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Sep 2015 · 518
small hours
marina b Sep 2015
time, love, and art--what illusory concepts
undefinable and immutable
we meld, over and over again, the borders of our bodies becoming unclear in defiance of the defined space we transiently occupy. teenage rebellion.
A most primal ritual, mother to a sentiment most sophisticated--
the bites you left on my neck lasted longer than your interest, which faded with the early sun like a dark cliche embedded in my skin.
How curious it is to feel time, evade love, and be art--
how bitter to know the hollowness of each one, a lesson imparted by the weight of their meaninglessness.
Feb 2014 · 544
10w tuesday
marina b Feb 2014
it's time i start living for myself
instead
of
you.
i really need to get it together
marina b Feb 2014
it hasn't even been 24 hours since we last spoke
but already i am dreaming of your skin;
your hair and what it would feel like to touch it
your face keeps me awake and i suddenly fear:
i have become attached
like i promised i wouldn't be
Feb 2014 · 423
important questions
marina b Feb 2014
do you respect me?
are you using me?
am i allowing myself to be used because i don't respect myself either?
Jan 2014 · 821
self-explanatory
marina b Jan 2014
i wish i could erase you from my mind as easily as i erase the words that i write about you
Jan 2014 · 658
july
marina b Jan 2014
if i concentrate hard enough
i can still hear your laugh
i can still feel the sunshine on my face
i can still remember what it was like
to be happy
Jan 2014 · 596
june
marina b Jan 2014
my hair is long but the days are short
we used to talk about the stars
i miss your arm around my waist
i'm in limbo
simply waiting for the rotations to complete
counting down the days
until summer
Sep 2013 · 615
paradox
marina b Sep 2013
i ache because i have never felt your touch
but i worry if i felt it
i would ache even more
Sep 2013 · 577
melt
marina b Sep 2013
i had almost forgotten
what it felt like
to not want to die

so if i cannot thank you for anything else
at least let me thank you
for that.
Sep 2013 · 1.1k
roman candle
marina b Sep 2013
the fireworks didn't only ignite the sky
they ignited my skin

or maybe that was your touch, i can't be sure.
Jul 2013 · 587
short note
marina b Jul 2013
i'm too tired
   to even think
i've burned all my memories of you
and i am now focusing on
       self-love.
Jul 2013 · 4.9k
ozone
marina b Jul 2013
you know,
they say oxygen
though vital to life
is ultimately its very destructor.

you see,
it burns us from the inside
out
we willingly take it in
let it slowly ravage our bodies
and seep its poison into our precious vessels
so when we leave this celestial orb
we're still left grasping
for one last breath.

so in a way,
i guess i could say i need you like i need oxygen.
Jun 2013 · 447
10w
marina b Jun 2013
10w
i'm done singing for you
now, i sing for me.
Jun 2013 · 467
unrequited
marina b Jun 2013
i want to wrap you up and keep you in my pocket

                                 so that you always feel close to me

and so that i never have to deal with you again
Jun 2013 · 506
Untitled
marina b Jun 2013
do not bother me
let me wallow alone,
in self-pity and half melted bowls of ice cream.
is that really too much to ask?
Jun 2013 · 412
loathing
marina b Jun 2013
i cannot imagine
how it must feel
to actually want
what i pretend i crave
Jun 2013 · 712
kiss
marina b Jun 2013
it was fleeting
it meant nothing, really
but it warms me inside
to know
we share something
that i will never let go

(i hope you won't, either)
May 2013 · 1.5k
sick
marina b May 2013
i went to the doctor
he curled up onto my bed
stretched his claws over the side
he told me i have
chronic ennui

he prescribed me a daily
dose of selfies in
my bathroom, consumption of lots
of summer fruits, and 500 mg of
you.
May 2013 · 353
for you
marina b May 2013
i worry so much
that i take you for granted

i know if you left
my world would implode

please stay with me
i know it's hard, but
you make me happier than i've ever been
to my best friend
May 2013 · 3.6k
foreshadowing
marina b May 2013
show me you care
it doesn't matter when
or where
or how
but i need it
more than i've ever needed anything else
and i hope you understand that
and i hope you won't regret it
if you don't show me soon enough.
May 2013 · 572
him
marina b May 2013
him
he's never patient with me
and thats the only thing i want him to be
he cares only for himself
and his thoughts
and his feelings
and disregards mine

i'm never patient with him
but does he even notice?
all i care for
are my thoughts
and my moods
(deep and blue)
that allow me to drown
and escape from his grasp
May 2013 · 784
leaves
marina b May 2013
watching them move
speckled with sunlight and
dancing in the wind
makes me long to
be free again
May 2013 · 363
muse
marina b May 2013
every time
i begin to write
my words curl around
your image in my mind

i cannot be rid of you
and i don't want to
be rid of you
May 2013 · 351
say it
marina b May 2013
don't worry,
you won't hurt my feelings.
in fact,
i'm not even sure if i have feelings anymore.
May 2013 · 383
hands
marina b May 2013
every time i watch
your strong
hands
move your strong
fingers
i wonder
how they would feel
on me
oops...
May 2013 · 350
10w
marina b May 2013
10w
is it possible to be perfect?
because you're pretty **** close.
May 2013 · 368
secrets of emotion
marina b May 2013
i did my best not to show you
but when those words escaped your mouth
something inside me burst
into a rosy, sparkling celebration
and it's a miracle
i didn't
e x p l o d e
with joy
May 2013 · 336
feelings (10w)
marina b May 2013
do you feel it?
what i felt,
how i still feel?
May 2013 · 293
Untitled
marina b May 2013
no matter what you say about the rain,
i can tell you've been crying.
May 2013 · 260
Untitled
marina b May 2013
if i close my eyes long enough
they start to water
but when the tears clear
so does my mind
and i can see, as clearly as the bright may sunshine,


nothing.
May 2013 · 520
poeta del cuerpo
marina b May 2013
if you needed me too
if you asked me to
even just if i wanted it

i would write you poems
one for
each
intricate part
of your
strong
beautiful
body.
marina b May 2013
i live for these late night conversations.
do you, too?
Apr 2013 · 596
excuses
marina b Apr 2013
i was going to do it that time, honey
i really thought i was.
but the timing was off
and i couldn't find the
"tool"
i needed

but don't worry, i'm sure another opportunity will come
sooner or later.
marina b Apr 2013
sometimes i hope
that when i am lying awake in bed
half dreaming
                                   (of you)
you are listening
                                   somewhere, somehow
to the same
sad
song.
Apr 2013 · 369
Untitled
marina b Apr 2013
according to this flower,
he
loves
me.
Apr 2013 · 598
haiku #17
marina b Apr 2013
dear crush: i hope my
gaze isn't too intrusive
but you're so **** cute.
marina b Apr 2013
please let me
d i s s o l v e
into
peaceful
o b l i v i o n
instead of this
Apr 2013 · 338
haiku #16
marina b Apr 2013
some nights, you are the
only thing that gets me through
to the next morning.
Apr 2013 · 606
el olvido
marina b Apr 2013
sometimes i forget
how much i truly deserve to be happy
i am,
deep down,
a kind soul
and i care passionately about animals.
i am very politically aware
and i love my friends and would fight fiercely for them.
i make very good pancakes
and i speak up when i see wrong being done
just as much as i pipe down when i realize
that someone else deserves the spotlight.

so why am drowning?
Apr 2013 · 626
Untitled
marina b Apr 2013
each character
you have ever written
should mean something
irretractable
and purposeful

so if i could burn
each scrap and sheet
that held letters i never cared to write
fuel the fire with each pencil i've ever sharpened to the nub
and left myself only with the words i crafted
with care and precision

i would be at peace.
Apr 2013 · 581
Untitled
marina b Apr 2013
and he will fill up the word "love"

with everything he's ever known
and everything he's ever seen
and everything he's ever wanted

and he  will give it all to you

it will tumble out of his mouth
alcohol pushing each word into the cold air
where they will linger on small white clouds
"****" he'll mumble into the receiver
and he'll wait for you to hang up

your mouth will curl up
and you'll tell him
shut up, get home, you're drunk
but although your hands will be cold and damp
your heart, for the first time,

will be warm.
marina b Apr 2013
realistically,
you're so far from my grasp
and it kills me
every
*******
day
when i see your arms
(god, i love your arms)
around other girls
the skinny girls
and the pretty girls
and the not-me girls.
Apr 2013 · 360
Untitled
marina b Apr 2013
i'm awfully
sensual
for someone who knows
nothing
about senses
marina b Apr 2013
tired of choosing between
my happiness and sanity
or
grades
Apr 2013 · 3.6k
warrior princess
marina b Apr 2013
if it is suggested to me one more time
that my self-worth
is defined by
• my weight
• how attractive i am
• my ability to be submissive and agreeable
i will unleash
in all her feminist glory
my inner warrior princess
and she will rip your soul out
and spit on it.
Apr 2013 · 1.6k
haikus #9-#15
marina b Apr 2013
school is probably
my least favorite time-****
because i don't learn

i'd rather be on
a big farm where i could learn
about animals

or in the ocean
where i could swim with dolphins
and ride on a while

i could be in the
jungle hunting with tigers
eating papaya

i want to be in
australia, hugging a
baby koala

i mean ****, i could
just be at home reading or
writing or singing.

i would like to be
anywhere around the world
anywhere but here.
today i was in global and it just made me realize how pointless school is
Apr 2013 · 1.4k
betrayal
marina b Apr 2013
you knew my eyes
knew that they had been leaking, faulty, allowing my body to flood
with emotion
and then drain
messily, leaving black rivers to dry on my cheeks

but still, you shook me
with your anger
you allowed me to fill up again
but this time i burst
Apr 2013 · 625
best friend battle cry
marina b Apr 2013
never let them tell you
that you aren't one of the "pretty girls"
or that your laugh is too loud, or too high, or too low
or that you should try a one-piece on instead
or that the guy you like isn't cool
or that you can't do whatever the hell you want to do
because they're wrong

and just know
that i will fight for you
and with you
and laugh with you
and twist your curls in my fingers
and love you
forever until infinity.
Apr 2013 · 1.3k
fingers
marina b Apr 2013
could you feel the longing
in my fingers as i
traced them along your palms
winding our hands together
weaving my love into you?

could you sense my desperation
when i felt you pulling away
and i curled a single digit
around your finger tightly
and squeezed
(lightly)
before i let you go?
Apr 2013 · 447
haiku #5-6
marina b Apr 2013
today i peeled a
clementine, and the peel came
off in one solid

piece. it was the most
accomplished thing i have done
this whole ******* week.
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