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10w
L May 2015
10w
My fingertips taste like the skin across your shaking shoulders
;)

**
Leigh
10w
L Mar 2014
10w
I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
You are a sunset mistaken for a cold, waking dawn.
**
Leigh
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
Are you absolutely sure you could love someone like me?
I can't say the words, not yet
I'm sorry

**
Leigh
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
Do not turn my bleeding heart into one oozing poison.
I'm not trying to ruin anything, ******.

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

**
Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
I'm glad I did not die before I met you
10w
L May 2015
10w
I have been encompassed by the warmth of your existence
**
Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
This house is built
on suicidal thoughts
and words unsaid
**
Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
Slice me open and let the blood run its course
indifferent

**
Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
Yours are the eyes I see when I close mine
Eh

**
Leigh
10w
L Mar 2014
10w
You look like a poem that I would read forever.
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
This love overwhelms me; I am afraid to fall again.
**
Leigh
10w
L Jul 2015
10w
Without your hand in mine,
I feel loneliness seep in.
**

Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
When this world upsets me,
this music sets me free
Gary Clark Jr.
"The Healing"

**
Leigh
10w
L Dec 2015
10w
What life is lost
without countless others
going with it?
For Oscar Juliuss Grant III
Wherever you are now

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
There's power behind your touch
Strength hiding in your kiss
**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
Did I say something stupid?
There goes one more mistake...
**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
I can taste death in the back of my throat
10w
L Nov 2015
10w
It's beaten
It's over
It's done
I have finally *won
Now I can
and I don't expect you to understand

**
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 Feb 2016
10w
Will it take your breath?
Will it make you burn?
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

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

**
Leigh
10w
L Feb 2014
10w
Don't you realize I'm the happiest I've been in years?
...so why are you trying to ruin it?
10w
L May 2015
10w
If you can't treat her like royalty,
let someone else.
**
Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
Life is an exile, a journey to a nonexsistent home
EC

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

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
You're only a disappointment if you allow yourself to be
**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
We hide,
cowering in the
deepest shadows
of former ourselves.
**
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

**
Leigh
10w
L Mar 2015
10w
Nighttime drains the heart
that which daytime's warmth
keeps full.
I hate feeling lonely.

**
Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
Here, we build walls.
There, we can tear them down.
Dreaming of you and Ruston

**
Leigh
10w
L Oct 2015
10w
I am slowly (but surely)
   stumbling
      crashing
         falling
            for you...
A repost, but now for someone worthy

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

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
Take me in your arms
Keep me safe from harm
**
Leigh
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
I'm not fragile,
so don't be afraid
to
break
me.
I still feel your hands on my hips and your lips on my ribs

**
Leigh
10w
L Aug 2015
10w
It was so real.
Do you remember?
Don't you see?
**
Leigh
10w
L Dec 2015
10w
I wanted you and you...
you needed to be wanted.
**
Leigh
10w
L Oct 2014
10w
Don't you see
the name
tattooed
over this
healing heart?
Just a thought...

**
Leigh
10w
L Sep 2014
10w
Oh,
what relief does
a blade
bring that
love
cannot?
For Ash and others.

**
Leigh
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last
This Feeling // Alabama Shakes
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
I wish I was dead and that you didn't care
10w
L Oct 2014
10w
I find
solace
in your lips,
peace
in your heart.
Going to attempt a 10 word poem each week :)

**
Leigh
10w
L Dec 2015
10w
The timing was all wrong...
so I made it right.
Nine months later and I know it was the right decision

**
Leigh
10w
L Sep 2015
10w
And when these words are no longer enough, hold on.
Looking up

**
Leigh
10w
L Mar 2014
10w
Please don't hide your heart like you hide your arms.
IloveyouIloveyouILOVEYOU. let me help. I want to understand.
10w
L May 2015
10w
What did I do
to deserve a love
this pure?
I don't deserve him at all

**
Leigh
10w
L Apr 2015
10w
How lucky am I to know love so many times?
I'm taking a moment to appreciate the fact that I've been loved by more than one person and at such a young age.
Hopefully, there will be more to come.

**
Leigh
10w
L May 2015
10w
We move against each other,
dancing to inner complementary melodies
**
Leigh
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