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1.4k · Jan 26
what i want to hear
lizie Jan 26
i just want someone to say they’re proud of me
and mean it enough to make me believe it
750 · Dec 2024
Untitled
lizie Dec 2024
i don’t know what to write about if it’s not about you
598 · Jan 23
my name
lizie Jan 23
how could anyone love an eliza
when it stumbles off my tongue
like it doesn’t belong to me?
it only sounded right when you said it
572 · Feb 8
regret
lizie Feb 8
i cut up my leg today
thinking no one would see
thinking swim was over
thinking i was safe
but tomorrow
i’ll stand by the pool
water reflecting back at me
and i’ll wonder if they’ll notice
the way regret looks like red lines
against my skin
what do i do?
418 · Dec 2024
too much
lizie Dec 2024
i told the moon my secrets,
but she turned away.
even the sky,
it seems,
cannot bear the weight of me.

i’m sorry
lizie Feb 15
valentine’s day came and went,
but i barely noticed—
too busy drowning in a loneliness
i can’t even name.
343 · Jan 8
call me a
lizie Jan 8
yeah, call me a ****.
it must be why i’m not only afraid of intimacy,
but any sort of physical touch as well.
lizie Feb 4
a secret im too scared to share with anyone
except random strangers on the internet:
i wish i had an eating disorder.
i would be sad
but at least i’d be skinny.

im sorry.
i really am.
im sorry im sorry im sorry
330 · Mar 14
help
lizie Mar 14
i need help but it feels impossible to ask
281 · Dec 2024
lowercase
lizie Dec 2024
do you ever feel like the weight of a word
is heavier when it’s whispered?
like lowercase letters carry
all the fragility of a breaking heart,
soft and unsteady,
afraid to be seen but desperate
to be heard?
sometimes i write like this,
as if quiet will make it easier
to be brave.
236 · Feb 25
progress
lizie Feb 25
my legs burn from the treadmill,
god, it hurts so bad…
but no—
don’t think like that.

pain means progress,
and that’s all i care about.
231 · Nov 2024
this isn’t like you
lizie Nov 2024
“this isn’t like you,” they say—
but they don’t know what i’m like

they only see the open hands
the ready smile
the way i crumble into comfort
when their worlds shake too hard

i give, and i give, and i give
until my bones feel hollow
i bend, and i break,
but never in ways they can see
“this isn’t like you,” they say—
but they don’t know what i’m like

they don’t see the nights i lie awake
wishing i could scream “enough!”
but swallowing the words instead
they don’t hear the way my heart shouts
when I finally say no—
and they call it selfishness

“this isn’t like you,” they say—
but they don’t know what i’m like
what i’m like is exhausted
what i’m like is disappearing
what i’m like is someone who wonders
if they’ve ever been seen at all
what am i like?

if they knew, they might ask
“why didn’t you tell us?”
but i’ve tried.
i’ve always tried.
and they only listen
when i’m the version of me
that they need me to be

“this isn’t like you,” they say—
but maybe it’s the only thing that ever was
the life of a people pleaser
222 · Nov 2024
i know now
lizie Nov 2024
i know now you’re the only one
i know now i’m the lonely one
i reached for you, but you’re out of reach
this lesson life is cruel to teach

i sang your name like a fragile song
believed in us, but i was wrong
you’ve moved ahead, yet i’m standing still
chasing shadows against my will

i know now love is a fleeting thing
a tether snapped, a severed string
i know now that the past is done
you’re not mine, and i’m no one’s one
217 · Dec 2024
broken
lizie Dec 2024
he’s not broken like me,
so i hide my cracks—
afraid he’ll see the light
slipping through.
209 · Oct 2024
the never ending cycle
lizie Oct 2024
winter tricks you into being sad
but then spring hits you like a truck
and summer makes you feel bad
fall is supposed to be the good one
it’s the never ending cycle
poetry is hard
208 · Feb 16
Untitled
lizie Feb 16
my heart hurts
i can feel it in my chest
203 · Nov 2024
what i meant to say
lizie Nov 2024
when i said “i’m fine”
what i meant was “i’m tired”
not of you, but of trying to be
the version of me you could love

when i said “take care”
what i meant was “please stay”
but goodbye is easier when
it doesn’t sound like begging

when you said “i’m sorry”
what you meant was “it’s over”
i caught the silence between your words
the way it wrapped around my throat

and now, when i say nothing
what i mean is everything
i never knew how to tell you
while you were still listening
198 · Feb 17
dull ache
lizie Feb 17
grief was sharp when i lost her,
a knife that cut clean.
it hurt, but at least i knew why.
now the sadness has no name,
just a weight i can’t put down,
a dull ache that never leaves,
a quiet kind of drowning.
i don’t know what’s worse,
the pain that made me cry
or the emptiness that won’t let me feel.
192 · Jan 28
numbness
lizie Jan 28
i wish i could feel it
the ache of not being enough
the way it once cracked me open

but now
there’s only silence
an emptiness where sorrow should live

nothing breaking

nothing healing

just

n u m b n e s s

still
190 · Nov 2024
through my eyes
lizie Nov 2024
my biggest fear is you seeing me
the way i see myself—
the cracks beneath the surface,
the doubts i file away

i hide my flaws in shadows deep,
but what if you should find
the fractured mirror that i see
when i look inside my mind?
i really need to stop writing depressing poems
184 · Feb 1
but i love him
lizie Feb 1
this is really hard to talk about.

i think there’s something
wrong
with me.

i’m afraid to be intimate with him.

the smell of his cologne
makes me
nauseous
because it reminds me
of things i’m ashamed of.  

most of my
innocence
is still intact.

but that doesn’t mean
that one day i won’t be
strong
enough to say
no.

but i love him.
180 · Nov 2024
stars and shadows
lizie Nov 2024
in the quiet depths of night’s embrace,
a thousand stars reveal their place.
we’re but flickers in a boundless sky,
brief as breaths, and bright to die
human existence is fleeting and fragile
178 · Jan 2
resolution
lizie Jan 2
my new year’s resolution
is to take my medicine every night

why would i not take it
if it keeps me whole?

i don’t know
i wish you could tell me
164 · Dec 2024
words
lizie Dec 2024
her words settle like dust
on the edges of mirrors
i already avoid.

she called me names
i’ve spent years
unlearning.

her voice wasn’t loud,
but it carried—
straight to the part of me
that still believes
every insult
ever whispered.

i tell myself she’s wrong,
but i know i’ll carry this
long after she’s forgotten
she ever said it.
to be more specific
she called me an ugly fat *****
154 · Jan 31
fraying
lizie Jan 31
i always know it’s getting bad
when i start chewing on the tie of my sweatshirt.
i think it’s called an
aglet,
but all i know is,
it’s fraying like
me.
153 · Mar 11
i care
lizie Mar 11
i mess everything up
i can’t stop crying
i don’t know how to make things right
i’m not supposed to be a person that hurts others
i only hurt myself
i care
lizie Mar 20
i miss knowing your life,
not just you.
i know your soul like it’s my own,
yet i don’t even know
what daily life looks like to you anymore.
you took a part of me
that day in early july,
a part of me i’ll never get back,
but wouldn’t want to, either.
you took summer with you
and since then
things haven’t been the same.
144 · Nov 2024
moonlit secrets
lizie Nov 2024
beneath the moon’s soft silver glow,
the tides reveal what hearts don’t show.
a fleeting whisper, a fragile tide,
secrets kept where dreams collide.
the fragile beauty of fleeting moments
141 · Dec 2024
jury of one
lizie Dec 2024
of all the people i’ve learned to disappoint,
none have been as cruel as me.
a jury of one, gavel in hand,
i recite my faults like scripture.

i live in a house i’ve built of mirrors—
every reflection a version i loathe.
the walls don’t crack,
but i do,
trying to escape the frame.

even my shadow turns its back.
ideas for a title?
132 · Feb 7
im here now
lizie Feb 7
im here now
im not in the past
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im not in the past
132 · Dec 2024
apologies
lizie Dec 2024
there’s a guilt i can’t explain,
an ache without a name,
like i’m sorry for something
i never became.
132 · Dec 2024
control
lizie Dec 2024
the vacuum hums,
and i feel it in my chest—
a restless kind of anger,
like a match about to strike.

maybe it’s because the sound
reminds me of yelling,
of my mom’s voice tearing
through the air like it had teeth.
when i hear it now,
i want to scream back,
but there’s no one here to blame.

the only time i can stand it
is when my hands are on the handle,
when i’m in control of the noise.
maybe that’s the metaphor:
it’s not the sound,
but the power to make it stop.
126 · Feb 12
memory
lizie Feb 12
memory is not a photograph,
not a keepsake tucked in the back of a drawer.
it is water against stone,
wearing away, reshaping,
turning sharp edges into something smooth,
something unrecognizable.
i do not trust it.
it lies in soft whispers,
changing names, shifting colors,
blurring what was sharp, sharpening what was dull,
twisting the past into something that never was.
but forgetting is no mercy either.
i try to let go,
but memory is a house i still live in,
one with doors that do not lock,
windows that do not shut,
ghosts that refuse to move on.
every corner of this house is haunted,
rewritten and forever rearranged,
like when you called me beautiful,
and i had tears in my eyes,
you kept saying it and i didn’t believe it,
or did that even happen at all?
so i stay,
trapped between remembering and forgetting,
watching the walls crumble
as the echoes rewrite themselves.
124 · Dec 2024
stillness
lizie Dec 2024
i think the world keeps spinning
but i haven’t moved in days
122 · Jan 23
out of reach
lizie Jan 23
i’m easy to hold,
but impossible to reach
122 · Dec 2024
happy
lizie Dec 2024
i felt
happy
today

i will not
let myself
ruin it
120 · Oct 2024
a heart too wide
lizie Oct 2024
i feel things too deeply
it’s just kind of the way i am
each laugh or each sigh
is a weight upon my heart
it’s like i can sense unspoken pain
within every crowded room
god i wish it didn’t have to be like this
i still remember what you said
why do you think
i stopped bringing lunch?
someone please make it end
it’s too much for me
my heart is too wide
just what im feeling right now
116 · Nov 2024
summer thief
lizie Nov 2024
summer took you away from me three years ago and i’m still trying to figure out how to fill my empty heart
this is about my best friend
115 · Dec 2024
unspoken
lizie Dec 2024
he told me his sister tried to die,
and i sat there, silent,
holding my own secret like a stone
in my throat,
wishing i could tell him
but terrified he’d hate me for it.
114 · Mar 16
four summers ago
lizie Mar 16
i wish the air smelled
like summer did four years ago.
chlorine and asphalt after rain,
sunburnt skin and something sweet.

i spend each winter
longing for those days.
but when summer comes,
it never quite fits right,
like a song i used to love
but can’t remember the lyrics to.

my summers are okay now
but they feel like echoes,
fading, distant,
never loud enough
to drown out the missing.
112 · Feb 24
empty
lizie Feb 24
im running on empty
wish there was a way out
111 · Nov 2024
endless loop
lizie Nov 2024
the morning sun fools you into hope
but then the afternoon drags you down
and nighttime leaves you feeling alone
mornings should be a fresh start
but it’s the same endless loop
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