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Aug 2018 · 246
Knowledge From Experience
Mims Aug 2018
But there was love hidden in the
sadness,


I know there was.
It doesn't matter how many people you talk to at the end of the day when everyone is asleep you feel it, you feel alone. No one understands your ****** up brain no one understands why you hide behind all those coping mechanisms. You are the only one. You can never learn love, because you never saw what it looked like. *these, I believe, are the lies you tell yourself before you go to sleep. I know, because I knew. I do it sometimes too.*
Mims Aug 2018
I mouthed the words while we were lying on your bed
Your fingers tracing my arm
Our faces so close
Our legs so tangled
Your eyes were closed
You tell me I am the only person you feel comfortable talking about 'feelings' with

My arm on your neck
I mouthed the words I don't yet know if I could ever say to your face
I don't know if I will ever understand them enough to
"It's different with you"
"It's never been like this before"
We work so well
You make me so happy
"I'm usually a depressed ******* in the summer, but this summer is so different. Not all because of you 'cause that wouldn't be healthy. But you changed something in me."

And I know you're not perfect
And you know I'm not perfect
But together

We're pretty **** close.
Mims Aug 2018
We used to say **** like
I should've kissed you

Now all we do is ask for nudes
But now that I'm here
I wonder who the **** would want this
Over that
Aug 2018 · 2.9k
A message from you
Mims Aug 2018
You ever look at a message and don't open it
Because you know if you do
You'll have to respond
And you just dont know how to



Right now
He kills me
Aug 2018 · 242
Nothing lasts forever
Mims Aug 2018
I check my calender
I'm running out of time
But they say summer
is just a state of mind

.
.
.
Not even us
Aug 2018 · 924
You Were Wrong
Mims Aug 2018
Did you die?
After you fell in love for the first time?
Did the summer sun soak you up,
Did the moon blow you one last kiss?
Did you look at them and smile,
Because you assumed you were ready for it?
I was wrong.
Jul 2018 · 256
Untitled
Mims Jul 2018
We both have twin holes in our walls
From when we were feeling a little too broken and we wanted something else to crumble and get ripped open from all of the wrong

We get angry
Our mothers agree
Its not healthy
But you're just like me
And I haven't met many people with that similarity
And you miss me
When I'm gone
And you like to write songs
But I don't know how to sing
Poetry is just another outlet
But maybe it's not a good thing
And your body on mine
It was far more then fine
And I made you ask before every touch
You love my hair
I fell for your everywhere
But neither of us are any good at love

So I said no
To the dates and the roses
And everything that comes with teenage commitment
I don't want any of it
But I don't want you kissing

Anyone other than me

I know
I know

I'm so selfish
Yeah its true
Plenty of people that know me
Could
Tell
You
Jul 2018 · 231
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Mims Jul 2018
·
"I think I'd get sick of myself before I got sick of you"

"I miss you already"

"We can't change the stars"

"You're amazing"

You said all the right things
But it wasn't enough
Jul 2018 · 184
It's Stress
Mims Jul 2018
Kissing you felt good

And that just makes everything more complicated
sorry
Mims Jul 2018
It scared you


I know it did
Blowing in the wind
Jul 2018 · 196
Love Doesn't Make Sense
Mims Jul 2018
I blew up your ego
You sent me shiny things
You can't lock your door
But we crave privacy
You were clean cut
And I've always been messy
Your past is a dark thing
My hair is light beams

We both get angry
All the time
Neither of our mothers could ever tell us why


Maybe it never did
Jul 2018 · 497
GUESS
Mims Jul 2018
DO I LOVE YOU OR AM I JUST USING YOU AS A DISTRACTION FROM ONE OF THE MANY ISSUES I FACE CONSTANTLY
NO
I COULDN'T DO THAT TO YOU

COULD I?
Guessing games that are the reason I'm going to hell
Jul 2018 · 966
You Were A Lovely Liar
Mims Jul 2018
My heart broke into a million pieces when I fell for you
But not one of them ever ended up in your hands

Darling, it was all part of the plan
·
·
·
And I loved you
But who's the liar?
Me or you
Or
The Moon?
Jul 2018 · 207
Part 2
Mims Jul 2018
I brew a steadily growing caffeinated tea addiction with the bags under my eyes
How do you sleep at night?
I don't really anymore
Not since I met you
And tasted what midnight drowning felt like
Jul 2018 · 338
Night Love-Life
Mims Jul 2018
We are young
We love the idea that someone wants us
I told you last night I didn't want to be mean
You hold my hand I let you touch me
I'm trying to be kind
Because this would never work in real life
But the night is different from that isn't it?
Jul 2018 · 195
Untitled
Mims Jul 2018
I associate you with a feeling

I shouldn't do it but I do

I'm only human and so are you

We both are spinning on this tiny planet

But we are worlds away
Admitting was the hardest
Even harder than getting over you
Jul 2018 · 176
Untitled
Mims Jul 2018
Your hand is where happiness sleeps
And I held it
It could have been just a second but I knew
My happiness resides in you
Jul 2018 · 153
Untitled
Mims Jul 2018
We're laying in a hammock
Drifting lazily
The sky is dark
Our fingers intertwined
I look at you and smile
For you are so beautiful
My mother stays up for me and falls asleep I creep past her room and up the stairs
Say I was home at 12 not 2
Jul 2018 · 355
Food Is Toxic Love pt. 2
Mims Jul 2018
Counting calories when I'm bored
Analyzing fat
Comparing flatness
I am the queen of obsession
So quickly
So easily
And then it is too late
So I don't let myself think about it constantly
I try not to
But I do
And all my friends say I have the flattest stomach
But when I look in the mirror
All I can see
Is how my thighs are thicker than last year

I have connected pain with reward
That if it hurts its healing
That if I'm hungry I'll improve
The red is rising with no ceiling
Keeping low to the ground
Not taking off my shirt when I kiss you

Crying with no sound
Not letting myself miss you

Processed sugar is a no
But I am so cold


All the time.
Pressure
This is a part 2 to a poem I posted here last February with the same title. My issues with eating have switched since then, and they are not large issues. But they're there.
Jul 2018 · 956
I'd Sink For You
Mims Jul 2018
If I lay in the grass
And try to push myself into the ground
Make friends with the leaves and the roots of the trees
Let the earthworms make a home out of me
Reduce my skeleton to nothing but fossils
Have I

S
U
N
K


Low
Enough for you to



Reach?
I've never been "ground bound" I'm a lot more spacey
Jul 2018 · 269
We have both been brave
Mims Jul 2018
Your love is the most beautiful warzone I've ever sat in
"Can I ask you a personal question?"
"Sure"
"What was it like meeting your dad for the first time last summer?"
Jul 2018 · 314
Calming Conversation
Mims Jul 2018
The galaxy was quiet tonight
The ocean's dangerous waves calmed
Somewhere deep and dark was brightened

That is how it feels to talk to you
Nothing but you me and the moon
Jun 2018 · 193
Untitled
Mims Jun 2018
You could read my palm

And tell me that my heads ****** up

Or you could start a conversation

That would be enough.
Spoiled
Jun 2018 · 178
5:12am
Mims Jun 2018
I told myself I was not going to go to sleep missing you
So I didn't






G
O

T
O

S
L
E
E
P
****
Jun 2018 · 368
I Do Not Have A Home
Mims Jun 2018
I have tasted freedom in many different flavors
And none of them were as sweet as everyone claimed they would be

Part of the act of escapism is getting to leave when the house starts burning

Who knows where the flames came from?

Who knows if any of it was love?

This house is not a home
I stare at these walls
Grab more clothes
Hug my mother
And leave again

I have lived so much of my life in borrowed space
You would think I was not welcome in my own home

But this house is not home

And if I could swim through the troubled waters you would never see me again

I look around and this house is still on fire
There's scribbled lines on door frames
Next to children's names
And the same plates they used at their wedding

There's
Whispers
And drafts
There's pain and flashbacks

This house is not a home to me anymore

Maybe it never was.
It gets awful lonely
May 2018 · 839
The Day I Was Born
Mims May 2018
I'm older now

You told me you loved me tonight


I cried

I'm older now
I held him and kissed him goodnight

I'm older now
I went to a restaurant and my mother handed me a glass of wine

I'm older now
Kept quiet in the face of violence

I'm older now
Helped make breakfast

I'm older now
I'm the age they thought appropriate for me to love fiercely

The age they thought okay for you to want me

The age we always talked about like some distant memory

The one we used in all our arguments
All our reasons

Now

I am here

And I don't know what to do with it.

Almost scared to want it

Almost.

I loved all my presents
But they weren't what I really wanted
Despite asking for them

What I want
I am scared to want
What I wanted
Once,





Was you.
Just a fact, perhaps. No double meaning I guess,
Just
Admitting distance
May 2018 · 556
Consequences
Mims May 2018
Every time he touches her
My heart breaks a little
And by the end of the night

It was completely shattered
...
Mims May 2018
When you arrived
I did what any normal person would do
I made room for you
...
Apr 2018 · 234
Trauma
Mims Apr 2018
After something like that
How could you keep breathing

why would you want to?
...
Apr 2018 · 710
This too shall pass
Mims Apr 2018
I am depressed again.

I'm not mad at myself for it.

I realized because things that don't usually bother me
Are starting to eat away at me like invisible cancer
That doesn't show up on the scans
But I can feel it in my chest
An illness only I can see

I am diseased
Mentally

My brain has been infected with bugs lately
Everyone of them attempting to convince me I am not worth the work or the money or the hurt
That maybe none of this matters
That maybe I miss them

That maybe
It still makes me sad
To wonder about.  

I started staying up late again
Feeling sad and alone into the early hours of the morning

Depression is so frustrating because everyone around you has no idea what's happening so you just stand there talking nonsense trying not to let them peek but some part of you wants them to understand so badly

But how could they?
After all

Depression lusts after lonely
Depression sweeps isolation up in his arms and twirls her
Romantically
Depression loves that I love how I write when he's here
Depression doesn't have a name
But when he visits me I am split between angry and nostalgia

Because I know sad
Well
It is familiar
It is like family
It visits me
And I cannot decide how long it will stay
But I can brave conversations

I cannot run away.
I know my brain. I know it will be over in a few days
But I also know that right now
I'm in a great deal of pain
Mims Apr 2018
Some girls get personally offended that I don't wear thongs to hip-hop class
Girls
girls
Girlworld

I live in a small town with even smaller minded people
Where the women never blossom into swans
Just fairly racist chickens
And the men stick around long enough to wean their boys on alcohol and guns and then they leave with the son's respect for women
And their daughters hope for men

I want to paint my room
Yellow, or gray, or blue
Anything but this purple
I want to paint over the galaxy I wrote for you

I wear boxer shorts to bed
They're stolen from the first time I laid my hand on a woman
The first time I tasted alcohol
She was wearing them when I tasted her
I took them to remind myself
These things actually happen
That I am allowed to feel
That my wild side need not be confined

When I was young I fought so hard to be living
At least, I thought I did
But I didn't really
It's impossible to fight smoke
Or cigar ash
Or shoelaces
Or the rainbow liquid dripping out of the bottom of the blue suburban

The truth is
And has always been
I'm not sure of what I am supposed to be fighting
Is it the girls?
The money?
The standards?
The lonely?
There is only one thing I will ever be sure of about life

And that is that now,

I enjoy it.
The title was originally a shopping list
Then I realized it summed me up pretty well right now
So I wrote
And I wrote
Until there was nothing left to give
Till this ocean was empty
Till it all drained out of my head
You see that's what you get
When you swim in the ocean
Especially my ocean.
Apr 2018 · 378
Better off dead
Mims Apr 2018
I watched a movie
That comedically displayed
Suicide
And *******
Did I try to be offended
The whole time
But I feel like
For me at least
When you've been suicidal before
And you watch a movie
Like that
And everyone laughs
You learn to laugh along too.

And maybe
Some people
Could take offense
But that movie is a masterpiece

I learned somewhere along the way
(Maybe when I lost all faith in humanity)
That some things
You just gotta laugh at

The kids who make the most jokes about suicide and depression
Have often lived it
Dark humor
Is more or less,
Earned

And I think I've payed my dues.
I deserve to laugh at this kid tryna **** himself. It's ******* hilarious
Apr 2018 · 314
Untitled
Mims Apr 2018
I want to be done in the way that isn't final

Maybe just be in a coma for like
Three years

And not have to worry about anything
Or see anyone
Or go anywhere

People get exhausting
Work piles up
Money becomes not worth it

Emptiness make you wanna give up

Drowning in homework
Or your own blood

A constant headache
A steady job

I feel like I'm withering away

Even though I'm so young
And I really shouldn't complain

My life is pretty okay

But the more friends I make

The more tired I get
The more they wanna talk
The less I do
And I can feel myself pushing away
Because they're "normies"
They'd never understand

And I'm trying to plan my whole life out in front of me
Even though obstacles keep delaying me
And people keep disappointing me

I have to remember
Again
And again

The world doesn't revolve around me
Apr 2018 · 720
Explanation
Mims Apr 2018
When she asked me what happened


I told her that the night ran out of love


That love was not made for people like us


That it was not a privilege
Not a magic

I could dabble in.
No reason to play the blame game
Apr 2018 · 329
Family
Mims Apr 2018
Part of me wants to scream that you don't even know me
How could you?

Split
Cut up
We're all crazy

But lately
You've all been getting engaged and married and having babies

And honestly?
I don't care.

I don't know you

You don't know me

You never wanted to.

You only like the idea of acting like family
That's why you execute it poorly
Because the reality
Is that this **** is messy
You are not willing to move past it

Do not get angry at me
For being done with your fakeness.
I'm not going to your wedding
I'm not meeting your baby
A family splits
Yes it does
When half sides with the ******.
Mar 2018 · 230
Premonition
Mims Mar 2018
There is determination
Longing
And finalization
Between your lips
Skin tastes so much sweeter when its forbidden
the last thing I want to do is embarrass you
But I have longed for this for a while too.
Mar 2018 · 264
All I Know
Mims Mar 2018
Dear friend,


is how it begins


Without a goodbye


Is how it ends
I've been writing a lot lately. A lot of it very different from how I normally write. A lot of it messy. I write on my phone, in my notes, my journal or any paper that's handy. sometimes even on my body, I do it constantly. Words run through my head all the time. A hook, or a rhythm. Sometimes other people's words gets stuck there too. And it just replays over and over. I've been very busy lately, I'm loving what my life is turning out to be. I'm very happy, surprsingly. But I'm also very tired. That does not go away. Not just physically, but also mentally. I like being warm, I love it actually. And I worry in these long months, I do not want to turn cold. I pray that my fingertips will nurture the fireplace in your soul. But I can only hope. Somedays are darker than others, and some are not dark at all. I call the dark days nothing. They are not worthy of a name, not worthy of recognition, not worthy of blame. I am scared of being dragged back, after months of hard work. I'm worried I will get all messed up again. I have to forgive myself when I'm weak, it doesn't always happen but I'm working on it. I'm always working on it. And I am gentle with myself when I fail, because I tend to fail a lot. I'm failing right now, in a sense. But it's okay, I'll delete this soon anyways, and tomorrow is only a few hours away.
Mar 2018 · 410
Love Relapse
Mims Mar 2018
I cringe at the things I have said to try and get you to tell me directly
Angry at the lack of honesty
Honestly
I liked the lies better
They were so much easier
When we lied we were on the same level
Only the truth brings one of us ahead
And we have both been losing for what feels like forever
So I just learned to be okay with it
I grew sick of trying to change it
So I stopped trying to change it
And I let it
Die out
Slowly
Making it
Easy
Neither of us were ever good at keeping promises
And we both knew that
We both knew how this would end
So why
Why did I try it again
Why
Do i let you in
Why
Do I let you put your arms around me
And whisper things into my ear
I would not soon repeat to anyone
Why do I know in the back of my mind
That your arms do not mean safety
But you put them so securely around me
It made me
Want to believe that they did

So I let you kiss me
And I let myself regret it
And I promised myself I wouldn't do it again


And then I did it again.
this is why we can't have nice things
Mims Mar 2018
It does not matter where we come from
When we enter this studio we are equals
So do not act like you are better then me
Just because I live on the 'scary'
Street
Because when it comes down to it
We are only as good as we create ourselves to be
And you are on the same level as me
But we are
Different
In one way
Your dancing is polished
But unpassionate
And mine the opposite
You are on this level from experience
I am here
Because I love it
And it shows
And I work towards it constantly
My brain is messy
I spend long nights
On the cement floor in my living room
Getting bruised
Working till my muscles are too sore
To move
Or i am simply taken over by too much emotion
Because I'm laying on the cold floor crying softly
While the music I am supposed to be stretching to plays
You are in your
Thousand dollar bed
Sleeping peacefully
That
Is the difference between you and me.
Mims Mar 2018
I will not rest until the trees outside my windows do
Their sway
I wonder what makes them so unsteady...
But it isn't really my window
Or my house
Or my bed
Just like how
This night does not belong to me
Kinda like my own head
I give away parts of me
That I refuse to need
Like love
Or dreams
I push ******* to my Lips
Inhale and then exhale
Pretending I have a cigarette balanced between them
I love the taste of cigarettes even though I know they are killing machines
I love you
Fiercely
When I know **** well
You could end me
It's like that song I heard once
Alone
But I felt less lonely after I heard it
For some reason
Ghosts haunt me
You could call obsession
Infidelity
You could call dreams
Unfaithful

You should've called me.

Then you wouldn't have to worry about my stupid lonely
You could know
That only you sit on my brains
'Wish list'
Only you fester in my belly
If you knew
About all the people I have broken to make myself appear a little more whole
Or how much growing up I did in a year
Or that January
Or that June
If only you knew
About my crazy
The kind that only makes sense to some people
But still doesn't make sense to you...
No
I will not rest until the trees do.
*desperately* not passionately
Mims Feb 2018
When we're in the car
After we had an argument
And I know he's stressed
When he doesn't understand why our sister is on medication
Or why somedays I don't get out of bed
Or why we're back in court
Or why our parents are divorced
Or why my mother cries
Or why sometimes I have to parent him
Take care of him


Sometimes
On quiet nights
I hold my brothers hand
Because when I was young
I would've done anything
For anyone to tell me anything was okay
That I wasn't going crazy
That sometimes people just hurt
Sometimes I hold my brothers hand
Because when I was young
I would've done anything

For someone to hold mine
Because I know how it feels

He will not go through what I went through
He will not be raised like me
Mims Feb 2018
I am somewhere
Just left of breath
With winding trees
And knobby knees
And knuckle breaking
Soul punching
Regret
I am somewhere
East of guilt
North of normal
South of sensible
You were just west of everything I ever wanted

But alas I was never good with directions
And my maps are always upside down
Or I'm always in the wrong town
The map reads:


Lonely
Population: Me



I am never exactly where I want to be
Second star to the right and straight on till morning you traced the sky on me

My world was almost broken
When I found out i was nothing but a token rifle in a gun cabinet loaded with your lust for human decency

You never did find any in me

I guess we're even now

Because I've been doing a lot of that lately

Getting even
I just never thought you were competition
But you played these games
And you ran the race and I followed you
Blindly
I believed you were the one person
Who didn't wish me to be less of me

But there you go
Pining after me
After I've already told you
I will not kiss your ****** fists
And I ask you,

I ask you how your girlfriend is.

And the conversation ends.

Because you know what you're doing and I know what you're doing

And when the GPS said road work ahead

Because you are so broken,
And you refuse to stop choking
untrustworthy out of unknowing girls

I took the detour
Because I knew it
And you knew it too


I don't think I can be his friend

Conversation can't be innocent with you
"I can not be with you, or be just your friend
I love you to death but I just can't
I just can't pretend

Confidantes but never friends

Were we ever friends?"

You have fetishized rejection
And I am in no mood for entertaining
Jan 2018 · 5.6k
It's All The Same To Me
Mims Jan 2018
"You're really good at poetry!"

*"ha, I'm good at romanticizing toxic situations"
Don't know if that's good or bad
But thank you anyways
Jan 2018 · 3.7k
Poetry
Mims Jan 2018
I don't even care what it says
just as long as it's out of my head
Dec 2017 · 5.5k
Impact
Mims Dec 2017
I knew you

and you knew me

Our messages told stories

of us taking over the galaxy
Diary #1
Dec 2017 · 2.2k
We Grew Into Poets
Mims Dec 2017
We all grew into our ears and our teeth
Our opinions and our feet
Our clothes and chubby cheeks
We grew out of our music tastes
And other peoples mouths
Learned what it was like to love and be loved
Learned what hate looks like
What scars on hearts instead of arms looked like
We grew out our colored hair
And washed career dreams like astronaut and superhero
Down the drain
With someone else's sweat
Got used to sleeping in someone else's bed
Burned our memories of them
We grew into our faces
And out of our blind faith
We lead more then we follow
We fall in love with the concept of tomorrow
We learn the ability to bully instead of being bullied
And finally learn to rise above it all
We learned where we come from cannot change
But we can
We learned the city isn't always beautiful
That there are problems and trauma in silence
That sometimes the most peaceful thing you can do is scream until it makes sense to you
"Write, write until you've used every metaphor in your library"
Nov 2017 · 509
Sacred poetry
Mims Nov 2017
Sacred bodies
Broken galaxies
Breath on cold
Windows
Happy dreams
And confusing feelings
Talking to you
Every night


Chilly walks
Serious talks
Boots
Coffee

Sleepy haze
Dark green eyes
Pointed toes
Our work shows
Definition
Define this
This is a
Nice
experience


Excitement
This isn't love
But it's a nice teenage experience

On bad days you count the estimated days for my disappearance from your life
On good days you count the stars with me.
I finished turtles all the way down and I am very sad it's over
Nov 2017 · 861
It snowed last night
Mims Nov 2017
It snowed last night
But it didn't storm

Frost kisses my windows
And a light dusting has my walnut trees transformed

I have no desire to do anything but lay under my covers
Where its warm

read the book that has my fingers stiff from late night air

Or stay in a comfortable state
Of half asleep and half awake
Wondering how to tell dreams from reality
Real life from fantasy

I can't be bothered to be bothered
Because it snowed last night
And that makes me really happy
Nov 2017 · 305
Love
Mims Nov 2017
I've fallen in
Fallen out
Slipped through the cracks
I've loved many people
That could never love me back
Love is an overused word, and it kinda hurts my stomach every time I use it.
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