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marina Apr 2013
toska (n.)-
a dull ache of the soul,
a longing with nothing
to long for
not really a poem at all, moreso just a thought.
822 · Jul 2013
for: s
marina Jul 2013
i want my name to become
synonymous with
your definition of hope
        (i don't know how to save you
        but i know how to try,
        and if you let me, i'll be your saving grace)
"An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand" --Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
for my best friend.  i love her more than anything.
marina Mar 2013
and, i swear
nobody could have
                      
saved her
that day, she was a victim
    to graffiti and
       road signs.

you* are my daisy
by the c h a i n l i n k
fence.
an old one, but i like it.  it still tells the truth
817 · Oct 2013
this is love story
marina Oct 2013
i woke up to find your name
tattooed on my bones, and darling,
i don't mind at all
whenever i don't know what to title my poems, they end up as 'this is not a love story' or 'this is a love story' because honestly that's pretty much how i can describe every other part of my life
814 · Jun 2016
ghost
marina Jun 2016
i hear the phone ring when
it doesn't, the door open
when it's locked, the
light switch flip when
it's off and i turn around and
look for you
still
805 · Jul 2013
one, two
marina Jul 2013
&on; the count of three, we laid out our flaws and
they mirrored each other perfectly-
when i tried to take mine back
i gathered some of yours (and it was
an accident, i swear, but i don't mind
carrying them for you)

i know how heavy you must feel
we have the same scar above our right knee.
marina May 2013
i haven't believed
in anything
like i believe
in you
i have spent all day avoiding studying for my algebra and re-falling in love with arthur darvill.
802 · Jun 2013
where do we go from here?
marina Jun 2013
i.
there are some mornings that i
can't get out of bed.  it's much safer
underneath the covers, and even if my sheets aren't
white like they are supposed to be
they are the only things that still feel clean
because every other inch of my room
still tastes and smells and feels like you.

ii.
it was 12:07 when i saw you again
for the first time in months; you didn't know what to
say, so i said it all for you by saying
nothing; it was just enough for both of us.

iii.
later i told you that we should talk, but
when the time came, i couldn't find my words,
so instead, i just decided to cling to you.  
you thought it was maybe because i was trying to
tell you i missed you, or maybe  i was leading you
on- you were wrong on both accounts.
i was just scared of letting you go because you
make bad decisions when you're alone and i didn't want you
to leave the room feeling cold.

iv.
there are some nights that i
can't get into bed.  when i'm awake at least i can
control the number of times you get into my head;
but sleep scares me now because every time i
close my eyes it's like you're still here and
no matter how hard i pretend that your company is easy
it's always unsettling- the honest truth is that
ever since i let you go, i've watched you become a ghost.
hello, i don't know where this came and i'm scared to read this over because i feel like even though every bit of it is the honest truth these words seem like a stranger's.
801 · Sep 2013
space stuff
marina Sep 2013
.
i am so tired of my bones being
romanticized; being made of
stardust does not make me infinite or
beautiful.
idon'tevenknow
795 · Apr 2013
for hannah (10w)
marina Apr 2013
(things are heavy,
but i can be strong
for you)
hannah, i love you so much.  these words aren't enough to describe the distances i would go for you.  thanks for being one of the best friends ever, i hope i can be the same for you.  stay strong, girlie, things'll be o.k.
793 · Jun 2013
rain storms
marina Jun 2013
braving the thunder was
nothing
compared to braving the
lightning beneath your
fingertips.
because i made a friend at camp. that i really like.  a lot.
and we sat just outside the dining hall together trying to escape the rain and i almost fell asleep beside him and he just sat there and rubbed circles on my back and stroked my hair and it was the cutest thing ever fjdkalfsda.  he's just the greatest; i don't even care what we end up being, as long as i have him in my life.  i suffer from severe anxiety and abandonment issues and i was scared at first to let myself *actually* care about somebody new but i honestly have never been so comfortable around somebody so fast in my life.  he's really something
787 · Nov 2013
[so hold onto me too]
marina Nov 2013
i think i love you because
you have strong hands
and a steady smile, and
both of those are something
i can hold onto.
[ ]
785 · Dec 2013
11:09
marina Dec 2013
what was real at the start
doesn't matter any more;
in the end, we're all
imaginary
i'm very upset right now oh man
784 · Feb 2014
the air was heavy
marina Feb 2014
you're sister said i seemed
different* and he sighs when
i tell him *not different,
just sad


there is a small silence as he
loads up his truck, and when he is
not looking, i say

*but i guess, for you, that means
different
idk, when he's sad i'm sad
779 · Jul 2013
miles away
marina Jul 2013
i'll be patient for you
if that's what you need

(it's the only way i know
how to tell you
i love you)
"i could wait a thousand hours / stay the same in sun and showers / pick apart a hundred flowers / just to be quiet...with you" -lights
marina Apr 2013
kacey tried to ****
herself at thirteen; she cried
when it didn't work.

she didn't try once
more; she was tired of feeling
insignificant
in everything she did.
haiku x 2 + a little more
i'm so sorry your life is so sad, kacey.  really.  you don't deserve what you've been given.
775 · Nov 2013
it was 9:03 pm, and
marina Nov 2013
he said
sorry, i
totally just
spilled my
heart out
to you


don't worry
i told him
**i know the
feeling
sorrythismakesnosense
774 · Apr 2013
if i were a sculptor (10w)
marina Apr 2013
.
i want to carve
the ugly
out of my
bones
.
i feel like i had more to say with this, but i couldn't find the words
771 · May 2013
definition
marina May 2013
saudad (n)-- 1. knowing that
coffee and cigarettes
will never smell
quite as good as they
did on you

2. hearing your name over and
over again, then suddenly,
not at all, because even i am
too scared to whisper it
to the dark

3. watching you fade before
you're even gone; if you ever come
back home, you won't be the man
you were one year ago.
1- my dad, 2- my brother, 3- my friend.
yes, sir, this is personal
770 · Jun 2013
"are all people like this?"
marina Jun 2013
i was tired of feeling so much
bigger on the inside,
       so instead of letting myself free
       i just poured myself out

(and what a shame, i ended up
a puddle instead of an ocean)
"like what?"
"so much bigger on the inside."
not gonna lie, i got my inspiration from doctor who.  i also really like this.  i've been lying to myself for a while, it's nice to be honest.
769 · Mar 2013
scar tissue
marina Mar 2013
i wonder what you'd look like
if you were stripped of your skin,
would your bones be as perfect
as your shell?

or would they be heavy with scars
etched into you slowly, filled with ink,
and laced with names you
wish you could forget?
i don't even know anymore ajdkalas.  i think writer's block is just around the bend
763 · Jun 2013
dizzy
marina Jun 2013
do you remember when we
were children, and we would spin
in circles for minutes straight
just to make ourselves dizzy?

that's how my head feels when
i see you these days- it's like i can
feel the world rotating under my
feet- every thought, every edge
blurring until they're gone, but
(luckily) this paper is lined thick and
your name alone
is poetry.
i'm sorry it's too early and i can't think enough for words.  i'm leaving in five hours to go volunteer at a camp for a week.  try not to forget i exist~
marina Oct 2013
today i woke up to the radio,
and when every song sounded
like it should be ours, i couldn't tell
if i was dreaming or not

(and i am so gone
on you)
the perishers is stuck in my head.
also, i fall to hard to fast
marina Apr 2013
today i woke up not knowing where i
was or how to get back home,
(or if i would ever feel at home again)
because although i awake in the same
bed every day, this room is unceasingly cold
and i find myself more and more lost in these
sheets that i don't know as my own  anymore.

i had lain there for forever trying to remember
the last time i had felt comforted by sleep-
when the only thing i could find under my pillows
were nightmares about empty skies and
words that got lost in translation, i had to stop
in my tracks and reteach my self how to breathe.

i'm starting to get this awful feeling
that i'm not always going to fall asleep alone
but i'll still wake up terribly lonely.
um...yeah.  lately i've been feeling unsettled.  restless.  
now, now is making things better though.  "i am what you need when you can't find it somewhere else / i am what you want when you don't want anything else"
fjafdkljaf they are so good
759 · Sep 2013
permission
marina Sep 2013
i loved you without
asking first
and i am
so sorry
for
that.
756 · Nov 2014
i am proud of myself
marina Nov 2014
i am not my
mother's daughter or
my sister's shadow
or my family
name,
none of that is
enough to
contain me or
portray me any
more
my mom is disappointed and i will not regret my choices because of that. i am the only one that will dictate what i do with my body
marina Apr 2013
yesterday a bird sat down on the power line
just outside my house-
he clamped his beak on the
wire and twisted and pulled until it
snapped in half.
he touched the broken line to
the one underneath it
until sparks flew and he
smoked,
               fell
                     to
                         the
                               ground
                                             .

his body was too mangled
to identify what kind of
bird he was
but experts say he was most likely
one of the two
endangered monsters that
swam in the pond behind the oaks.

i wonder if the remaining will
**** himself next.
that bird makes me want to cry.  birds don't just chew through power lines like that.  
i bet he was sad.  lonely.  i don't know
753 · Apr 2013
(ohwowthisisbad)
marina Apr 2013
i swear, i'm not a thief,
but if given the opportunity
i would take your
heart and run to the edge
of the universe and
back, just to have you chase me
(it may be my only way
to leave you breathless, the same
way you leave me)
i went to the beach today, diddleedee~ (:
OKAY SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME THEY WATCHED THE NEWEST DOCTOR WHO
anybody, seriously.  because holycrapwowohmygosh.  this season started out rocky, but i'm so in love with this past episode.  'twas perfect
746 · Mar 2014
i am inexplicably sad
marina Mar 2014
if i'm being honest with myself,
i am always scared

i am scared that someday i will trip in the
school hallway with everyone around, and
i am scared that my family will stop being able
to take care of ourselves. i am
scared that a third world war will erupt and
it will start two streets down the road from me
and end in my front yard

i am scared that one day i'll convince myself
that nobody really loves me, and, even worse, that
nobody will be around to tell me otherwise. and
i am scared that i'll drown at camp this summer
and i'm scared that if i don't, i will want to

i'm scared of needles and feet and airplanes
and on especially bad nights, i am afraid of the dark.

mostly i'm afraid that i will never stop living my
life on the brink of a panic attack, that i will always
back down from a fight, that i will never learn
to speak for myself, and i am scared that i will never
become anything more than this
and supremely anxious.
this is venting more than anything
745 · Mar 2013
hi, my name is
marina Mar 2013
tonight, he told of his scars-

drugs and parties and drinking
left no physical wounds,
but when his knuckles tapped
the podium
we could all see he was
cracked
and
bruised
and

still

hurting.


look, i wanted to say,
*my story hurts too much to tell,
but i have scars
just like you,
just like you,
i hurt too.
**** it, jess.  i knew you had a story to you.  i just didn't know it'd remind me so much of mine.
744 · Mar 2013
let us go, then
marina Mar 2013
if you'd like,
we could play pretend-
i'd be sylvia plath, if you'd
be my modern-day
cummings;

we can meet in
the coffee shop on
forty-eighth and first
and talk about suicide
over tall cups of coffee
that taste like your grandfather's cigars

and when neither of us are
up for walking
we'll go out to the park
and sit
on the bench by the pond
and hold hands

(i won't really feel your fingers by mine
until they become
sticky with sweat; we'll look at each other
and realize it doesn't mean a thing
to either
except for maybe the first attempt on both parts
to not feel so alone)

when the sun sets,
i'll cry
and not have an answer
when you ask for one.
elliot & plath & cummings, ohmy
744 · Apr 2013
natural disasters
marina Apr 2013
some words move me so much
that i am surprised
they do not cause an earthquake

(i wonder how my bones shake
without the world taking notice)
so there are some really incredible poets on here that don't get the attention they deserve.  their words have left me rattled.
if you're in the mood, check 'em out, yo.  i'm sure they'd really appreciate it (:

http://hellopoetry.com/-hkr/
http://hellopoetry.com/-tatianna-tyler/
http://hellopoetry.com/-kylie-marshall/

and that's the end of my promoting.
742 · Jul 2013
(nothing about you is holy)
marina Jul 2013
nothing is more violent than
love, but i would reconstruct
mountains just to have another
chance to break them down
again with you
(but while you're around, i forget my demons)  
it's been so nice and rainy this week c:
738 · Jul 2014
check yes or no
marina Jul 2014
my mother tells me to
choose wisely, and
i don't know if it's wise,
but there is no choice-

my answer will always be
you
marina Aug 2013
when he asks if you're in
love with him,
*lie
once the musical is touring and coming to my theatre and i don't even care how much the tickets are gonna cost because arthur darville and once and fjasdklfasd
sorry for the fangirling, but i had to freak out somewhere and everybody's asleep right now.
736 · Mar 2013
sleep walking
marina Mar 2013
i would do anything for you,
even if that means
waking up at three in the morning
just to hold your hand
so you don't have to chase your
nightmares away alone.
for my sister <3

i stopped listening to the pop stations after he stopped riding in my car.  back to the alternative radio again.  this song caught me by surprise though, and i almost cried because i think maybe it's one of the most beautiful and out of character things i've ever heard the station play.  
this is a love song.  and it's perfect.
http://youtu.be/a_2lTxtxi7U
marina Jul 2014
i have burned bridges
and put out their fires with
bare hands, tried to make
something of the ashes
because i always thought
moving forward was the
best way to deal until
i wasn't able to go back
idk
734 · Dec 2013
.
marina Dec 2013
.
i am tired of being
scared to fight for
what i want, but i
am too tired of
being rejected
to fight for
you.
does this make any sense?  idk, i'm sad
marina Apr 2013
i would chase away
all your demons, if that would
help to change your mind.
tuesdays are hellish.
731 · Apr 2013
dead ends
marina Apr 2013
how do we
overcome
ourselves?*
he asked,
and i cried
because i
know that
we can't.
bwahh, title help please?  because i'm lost.
also, i cry too much.
731 · Apr 2013
to put it simply
marina Apr 2013
(could you feel it too?
each last part of me,
poured into the smile
i handed over to you.
because i don't know how
to speak around you,
so i figured everything else
would just have to do.)

to tell you the honest truth,
i'd give anything to sit
and be quiet with you.
oh dear lord, i'm in deep.  i think about him way too often.  he's so lovely and adfljk;
sometimes we get along so well and laugh and talk and then other times i forget that words exist.  boys make things complicated.
727 · Jun 2013
why i'm a compulsive liar
marina Jun 2013
honesty is just a desperate attempt
for closure used when
there's no more time to fake our way
around the truth
i wish i could write something that took longer than fifteen seconds to read.
726 · Apr 2013
whispers
marina Apr 2013
i wish i could hold all your freckles
in the palm of my hand,
(sprinkle them across my body
and drown in them slowly,)

so i could carry a piece of you
with me, always.
&i; don't think the title will make any sense in relation to the poem
unless you are me.  so disregard it.  c:
718 · Sep 2013
i won
marina Sep 2013
i wish you would try just one last
time to reach out, so that i could be
the one to walk away

(i'm so ******* proud of myself
for not loving you anymore)
and i don't even feel bad
714 · Mar 2013
untitled
marina Mar 2013
i'm unraveling just as quickly
as your words,
and here we are
falling
again,
but this time,
not in the
right
way.
oh good lord, i'm having panic attacks.  my heart hurts.  please tell me how to fix this.
marina Aug 2014
sometimes if
you linger long
enough, i can
still feel you
even after you've
gone, i can still
feel you,
i can still
713 · Aug 2013
3 am
marina Aug 2013
my bones are my of glass
    and
        i watched you sink last night
            and
                his mouth says he sleeps but his eyes say he lies
                    and
                   i
              am
        tired
    like
him.
idontevenknow
sorry if this makes no sense
713 · Oct 2013
round trip
marina Oct 2013
today a friend of mine told me that in china
they only say i love you when they really mean it;
she talked about it like it was a loaded gun,
like telling somebody i love you also meant
i'd **** for you, i'd die for you, i'd live for you.

i don't know how to be brave enough to say that
straight, but if i could, i would fly you across the globe
to help you understand.
does this make sense? idk, i'm sorry.
i can't think of any other way to word it
712 · May 2014
10w
marina May 2014
10w
i am trying
to convince myself
that we are
immortal
he has a tumor on his brain
710 · Aug 2014
one two three drink
marina Aug 2014
i am licking
last night's prayers
off of my lips
and hoping that
this can
still be made
right
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