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7.6k · Jul 2014
Home
Madeleine Howard Jul 2014
The only home I have
Is the one I build inside myself
The roof is cracked
The doors are broken
The electricity goes out
And ghosts awoken
Although rats scurry
And the AC is dead
It is my own home
Nonetheless
5.6k · Jun 2014
Breathe
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
He calms me down
Reminds me to breathe
I guess sometimes
That's all that we need.
3.3k · Jun 2014
Veins
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
Sometimes I look at the veins
Sprawling through my arm
And down my wrist
I wonder how you
Got in there and
I wonder if
That's why
They're
Blue
3.1k · May 2013
Paths
Madeleine Howard May 2013
All around me
In this woodland
There are paths

Paths to take you out
Paths to take you further in
Paths that lead to paths

I don't want paths
I want to discover
All on my own

I don't want the answers
Inside of a once-beautiful place
I want my own chance

To find my own way out
And discover my own path
Around the trees

I don't want to follow someone
Else's path
It is theirs

I will find mine
One that belongs to me
One that will not allow another to follow
1.7k · Jun 2014
Is greener really greater?
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
What if grass is always greener on the other side
Because it's always raining there?
1.6k · Jun 2014
Fleur
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
There are flowers
Growing from your cheeks
Sometimes you just need to
Water them a little.


Crying helps.
664 · Jun 2014
Poems
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
I wrote a poem about it
And then threw it away
Because that's the last thing
I need right now:
More words dedicated
To people who will never
Dedicate a
Single thing to
Me.
549 · Jun 2014
Ice, some would say
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
I wonder what's made you
So cold and why
You speak in snowflakes
Like the ones that
Catch in your eyelashes
520 · Jun 2014
Untitled
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
I belonged to the earth once.

I could do it again.
421 · Jul 2013
smoke and flowers
Madeleine Howard Jul 2013
I weave flowers into
My hair the way
Some smoke
Cigarettes.
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
I've got to stop
Making homes out of
People with shaky foundations
And broken roofs
410 · May 2013
Heart
Madeleine Howard May 2013
I hope
your heart
is greater
than the
cavity of
sadness that
contains it
378 · Jun 2014
Ffr
Madeleine Howard Jun 2014
Ffr
I broke my own
Heart loving you
I really should
Learn to stop
Fixing others with
Bits of myself
377 · May 2013
sad
Madeleine Howard May 2013
sad
I know you're
sad
you don't hug like you
used to
but I have grown to love you
what you have come to
be
I hope you get everything you want
maybe
a house and some kids
maybe travelling to
foreign places
or maybe it's finally
feeling happy again
336 · May 2013
Forever
Madeleine Howard May 2013
Forever
What does it mean?
Until the world ceases to spin
Or we cease to exist
Perhaps it's when there is no one left to remember
not a one

Forever**
Maybe it means
Even though the world ceases to spin
And we cease to exist
There's only one left to remember
Only a one

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