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 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
Bad days are waves.
They’re not the whole ocean.
You’ve wasted most of your life anchored to all of the things you’re missing
& all of the things you’ve done wrong
when you could’ve been swimming in the laughter and the love that surrounds you.
Well, hold your breath, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
I can't live inside the lines I edited to make this flow just right
And he isn't just a character born inside of a poem I was asked to write
He didn't have flowers in his hair or crystals in his eyes
Actually, he had crooked teeth and a convincing smile laced in lies;
I remember his presence unfolding a shadow of warmth all over me
But then he left me with these reoccurring dreams of drowning myself out at sea
I once talked to a boy who said that words are weak because they are not a substitute for feeling
And smearing black-ink-pain all over a white page is not a form of healing
So this is a blunt description of what he did
Honestly, I was just a kid
But even then I knew that he hung that rope far too quick
And from that day forward my mind was sick
Somehow this is still so hard to confess
But he saved me from being substance-less
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
I fear the day that I go sane.
If I ever fall out of love with pain,
Strike a bullet straight through my brain.
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
He asked me what it's like to be "a double digit"  
And I couldn't think of much to say
Except, hey kid, when you get invited to your first house party
Please remember to slip outside, unnoticed
Follow footsteps to the thoughtful loner at the end of the yard
Inhaling smoke and staring into the sky
Escaping the mindless chaos behind the walls
Just thinking quietly to himself
Step beside him & wait for him to speak
That's how you make the sweetest friends
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
He was crying on his porch when we turned on to his street. I rolled down his window from the driver's seat, handed him a cigarette & turned up the heat.

We're used to breakdowns and we're used to feeling lost. We've had a lot of friends whose lives paid the cost.

Well, we grew up around the tragedies that you read about & all we really talk about is getting the **** out. 

We act like our minds are perfectly clear
but we spend most nights overcome with fear.
Not tonight, blue eyes.
Turn up the music.
Have an other beer.
Smoke it down to the filter.
We're gonna make it through this year. 

*We're gonna make it through this year.
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
He made his wishes at 11:10,
just incase he lost his footing
before the clock ticked again.
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
There's a mess inside my skull
& it's pouring from my finger tips
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
You've got a pair of strong hips
That pull me in with muffled lies
I've got a pair of soft lips
That you lean into with tired sighs

You've got a pair of bright eyes
That adjust to mine too seamlessly
I've got a pair of dark eyes
That are lost inside your scenery 

You always know just what to say
I fall apart a dozen times a day
We're just living in this dizzy game
Three years later, I still haven't
figured out how to play
You cracked my foundation every which way
But you're the one constantly reshaping the clay
I know that everything I touch is left in disarray
*But I won't sleep
if you don't stay
 Mar 2013 Olivia Pierce
Morgan
It's our tongues tingling
in a thick sea of Vlad
It's impromptu road trips
without a destination
It's all of our legs wrapped
around the same gray sheets
It's eight of us in a four seater
looking at each other through blood shot eyes
It's ****** breakfast food that makes our ribs
ache worse than laughing at our misfortune 
It's twenty seven reruns of
ghost adventures at five in the morning  
It's my hair in the palms of their hands
as my head hangs over the toilet
It's all of their voices talking at once
just to greet the tears on their way out
It's every phone call
that has gently eased me to sleep,
it's every makeshift sing along
that has kept me sane,
it's every tired morning
after every dark night
we spent curing each other,
It's every beautiful
friend we found  in this ugly town
Don't want the girl who's damaged
She always belong to someone else
Spent time with you till she found someone better
She finds you great when you have someone new
Temper to cheat but it won't be anything more
Love her more when someone calls her a *****
Shares her body but no emotions
Intoxicating personality hard to live without
Live without her everything don't feel right
Nothing to offer or give feels like you'll never win
Happiness that warm feeling like a light
Burns out find the strength to revive
Find a new world to survive
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