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peachy Jan 2014
yesterday,
that's when it started. i said, i cannot hold myself together anymore and if i move i will probably turn into a pile of tears and dead skin cells on the floor.

today,
i took a shower so hot that it burnt my skin. i cried until i couldn't see and washed my skin with soap so i could maybe wash you out. i wept to you, a pile of dust at your feet. you walked around me to avoid cleaning.

tomorrow,
you will sweep me away. as i beg for your touch, so healing to me, you will sweep me into the trashcan. i am dirt in the middle of a landfill somewhere.
peachy Dec 2013
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you told me you were a witch and you had spell books,
i asked you for a long distance lovers spell.

you didn't have one.
peachy Dec 2013
i am trying to photosynthesize and i want you to admire it and tell me i have done so in such an ethereal state that i have lifted off of this very planet and i am no longer in a land of biology and chemistry but a country of geometry and art and i can realize we are all just planes intersecting the same point at the same time and i will come back down to this god forsaken place just to tell you about it
peachy Dec 2013
i want you,
sprawled out on the bed
and begging me to return.
pushing my hair back,
so you can admire my face.
i want him,
so i can dig my fingernails deep
into the skin on his arms,
until he screams and bleeds,
until i reach the bone.
for tempting you.
for making you think
that you wanted any more
than me.
i want you here,
so i can fold the blanket
that rests in the atmosphere
which we call the sky,
and place it around your shoulders.
i want him here,
so i can put him in an electric chair
and pull out his fingernails
one by one,
and my sadistic hollow shell can laugh.
i don't know anything about poetry formats oh my gosh
peachy Nov 2013
i went to a small acoustic show in the woods two days ago. it was a very small, comfortable crowd; maybe 17 people total including the performers. it felt like we were all friends. there was a girl there. she had been anorexic (she is supposed to be recovering. everyone knows about it), and she is just so full of love and happiness and she just wants the best for everyone and for everyone to be happy. but sometimes i see her in the halls at school and she just look  so very sad, it makes my heart ache. at this show, there was a bonfire. it was a small fire because we could not get it to start. she was sitting down in front of the fire, and i was standing behind her because there was no more room to sit and i looked down at her hands and they just looked like skeleton hands. they looked like tiny, frail bones with a sheet of skin covering them! and oh my gosh, i wanted to cry right there looking at her hands. she is so filled to the capacity of love, so much that she's almost bursting, but she has skeleton hands and i can't stop thinking about those hands and all the rings she had on every finger and how when her hands get cold it must be hard to keep them from sliding down and falling off
not really poetry. i do not have anywhere else to put this.
peachy Nov 2013
he told me he had dreamt of us, of me.
he said we were sitting under a tree.
i imagined being in a beautiful place,
i had thought beauty was looking at his face.
we held hands and he said he loved me,
i asked, "do you really?"
he said, "i really do."
*i really do.
it has been so long since he told me this that i cannot believe i am just remembering it now
peachy Nov 2013
it will be a harsh winter. snow is already fluttering from the sky in some places. christmas will be hollow and filled to the cap with nostalgia. that is okay. i can not remember most christmases anyway.
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