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M Jan 2016
I never will ask for anything more than to live
this one wild and beautiful life, to be anything more than human.
M Jan 2015
oh honey, let's run away together
I'm sure you'd look beautiful sleeping in the car
as the sunset fell over the mountains
and the whole world would agree with me, I think.
M Dec 2015
how can we not talk about family when family's all that we got?
M Jan 2015
why am I always so afraid?
M Dec 2015
Can you tell that I'm alive?
Let me prove it.
M May 2015
...but you don't care, do you?
M Mar 2016
But you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want
or you can just get old.
vienna by billy joel. not mine.
M Oct 2015
everybody is so **** tired. We all just
need to get some rest.
M Nov 2015
I know to whom I would run
but I don't know if they would catch me.
I don't know if any of them would catch me.
also inspired by Rj. I'm assuming we're talking about the concept of "If I were drunk in a room of everyone I've ever loved, into whose arms would I fall".
M Jan 2016
anything hurts less than the quiet.
not mine
M Mar 2015
the timing is right
M Apr 2015
I am someone who has no scars because they have scarred the rest of the world instead
M Aug 2014
it is a religious experience
to stand privy to someone's most private achings
and watch the beat of their heart unfold through the room
as thousands of others sway in time,
our bodies in align,
all of scared to comment or look at each other because if we do,
we are violating some sacred safe space
of, 'this is all there is, the here and now, and I am alone and you are alone but we are together and this world is beautiful'
and if you acknowledge it, it is gone,
so we must simply exist together,
at the moment, let the world flow as one,
and do not speak.
M Nov 2015
“Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

not about me.
M Apr 2014
I've been ******* everything up for a while,
and I realized that
maybe it wasn't as perfect as I thought it was.
M Mar 2015
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
M Dec 2015
As I get closer and closer I feel the threshing knife
like a weight on my soul, waiting to divide and measure
waiting for me to tip over the edge of the blade, waiting
for me to decide, as each choice gains more gravity
I feel more heavily who God is and more lightly who I am
and I find the scales tipping, the writing on the wall
becoming more pronounced, and with every score and every
word I read, my soul gains either a heavier damnation or
a more blissful eternity- I cannot turn back. It means too much now.
M Apr 2014
I don't know what it is about you
that always has my head spinning
and maybe it's just on a platonic level now
I just really like your silly giggle
there's something about you
dark and pale
but open,
and closed,
cheerful, adorable,
the perfect jawline
in fact, if someone asked me my ideal partner,
the way I'd describe them
might as well be your eharmony profile
but we don't have to be romantic
and it's okay that we're not
because I get to enjoy you for you
without agenda
without confusion
without angst
just the pleasure of your company.
you're sweet, but not really, but really you are
and it's okay
because you're so unique
you are a gem,
and if I ever find another like you,
I now know how to treat them.
M May 2015
"love others so radically that they wonder why."
M Apr 2015
lost love is sweeter when it's finally found
I've got the strangest feeling
this isn't our first time around
M Nov 2015
It hurts to not fit in,
even if everything else feels alright
because part of me thinks,
"If only I were a little bit cooler, or
hung out with the popular crowd,
if only I wasn't so loud-
then, maybe, things would be different."
I know that's not the truth. It isn't.
(that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt)
(I just think my voice should be allowed)
(Why do some people look at me like I'm dirt?)
(Is it that hard for you to listen and for me to be heard?)
M Feb 2016
stone cold sober and I'm afraid my heart
will never be anything but stone
for anyone but gin and juice.
M Feb 2016
"Looking back on it all, there are so many mistakes I wish I had the courage to make when I was your age."
M May 2015
"When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”
Dave Eggers
M Dec 2015
**** lightning and **** bottles.
"as one does."
M Nov 2015
I've mastered the skill of how-to-keep-going
even when everything's gone wrong
because for me, things go wrong a lot, and I've ****** up a lot
so if people leave me I know what to do now, you know?
and, yet, it never stops hurting. it never gets easier
when everything's gone wrong. But it doesn't mean
I won't just keep going and keep living my life.
I'm better now. And if my mistakes in the past
define who I am, then ****, man, who the **** am I?
I tried my best. That's all I could do. Gotta keep going.
M Feb 2016
make it easy.
say I never mattered.
run it up the flagpole.
M Jan 2016
it's always that time of the year
and I'm waiting for it to not be
like this.
M Aug 2015
breakeven (n.)

the point at which cost and income are equal and there is neither profit nor loss; also :  a financial result reflecting neither profit nor loss
M Mar 2016
You're not ******* winning. No one wins.
M Aug 2014
you are so secure in your own superiority
M Feb 2016
as if it means nothing to me
as if it could mean anything but everything
M Dec 2015
sometimes I say to the Lord,
this is too much. You have given me too much
but then I remember what I asked him
and I remember how much more so many people have
been through- that Joseph had a woman he could never
have, a child that would never be his, and instructions
to go on a journey to a country that enslaved his people
because the authorities in his own country were out to ****
his family. And I dare look at the Lord and say,
"You have given me too much" when martyrs
have died, Daniel came out of the lion's den,
many men went into the flames saying, "if not,
He is still good", guns have been pressed to heads
with the question "are you a Christian" and the response
could mean death, and life; or life, and death.
How dare I look at the Lord and say,
"You have given me too much"?
I cannot. I daren't.
M Nov 2015
is this what peace feels like?
M Aug 2015
everyone, no matter how ****** up, deserves a friend
and deserves to feel at peace with someone
M Jan 2016
too busy watching swirls of starry love pass before my
dreaming eyes to notice. too lost in my own wasted heart.
M Sep 2015
we all crave honesty, we all crave love, we all crave faithfulness
these are otherwise known as intimacy.
don't be afraid to be intimate.
M Oct 2015
so many times I wondered, Lord,
why you gave me love with no reward
and now I know, the secret has been told-
the whole ****** time you were trying to save my soul.
M Dec 2015
and **** everybody, I'm ready for a new start
M Nov 2015
"It's hard to see God through a curtain of bombs."
EC
M Feb 2016
I just want to be free. ******, I just want to be free.
M Nov 2014
all of us have such distant dreams
how could we possibly be headed in the same direction
and will I ever see you again?
M Nov 2015
"A modern detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.”
– A Miscellany of Men. Chesterton
M Sep 2015
(and if I could choose any other way
then I don't know that I would.)
in response to rj's poem. just thinking about what a gift and blessing it is for me and others like me to feel things so deeply and differently, especially love.
M Nov 2015
Whatever chains are holding you back, holding you back
don't let them tie you down.
Whatever chains are holding you back, holding you back
tell me you believe in that.
what a feeling / one direction
M Apr 2014
i don't even have to date you
I'd just like to be friends who kiss sometimes
is that okay
M Jan 2014
I'm tired of those poems that say
'so much depends on'
or
'there was only'.
There was never only.
There is always more.
If I can say that so much depends on
then I can say that so much depends on this poem
and that is simply not true.
M Nov 2015
maybe I'm just crazy, maybe I'm a fool
maybe I don't know how to love, but
maybe I do.
from Ugly Heart by GRL. lyrics, not mine.
M Aug 2014
for all my seeming comfort in ****** things
the ease at which I talk about banging, *******, *******
the instant someone's body comes close to mine,
inside that intimate area of personal space
I have NO idea what to do
so I panic, giggle, shut down, move away,
anything but, for I am maybe not ready
and maybe waiting for someone to make me ready.
M Aug 2014
I want an endless time to be peaceful
and alone
or maybe with someone
working and thinking
or maybe just being
carefree and dancing
or lazy and sleeping
but what I really want
is for it to be my *choice
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