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501 · Mar 2014
echo
mc Mar 2014
his beauty
echoes
like thunder
in a mid-summer storm
500 · Jun 2013
perpetually unrequited
mc Jun 2013
I want to stop
the fluttering in my stomach
whenever you walk in the room
and the ache in my chest
whenever you talk to her

because if you truly wanted me
(like I wish you did)
you would have gotten me
by now

I realize now
that this unrequited love
is going to stay
unrequited
I just need to get this off my chest and maybe get him out of my heart
490 · May 2013
groggy
mc May 2013
I woke up this morning and my first thought was a poem
it was eloquent and deep and everything I’ve ever wanted to say
but with every moment of consciousness
more and more of it disappeared
now I couldn’t recreate it no matter how hard I tried
all I can remember is that is was beautiful
and that it was about you
484 · Aug 2013
little flower
mc Aug 2013
I was like a seed,
small and unprepared and alone.
You were like the summer,
warm and encompassing and loving.
Your warmth helped me grow into a beautiful flower,
made me ready to face the world with you at my side.
My roots were intertwined with you
and your heart
and what I thought was love.
But now autumn is here,
your warmth is gone
and I have been uprooted.
You've left me to fend off the winter on my own
and I don't think this little flower can survive.
475 · May 2013
moderate
mc May 2013
when I was told

“enjoy everything in moderation”

I took it to heart

literally

and I’m starting to think

maybe that’s why

I can only be close with someone

for so long

before I get overwhelmed
and start to push
 them away
leaving me even more alone

than I was in the beginning
I've kinda been stuck and this is the only thing I've been able to come up with in a while
mc Jul 2013
maybe if I had let you in,
you would've stayed a little longer

maybe if I had loved you more,
you would've left my heart intact

maybe if I had held you tighter,
you would've felt how much I loved you

but it doesn't really matter
because all you'll ever be
is maybe ifs
and would have beens
468 · Jul 2013
dark
mc Jul 2013
no matter what I do
I always end up broken hearted
when I'm left in the dark
even though I'm the one
who closes the blinds
and locks the doors
on everything and everyone who comes knocking

(even though I bring this darkness on myself
it still hurts to spend yet another night
alone)
I can't seem to get this poem right
465 · Oct 2013
poet, poetry, poetic
mc Oct 2013
things always seem
to lose their meaning
through the words of
depressed and angst ridden teenagers
but this time
it's different, I swear
      you became an experienced poet,
                            making poetry out of my heart
(it was the most poetic thing I've ever seen)
460 · Nov 2013
uncurable
mc Nov 2013
restless nights and restless hearts
I've discovered,
cannot be cured with
self-pity
and sadness
440 · Sep 2013
occasional pain killer
mc Sep 2013
sometimes
words make it hurt less
but most of the time
they don't
427 · Sep 2015
fuck you
mc Sep 2015
I scribbled down "*******" 80 times that night
with tears in my eyes and anger in my chest
when no one was looking
I still haven't figured out
if the ******* was
to you
for not being there
or to myself
for still wanting you to be
422 · Jun 2013
mend
mc Jun 2013
I'd cut you out if I could
but then again
I can't
I could never do that
cause the thing about you
is that no matter how many times
I shatter my own heart
it always mends itself
at the sight
of your smile
417 · Aug 2013
summer to my sadness
mc Aug 2013
august came and brought us together,
showing me love
lust
life
and banishing my loneliness

but september came and tore us apart,
ripping my heart
my hope
my happiness
to shreds

you are the summer to my sadness
and september is here
417 · May 2013
alone
mc May 2013
when the loneliness gets to be too much
and I feel like screaming so loud
that people everywhere
would be shocked at the sound
I look at all the couples
strolling around
with interlocked fingers
and interlocked lips
and promise myself
that will be me one day
because no matter how long it takes
someone will have to love me at some point
right?
412 · Sep 2015
work in progress
mc Sep 2015
i'm learning to be less of a thunderstorm
408 · May 2013
3 wishes
mc May 2013
I wonder
what you would choose
if you could have anything in the world
would you pick me?
cause I know
without a doubt
I would pick you
any second
of any minute
of any hour
of any day
403 · Sep 2013
cliché
mc Sep 2013
it's been said over and over
but your arms truly did
feel
like
home

and now that it's been
one month exactly
since I was last in your arms
home
doesn't feel quite the same
402 · Aug 2013
deeper
mc Aug 2013
Going, going, gone. I am lost in the void now, and no matter how much I reach or claw, everything slips from my grasp. And I fall deeper. I'd say that I'll miss you until the end of time but that implies that there is an end. And although forever is a hard word to grasp, when you truly think about its meaning, it's the only way to describe how long you'll be on my mind. I'm drowning in an ocean of sorrow, and the light is beginning to fade. Without you, I am but a shell: no emotions, no soul. My heart is gone and in its place is a block of lead, bringing me down faster than a bullet drops a man. Life is something we take for granted until its over. We don't seem to grasp just how remarkable it is. We smile, we laugh, we lose and we cry. And yet losing you showed me that love trumps life. For a life without love is one without meaning. A young man who has loved has already lived more than anyone who hasn't. As I near the bottom of this ocean I realize it's the little things that will make me miss you the most. Times where I'll expect to hear your laugh and hear nothing but resounding silence. Times when I'll look for you and realize you're nowhere to be found. The light is gone now as I reach the bottom. And I fall deeper.
this isn't my poem
401 · Jun 2013
you're my contradiction
mc Jun 2013
you are both my only downfall
and my only success
my heaven
and my hell
my enemy
and my saviour
my reason
and my excuse
my angel
and my demon
I can’t decide
if I can survive
without your love
or without your hate
398 · May 2013
first
mc May 2013
sometimes I feel like you don’t deserve
all my words
all my time
or all my love
the way I’ve so easily given them to you
but then I remember
you were my first
and we had it pretty good
even though you broke my heart
you were still the best thing to ever happen to me
397 · Mar 2014
storm (10w)
mc Mar 2014
I am trying to be less
of a thunder storm
396 · May 2013
you
mc May 2013
you
dear you,
everything I
write
think
say
is addressed to you
but you'll never read this
cause you'll never care
so
I love you
I love you
I love you
from,
me
393 · Sep 2013
empty
mc Sep 2013
my heart now calls
for no one in particular

there's no longer a face
                             (your face)
etched into my heart

I'm empty
           empty
               empty

and I've never been more glad
388 · Jun 2013
why don't you like me?
mc Jun 2013
I often wonder what it is you don't like about me

is it the way I leave my hair unbrushed
and tucked behind my ear?

the way I can't speak
whenever you're near?

the way I try too hard
but still don't know what to say?

the way I can't seem
to keep my demons at bay?

the way I can't sit still?
the way I'm always filled with dread?

the way I can't seem to get it right?
the way I blush bright red?

the way I bite my nails?
the way I like everything about you?

because these are the things I don't like about myself
so I'll understand if you don't like them too
I'm not sure I like using rhyming schemes
378 · May 2013
pieces
mc May 2013
let's eat breakfast first
before we fall to pieces
let us keep this peace
I wrote this on a bus in downtown Paris
371 · Jun 2013
stay out
mc Jun 2013
today I know for sure
that I have pushed you out
and you are not in my heart
    (you are as far away as you can get from it)
but I am scared for tomorrow
and the day after
because you always have a way
of making it right back into
the middle of my heart
no matter how badly
I wish you weren't there
359 · Jun 2013
in your arms (10w)
mc Jun 2013
on your mind?
there's only one place I'd rather be
359 · May 2013
intruder
mc May 2013
I've finally kicked you out of my heart

so why are you still in my head
?
get out

get out
*
*get out
345 · Jan 2017
city slicker
mc Jan 2017
perhaps it's true
that our memories are built like cities inside us
all skyscrapers
and bright lights
and blind idealism
344 · Nov 2013
have/not
mc Nov 2013
sometimes I think about
what I could have done
and what I could have said
and what we could have been
so we wouldn't have ended up like
this

and then my heart
and my head
and everything else
hurts

because I did not do it
and I did not say it
and we just were not
344 · Jan 2017
forever
mc Jan 2017
and when i looked at you
i saw the kind of forevers that people swear don't exist,
that people dream about
343 · May 2013
silly
mc May 2013
smudged ink on my hand
smudged tears on my page
these are just silly tears
and silly words
over a silly crush
335 · Sep 2015
goodnight
mc Sep 2015
so I lay completely still,
staring into the pitch black that almost seemed to be swallowing me,
and was soon greeted by sleep
rather than the tears I was so sure would come
334 · May 2013
maybe
mc May 2013
maybe if I said it
you'd say it too
but we all know
I'm not that brave
so I guess
we'll live in a world
of never knowing
if we could have been
334 · May 2013
strangers
mc May 2013
I would trade anything to have you say hello
because you’ve filled my thoughts
faster than anyone else ever has

I’ve fallen in love with your smile
and the way you simply are

I’d love to be yours
but you don’t even know my name

so I guess I’ll stick to stolen glances
and pretending it was meant to be
when I catch your eye
329 · Jul 2013
Untitled
mc Jul 2013
I feel like I'm screaming into the emptiness
and no one
not even my own echo
is there to keep me sane
and hold me when
the darks get darker
and the pain won't fade
326 · Sep 2013
something
mc Sep 2013
take something ugly
        (you and me)
and turn it into something beautiful
                                      (us)
323 · May 2013
Untitled
mc May 2013
you said that things were getting hard

and I couldn’t think of what to say
 to let you know what I was thinking

with the admittance of your struggle

it felt as though my heart had been ripped from my chest
and all the air had disappeared from my lungs
I wanted to fix you

to make you feel whole
 again
because that’s what you deserve
but I didn’t know how to tell you this

so I smiled sadly

as I usually do

and promised things would get better

so hopefully

you might be able to tell that all I want

is for you to be happy
301 · Jan 2017
warm
mc Jan 2017
we didn't know each other
but the way he smiled at me made me feel like we did.
all teeth
and gums
and
warm
warm
warm.
i wondered if he could feel my heart
fly out of my chest
and land firmly
in his back pocket.
295 · Jan 2017
magnetic
mc Jan 2017
it's like our skin is magnetic
only attracting the other's
hands and
elbows and
knees
always brushing
skin against skin
forever chaste and accidental
293 · May 2013
Untitled
mc May 2013
I thought you might have felt it too
between all the stolen glances
and subtle brushing of our hands

maybe I'm wrong
and there was nothing there to feel
maybe I'm just a friend
and you talking to that new girl shouldn't bother me at all

but I know I felt something
I thought I was special
and that new girl
bothers me a lot more than it should

that glorious feeling
of seeing you search for me in a crowd
was quickly replaced
by the retched feeling
of seeing you be happy with someone who isn't me
286 · Jun 2013
done with you
mc Jun 2013
when you brush past me in the hall
I no longer feel it
when you brush through my sight
I no longer see it
when you brush through my thoughts
I no longer want it
when you brush through my life
I no longer care at all
I don't want to want him anymore and I think I'm finally getting there.
279 · May 2013
done
mc May 2013
after months
of being the only one to say
I miss you
it's getting to the point
where I'm not sure
I even miss you
anymore
279 · Jun 2013
home
mc Jun 2013
no matter
where you go
or how you get there,
humans always have a way
of making it feel like home
I heard this on TV or maybe it was the radio and it's beautiful.
278 · Jun 2013
us
mc Jun 2013
us
maybe not tonight
and maybe not tomorrow
maybe not ever
10 word haiku look at me go
277 · Jun 2013
falling (10w)
mc Jun 2013
a life spent
falling in and out of
unrequited love
255 · Jun 2013
words (10w)
mc Jun 2013
my words mean
nothing
to you but
everything
to me
maybe a little 10 word Tuesday?
253 · Jun 2013
it feels great (10w)
mc Jun 2013
for now,
nothing feels better than
having an empty
heart
244 · May 2013
true
mc May 2013
sometimes I get scared
because it seems like
the only way to know
if it’s truly love is to
lose it.
and I don’t think my naked little heart could take that.
242 · Jun 2013
need (10w)
mc Jun 2013
you never needed
me
not the way
I need
you
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