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 Feb 2014 Parker
Olga Valerevna
Blood* is not as thick as all the people may have thought
Bodies disappearing, being sold and being bought
We can either walk away until our time has come
Or keep our feet on something even when the rest go numb
Burn away the layers of the skin upon our backs
Trickle through the minds a generation of attacks
There is something sweeter than a lie within one's care
Riding on the edge of what should never have been there
Deep inside the center of the truth - you'll never die
People who are waiting there have told you with their lives
Maidan - for those who have fallen & those who continue to fight
 Feb 2014 Parker
Tamanna
SMOKE
 Feb 2014 Parker
Tamanna
First cigarette of the day:
In goes the toxic particles,
Everything from ammonia to yeast all rolled up in a white and tan piece of paper.
Out goes the smoke, along with every negative feeling your body has ever been laced with.
You'd blow it all out,
hoping the smoke would take your problems away
and let everything disintegrate into the wind
as if you'd never see any trace of your issues again.
But if that were true, you wouldn't need another one.
Don't you dare touch another one.

Second cigarette of the day:
The smoke and feelings that you exhaled earlier in the morning,
Is now a ghost that's haunting you,
Slowly taking over your body until you're withering away into dust.
It's now a trail that follows you around and makes you stand out,
There is no escaping it.
Your problems are still relevant and floating in the air,
And you wonder why you can't **** them.
You inhale the ghosts that were once just mere feelings,
And you exhale an active tornado.

Third cigarette of the day:
Your ghosts have become demons that have broken through your protective rib cage into your lungs,
Which are now barren and wilted from setting them on fire,
Over and over again.
They tear past your heart and soul to make you cough up your anger and regret,
Just to have you swallow it again.
Your clothes reek,
Your teeth are yellowing,
And it's all because you wanted to breathe out your mere issues,
That just turned into haunting memories.
I do not smoke cigarettes. This is mainly about the pain I go through when I see others smoking.
 Feb 2014 Parker
Michelle S
He pulls away and she is
Ragged, racked for breath
Ripped red shades as he
Stole away the tape so
Flawlessly placed on her
Painted wet lips now
Trembling mascara making
Marks through to her soul
Flowing down her face into
The pit of hell that's past her
Heart between her legs lying
Lost in the bed broken and
Bent beyond desires don't deny it
He says she wanted every moment of
Misery mistaken in the throes of
Taken Passion.
 Feb 2014 Parker
kaleigh michelle
All she wanted was to be alone. She found peace in the silence. She wanted to escape. Escape from the harsh reality that drove her mad with every waking moment. She wanted to be left alone with her thoughts. The ones that slowly killed her. Her mind spun out of control. The world became a dizzy blur. Her head pounded. The thoughts fighting for their way out. She thought she was going insane. The pain that filtered through her would never leave. The tears were building up quickly, threatening to run over. But this time she wouldn't stop them from coming. Hiding was too exhausting of a task. No more biting her tongue. No more built up anger. She was a grenade that had just exploded. Except this time, she would rise from the ashes.
 Feb 2014 Parker
Amanda Small
today I said your name for the first time
in two months.

it's not as heavy as i remember
 Feb 2014 Parker
Katrina Wendt
My heart lay bleeding at my feet
I stare as you tear it apart.
I stagger back as you take your walk alone.

You say you're off balance,
So I go and the sides are even again.
You won't miss me when I'm gone.

You were my best friend and more.
I still want to be your friend, too.
But I need time to heal my heart.

You're not really gone, but to me you are and I miss you.
And I know you're not coming back.
So I'll see you around and we'll say hello.

I try, but can't put into words:
The sound of my heart shattering
The sight of the permanently gray skies etched into my mind
The feeling of your arms... I'll never feel again
The scent of the tears on my face
And the taste of them in my mouth

But my senses are numb.
I notice these things, but don't really feel them.
Isn't it tragic?
2007
Relentless Desire,
The worst kind of hunger.
Tears follow every moment of ecstasy,
I grieve for my unassuaged lust.
I long for you in delirium,
Pull at my own skin, disturbed
by another pull within.
I am angered by helpless want
Raking my nails across sheets sodden ,
Soaked with desperate dreams,
Staring for hours at an addicts face
Hollow, ashen, hungry, sad
Afraid.
 Feb 2014 Parker
D K
"everyone's trying to hold me," you say. "everyone's trying to hold me down." you're scratching at your skin like it's a layer that can be shed off. you're clutching at anything that moves, and your eyes are open but you don't see... you don't see anything. you're scaring me.
there, i've said it, finally. you scare me.

but it's only in that short bit of time where it's morning but it still feels like it's night that i allow myself to think. so when i fall asleep, it's not because of exhaustion, but simply because my eyes are too sore to stay open. the lights are on. and they'll be on in the morning, and i'll leave them on throughout the day because i'm still afraid of the dark -
even when it's light out.

your skin is icing over. we're crawling out of our frames, leaving our bodies behind without minds or faces. we've broken bridges, so we can never come back. stand back. i don't want you near me.
i don't want you to be the only thing that's left.
 Feb 2014 Parker
Sinai
Strangers
 Feb 2014 Parker
Sinai
I think the scary part is that
eventually we all become strangers
and the body you used to let yours sleep against
only two months ago
now silently tells you to keep distance.

I think what hurts the most is that
you used to look at them and know exactly
what was going through their mind
and now the only thing you are sure of
is that it's not you.

You used to call them when you felt like **** and
now you're fighting yourself all night
not to dial their number.

They used to fill your mind
first thing in the morning
and your mouth would easily curl up,
now they're the last thing at night
you think about and maybe
you have never even known eachother.
Does anybody know how long this **** takes
 Feb 2014 Parker
Danielle Rose
Lines like luscious lips
That twist and tangle around my mind
Kissing my senses and igniting my inspirations
I play with your words
Day and night and fight my loneliness
My greatest strife
Fantasies tantalize the lids of my eyes
The stories
The raw emotions
Oh how I love the  poets
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