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10.0k · May 2013
Resilience
Natalia Moraes May 2013
It is okay,
the sun is rising
(somewhere)
Your heart is going to stop hurting
(eventually)
And I am going to be there for you;
(I will be by your side)
even if you don't notice me
read all together, then only the ones outside the brackets, and last but not least the brackets ones. ~~the idea is not mine~~
2.1k · May 2013
Innuendo
Natalia Moraes May 2013
We flirted back and fort
and we teased each other a lot
But then you found someone else
who, besides flirting
would also kiss and cuddle with you
in a way that I could not
And it is not that I am jealous of her
I just wish I had someone too
886 · May 2013
Immediate
Natalia Moraes May 2013
I am so focused on possible consequences
that I stop living
and start worrying instead
661 · May 2013
Saudade
Natalia Moraes May 2013
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
Saying it a million times
won't change the fact that you are
a millions of miles way
from me

I look around in the street
while I drink your favorite coffee
and I think that you would like here
that you would tease me
about my hair
about my clothes
and about my "clicheness"
all while you looked at me
with your bright, round eyes
that made me fall in love with you
in the first place

But you are not here

I miss you
615 · Jul 2013
Mistakes
Natalia Moraes Jul 2013
Your body next to mine,
all sweaty and comfortable
in all the right and wrong places,
reminds me of a time
not long ago
when this would have felt like Heaven
The problem is that,
after everything,
it still does
528 · Jul 2014
(fuck) you
Natalia Moraes Jul 2014
sometimes I remember the times we spent together
how we would laugh and talk about a million stuff, and you'd subtly flirt with me
as if you were scared to be more foward
and receive a no (I'm sorry I wasn't brave enough)

I remember when you'd give me the time of the day (now you spend more time looking at the phone)
we'd go to the movies and you'd hold my hand the whole time
(I'm sorry I didn't hold yours back)

at the same time, I'm not that sorry, you know?
it was all so new to me and I liked commitment ( I still do)
I kinda regret kissing you, actually
after that you really started pulling away (it started when I was away)

in some ways I think I get it
you were protecting yourself (if I meant something to you, that is) and trying to find new friends
but you made me feel like a trophy, like a ******* number in your list of conquests

I'm still trying to let go of you (you were one of my best friends, after all)
I'm still trying to fight the impulse of inviting you to everything
I still miss you
but *******
436 · May 2013
Last Romance
Natalia Moraes May 2013
I found her when I didn't want to.
I had given up on love
in any shape or form

She made me believe in happy endings again
and told me that everyone
including myself
deserved love and second chances

But my head,
messed up as it is,
is stronger than my heart,
lovely as she made it sound

So I gave up
and eventually she let me go
and I fell like the rain
hitting the pavement as hard
as her heart
when I told her
*I'm sorry, I can't
435 · Aug 2013
Better Days
Natalia Moraes Aug 2013
to float in the sea of your sorrow
is to learn how to swim
when all I want is to sink
without a care in the world

your sorrow is like a dark day in summer
so unusual, but at the same time
full of hope

so I am sorry to disappoint you
but I think I am finally starting to drown
415 · May 2013
Reminders
Natalia Moraes May 2013
The rain stained windows
looks so beautiful
yet so heartbreaking
like a touch is enough to make them shatter

As I look at the trees
with my coffee and cigarette in hands
I think about you
and how
when I felt somber
you would hug me
and kiss my neck.
I miss you
I miss you so bad it hurts

And in the morning
when I remember the promise I made myself
to not think about you anymore
I will look at the window again
and think
about how beautiful
yet heartbreaking
is the fact
that the rain washed everything away
just like you did
with us
410 · Jun 2014
underneath it all
Natalia Moraes Jun 2014
Underneath your skin, there're scars
Underneath your selfishness, there's love
Underneath your fear, there's beauty
Underneath you, there's me
369 · May 2013
Mending
Natalia Moraes May 2013
Sometimes I feel like I am falling apart,
like I am breaking into a thousand of little pieces
that won’t ever be able to be glued together
But then you hold my hand
and hug me tight
and it’s like everything is a little better,
like I am not as broken anymore
And if I still am (as broken as my stupid mind says so),
you will be the glue strong enough
to *hold me together
345 · Jun 2013
Letting Go
Natalia Moraes Jun 2013
They said to us
That friends come and go
But family is forever
But what do I do,
What should I be feeling
When the ones who were supposed
To be only "friends"
Became more like a family
Than my own

They said blood is thicker than water
"So don't get attached"
What they didn't say
Was that it would hurt this much
Don't mind me
I'm just VERY emotional right now
Natalia Moraes May 2013
Looking up the sky at night
and smoking my 10th cigarette
I remember when you used to say
that time and space are nothing
if compared
to how much you loved me
Yet, as we seated side by side
in that little swing set
and you said
I can’t do it anymore
I’ve never felt more alone
298 · May 2013
Lost & Found
Natalia Moraes May 2013
I am the kind of person
who's always been afraid of losing themselves.
But I wouldn't mind losing myself
in the curls of your hair
when you wake up.
In the curves of your body
when we make sweet, tasty love.
In the middle of your bed
when we don't talk at all
but it feels like we said everything
we needed to.
And in the beauty of your mind
that continues to ******* away
even after all this time.

— The End —