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Jun 2022 · 134
Increment
Melinda Barrett Jun 2022
All of these times together
If I could just stitch them apart
You would see how forever
Is just measurement of a heart
Jun 2022 · 163
Descent
Melinda Barrett Jun 2022
I met the one
But then he ran
So then I sank
While he swam
Mar 2022 · 186
Kinetic
Melinda Barrett Mar 2022
Never been around someone so exciting
Where every moment felt just like lightning
That was also what was just as frightening
That two souls could potentially be uniting
Mar 2022 · 183
Cessation
Melinda Barrett Mar 2022
I couldn’t feel
I couldn’t tell
What was real
I couldn’t mend
I couldn’t deal
Or bare to face
That I should heal
Mar 2022 · 176
Effaced
Melinda Barrett Mar 2022
I guess I can’t delete every feeling
‘Til they're done twisting the knife
That’s when I choose to finally give up
That’s when I detect the strife
That they don’t realize mortality
Or get the meaning of life
Mar 2022 · 470
Reflection
Melinda Barrett Mar 2022
Go find your soulmate
And not your twin flame
One will give you love
One mirrors your pain
Feb 2022 · 107
Eyes never lie
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
Not sure if you ever noticed
I couldnt make eye contact with you
I could never match your gaze
Your eyes knew exactly what I knew
Feb 2022 · 272
Redacted
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
I never thought low of you but now I do
Everything that happened I wish I could undo
Feb 2022 · 82
Pensamientos
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
I know I should be living in reality instead
but I prefer the memories inside my head
Feb 2022 · 90
Fumes
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
I’m only on his mind
When he exhales his smoke
By the time he’s finished
I’m right back to revoked
Feb 2022 · 99
Cruise control
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
I don’t need to navigate the highs and lows of others when I can cruise in the middle lane of my of my own highway.
Feb 2022 · 58
Change of the tides
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
How many full moons have I tried to let go
When I flow you ebb and when I ebb you flow
Feb 2022 · 67
Detached
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
You don’t know my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
The way I take my coffee or the songs that drown my tears.
You don’t understand the way people have ****** me over or you wouldn’t have done the same.
You don’t realize how bad I need someone to vent to or the way I hate my name.
You don’t know the way my demons torture me and what I stay up all night thinking.
You don’t know my regrets or my favorite book or how to keep me from sinking.
Feb 2022 · 65
Decimate
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
Can’t run from your demons you have to finish them
Can’t run from your problems you have to diminish them
Feb 2022 · 69
Limerance
Melinda Barrett Feb 2022
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Love is shiny until it rusts
How can you ever learn to trust
When its real or if its lust
Jan 2022 · 70
Bad Production
Melinda Barrett Jan 2022
Our story is the worst movie I’ve ever seen
But the book oh the book is legendary
Jan 2022 · 289
Internalize
Melinda Barrett Jan 2022
When I’m going through something
I bury it deep inside
No one knows what going on
Because I have too much pride
I wish that I could breakthrough
But instead I always hide
Jan 2022 · 306
Coin toss
Melinda Barrett Jan 2022
Can't make heads or tails of this connection
if it's twin flames or just rejection?
Dec 2021 · 55
Janus
Melinda Barrett Dec 2021
Tell me what would happen if an angel fell into your lap
Would you mistake her for the devil and stab her in the back?
Dec 2021 · 58
Rotten
Melinda Barrett Dec 2021
When you hold it all in
When you can’t say goodbye
Thats when it just festers
& ***** you up inside
Dec 2021 · 60
Casted
Melinda Barrett Dec 2021
Was that version the real you?
Or just what you wanted me to see
Was it all just a role you played
Who you thought I wanted you to be
Dec 2021 · 288
Sowed
Melinda Barrett Dec 2021
You plant ur seeds & disappear
Time again, year after year
But now that you’re no longer here
Loneliness I do not fear
Oct 2021 · 209
Undisturbed
Melinda Barrett Oct 2021
In my sadness I stood completely still
Finally ready to release how I feel
Oct 2021 · 786
Unequipped
Melinda Barrett Oct 2021
I wasn’t born with a door
I had to build one for myself
To keep out people like you
Who place me on a dusty shelf
Sep 2021 · 74
Echo chamber
Melinda Barrett Sep 2021
How many tears can you cry
How many times can you try
How many years can you lie
How many deaths can you die
Sep 2021 · 142
Remnants
Melinda Barrett Sep 2021
Embedded deep inside my brain
Transparent memory windowpanes
I can see them but I cannot feel
It’s just the past, it wasn’t real
Jul 2021 · 706
Field of view
Melinda Barrett Jul 2021
You gave me enough space
You gave me enough time
For me to finally realize
You were never going to be mine
Jul 2021 · 100
Deviant
Melinda Barrett Jul 2021
For you in my book I broke every rule
Only to end up looking like a fool
Jun 2021 · 74
Against the current
Melinda Barrett Jun 2021
I sunk so deep I forgot who I am
but then I remembered and so I swam
...so I swam
Jun 2021 · 90
Checkmate
Melinda Barrett Jun 2021
I hope your games were worth it
I hope that you played your best
Cuz you just lost at checkers
While I was playing chess
Jun 2021 · 171
Vigil
Melinda Barrett Jun 2021
You know the gift that keeps on giving
When you learn how to mourn the living
May 2021 · 302
Ouroboros
Melinda Barrett May 2021
I thought if I destroyed myself
I would also destroy my feelings
But what I really needed to do
Was just some inner healing
May 2021 · 81
Shortcut
Melinda Barrett May 2021
I thought you were more like me
and I guess you thought the same
but we both missed the mark and
underestimated the game
May 2021 · 94
Fissure
Melinda Barrett May 2021
As time went by and we both grew more old
Shorter conversations as you grew more cold
So I withdrew and that’s when I started to see
That what I once most wanted didn’t want me
Apr 2021 · 268
Needle in a haystack
Melinda Barrett Apr 2021
Real men fight for what they want
Real men do their best
But all that you could ever prove
Was you were like the rest
Apr 2021 · 84
Greek tragedy
Melinda Barrett Apr 2021
The dialogue will be different
The actors will not be the same
I can’t recreate what we had
Because it’d be a different play
Apr 2021 · 83
Figment
Melinda Barrett Apr 2021
What you tend to forget
What escapes you
Is that I still exist
& I’m hurting too
Apr 2021 · 483
Parcae
Melinda Barrett Apr 2021
You can’t control the future, can’t control the past
Let go and everything will come to you at last
Learn when you should bend and when you can break
But never try to braid the threads of fate
Mar 2021 · 94
Misfits
Melinda Barrett Mar 2021
It finally hit me like a ton of bricks
Our pieces are just never going to fit
Mar 2021 · 88
Tombstone
Melinda Barrett Mar 2021
I know that you are long gone
But I still sit by your grave
Mourning what once was
Wonder if you do the same
Mar 2021 · 77
Drafts
Melinda Barrett Mar 2021
Memories that will never be made
Guess it’s better to just let them fade...
Mar 2021 · 81
Purgatory
Melinda Barrett Mar 2021
You know what they say about ghosts with unfinished business...they’ll always haunt you
Mar 2021 · 95
Tundra
Melinda Barrett Mar 2021
Frozen in the same spot you left me years ago
If only Father Time wasn't irreversible
Feb 2021 · 240
Theta state of mind
Melinda Barrett Feb 2021
Closed minded conversations
"Black vs Caucasian"
The usual equation
Giving off bad vibrations  
The bleeding of a nation
Headline sensations
Stem from greek imitations
Feb 2021 · 81
Blasphemy
Melinda Barrett Feb 2021
Over time love transmutes into hate somehow
Forced to use your name as a curse word now
Jan 2021 · 82
Void of course
Melinda Barrett Jan 2021
I looked at your picture today and felt nothing for the first time
Felt deeply gratifying yet hollow like a piece of me had died
It ached like nothing had before but still I somehow couldn’t cry
No matter how hard I tried all I managed was a relieved sigh
Jan 2021 · 73
No shallow swimming
Melinda Barrett Jan 2021
You only want the surface level with me
But I don’t do superficiality
Jan 2021 · 88
Black widower
Melinda Barrett Jan 2021
So spin your web of lovely lies
They can no longer ensnare me
You think I’ll still believe them all
Don’t ever double dog dare me
Jan 2021 · 69
Imprisoned thoughts
Melinda Barrett Jan 2021
I can't keep trapping my feelings deep inside
It’s a force stronger than I that can't be denied
Jan 2021 · 69
Psyche
Melinda Barrett Jan 2021
Couldn’t live with the butterflies anymore so I killed them with a gun
And every time you reappear I have to ****** them one by one
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