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 Sep 2014 OliviaAutumn
Riot
grace?
but a memory on the shadow of my face.
hate?
but an action that i would love to chase, but it’s impossible
now i have to lie at the cost of my sanity
i thought you were there for me

speechless
what do you want me to say next
i hear it
but no one seems to hear it but me
my heart is open but you don’t seem to see it beat?
is it too late to go back and change what i did
*so you can believe the words i speak?
You can't hold her
When you grip tight
She will
Slip
Like sand
Falling through the tiny cracks
In between each finger
You can try
But every time
Your hand will end up
Empty
White knuckles
Snatching up
The air
Nothing else
For she
Alone
Holds herself together
Pieces of string
Globs of glue
Strips of duct tape
Hastily slapped on
Her two hands
Alone
Pull and
Cover and
Push away

There is no room
For
You
I guess you gotta be popular for followers
popular for likes
once again i speak of this hatred i cannot fight
we all put our hearts into poetry
yet only the popular people get the likes for what they do

i show people love regardless of how many followers or likes they have
cause i understand that a lot of us wanna be heard
we want the world to know that we are here fighting a battle not yet lost
we post our problems so people can understand that life is no joke
we post about ones we love
from boyfriends girlfriends friends and fam
I only speaking the truth cause thats who i am

we all have the talent to change the world
we all have the talent to be as good as poets like Langston Hughes, Tupac and others as well
im just saying saying it's not the followers and likes that make the poet
only Passion and Desire make real poets
It crazy how we all put ours hearts into our poems and get no feedback
The music washes over me
wave after wave

And the noise of life
is drowned beneath the wall of sound.

The crowd is restless
But I am rooted, directly connected,
undiluted.


The music washes over me
wave after wave.

My blood and bones exist for this
electric current
as my body buzzes and pulses inside

The moments speed and slow
with the flow of the tide.

It ebbs and rolls
with the soul of the ride

And I am rooted, directly connected,
undiluted

as it washes over me,
wave after glorious wave.

Who needs a god?

I am saved.
Familiar paths
are not always
the best ones
to travel
10(w)
They say the definition of insanity is
continually doing the same  thing
over and over again and expecting
a different result.
 Sep 2014 OliviaAutumn
Sia Jane
I sit, my legs knotted
Matching, an esophagus
Paralyzed, affecting vocal cords,
Twisted, ripped, torn.
An attacked heart,
Damaged, dying.
And you hit me,
With what was once,
A caress, a stroke,
An attack of,
Equal force, to the,
Mind,
My brain paralyzed.
A mute child
Wrapped cashmere self,
Always, those nails, red,
Chipped.
The polish fragments,
Breaking ,
pieces
pieces
pieces
Cracks appearing,
Dispersing, remnants,
Of what once,
Was, whole.
A voice, a self, a soul,
That did not need,
to be made,
undone.
For I left,
you,
A place, a space,
A dwelling hole,
Where your lips,
Had once,
Given colour to,
The china cups,
With their lingering smell,
Of Jasmine,
Thé vert à la rose.
As,
Tea stains,
Sojourn memories,
Leave their mark.
A day of remembrance,
Prominence given, to,
That moment,
You, left.

© Sia Jane
 Sep 2014 OliviaAutumn
Liza
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 Sep 2014 OliviaAutumn
Liza
I no longer know
whether to drown myself
in heartbreak
in cheap liquor
or in the bath tub.
more scars than stories,
more guts than glory.
thanks to the reaper's trusty scythe
we carved ourselves a counterfeit life.

cold like the winter, strong like the rain,
stickin' out the summer, we smile through the pain.
so dish it out, i can take it
and if i can't, i can fake it.

don't you move, or i'll pull this trigger;
i may not be fast, but you're small and i'm bigger.
if you can't do it, it can't be done.
i won't change for anyone.


s.h.
sticks and stones
may break my bones
(but words will never hurt me)


people stare when we hold hands, they glare and point and scream in whispers behind cupped palms. sometimes they applaud or congratulate us, but i hate that, too; i don't want to be brave or strong or special i just want to kiss you without glancing left and right first. boys in parking lots shout and whistle, cars honk but WE'RE RUBBER YOU'RE GLUE, IT BOUNCES OFF US AND STICKS TO YOU so guess what- you're the *****, you're the *******, you're the freaks, you have to change the pronouns in your poetry, you are afraid of churches, you were listed in The Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders as a "sociopathic personality disturbance" until its seventh edition. if i had a nickel for every time a mother hurried a child away from us on the street, i might have enough money to sue one or two of you for harassment and hate.


s.h.
2014
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