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 Mar 2014 Manny
PrttyBrd
Bludgeoned and bleeding,
     my heart caved in
You chewed up
     the bits and pieces
And fed them back to me
     in the sweetest kiss
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 Mar 2014 Manny
Emi
Snakes
 Mar 2014 Manny
Emi
The venom in my veins made me go numb
and your face became something
like a colorless canvas
watching me as
i slowly but
surely withered
away
 Mar 2014 Manny
Christopher Doyle
Taking the harder path, in the long run
A change of plan, held close to heart
Is harder to let go.

The easier path, it seems for now
Taken with love
Finding meaning through time.

Upward spiraling life,
Brings old opportunities anew
The growth of one full turn,
The Wheel of Life keeps spinning.
 Mar 2014 Manny
Heaven Dawn
Keep writing he screamed as I looked down at the page, don't ever think about stopping he cried, as if my words were his savior and he was being nailed to the cross.
Your mother would be angry with the way I made you yell the Lord's name in vain.
But she has to appreciate the way you say amen after you reach in the dark to put your pants back on.
She looks at me like I was born on the wrong side of the tracks, what she doesn't know is I'm just a train, I'm only passing through darling.
And I stopped.
Why are you stopping, why do you think it's okay to string me with your words without punctuating us? HOW He yelled to the world, and I swore my grandmas swung in her grave, rubbed the goosebumps off her shoulders and shook her head at the choices I've made.
And tears smeared my lines and your name blurred into mine, it looked so natural, being intertwined in you.
Please, stop, your words are never enough and he left.
Come back home I whispered, but you had sacrificed yourself for a cause that never made sense.
You wanted love in the sense of drowning in her voice and trailing your fingers across her spine, but I hated my back rubbed and my voice is made of words that don't make sense.
 Mar 2014 Manny
Diana
I don't really know you
But I know that smile
I know it's not wholehearted
And I know that you're faking it
I know you're struggling
I know life is hard right now
I know you feel like nothing will get better
And I know you feel hopeless, lost
But I know other stuff, too
I know how happy you make people
I know how amazing you are
I know that your life is just at the start
And I know how great it will be
I don't know a lot of things
But I know that you can't give up
So please
Please don't give up
 Mar 2014 Manny
Eleutherophobia
As I read
Each line
Of permanently evanescent truths
I felt small
Demonic fingers
Crawl out from behind my eyes
And snakes
Coiling inside of my throat

Misunderstandings
Were always the death of us
Turning butterflies to ash

The curling up of lips
And mellifluous hums
Of once forgotten tunes
Turned to bashed in taillights
And withering tree bark

I don't know why
But the phrase
"I'm sorry"
Seems to pop into my head
All too often
I know that would only make you angry
For you never blamed me

But you should never
Have had to take that ax
To your ribs
Chopping down your body
Each little bit at a time
To see a rainbow emerge
From the overwhelming cracks
In my heart.
(It's all my fault)
 Mar 2014 Manny
Diana
15-18
 Mar 2014 Manny
Diana
For the past fifteen years
I've had parents
Limiting and monitoring
What I do, what I wear, how I feel
I've had a brother
Who refuses to be seen with me
Until I look and act a certain way
I've gone to a school
Where if you're not exactly
Like everybody else
You're not worth the time
For fifteen years
I've had people tell me
Who I am
Who I should be
And how to live my life
For fifteen years
I've been alive
But not truly living
This is why I can't wait
Until I turn eighteen
Because the day I turn eighteen
Is the day my life begins
 Mar 2014 Manny
modelb0nes
we sit on the windowsill,
your cold fingertips grasp my thigh.
drinking cranberry juice, pretending it's red wine and that we're somewhere else right now.
somewhere where only we exist, somewhere pleasant and fulfilling. somewhere where
plants grow and leaves turn into dust
when the slightest breeze hits their tips,
where the chlorophyll soothes the atmosphere with oxygen and green.
and in that moment, at that exact moment, I wondered.
I wondered where you were,
how you were doing,
    if you were with me.
 Mar 2014 Manny
PrttyBrd
when your heart is heavy
and your mind is blank
and the words just will not come
sadness is too strong a term
for the emptiness that drowns you
thankful for the distance in between
for the moments in silence
without harshness
without the verbal daggers
gaping wounds begin to scab
grated off with the next conversation
each exchange naught but a reminder
of a past that held a different future
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