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Jun 2016 · 336
Mind the Memory
Lauren Leal Jun 2016
A bleeding poet, a pained writer
Burning the pages, red splatter
Another Story, of atrocious pain
In that, words we gain.
Writers, seemingly find themselves having far-more writings in the notions of a bad memory.
May 2016 · 461
Death's Elegant Grip
Lauren Leal May 2016
I'm dancing with death
unravel my life til rest
I did my best
cut the ties
made of countless lies
I want to die
I'm dancing with death
taking each step slow
like my body is unsure
and doesn't quite know
why it is time to close my eyes
for good, seemingly not wise
I'm dancing with death
and I realize what I am
I am a monster in the slam
I am a toxic beast
of lies and disappointment
to say the least
I'm dancing with death
and I'm at my last step
I am nothing anymore
just a dead knock at the door
just dead on the dance floor.
Apr 2016 · 659
It's So Very Sad That
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
It's the darkest of words we are most related to.
When it's clear that only the negatives in life seem to have more connections with people than the positives.
Apr 2016 · 827
-
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
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She is my lifeline; my tether to the living world.
Finding a reason to live in someone else other than you.
Apr 2016 · 500
The Breakdown
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
She is the wave that breaks down my rock wall.
Apr 2016 · 902
PTSD
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
A Soldiers worst nightmare, is death by his own hand.
Apr 2016 · 588
Causing Waves
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
This happiness is a drop in my ocean of contempt.
When happiness seems to only come in small moments.
Apr 2016 · 409
Change to My Humanity
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
I thought I changed into another person,
But I hadn't.
I had just become a better version.
When you realize you are growing as a person.
Apr 2016 · 396
Her
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
Her
She is my escape from reality; my gift of joy.
The wanderlust of her soul.
Apr 2016 · 764
The Fallout of Anger
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
My anger is my nuclear fallout
It's what is killing me and choking me out
It's not only sabotaging who I am
But all those around me have faced the slam

The concussion blast of this vicious mood
Unable to control myself, only to know I'm *******
I can only sit and watch like a movie on display
What actions I take and the horrific things I say

These words reach out to those I have wronged
To those situations I only prolonged
These words are not a justification
These words are for you to have relation

This is my apology for what I could not control
I have gotten better and will never let this take me whole.
Anger, can be the most blind emotion alongside love.
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
Isn't it ironic,
       That my pen bleeds black and blue.

Simply to symbolize,
        That I'm falling away from you.
When you find yourself only writing when the worst is happening.
Apr 2016 · 665
Growth in Pain
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
May the pain we feel, be the growth we reveal.
Pain can symbolize weakness, and may we grow from that weakness if capable.
Apr 2016 · 440
The Brain's Inner Galaxy
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
I'm in complete disarray.
My life is in shambles and there is no return I say.
I'm a wanderer of my own cataclysmic oblivion.
Though I see all the doors, but escape is one in a million.
I'm pulverized by my past mistakes.
My soul is burdened and morose, are there any retakes?
But life is not a quiz, but a lesson to learn.
If you can gather the knowledge, will happiness return?
I'm in a constant state of bewildered frustration.
I need another dose and a recalibration.
Someday I will escape from my own mind.
But it's the answers and hopes that are scattered within, that I must find.
Wanderer of my mind's world.
Apr 2016 · 512
Mental State of Madness
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
I find myself drowned in the wretched sorrows of my past.
I lay here dying and suffocating ever so slowly, never fast.
My mind has become a war zone to the most atrocious of thought.
Lash out physically at the unseen, my wake people hurt, the ones I fought.
I'm defective, broken and torn.
I'm used, battered and worn.
I find it harder each day to find a reason to fight.
I see my world being slowly consumed by darkness, where is my light?
I am growing sick of the constant pain.
Timeless, everlasting catastrophe of emotion I can't contain.
I feel my hearts will to beat beginning to fade.
I should just give in to the call, let myself die and in my sorrows, my lifeless body will wade.
The power of the mind.
Apr 2016 · 692
Lie
Lauren Leal Apr 2016
Lie
My defeat will be the lies I fail to deceit.
Not being able to fake your own lies.
Mar 2016 · 1.1k
The Known Unknown
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
The saddest thing I ever saw,
            Was a woman who couldn't see her mans efforts.
                        Especially when I watched him rip his heart out,
                                     and she got mad that he got blood everywhere.
The writing speaks for itself. This can also be interpreted the other way.
Mar 2016 · 4.7k
Mind the Mind
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
My minds weaponized thoughts will be my downfall and suicide.
When your thoughts turn on you for the worst.
Mar 2016 · 534
Shattered Writing
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
I wish my writings could get noticed more.
Words bled out of my heart, right to the floor.
Finding someone to relate is so rare,
As I write choking on hopelessness and despair.
Yet knowing this I keep bleeding out,
But curse with this constant doubt.
That these words will never find an end,
And my gouged heart looking to mend.
Writing that gets lost.
Mar 2016 · 1.7k
Roped Halo
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Don't let your halo become the noose that chokes you.
When you overcome something don't be blinded by it. Remember the wake you left in the process.
Mar 2016 · 398
Madness
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
True anger is just the release of your inner madness.
Mar 2016 · 451
Fade
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
It was when I said I needed her,
                                   That she decided to fade away.
When you finally admit true feelings and the other cant take it and fades out of life.
Mar 2016 · 583
Pyro
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
People who say love is beautiful have either never experienced it,
or are indeed pyromaniacs.
Love is chaos, not the beautiful kind.
Mar 2016 · 435
Finding the Piece
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
I didn't look to find a little of me in you.
I looked to see if I could find a bit of you in me.
I believe looking for someone in you entitles that you must get to know them to find it. To put forth effort. It takes merely none to see if you are in someone else.
Mar 2016 · 704
Blossom in Your Heart
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
They say you have a heart of gold.
I say you have a heart of dirt,
Because your heart is the soil I need to grow.
Finding someone whom lets you grow.
Mar 2016 · 917
The Match
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Our love is like a match.
It's a burst of love and life,
That finds a steady pace.
Until death comes along,
And wins the race.
To my love.
Mar 2016 · 526
Erin
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
It's you in which I'm infatuated,
It's what we have that can't be debated.
I need you by one of my sides,
Because in your hands is where my soul resides.
I found it to be the safest place,
Just like how it is with my lips to your face.
You are a glimmering soul,
That I need to be with no matter the toll.
The cost cannot compare,
To the feeling of your hand in my hair.
I love the being you have helped create in me,
I have never thought this could be.
I love harder than before,
I do right down to your core.
My old anger is but a myth,
Forged into something greater by my inner blacksmith.
You are the only one who appreciates who I am,
Even at my worse you didn't give a ****.
For this and your existence I'm forever knelt,
Because this is by far the best hand I've ever been dealt.
To the love who never ceases to be the best person I know.
Mar 2016 · 565
Stardust Legacy
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Stars show their absolute beauty, in the aftermath of destruction.
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
In the midst of sadness, the only solace is anger.
To those who are sad, I understand your anger.
Mar 2016 · 552
Rarity to Behold
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
Her soul was so kind,
                           But near impossible to find.
I wrote this one in the thought that honest people, good people, are so rare in today's society. It feels like people are become more and more susceptible to the pressure of others which drains from human decency.
Mar 2016 · 1.0k
Stargazed Soul
Lauren Leal Mar 2016
I had the stars to gaze upon
To escape to when I feel I have not won
An endless beauty one can soak in for hours
Within the nature as the wind rustles the trees and flowers

Then life changed and I could not see my stars
I could only see lights and the sound of the cars
I lost my escape and fell into a abyss
Where all I could do is see the stars when I reminisce

Then I met a woman with that glimmer
A glimmer that I knew and my spine let out a shiver
In time I saw her soul
And in her soul, I found them shinning and whole

I found the black canvas in her eyes
I found the colors in her beauty
I found the shine in her soul

She and only she became my new escape
Where I can always see my stars

*I can even see them with the lights and cars
To my love who I know I can turn to at my worst. Accepting with open arms and an open soul. I love you.
Feb 2016 · 448
To Find You
Lauren Leal Feb 2016
From the start, it was you.
It's always been you.
The difference is, this time I found you.
When you find the right one, and you realize all your past was just you searching for them.
Feb 2016 · 724
Disparity
Lauren Leal Feb 2016
In the absence of hope, despair is the true King.
To an old friend that lost faith.
Feb 2016 · 638
The Beauty of Growth
Lauren Leal Feb 2016
You are the flower I didn't pick.
       *I simply planted myself next to you,

                *So that at least we can grow together.
This was based on a quote I've seen multiple times about treating the one you love like a flower, not to pick it if you don't want it to die. I found a much better alternative.
Jan 2016 · 715
My Own Prisoner
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I'll lie down for hours in my bed
You think I'm asleep but I caged in my head
I'm getting tortured from the inside out
I'm getting thrown and tossed about

I'm a prisoner to my own thought
I am forced to remember ever ounce of pain I fought
It is a never ending reel of self-inflicted pain
I have no scars to show or retain

It's screaming and blood lust in my mind
On the outside quiet and peace, is what you find
I'm getting weak with every passing night
I'm slipping away losing might

I'm still a prisoner to my ******* brain
I think It's time, I step out of that lane
Always thinking of the worst, but being so good at hiding the visual pains that cross my thoughts. Only to keep moving with the will to live.
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I've left my footprints in the sand
Feeling your warmth leave my hand
I stop to soak in what has come and gone
Feeling alone and withdrawn

I'm bombarded by vicious visuals of my living fears
and everything I could ever revere
I'm a glass tank with only one shot
For the pain, I'll give you what I've got

Take me and my lacerated soul
Find the glass that cuts the deepest hole
Just be gentle with your hand
I'm at my most vulnerable and at your command

In return I'll love you to a fault
I'll bath you in my returning light as a result
You save my life every day, with nothing to even say
I even fell in love with myself today

I left my footprints in the sand
And felt the warmth return to my hand
I stop to soak in what has come and gone
Feeling more alive every waking dawn
I wrote this is regards to how my mind operates. It will hit me with what it knows will **** me, than all of a sudden pick me back up, but higher... Sometimes, only to push me down again. It's something I don't even understand.
Jan 2016 · 775
Self Healing
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I have run out of thread to stitch my wounds.
I wrote this as not all wounds can be healed by such trivial means, something greater must be put forth for it to actually heal.
Jan 2016 · 972
In Love with Faith
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
For you, I will peel back my hearts callused layers.
(10W)
Jan 2016 · 756
Unto My Grave
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
If my life was to be taken away
                 All I would want my tombstone to say,
knowing this for sure,
                 Is that **"I got to meet her."
The one person who can and ever will know me for me and understand it all at the same time.
Jan 2016 · 1.0k
Die Inside Your Love
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I surrounded myself
in the walls
of her
heart

and suffocated
Not necessarily bad, but when you can love someone so much you wrap yourself in it, and in a sense suffocate happily. Yet at the same time, it could hurt you in return.
Jan 2016 · 514
Take Me Higher
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
You are a high that I want to keep forever
I need to keep smoking in your soul
Taking you in, my past you sever
Never have I reached such an ecstasy of feeling so whole

I wait each moment to take the next hit
To take in something new
Something I can never forget
Never again will I feel so blue

In my galaxy you are such a perfect arrangement
Of flawless stardust from the most fascinating fire
You are simply a being of pure astonishment
It's your love and being that has only taken me higher
Stupid in Love.
Jan 2016 · 403
Happy in Pieces
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
It is you.
     That I would happily,
                                         tear myself apart
                                                                    **To fix.
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
It was your **** eyes alone that recreated my universe.
Jan 2016 · 1.7k
Falling Hard (10w)
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I love so hard that 'Love' seems just so bland.
Jan 2016 · 348
Lay Waste to the Old
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
Its time to lay waste to my past
I will attempt to make this my last
Its time to move on from my attempts that failed
Along with my life that completely derailed

I will do this to write a new past with you
Remembering every detail and word of what we do
I'm at my happiest with you at my side
And in my heart you will always reside

I am grateful for your beating heart
You fixed in me what fell apart
I am grateful for the person you simply are
And I will wait for you to be by me again, near or far
Jan 2016 · 381
Anti-Life
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
Strap me up in a bullet proofless vest.
Empty the clip and let the lead to the rest.
I want to hear my bones break and see my skin rip.
I can hear my last exhale and ****** drip.
Jan 2016 · 447
Tears on a Round
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
Cleaning the gun knowing you will use it anyway
Putting it back together like the life you wish you could say
Taking the cold lead and pressing it into the mag
Looking at your smoke taking your last stress free drag

Shaking and Screaming as you fight yourself for control
Anger and depression take hold
Feeling the cold barrel press it's steel lips to your skull
Finger shaking on trigger waiting to take your life whole

But you drop the gun and it clatters to the floor
and at that moment you are grateful you didn't close that door.
Jan 2016 · 396
SaviorSelf (10W)
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
I was saved by myself when I wanted to die.
Jan 2016 · 383
My Simple Request
Lauren Leal Jan 2016
"I won't ***** you over."

For once in my life,
I need this to be real.
You know my past and present
understand how it might feel.
I know your situation
and I know it in and out
But despite it all I can't help but feel
That I'm only around from partial desperation.
I mean not this so harsh
But it's the bold reality
I'm so scared that you could leave a permanent laceration.
You can tear me apart
Without using your hands
You can take control of me
With such simple demands
I am scared that I might end up the puppet
and not the puppeteer
So please don't let me down
I have given you it all
If you choose to fail me,
Just simply let me drown.
This fell out of my mouth and I had to write it down.
Dec 2015 · 436
The Need To Know
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
Your body is a canvas,
Covered with the paint,
of your life.
I want to study
and learn every stroke,
every scar.
I want to know
every part of you.
I need to learn your story
by seeing
and feeling
every inch of you.
Dec 2015 · 1.8k
Bland in Comparison
Lauren Leal Dec 2015
Love,
Fortunate,
Cheerful,
Happy,
Excited,
Enthralled,
Ecstatic,
­Fantastic,
and Fascinated.
Are the list of words
That are so bland
In comparison to how I feel,
when I take your hand.
The need of a new word to describe said feeling.
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