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 Dec 2016 Leilani
Rhiannon
Wound.
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Rhiannon
To heal a wound you have to stop touching it.
So I'm ignoring you.
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Amanda Stoddard
One year.
I read it on the page
twist it until it
cripples around
my tainted fingers.

I looked you
in your eyes
and asked you
why I should stay.

You could never tell me.
Still you never told me.

Actions speak
louder than words
but even your
voice was quiet.

Your hands were still-
Too strained
from words you
gave to her

and never let me breathe-
suffocating
under your insecurity.

She broke you
so you broke me
and I was left
with nothing.

I never had you
and you never wanted me to.

So I broke away
From what left me broken

you still think it's my fault.
I guess it's all just my fault.

For letting someone in
who didn't love me the same.
For loving her
Until it drove me insane.
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Sam
Glass and Dirt
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Sam
The earth, is so old.

Not as old as the galaxy, or the universe, it's a part of, but still so very old.

And look at us, only migrating out of one place about 100,000 years ago.
Look at us, so fragile, compared to the dirt and the sun and the stars.
As if we are glass, and tape is the only thing holding us together.
And all we're doing is sitting like ducks, waiting for everyone to break.

But we're also there on standby, waiting, just to pick up the pieces,
because we're not glass, and we
can mend, from being shattered into a million pieces.

It just hurts, most of the time.
Sometimes, too much to get back up again.
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Lex
untitled
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Lex
I am very exhausted of trying to be small
fragile
soft
My eyelids have never felt heavier
I am lacking importance,
I have lost whatever it was that made me significant
to anyone at all
i am sorry im not as strong as i have led you to believe
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Masked Voice
We always have conversations
Sometimes
Long ones,
Sometimes
Very short.

We share thoughts
Sometimes
Heartfully,
Sometimes
Vaguely.


We share our hearts
Sometimes
Truely,
Sometimes
Fakely.


Yet,
Here I am unable
To understand
Whether it's
Real
Or
Fictious.
Art defines me...
Reading unwinds me...
Poetry keeps me going by keeping the blood in my vanes flowing
Most people judge me, even though they barely know me

That's why I spend my time on me
Yes... I'm lonely
But nobody gets me

Nobody get's that I'de rather put my head in a book
Or I'd rather write a song...1 or 2
Nobody get's that poetry is like a drug
I keep on using but can't get enough

Even GRAMMAR is fun
Thats why my friends don't walk they run

To scared of the girl who always writes
And never has time for any real fun
I mean like playing with a real gun
Or riding a bike with her eyes closed
Real stuff like getting in a bed without any clothers

Most people don't see I'm just not ready
To pretend I'm something I don't want to be
But still they keep on pushing pushing and pushing me
I don't luve up to what people expect of me. And it drives me crazy think that maybe i'm not me. I'm just one of thier dolls they play around with for fun. All i know is being good enough isn't gonna happen
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Angie Sea
Maybe so
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Angie Sea
Maybe I was only meant to
mend a part of your past
and not stay for your future

Why do you hesitate
Is it fear or disinterest
You're drawing circles around my clarity.

Maybe you were only meant to
reignite the poetry in me
and leave me in pieces still

Maybe we were only meant to
be all that we are
nothing more.

Maybe it's what I really needed
a lesson on slowing down
on patience

Maybe you were only meant to
bring me sweet moments
hopeful little reminders

Because you've made no move
and I've got no guesses
on what you're feeling

Maybe the truths I'm feeling here
are not the same for you
I can only speak for myself.
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Vanessa Gatley
My mind over full
Where to restart
My plate staked high
With pain and tears
Long ago I used to have
No plate
My mind full of songs
 Dec 2016 Leilani
Elyssa Night
I just want
to be loved the way
the moon holds the stars
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