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 Jun 19 minx
Nobody
porcelain
 Jun 19 minx
Nobody
i am a porcelain doll
a presentation, a display
if i crack
they'll see my decay

i am an actor
a phony, a fake
i bind my chest
and hope i don't break

i am a marionette
a puppet, a toy
"look at this ***...
he'll never be a real boy."
i tend to dress and present more androgynous and i dress kind of femininely and it's a pain in the ***. i have to deal with transphobic relatives soon
 Jun 19 minx
Dr Peter Lim
Go elsewhere
I'm not your man
unlike the others
I can't pretend-

to your chorus
my ears I can't lend
leave me as I am
your song I can't chant
 Jun 19 minx
Kalliope
Tired
 Jun 19 minx
Kalliope
I have lived lifetimes
At night while I sleep
I want to rest now
But I'm scared of what I'll see
I just ******* know it will be you.
 Jun 18 minx
alex
To die for
 Jun 18 minx
alex
I had no reason to live
anymore
so I found
something
to die for.

She’s got scarlet locks
eyes like endless fields
of olive and amber
that mirror my soul

Her eyes crinkle
when she laughs,
she’s a little crazy
and I feel kind of hazy
in her presence.

I found my thing to die for.

I don’t know
if you’ve found yours
but if it’s anything
like mine-
thoughts and prayers
you’re gonna need ‘em
 Jun 18 minx
Kalliope
Staring at a block button
Like it holds the secrets I crave
Like it offers my heart freedom,
Like it gives my mind escape.

My fingers just won't press it
So odd that now I hesitate
I've pressed it a million times before
In my mind it's what I have to do,
My heart just doesnt want to participate.

But she needs to.
She has never led me right
It's time she does retire
She is always late
And keeps everything on a wire.

That's not how we're living anymore
We are going one foot in front of the other,
I can't rest at closed doors anymore
It's my own light that I smother.

I desperately don't want to say goodbye
But I cannot be your friend
You said true love never goes away
It morphs but never ends.

I can't have you around me
I hope things are different everyday
I can't hold on to what's not there
I have to unlearn how to care.

I sound like a broken record-
My writing even worse
If I have you near me
I'll never get out of the "I miss you" curse.

Missing isn't living
And it hurts me every hour
I've reread every word
And still my feelings aren't sour.

I really want to hate you
So I could just slam the door in your face
But I can't find the justification
And I'd never hurt you on purpose, just in case.

You said that real love never leaves
That it will stay with me forever
Well I'm sitting here as it drips out my eyes
Wishing I never felt it, ever.
That's it
That's all I'll say
I no longer give myself permission to wish for things I'll never be able to fix
 Jun 18 minx
The last Poet
In every universe
In every time warp
In every reincarnation
I will find you again
No matter what we are tied together by that invisible string
 Jun 18 minx
Kalliope
I turn the music up louder
Like it will drown out my thoughts
They just adapt to the beat.
1500
 Jun 18 minx
badwords
I do not know your name—
only your silhouette
etched in the echo of things I was not given.
Your absence was my alphabet.
I spelled every woman with your ghost.


They loved me.
But I loved you through them.
Your hands behind their voices.
Your eyes haunting their praise.
They were flesh, and I was kneeling.


I made gods of strangers.
I made homes of hunger.


Mother—not mother.
Lover—not lover.
I could not hold the difference.
They all became symbols
and I became a shrinekeeper,
tending lies with tenderness.


Forgive me,
those I touched but never saw.
I was trying to reach through you
and forgot you were not them.
And they were not you.
None of you asked for this altar.


I am dismantling the myth.
I am returning the light.
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