Now and then, I miss you..."

**
Leigh
L Mar 2016
I hate that my name is associated with yours;
They think of you, they think of me.
I ******* hate you.

Leigh
L May 2015
You try to draw a line, but draw a swift conclusion
**
Leigh
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L Jan 2016
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"The way that we learn is by facing our sins - ugly as they are -
and seeing what destruction they have caused and
then ridding our lives of them."
Leigh
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L Mar 2016
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Your smell lingers on my skin, your taste on my tongue
Your image is burned into my mind
Let me not hold your body close
When I am not worthy to even hold your hand
Leigh
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L Feb 2016
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You had to take my safe place,
the one place your hands hadn't touched
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L Feb 2014
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Pansexuality-
****** attraction, ****** desire, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of all gender identities and biological sexes.

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I wonder if my parents would understand.

My father is practically a homophobe...
I'm his little girl.
It would break his fragile heart.

My mother is a different story...
I think she'd shrug and say "Ok".
After all, her favorite musician is gay.

But they could never trust me.*

I'd have to keep the bedroom door open when ANY of my friends come over.

I will not be subjected to that.

So for now, I'll just keep it between friends, the people I trust.

Can you keep a secret?
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L Apr 2015
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What lies behind a question mark?
Nothing.
Wrong. There lies a chance to completely **** up.
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L Jun 2015
???
Hidden away from the wind and rain
Block them out, we're alone again
what am I even saying
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L Jun 2015
/
Cut me again
I triple dog dare you
Dig the blade in a little deeper
Push against my veins a little harder
Don't stop until my body is drained
And I don't feel anymore pain
You were good at it.
Doubt that's changed.

**
Leigh
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L Feb 2016
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I understand it now, the difference between lust and love.
Leigh
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L Jan 2016
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We used to spend lazy days in bed, listening to the birds wake restless sleepers. The sun would cast shadows over us and in moments like those, I thought I couldn't love you more...
The glory of morning is for fools entangled.
I hate remembering you
The memories make me sick

Leigh
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L Jan 2016
*
Even in fictional scenarios, I still apologize for the way you act.
"She wasn't always like that... Scratch that, she was."

Leigh
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L Nov 2015
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Your love for me runs true -
Freely, purely, without constraint.
Who am I to stop you?
How am I to want anyone more?
**
Leigh
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L Mar 2015
1
Tomorrow is a new day;
the sun will rise again
to kiss the tops of trees
and warm the hearts of man.
**
Leigh
L Oct 2015
No longer will you diminish my light
I'm soaring through the galaxies
The stars are at my fingertips
I'm finding my soul again
*I am triumphant
Nothing but joy

**
Leigh
L Oct 2015
I've set fire to what you left behind -
The embers singe the vanilla perfume inside my lungs
   and new life bursts through the flames.
I'm Alive

**
Leigh
L Oct 2015
Never again will I allow someone like you to deceive me, to take advantage of the love I reluctantly give
I am my own

**
Leigh
L Oct 2015
This is a terrible idea.
I know.
We shouldn't.
Probably not.
You'll regret this.
*Never.
**
Leigh
L Nov 2015
I've let hundreds of moments pass where I could've told you. The words are pushing against the back of my teeth, but I just can't seem to let them out. When I do tell you, I hope you'll understand how hard it is for me to say the words out loud. Wrap your arms around my shaking frame and just hold me. Because a declaration like that will drain the light I keep so carefully lit. You'll look at me differently. I won't be the same girl you fell for during a chemistry lesson. My hands will seem colder, my spine will seem stiffer. Will you still love me when you know that I'm damaged?
For B
One day, I'll be able to let you in

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
You're only a disappointment if you allow yourself to be
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Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
My smile reaches your ears and your words smile back
There's always you

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
Did I say something stupid?
There goes one more mistake...
**
Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
Yours are the eyes I see when I close mine
Eh

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Leigh
10w
L May 2014
10w
I can't promise you tomorrow,
but I can promise today.
Oh my love...
Stop worrying about what our future holds.
Think of now, now is where you have me.

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2014
10w
Your love
is a gift
I am not worthy of.
Another for R.
I miss my love.

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Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
We hide,
cowering in the
deepest shadows
of former ourselves.
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Leigh
10w
L Apr 2014
10w
My poetry is the product of a fool
in love.
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Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
I am a man of many tricks,
woman of deception.
I honestly don't know

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Leigh
10w
L Nov 2014
10w
Forgive me for questioning
your muddled definition of
*honesty.
Just a thought.

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Leigh
10w
L Mar 2014
10w
I believe that all the strength you possess is enough.
sorry for all the 10w poems lately.
short and not-so-sweet

** Leigh
10w
L Jul 2015
10w
The daylight sings your praises
and with it,
I harmonize.
For B

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Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
This love overwhelms me; I am afraid to fall again.
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Leigh
10w
L Jul 2015
10w
Without your hand in mine,
I feel loneliness seep in.
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Leigh
10w
L Oct 2014
10w
I find
solace
in your lips,
peace
in your heart.
Going to attempt a 10 word poem each week :)

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Leigh
10w
L Feb 2016
10w
Will it take your breath?
Will it make you burn?
Leigh
10w
L Dec 2015
10w
Your bleeding heart can only bear so many puncture wounds
I thought you were smarter than to fall into her manipulation
Guess I was wrong

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Leigh
10w
L Apr 2014
10w
My eyes follow like slaves forced to follow their master.
and they only follow
you

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Leigh
10w
L Dec 2015
10w
We're blind
to what
we do not
want to
believe
There were so many things I didn't want to believe about you
Now I know them all too well

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Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
Slice me open and let the blood run its course
indifferent

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Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
Bright blue eyes of youth,
for who do you search?
what am I doing half the time

**
Leigh
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