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Liv Apr 2014
ive been told my whole life
that i was crazy instead of brilliant
so i grew up thinking
that my opinions were wrong
and my ideas were impossible
until i looked in the mirror
for the first time at beautiful words
scribbled across my mind
instead of words i'd always come to regret
carved into my body with metal
dipped in red ink
Liv Apr 2014
i'm curled up in your blanket
i'll never leave this spot
and i'm still wearing your favorite sweater
i'll never take it off
until i can see you again
and kiss all of your wounds
and see your precious face
listen to your heart warming laugh
and cry in your arms until my tears run dry
one day you and i
can watch from the window
our coffee drips becoming raindrops
in a foggy city of your dreams
i love you and all of your ripped seams
i love you endlessly
Liv Apr 2014
this is for you and your broken heart
this is something to let you know that
you haven't done anything wrong
you're the strongest woman
i have ever seen
and it kills me knowing that
i've ruined the only thing you're living for
you've given me the world
you've given me life
you've given me all that i could want
and i gave nothing in return

this is for you
my best friend who can't sleep through the night
without wanting to sleep forever
you're a beautiful smile rolled up in a hurricane of tears
i'm sorry i'm breaking our promise
you're my best friend
and you've showed me that with a little love
life can last forever

this is for you
my best friend who wears bags under her eyes
and wants to follow in the footsteps
of a little green girl
who i'll be seeing soon
adding to your heart ache seems so evil
and it's ripping up my heart
this is for my best friend
who would die to save my life
and so i'd die to save hers

this is for you
my dear little brother
who kills my hope and doesn't care
except when i'm like this
then i suddenly become important
and i know you have your own demons
but you'd never know mine
so you run away from yours
every single time

and finally, this is for you
the boy i've fallen in love with
a boy who thinks he has nothing left
so he runs away until he can't run anymore
and looks for drugs around every corner
my beautiful boy friend
who gives me reasons to live
and sings me to sleep
so i can dream of a place where
he and i would wake up in the morning
and smile for the first time in years
a smile that doesn't hide cuts and tears
a smile that grows from ear to ear
at the thought that one day
we'll be free
goodbye. this is for you, i love you all.
Liv Apr 2014
i don't have any more love left to give you
i'm drained of salvation
i'm losing myself
or i'm losing my mind
i'm running on empty
and i don't feel like running anymore
i know you need me to be the strong one
i'm trying so hard
but i'm shaking at the hinges
and i don't know how much longer
i can run away from
a loveless heart and a thoughtless mind
Liv Mar 2014
there was something so innocent
about sitting together
watching a cynical documentation
of brutality and homicide
and i couldn't bring myself
to watch an innocent man
get bludgeoned by a ***** driver
for fear i might imagine you
lying in his place
and it kills me knowing
that there's a clock ticking inside your head
secretly wishing that this was the end
you'd call it psychotic
we'd call it realistic
or maybe we can't comprehend
that this isn't quite innocence at all
Liv Mar 2014
it was instant
like an electric shock to my heart
that twisted the corners of my mouth
to form a smile
that I have not smiled before

i fell in love tonight
i can't explain why
i can't explain how
but the way he looked at me
sent shivers down my spine
i felt bursts of adrenaline
rushing to my lips
that wanted so badly to scream out
I'M ******* IN LOVE WITH YOU

i felt my bones shake tonight
and my heart rattle its iron bars
for something so beautiful
something so instant
something i haven't really felt before

i fell in love with you tonight
wow
Liv Mar 2014
i'm sorry
that i can't take all of your pain away
i wonder every day if you're ok
and i know that you hide smiles
so i string them around my neck
so that if you need
a chance to bleed
you can lay your heavy world
on my weak knees
you can rest your burdens
on my achy heart
you can steal my heartbeats
to keep you alive
there's nothing i want more
than for you to survive.
i'm sorry that you are so sad, i'm trying my best.
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