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sometimes its easier for somebody to see what's wrong when they can't hear you sob like a hyperventilating storm -------- i know you want to tear out your organs with your nails, but please hold onto your insides for me, because you are enough. you are whole without needing love from people who don't matter. and you can't forget it, because you don't need approval from anybody but yourself. and i want you to know i'll never forget that time when we we're drunk and stumbling and i saw that you had white scars slashed on your legs too, and knew that I wasn't alone because we knew one another's pain and we loved eachother for it anyway. you are kind, remember it. you are strong like a steel whip in the cold icy morning of a december winter, but you are soft and kind and you are warm like strawberry vanilla popsicles dripping and summer heat sweltering, and please never forget to be kind to yourself especially. -------- please try to stop ******* everything up. you make things hard on yourself, and maybe if you just learned to let go and accept that your problems are no more important than every other single living being on this earth, maybe you'd smile a little more. your smile is beautiful, and i don't think you know that. life treats you so well, you just have to open your eyes and WAKE UP. you have to escape your little world sometimes, and admit that we're all breathing in the same atmosphere into our lungs. you can get better so easily, you just have to let yourself. because i know, you aren't letting yourself heal. let that small peach tree grow it's roots. -------- giving yourself away to boys who only care about your body, won't make them care about your feelings. drinking until you fall asleep wont make the world disappear, it'll just make your memories sink to the bottom; you need to filter them out. don't be afraid anymore, be real. be who you are under those layers of flesh and bones, be the soul that screams and hammers to be let out. you are so real. and worthwhile. so many people care about you, you are something magnificent and it's not your fault. to be free, you need to stop blaming things on yourself. let it go from your clenched palms, because things are getting better just as long as you make them that way. i feel like you forget how strong you are, how you have so much power in those long, pale fingers. how you can create and destroy with the mere movements of your tongue. i don't want you to forget that what you hide inside you is something gleaming and vast, and you should pull away the blinds and let the sun shine through. -------- i feel horrible because i was the girl who taught you that feeling was a horrible thing to do. that because you let yourself get too emotional over the fact that i was too unattached to love you in the way you wanted me to, and every time we tried, i would runaway from your waiting lips and laugh like venom dripping behind closed doors to hide from your confrontation about why i never wanted to let people love me and return it. now, you walk with a metal shield up i remember you said a long time ago “now i know every girl will be like you, and i don't want to try ever again.” i wish you would still tear up to really good music, and let your barriers down. because it's not true, there are women who will treat you right, and love your bad jokes, and not lead you treacherously into their traps of poison and bones. be true to the boy you harbor so reluctantly in your tough exterior because i can still see him in your eyes when you smile, and he's beautiful. -------- you think that the words you write have nothing to do with what you hold inside. you're wrong about that. you are the things you imagine yourself to be, but you have to release them from the fear tight in your chest. you aren't damaged, but people will see yourself that way if you hold your body like that. straighten your spine, darling, and pierce their eyes with the knowledge that you are beautiful like vines crawling up gracefully over a window you are smart like the cinnamon colored pages of old books, you are mysterious like the deepest parts of the ocean, and alluring like the soft, midnight tide. nobody forgets about you, you aren't small in anybody's mind. nobody thinks that your ordinary, they think you're fantastic, and you need to break all your mirrors and with scarlet dripping from your knuckles like rivers on ice you need to admit that you don't need them. it makes me so happy to see you slowly blossoming into the wild rose i know you are. take care of yourself, because that is the only way anybody else will be able to care for you. your soul is huge like the morning sky let yourself feel it. -------- find your voice, and speak clearly to people who are shaking your boundaries, and tell them to BACK OFF. yell it if you have to, stop letting them invade you and squeeze your insides like they even have any right to. scream into their faces that you are not weak, and let loose your mean side a little bit. never let yourself be taken advantage of. look into peoples eyes, and search desperately for their truths. if they don't hold their vulnerability raw and beating in their palms, then they're not worth it. never expend your energy to make somebody else feel better. you can share with them your happiness, but never give it away; because you are not an empty girl. you are a fulfilled girl bursting at the seams with things it means to be completely alive and laughing and feeling. don't hide that. people think its nice to be hurt and it's so mature and creative and artsy to be damaged. they think its romantic when you can be “saved” by a stupid prince who wont give you **** but a plastic crown and sore hips. DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT ******** your eyes crinkle when you smile, and you have small teeth that are like waxing moons. nobody wants to be happy because they think it wont last, because they think its not beautiful but you my dear are living proof.
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 1:49 AM UTC
letters to: my best friends
sometimes its easier for somebody to see what's wrong when they can't hear you sob like a hyperventilating storm -------- i know you want to tear out your organs with your nails, but please hold onto your insides for me, because you are enough. you are whole without needing love from people who don't matter. and you can't forget it, because you don't need approval from anybody but yourself. and i want you to know i'll never forget that time when we we're drunk and stumbling and i saw that you had white scars slashed on your legs too, and knew that I wasn't alone because we knew one another's pain and we loved eachother for it anyway. you are kind, remember it. you are strong like a steel whip in the cold icy morning of a december winter, but you are soft and kind and you are warm like strawberry vanilla popsicles dripping and summer heat sweltering, and please never forget to be kind to yourself especially. -------- please try to stop ******* everything up. you make things hard on yourself, and maybe if you just learned to let go and accept that your problems are no more important than every other single living being on this earth, maybe you'd smile a little more. your smile is beautiful, and i don't think you know that. life treats you so well, you just have to open your eyes and WAKE UP. you have to escape your little world sometimes, and admit that we're all breathing in the same atmosphere into our lungs. you can get better so easily, you just have to let yourself. because i know, you aren't letting yourself heal. let that small peach tree grow it's roots. -------- giving yourself away to boys who only care about your body, won't make them care about your feelings. drinking until you fall asleep wont make the world disappear, it'll just make your memories sink to the bottom; you need to filter them out. don't be afraid anymore, be real. be who you are under those layers of flesh and bones, be the soul that screams and hammers to be let out. you are so real. and worthwhile. so many people care about you, you are something magnificent and it's not your fault. to be free, you need to stop blaming things on yourself. let it go from your clenched palms, because things are getting better just as long as you make them that way. i feel like you forget how strong you are, how you have so much power in those long, pale fingers. how you can create and destroy with the mere movements of your tongue. i don't want you to forget that what you hide inside you is something gleaming and vast, and you should pull away the blinds and let the sun shine through. -------- i feel horrible because i was the girl who taught you that feeling was a horrible thing to do. that because you let yourself get too emotional over the fact that i was too unattached to love you in the way you wanted me to, and every time we tried, i would runaway from your waiting lips and laugh like venom dripping behind closed doors to hide from your confrontation about why i never wanted to let people love me and return it. now, you walk with a metal shield up i remember you said a long time ago “now i know every girl will be like you, and i don't want to try ever again.” i wish you would still tear up to really good music, and let your barriers down. because it's not true, there are women who will treat you right, and love your bad jokes, and not lead you treacherously into their traps of poison and bones. be true to the boy you harbor so reluctantly in your tough exterior because i can still see him in your eyes when you smile, and he's beautiful. -------- you think that the words you write have nothing to do with what you hold inside. you're wrong about that. you are the things you imagine yourself to be, but you have to release them from the fear tight in your chest. you aren't damaged, but people will see yourself that way if you hold your body like that. straighten your spine, darling, and pierce their eyes with the knowledge that you are beautiful like vines crawling up gracefully over a window you are smart like the cinnamon colored pages of old books, you are mysterious like the deepest parts of the ocean, and alluring like the soft, midnight tide. nobody forgets about you, you aren't small in anybody's mind. nobody thinks that your ordinary, they think you're fantastic, and you need to break all your mirrors and with scarlet dripping from your knuckles like rivers on ice you need to admit that you don't need them. it makes me so happy to see you slowly blossoming into the wild rose i know you are. take care of yourself, because that is the only way anybody else will be able to care for you. your soul is huge like the morning sky let yourself feel it. -------- find your voice, and speak clearly to people who are shaking your boundaries, and tell them to BACK OFF. yell it if you have to, stop letting them invade you and squeeze your insides like they even have any right to. scream into their faces that you are not weak, and let loose your mean side a little bit. never let yourself be taken advantage of. look into peoples eyes, and search desperately for their truths. if they don't hold their vulnerability raw and beating in their palms, then they're not worth it. never expend your energy to make somebody else feel better. you can share with them your happiness, but never give it away; because you are not an empty girl. you are a fulfilled girl bursting at the seams with things it means to be completely alive and laughing and feeling. don't hide that. people think its nice to be hurt and it's so mature and creative and artsy to be damaged. they think its romantic when you can be “saved” by a stupid prince who wont give you **** but a plastic crown and sore hips. DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT ******** your eyes crinkle when you smile, and you have small teeth that are like waxing moons. nobody wants to be happy because they think it wont last, because they think its not beautiful but you my dear are living proof.
these are meant for my beast friends but i think this is a little advice for all of us, especially myself
saudade
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Mar 3, 2014 at 1:49 AM UTC
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