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Aug 2020 · 93
Staring at the Sun
LB Aug 2020
Just drag me down
to the pit, I call home
Old sneakers and old secrets
***** socks and ***** girls

I can't help to stare at the sun
I want to know how to make shadows
Let my eyes drip out of my skull
I think I've seen enough
Jul 2020 · 97
Boys Don't Cry
LB Jul 2020
A common story for Boys
Brothers and husbands
Emotional   Blockage
Like an ingrown toenail
Bloodier every step, concealed by
A sock
Like a rock
On a pond, skips   far    far    away
from the sender  
To stink
             deep
                              deep
                             ­                      down
Join the other stones and sticks
Create a *******, ****
Toenails shred through socks,
Nails turn to razors, soon cutting up shoes,
saws will shred jeans, chainsaws through chests,
Then bullets through heads.
Jul 2020 · 116
Sky
LB Jul 2020
Sky
I'll lay down on my back
Hands up to the sky
Let the birds eat out my eyeballs
It was only a matter of time
One part of a larger piece
Jul 2020 · 74
5
LB Jul 2020
5
I'm so scared of the future I prevent it from happening.
Jul 2020 · 88
4
LB Jul 2020
4
I don't want to meditate. I'm too scared of my brain
Jul 2020 · 88
Nap
LB Jul 2020
Nap
You fell asleep holding my hand so tight. I thought my knuckles bruised.
When I told you, all you said was
                                                              "W­ell of course"
And that's when I knew,
I could never leave you,
I have to be with you,
I'm done looking
and you'll never be alone again.
Jul 2020 · 103
Luna Moth
LB Jul 2020
And the moth came out of her cocoon. She has no time to do what she wants. She will only do what she can. Then she will die because she has no mouth.
Jul 2020 · 75
Companion
LB Jul 2020
The world feels very different now
I see and hear clearer
Maybe its because I stopped watching
for the things about me
Because now you are my world
And I am yours
Jul 2020 · 96
Allegory of the Cave
LB Jul 2020
They lived in the shadows of others
Not ever feeling the sunlight hit their thoughts
Or feel the streets lead them to new intersections
A caves chains long broken, underground fire snuffed out
Ignorance of man a common allegory
They live in the shadows of others
Unknowing that their inability  
To know that the shadows are false
Would be all of humanities downfall
the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature
Jul 2020 · 82
Cat Scan
LB Jul 2020
Can Scan: The first thing an introvert does at a house party
Jul 2020 · 75
Get Help
LB Jul 2020
Sometimes you have to admit defeat

Its a war I can't win and the longer I fight
the more injured I become.
I feel weak
I'm fighting myself
when no one said I had to.
Jul 2020 · 73
3
LB Jul 2020
3
I can't **** the fly, what if its someone I know
There's a fly in my room. It won't leave me alone. I think it's trying to tell me something
Jul 2020 · 95
2
LB Jul 2020
2
To be an artist in a house made of windows
Jul 2020 · 97
Whats your sign
LB Jul 2020
I am unaware
your star sign, zodiac will
always let me know
I'll never judge on a zodiac, I just have trust issues and believe in the sky
Jul 2020 · 75
A Kiss
LB Jul 2020
An acorn, lost boy
kiss, saved a young and hopeful
heart, by fate or by chance
I remember the kiss as an acorn  
it is also a thimble
Jul 2020 · 66
City of Brothers
LB Jul 2020
If you stand among
the brothers, you'd imagine
a city grew legs
I am very tall but my brothers are far taller
Jul 2020 · 61
Siblings
LB Jul 2020
We'll fix the house
When the house falls down on us
                                      Trust us
We've built ourselves in iron
passing pieces down  
                                       Hand-me-down
Our livelihood organic
Our upbringing romantic
Our emotions static
                                       Traumatic
Jul 2020 · 83
I feel like my mother
LB Jul 2020
Wake up tired and go to sleep hungry
Dream about food and the days I was younger
Because that's all I've ever wanted
Was to stay in that place
Where my mom wasn't so tired
and my house wasn't so haunted
Jul 2020 · 327
Necklace
LB Jul 2020
A token of my affection
I love the things you say to me
When I look at the Peter Pan kiss
Across my collarbone
I hear your voice and feel small euphoria
I daydream of our home
We wear each other's clothes
Laced with love
Threads thin and worn
Like the chain across my neck
Jul 2020 · 125
When the party ended
LB Jul 2020
Now I am alone
A throat hoarse from yelling
The air is pulsing
The room buzzes with energy
From an electric current snapped
After, all those people left my house
Jul 2020 · 78
It Stings
LB Jul 2020
The world hurts.
melt it away like the lining of my throat
each sober breath feels like a fresh wound
a layer of skin pull back, not bleeding but it stings
Beat down my senses for a flat path to walk
Jul 2020 · 257
1
LB Jul 2020
1
There's a rabbit living under my bed and she knows all my secrets.
Jul 2020 · 368
Tie Dye Clouds
LB Jul 2020
The whole world is made of you
When the sky looks like your shirt
It's like the earth is laying on your chest
The pulse of the universe your heartbeat
and the drone of massive planets your breath
Every inhale is the galaxy expanding
And exhale a star meeting its death
Just like the cosmos
You are terrifying and you are beautiful

— The End —