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4.6k · Apr 2013
Raindrops
Lydia Cooper Apr 2013
There are times
I feel so filled with love,
That it falls from my limbs
Like raindrops.
But I forget,
Not everyone loves the rain.
3.7k · Sep 2013
Patience
Lydia Cooper Sep 2013
Patience

Is not

Failure, or wasting time

It’s not loneliness or isolation

Patience is not useless

It’s not a setback

Patience is needed and necessary

Patience is appreciating what you've been waiting for

It’s calm, it’s acceptance

It’s happiness and peace

Patience is finding joy in life

While things fall into place
3.1k · Aug 2013
Shy
Lydia Cooper Aug 2013
Shy
My fingertips
Bleed for you
Every word that I can't say.
2.4k · Oct 2012
Distance
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
What is distance,

But a plane ride

Or an 11 hour drive to the mountainside.

What is distance?

But miles and state lines,

And sunset and sunrise.

What is distance,

But watching loved ones come and go.

What is distance,

But something you can’t feel or touch;

You can write it and hear it.

Isn’t that good enough?
2.1k · Jun 2016
Male gaze
Lydia Cooper Jun 2016
Who taught you how to male gaze?
On a day so hot it could cook an egg...
Was it your father
That told you my legs were ****** fodder?
Or was it your mother
Who said my **** are wild and for someone other than a toddler
Now while I'm proud to a woman
I also walk this earth as human
And your eyes make me despise
Every curve of my thighs
As much as I'm beautiful
My mind is also useful

Who taught you to male gaze
On hot New York days?
2.0k · Nov 2012
The Siren
Lydia Cooper Nov 2012
I am the siren

I shipwreck soldiers

Leaving them stranded on salty shores

I sing sweet songs that can turn a bitter heart

Into sugar.

I carry the weight of the world on my shoulders.
1.6k · May 2013
1:09 am
Lydia Cooper May 2013
I fall in love with every set of lips I’ve ever kissed

And still my heart bubbles up over itself

Like some lovesick teen with dreams

Painted in unrequited fantasies.
1.5k · Oct 2012
Desire
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
Will I ever get what I want?

Or am I doomed to drown

In my ever growing desires?
1.3k · May 2017
Mystery Man
Lydia Cooper May 2017
Hello hello oh mystery man
It's funny how people meet
Are you the one who fortune told
Would kiss the ground under my feet?
Now let's not get too ahead of ourselves
Wearing our hearts on our sleeves
But I've been waiting for someone to come along
And make a woman out of me
A voice still unheard yet I can already imagine
I'll melt like morning dew
Hello hello my mystery man
It's a pleasure to finally meet you.
1.3k · Dec 2013
Gold Digger
Lydia Cooper Dec 2013
I was not raised in religion,

But in feminine spirituality.

To my mother money is God.

To my mother money is power.

Second generation daddy issues

Passed down three times.

Words of wisdom repeated like psalms in a church house

"Romance without finance is a nuisance"

Three generations of divorcees.

Is this ***** power?

Taking on the burden of not selling myself short;

Financial happiness versus mental.

Feeling the guilt of sin

Having not betrayed The Creator

But rather my name, her face

Falling in love in with love

Despite its wallet.

Who wouldn’t want cheap kisses

Compared to an expensive heartache?
1.2k · Mar 2013
In a few more years
Lydia Cooper Mar 2013
In a few more years I see myself playing the piano-drunk

And signing on tabletops.

In a few more years I see myself kissing strangers and falling out of love

Or back in.

In a few more years I see myself learning to swim

And jumping off cliffs praying that I live.
1.2k · Oct 2012
Nature
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
The painters live by the seasons,
measuring tints and hues
In every birth and every death in every leaf
And the poets live by the weather
Soaking their words in sorrow or temporary bliss
At the slightest shift in
Nature
1.2k · Oct 2012
Imagination
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
I imagine your voice waking me up

On cold mornings.

I imagine seeing you face come hazily into focus

As the suns shines its sweet rays on our skin.

I imagine you pushing the hair from around my lips

And kissing me inhaling every scent.

I imagine feeling you smile

Embrace me;

And I smile too.
1.2k · Oct 2012
I am a sponge
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
I swallow sadness
I eat it
I study it
I feel it fully, in every corner of my bones
I soak in emotions;
I seeps into my soul
I am a sponge
1.1k · Mar 2013
Pharaoh
Lydia Cooper Mar 2013
You loved everything but me,

I had thrown it all at your feet.

I thought in your eyes I was a Queen

Because I saw you as a King.

But you had many crowns

One for every face.

My mistake to think you'd

"Save" me.

I hoped you could be my take two

A reshoot.

But life is no movie

And you always carry all the pain of

Love.

In your eyes I'm no Queen,

Or simply just one of many.

The pillars I built for you are failing down

Nesting walls around my sacred crown.

You were anybody's Pharaoh

Beheading us with our backs turned.
1.1k · Mar 2013
Easy
Lydia Cooper Mar 2013
I know that I love you by the way

You creep into my thoughts

As the day creeps through my window.

I know because all the flowers smell like you

And as they bloom I see your face

A love as easy a the change of seasons

Subtle but I can feel it.

Like the way my hair stands on end when your voice

Touches my ears
1.0k · Oct 2012
I want you
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
I want you.

Like the dessert wants the sun;

Like the ocean craves the rain.

You’ve swam here more than once.

Though nowhere near my soul,

You swim.

Yet mystery grows and grows

Like algae in a river.

The surface so easily understood;

But the depth is black and dark and rarely seen.

“Let it swallow you”
995 · Nov 2014
New York Blues
Lydia Cooper Nov 2014
New York blues,
I've been looking for you;
The way you make me stare
At someones shoes
Instead of their eyes.
New York blues.
The way you make silence feel
Golden.
New York blues.
The ways you make me nostalgic for people I have never met.
Blues, blues, blues
You make me want to throw away my culture
And forget what my mother taught me,
Make me want a high I've never tried;
You put the world at my fingertips
So shocking!
Lonely, lonely
New York blues.
910 · Oct 2012
Seasons
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
You make me feel like early winter mornings

When I refuse to get out of bed

Because it keeps me warmer than you ever will.

You remind me of hot summer nights

When I wake up from nightmares;

Cold sweat dripping down my face.

You look like springtime

They way you bloom and glow when nobody is looking.

You remind me of fall

Beautiful and fragile
886 · Oct 2012
Wintertime
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
The wintertime just feels like

Love.

Cold lips and fingertips

Naked. Pressed against each other
867 · Nov 2012
Lonliness
Lydia Cooper Nov 2012
Lonliness

It’s as stifling as a cold

It makes every bone in your body

Weak.

Waking up becomes harder

Because I can sleep a little longer

And dream of you;

Falling asleep is harder

Without an arm around you.

Some say they care

And maybe they do

But they care more about whats underneath

The cotton that makes you modest

Some care but they will never tell you

Maybe you don’t seem worth it

A lost cause

A waste of words.
Lydia Cooper May 2013
How can I miss someone I've never met

Something I've never had?

I can only hope that our paths will cross

You will never be mine, but I still hope

To hear my name leaping off the tip of your tongue

As it meets my mouth.

I felt you so vividly in my dreams

As if I'm leaping dimensions, to a world of our own

A world you've been to; a place to run away.

I could be your perfect secret as you leave me for reality

Please don't leave it all for me.
797 · Oct 2012
The muse
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
Oh how I wish to be a reason for

Syntax and diction.

A reason for brushstrokes

And pen marks.

I’d love to be the reason for dreams

In the days or the nights.

An inspiration, an idea.

A muse.

I want to be the  reason

You pour your heart onto paper

And blush with truth.
781 · Jul 2013
Bruises
Lydia Cooper Jul 2013
Kiss my knees for I bruised them

Kneeling and praying to your

Presence.

Your lips taste like

Blood and pain

And salt.
754 · Jan 2013
Mystery
Lydia Cooper Jan 2013
Im a mystery

Youre in love with every thought of me

You imagine how I’ll say your name

Or how my breathe will feel

On your neck

Or when I run my fingers through

Your hair

You don’t care to know

My flaws
749 · Jan 2013
Lint
Lydia Cooper Jan 2013
I can’t help but cling to you like

Lint on your favorite sweater

I’m stuck.

Pick me off one by one

It’s never enough

I’d hide in every fiber just to see your smile.
729 · Nov 2012
The Blue Vase
Lydia Cooper Nov 2012
As you ran through my house

You didn't notice you had knocked me down

Until you heard the crash.

You lied to her when she asked

And you said you didn't break me

I was in the way while you were chasing after something

That you thought was better.

But it wasn't and you never got it

And you cried as you watch her collect my peices

And I cut her hand and she cried too

But only a little.

And she glued me back together

The best that she could.

No one could really notice

Unless they got real close.

But I knew.

I could feel every crack,

Every gaping hole that you faced towards the wall

So the neighbors wouldn't see.

And years passed,

And you could never look at me the same.

Because I was broken

And you knew why.
Lydia Cooper Sep 2013
I could see myself staying for you. You make this place worth it. I can see myself waking up to you and falling sleep n your arms for as long as you let me.

I know I’m a mess. I know I have many cracks that haven’t seen- you know this too. But for some reason you still think I’m perfect. I want to show you every scar and tell you every story while you wipe every tear. While you tell me that you love me and kiss me all over.

I’ve never felt more beautiful and it makes me so afraid. But I’m no longer afraid of loves pain. Because a burn from you would still be beautiful.

I don’t know how long you will put up me and my yelling or my crying or my jealousy. But I want to change; I want to be better for you. I want to be better for myself. I lost you once I hardly knew you but those days were awful.

I feel like  I’ve known you forever and my hands were waiting to fit with yours. My lips were always longing for you. Like you were the reason my heart always felt a little empty.

Yet now I’m finally full. You feed me with love and I want to to bloom from your light.
658 · Sep 2013
Love
Lydia Cooper Sep 2013
I hate the way you won’t leave my mind

All this time, and the nothing that you meant to me.

Maybe I loved you, maybe I never had the chance.

God, I hate the way you make me hate things

Anything I was once content with

How you made me see everything differently

How I'm more careful with living

How I guard my heart more

And how I watch what I say.

How I think everyone is a liar

How I can’t trust anyone

I hate the way you make me feel hate

And doubt.

And how you made me fear the future

And love.

I hate how I dream about you

And remember your name

And remember your smile

And your lips.

I remember every promise you made

And how you you broke all of them.

I hate how I always want to cry for you

And I never can.

I hate that I want to cry for you

And feel your skin

And hear voice.

I hate how broken I feel sometimes

And how I can never blame you.

I hate that you took my innocence

How it made me grow up

And see the world for what it truly is.
649 · Jan 2013
For art
Lydia Cooper Jan 2013
I think I’ll love you forever. I think I’ll love you even when I love someone else. And when I’m done loving them
I’ll fall on you, like a crutch that’s always been there. I think I love you to the moon back. I love you

to the end of the universe. I love you like the ocean loves the shores. Every day I love you more and

more. I love you in every fiber of my being. You are my dreams at night, you are my thoughts in the

day. I think I love you more than the desert loves the rain. I love you more than the ******* loves pain.

I love you like candy on Halloween night. I love you more than Christmas morning. I love more than

New Years Eve. You keep me going. You make more to life worth knowing. I love you like the air in my lungs.
I’ll scream for you.
618 · May 2016
Concrete consequences
Lydia Cooper May 2016
In 3 years my days have complied
Into what seems like like 3 weeks
In the city that never sleeps
But it's all I want to do
I haven't even had a chance to blink
Senses become desensitized
To blaring of sirens or the smells of people dying
But I guess we're all dying
The shell of my cancer soul
Has grown thicker and stronger
But not any less blue
My heart has grown more weary
But it still rest on my sleeve
It's wonder how anyone finds themselves
In this concrete time machine
Maybe it's more like losing what you came with and building something new
This city where dreams become reality
And reality becomes you
586 · Sep 2013
Traveler
Lydia Cooper Sep 2013
Kiss the small of my back

And travel up the valleys of my spine

To the hill of my shoulder blades;

Can you feel the scars?

Lay you head on my chest

Listen to my heartbeat

Can you hear the cracks?

I am I am I am

No longer broken
581 · May 2013
X the Great
Lydia Cooper May 2013
Where are the greats of my generation?

The great artist and thinkers.

Will there be another Warhol, Basquait?

Of course not.

Are we doomed to a worth set by numbers?

Are we doomed to have language become a nuance

Where conversation is useless?

Where eye contact and subtle glances

Become fiction for Romances?;

Where is the fire in our youthful souls?

We want to be heard so we take another poll

One thousand nine hundred and three.

We gained the ability to reach the masses

But we chose to be classless.

Always looking out for the last

-Ist.

Where are the greats of my generation?
561 · Feb 2013
Murder
Lydia Cooper Feb 2013
Nothing is worse
Than letting someone get away
With breaking your heart.
548 · Mar 2013
Rice
Lydia Cooper Mar 2013
The symbol of my culture

One I've yet to meet.

My mother always told me "You're just like you Father"

The one I've yet to meet.

Still I pray I find some culture, where all this land seems to be

Now I don't know Spanish , but I've got the face of a queen.

Just like a bag of rice

Mix me up, mix me up

I come together nicely

Until I'm all dried up
Lydia Cooper May 2016
I'm a walking contradiction
Controlled by my emotions
Unaware of my action
In one ear and out of the other
The words of my friends vs the words of my mother
Who am I really?
Does anyone ever know?
Or do we just lie to ourselves to give the world a show
Ashamed of evolution
Comforted by prediction
518 · Oct 2013
howl
Lydia Cooper Oct 2013
Howl, howl, howl.

Let me for howl for you

My full moon

Crescent eyes.

I’d fall into every crater of your heart

Thousand of miles away

But in the bright night sky

It ‘s like you're right here

Shining just for me

I’ll be your wolf if you’ll be my coyote

And we can howl to same empty moon.
503 · Oct 2012
The dream girl
Lydia Cooper Oct 2012
I’m the dream girl,

But never the reality.

I’m girl that everyone wants,

But not what is needed.

Never the first choice

Rather, the second

Or third

Or the alternate

The back up plan.

How I long to be chase, to be craved.

To truly be desire.

To be someones one and only.

God, to be someones something;

Their everything.

To be a sure thing not a maybe.

I ache to find home in a heart

And leave no space unfilled.
467 · Apr 2013
12:50 a.m.
Lydia Cooper Apr 2013
I want you to read my scars

Like the sentences in your favorite book

And feel my curves like they’re all you can dream about.

I want you to kiss my lips like they are sweetest thing

This awful world has to offer.

I want my name to fall from your mouth

Like a psalm from heavens.

Know my body, I want to be your map to God.
462 · Jul 2013
Sin
Lydia Cooper Jul 2013
Sin
Ever since you kissed my lips

All I can think about is having more.

How you’ll think my moans sound

And how you’re body will quiver.

Breaths shortening as I remember

Your lips on my shoulder

And your pants tighten thinking

About my soft skin

My name is Eve when I’m in you presence

And I know you don’t care much about hearts

But I want you to hurt me,

Break me apart.
424 · Jun 2013
Unfocused
Lydia Cooper Jun 2013
I long to be looked at

With eyes filled with love

As if I were the only light

At the end of a long tunnel

As if I was the only star in a cool summer

Night sky
421 · Mar 2013
Part 2
Lydia Cooper Mar 2013
Waking up alone was always the hardest part. Going to parties and ***** downtown bars only intensified her loneliness. The stares, the cat calls. Everyone admired her appearance (she was asking for it) but no one wanted to know her. Some days days her loneliness grew into bitterness other days were worst. She would've had a sense of  abandonment if anyone stay in her life long enough to abandon her.

There was a void in her life. A hallow feeling that couldn't be filled with drugs or *** or music. She fell hard and fast for the boys who looked at her in the eyes and talked about ideas and thoughts and opinions. Anyone could be her one and only (she was nobody’s anything). It’s as if someone had a timer on her romantic endeavors and turned it before all the sand hit the bottom. She felt cheated; life was playing a ***** trick.

“We accept the love we think we deserve” she had read in a book once and it had stuck to her brain like magnets to fake jewelry. She found love at nighttime or across state lines and oceans. She found love in the men who could never love her as much as they loved their money or their wives. She found love in the men who only prayed when angels floated up their noses. It wasn't what she deserved but it’s what she got.
410 · Aug 2013
Dear Mister
Lydia Cooper Aug 2013
Bob Dylan had never told a lie
Jimi Hendrix either
I believe in context more than Congress
I believe in children more than television
And I’ve seen so much
and I still don’t what’s real
And i love my country
But i love yours too
Somedays i hate who I am
I want to be someone new
But i am blessed
Bukowski told me not to worry
About the bad poems
And this is one
And so is life
402 · Oct 2014
Again
Lydia Cooper Oct 2014
What is attraction?What is love;

Is it shaky hands and muddled thoughts?

Is it calm and confident

Is it

The feeling that you will die if their hands don’t caress you

Softly

It’s not (is it?) *** or kisses

Is it the senses?

It’s adrenaline. It’s serotonin. It’s chemical.

Desire.

Desire?
400 · Jul 2016
I matter
Lydia Cooper Jul 2016
Now I'm starting to feel a little manic depressive one day I'm happy the next I'm so aggressive who can I be in a world that hates me

Who takes my culture and separated it into two parts the good for money and the bad becomes funny

I was born a monster but you can pay to become a monster too as long as you're eyes are blue
370 · Aug 2013
I can't stay
Lydia Cooper Aug 2013
I can’t stay
You don’t make me happy
My joy is not your concern
Your busy
Making someone else happy
Its ok
I’m ok
Everything moves on
Soon you’ll forget me
And soon after you’ll forget her
And alone is all you’ll know
But it’s ok
And your ok
Time will pass
You will be happy
And so will I.
356 · Aug 2013
3:33
Lydia Cooper Aug 2013
I still like to think all your wolves are for me

And when the moon turns full

You howl my name to the sky.
353 · Apr 2013
Scar Stories
Lydia Cooper Apr 2013
All my scars are fading

And I’m afraid that I’ll miss them

Nothing left but some raised white lines

I have nothing left to hide

They were beautiful

And I remember them all

My mystery I wanted someone to solve

Now time is running out

Because they are all gone.
350 · Aug 2013
Parks and Horses
Lydia Cooper Aug 2013
Lays your eyes upon me

As if you were wearing blinders

And I am all you can see

I want you to study every detail of my face,

Wondering which mark to kiss first.

Learn me like a map

Taking new routes each day to my heart.

Circle your favorite places with gentle

Fingertips.
330 · Jun 2013
Summer
Lydia Cooper Jun 2013
Love
Seems to be
In the
a
i
r
And I can't hold my breath
Much longer
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